Best Biography movies of 1980s

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 : Joe Camp, Toni Sawyer, Sandy Kenyon, Steven Tice,
Directors : Larry Buchanan,

The story of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin, and how their message for their generation made them targets of a US government plot.

Actors : Alan McGilvray, Norman May,
Directors : Bill Phillips,

Telecasting cricket on the ABC from 1935 till 1985, Alan McGilvray was the man trusted by all Australians to bring them the ball by ball descriptions, either at home or abroad.

Actors : Zongyin Zhou, Xuejian Li, Rentang Li,
Directors : Jixing Wang,

Jiao Yulu was the communist secretary of Lankao county, he worked very hard for people and died of liver cancer.

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 : 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 : Hans Peter Hallwachs, Walter Schmidinger, Helmut Griem, Sabine Sinjen,
Directors : Peter Schamoni,

A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedrich and his fellow artist, Carl Gustav Carus.

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

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

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 : 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 : Roman Klosowski, Artur Barcis, Bogusz Bilewski, Bozena Adamek,
Directors : Andrzej Baranski,

The hardships of an ordinary street vendor from his troubled childhood, when he had to work to support his family, to disappointing adulthood, when he lost all the money he had several Times for various reasons.

Actors : Lisa Kreuzer, Eva Mattes, Charles Regnier, Werner Stocker,
Directors : Radu Gabrea,

A bearded director named EVA, a fictive Rainer Werner Fassbinder, lives in a large house with his cast and crew as he films Dumas' Lady of the Camellias. His accountant informs him he has ...

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

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

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 : 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 : Beatriz Valdés, Javier Ruán, Kenia Gazcon, Jorge Montes de Oca,

A young man is chosen to play Cuban musician and star-singer Benny Moré in a Mexican production. During the process of developing the character, he becomes aware of his own talents.

Actors : Débora Bloch, Vicente Barcellos, João Carlos Castanha, Luiz Carlos Arutin,
Directors : Lauro Escorel,

The story of one of Brazilian cinema's pioneers, Eduardo Abelim, from the start of his career, in Rio de Janeiro, until his filming of the 1930 Revolution. To promote his films, Abelim ...