Best Women Biography movies

Actors : Eleni Erimou, Petros Fyssoun, Alkis Yannakas, Jenny Karezi,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

Manto Mavrogenous, several years after the revolution and active action, remembers her life. Despite the objections of her mother, gave her dowry to financially support the revolution. ...

Actors : Natasa Lusetic, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Sanja Vejnovic, Vili Matula,
Directors : Dalibor Matanic,

True story about the tragic life of a famous late 19th century deaf female Croatian watercolor painter Slava Raskaj.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Philippe Léotard, Jane Birkin, Farid Chopel,
Directors : Agnès Varda,

"I'll look at you, but not at the camera. It could be a trap," whispers Jane Birkin shyly into Agnès Varda's ear at the start of JANE B. PAR AGNES V. The director of CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 and ...

Actors : Ignacio López Tarso, Carlos Bracho, Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Adjani,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

A French psychologist investigates about famous suicidal women. She finds the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, a Mexican writer who died inside Paris' Notre Dame in 1931. To follow the ...

Actors : Mita Ungaro, Carlos de Carvalho, Pier Maria Rossi, Fausto Di Bella,
Directors : Roberto Rossellini,

The story of the life of Jesus Christ.

Actors : Mimi Michaels, Laura Anderson, Carl Ballantine, Teres Byrne,
Directors : Richard Rossi,

A feature film about the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, the famed evangelist of the 1920s.

Actors : Kippei Shîna, Tsurutarô Kataoka, Hitomi Kuroki, Norihei Miki,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.

Actors : Ana Caetano, Clarissa Müller, Vitória Falcão, Thati Lopes,
Directors : Matheus Souza,

Two girls have a chance encounter and instantly befriend. While trying to find themselves, they decide to pursue music together.

Actors : Melika Foroutan, Eduard Fernández, Àlex Monner, Dani Rovira, Anna Castillo, Sergi López,
Directors : Marcel Barrena,

The incredible story about a few good men who risked their own life to save many others. The movie is set on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Mediterranean sea.

Actors : Paige Richards, Frederick Bald, David Boller, Oto Brezina,
Directors : Nico B.,

Tells the story of the last 3 years of her brief career.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Andrews,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

During WW2 Hanna Szenes, a Hungarian Jew living in British Palestine, volunteers to go behind enemy lines to rescue Jews from deportation to death camps.

Actors : Tiina Weckström, Maria Heiskanen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Matleena Kuusniemi,
Directors : Juha Wuolijoki,

The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who ...

Actors : Sibylle Canonica, Herbert Knaup, Franziska Herold, Veronica Ferres,
Directors : Egon Günther,

The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for ...

Actors : Bianca Gervais, Debbie Lynch-White, Laurence Deschênes, Émile Proulx-Cloutier,
Directors : François Bouvier,

This is the life story of Mary Travers also known by her stage name of La Bolduc. Mary Rose-Anna Bolduc, née Travers, was a musician and singer of French Canadian music. She was known as ...

Actors : Jana Civzele, Edvins Mekss, Sabine Timoteo, Baiba Broka,
Directors : Viesturs Kairiss,

In the early morning of June 14, 1941, under Stalin's orders, over 40 000 people from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania were arrested, shoved into cattle cars and dispatched to permanent exile ...

Actors : Anne Jackson, Marilyn Hassett, Jameson Parker, Julie Harris,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

As the horrors beneath the idealized 1950's come about, a successful young woman finds herself having a serious mental breakdown when she returns to New England.

Actors : Riitta Havukainen, Inka Kallén, Ilona Chevakova, Anu Sinisalo, Tommi Eronen,
Directors : Tuukka Temonen,

The feature film (One half of me) is based on true events and tells an incredible survival story of a Finnish woman. Jaana is a bar owner and a mother of two kids. Her spare time hobby is ...

Actors : Asta Kamma August, Nanna Skaarup Voss, Simon Bennebjerg, Birthe Neumann,
Directors : Bille August,

The intense friendship between Karen Blixen, the Danish author best known for her autobiographical novel "Out of Africa," and Thorkild Bjørnvig, a young and promising poet.

Actors : Gerard Thoolen, Kitty Courbois, Ester Spitz, Frank Rigter,
Directors : Kees Van Oostrum,

15 year old Sara, a Jewish girl living in the Netherlands during the German occupation slowly begins to realize the danger she and her family are in. When her parents are forced to move to ...

Actors : Isabel Ruth, Maria de Medeiros, Makena Diop, Rebeca Close,
Directors : Sérgio Tréfaut,

Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year in with her husband, also a doctor. She is approached by agents of the Immigration Services that take her to an interrogation ...