Best Biography movies of 1980s

Actors : Regina Casé, Felipe Murray, Hamilton Vaz Pereira, Dedé Veloso,
Directors : Caetano Veloso,

A fragmented style, patchwork of interviews with Caetano Veloso's friends, mixed with conversations, thoughts, scenes of dance and literature excerpts.

Actors : J.J. Davis, Jean Garrett, Dennis Baines, Mickey Clark,
Directors : Arthur J. Bressan Jr.,

Brutally abused by his parents, teenage Thomas finds comfort in associating with a film director who is making a documentary about physical child abuse. The two fall in love, and the elder ...

Actors : Peter MacNeill, Thomas Peacocke, Billy Merasty, Wayne Robson,
Directors : Paul Cowan,

Donald Marshall is imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit.

Actors : Steven Berkoff, Florinda Bolkan, Peter Firth, Paul Freeman,
Directors : Lech Majewski,

The story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs.

Actors : Gianni Cavina, Carlo Delle Piane, Cristopher Davidson, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Pupi Avati,

Young W.A. Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with "normal" boys, falls in love for the first time and tries to escape his destiny of...

Actors : August Schellenberg, Gabriel Arcand, Thomas Donohue, Yvon Dufour,
Directors : Jean-Claude Labrecque,

In 1953, in the Gaspé forest, there are three bodies half eaten by bears. Fearing repercussions on tourism and investment, Prime minister Maurice Duplessis decided to make an example accusing Wilbert Coffin.

Actors : Kurt Nolze, Daniela Hoffmann, Thomas Zieler, Doris Abeßer,
Directors : Werner W. Wallroth,

Mostly fictional episodes in the life of famous german social-critical painter Heinrich Zille.

Actors : José Mora Ramos, Cathrin Loerke, Fernando Heitor, João D'Ávila,
Directors : José de Pina,

The secret history of a curse upon an astrologer and esoteric initiate, who was a Portuguese poet and essayist: Fernando Pessoa.

Actors : Meiying Huang, Fuli Wang, Shan Cong, Xiuming Li,
Directors : Jin Xie,

Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese feminist and martyred revolutionary.

Actors : Wenda Shereos, Karen Gearreald, Lynne Ford, Cathy Shipley,
Directors : Ken Anderson,

Already famous for her secular songs, blind lyricist Fanny Crosby (1820-1915) volunteers as a nurse during New York's cholera epidemic and undergoes a spiritual transformation and starts to write Christian hymns.

Actors : Bob Kingdom, Anthony Hopkins,
Directors : Anthony Hopkins,

A look at he life and writings of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.

Actors : Gabriele Barth, Detlef Bierstedt, Gerd Baltus, Carmen-Maja Antoni,
Directors : Ralf Kirsten,

Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two ...

Actors : Lucia Casagrande, Philippe Nahoun, Mario Perazzini, Pino Costalunga,
Directors : Georg Brintrup,

A film about the Italian composer Gian-Francesco Malipiero. It is his music that talks about his life. The film was written respecting all details of the scores.

Actors : J. Wesley Baker, Rebecca Baker, Charles Applegate, Mike Hickman,
Directors : Ken Anderson,

Biopic of Hudson Taylor (1832-1905), a British protestant missionary in China.

Actors : Pierre-Alain Chapuis, Jacques Bonnaffé, Valérie Stroh, Jean-Yves Berteloot,
Directors : René Féret,

A love story which lasts for a lifetime,Baptême is a film about the love story involving Pierre and Aline.

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Robert Powell, Laurent Terzieff, Florence Guérin,
Directors : Sergio Nasca,

D'Annunzio is in Rome, father, husband and bored with the prospect of another child on the way. Candidly megalomaniac and penniless, with no apparent effort goes from city to city: ...

Actors : Aleksandr Filippenko, Eduard Martsevich, Alyona Belyak, Andrey Kharitonov,
Directors : Vladimir Grammatikov,

The screen version of a rock opera of Alexey Rybnikov based on the play in Pavel Grushko's verses. Together with other inhabitants of a poor Chilean small village Joaquin Murrieta decides ...

Actors : Maria Pakulnis, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Krzysztof Kolberger, Marzena Trybala,
Directors : Jerzy Sztwiertnia,

A popular 60-year-old actor falls for a much younger dancer and a cocaine addict. During the Nazi occupation, he needs money for her rehab but artists are prohibited by the undeground government to perform for Germans.

Actors : Laurent Terzieff, Patsy Kensit, Karl Zinny, Ben Gazzara,
Directors : Leandro Castellani,

This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco (1815 - 1888). He dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin. He was the founder of the Salesian order, ...

Actors : Kim Gyngell, Jonathan Hardy, Garry McDonald, Peter Collingwood,
Directors : Bob Weis,

Parody of historical epics that focuses on real-life Australian explorers William John Wills and Robert O'Hara Burkes, who tragically tried to cross the Australian continent from the south, to the north, a distance of 3,250 km.