Best Women Biography movies of 2009

Actors : Amy Adams, Chris Messina, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci,
Directors : Nora Ephron,

Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book.

Actors : Emily Blunt, Miranda Richardson, Paul Bettany, Rupert Friend,
Directors : Jean-Marc Vallée,

A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.

Actors : Hilary Swank, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Richard Gere,
Directors : Mira Nair,

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.

Actors : Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain, Audrey Tautou,
Directors : Anne Fontaine,

The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world.

Actors : Soraya Omar-Scego, Idriss Abdillahi Houfaneh, Awa Saïd Darar, Roun Daher Aïnan,
Directors : Sherry Hormann,

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3, sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN ...

Actors : Heino Ferch, Barbara Sukowa, Hannah Herzsprung, Lena Stolze,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. The film portrays an original woman - best known as a composer and religious visionary - whose grand claims often run ...

Actors : Mark Rendall, Kevin Bacon, Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman,
Directors : Richard Loncraine,

An unusual road trip movie about a mother driving her two sons from New York to Pittsburgh to St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.

Actors : Alisa Freyndlikh, Sergey Yurskiy, Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy, Artyom Smola,
Directors : Andrey Khrzhanovskiy,

A semi-fictional account of the life of Nobel-Prize-winning Russian poet Josif Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.

Actors : Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl, Anamaria Marinca, William Hurt,
Directors : Julie Delpy,

A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking, with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her beauty.

Actors : Heike Makatsch, Dan Stevens, Hanns Zischler, Monica Bleibtreu,
Directors : Kai Wessel,

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

Actors : Sandrine Blancke, Cécile De France, Chris Lomme, Marie Kremer,
Directors : Stijn Coninx,

A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the church and her true self.

Actors : Pam Ferris, Ben Miller, Ian Hart, Emily Watson,
Directors : Marleen Gorris,

During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.

Actors : Martin Brambach, Sandra Hüller, Andreas Schlager, Bjarne Henriksen,
Directors : Erica von Moeller,

The true story of Claerenore Stinees, who became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by car.

Actors : Amanda Sandrelli, Alessandro Haber, Paola Tiziana Cruciani, Alessio Boni,
Directors : Stefania Sandrelli,

The life of medieval author Christine de Pizan (Amanda Sandrelli).

Actors : Arisara, Cheryl Campbell, Francesca Brown,
Directors : Owen Land,

A filmmaker returns from a year in Japan to Los Angeles has experiences with real and imaginative women.