Best Biography movies of 2000s

Actors : Ahmad Zaki, Muna Zaki, Ezzat Abou Aouf, Haitham Ahmed Zaki,
Directors : Sharif Arafah,

A biopic of Egyptian singer Abdel-Haleem Hafez (Zaki).

Actors : Katja Flint, Hans Werner Meyer, Herbert Knaup, Heino Ferch,
Directors : Joseph Vilsmaier,

The movie follows the life and personality of the famous actress Marlene Dietrich.

Actors : Cecil von Renner, Ole Fischer, Daniel Michel, Pit Bukowski,
Directors : Lars Jessen,

A 17-year-old discovers punk rock in rural northern Germany.

Actors : Fabrizio Rongione, Riccardo Scamarcio, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Dario Aita,
Directors : Renato De Maria,

An Italian man looks back from his jail cell on his youthful exploits as a political extremist with understanding, candour and remorse.

Actors : Julio César Luna, Luis Fernando Orozco, Edgardo Román, Manuel Cabral,
Directors : Guillermo Rincón,

this film is based on the life of Simón Bolívar (a Latin American military and political leader who fought against Spanish colonial rule), with a very cartoonish style.

Actors : Maxime Le Flaguais, Léo Arguello, Goûchy Boy, Michel Côté,
Directors : Sylvain Archambault,

Toronto, August 2001. Commander Robert Piche left Pearson Airport heading for Lisbon on an Airbus 330. Due to a significant fuel loss, he was headed for an almost certain crash. However, he...

Actors : Mrinal Kulkarni, Mammootty, Sonali Kulkarni, Mohan Gokhale,
Directors : Jabbar Patel,

A portrait of the one of our greatest social reformer of our times - Ambedkar. The film documents the period between 1901 and 1956. The film delves more into Ambedkar's life as a reformer, ...

Actors : Anass Behri, Fejria Deliba, Rabia Mokeddem, Amina Annabi,
Directors : Yamina Benguigui,

The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the ...

Actors : Erika Pluhar, Andrea Osvárt, Elio Germano, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Jo Baier,

In the last days of his life the journalist and writer Tiziano Terzani talks to his son about his life.

Actors : Kai Lehtinen, Petter Sairanen, Rauno Ahonen, Maria Järvenhelmi,
Directors : Tapio Suominen,

Actors : Amrita Singh, Sunny Deol, Rahul Dev, Bobby Deol,
Directors : Guddu Dhanoa,

When his mentor Lala Lajpatrai is mercilessly beaten to death by the police Bhagat Singh is enraged and he sets about to avenge his death. He and his colleagues do succeed in killing one of...

Actors : Willa Ford, Patrick Ryan Anderson, Richard Herd, Lesli Kay,
Directors : Keoni Waxman,

A biopic depicting the tragic life of Playmate and television personality Anna Nicole Smith, whose life ended abruptly from a fatal drug overdose.

Actors : Rolf Kanies, Brian Blessed, Manu Fullola, James Faulkner,
Directors : Christoph Schrewe,

In 1458, five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turk, eighteen cardinals met in Rome to elect a new pope. A 27-year-old Spanish cardinal, Rodrigo Borgia, learns to play a very dangerous game; how to survive his first conclave.

Actors : Evgeniy Mironov, Andrey Smirnov, Galina Tyunina, Olga Budina,
Directors : Aleksey Uchitel,

A tragic story of love and loneliness - this is the unknown life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The confused love story that involved Bunin, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina ...

Actors : Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Alicja Jachiewicz, Magdalena Emilianowicz, Anna Cieslak,
Directors : Ryszard Bugajski,

The tumultuous life of General August Emil Fieldorf aka "Nil", who commanded the underground Home Army against the Nazis and was killed after WW2 by communists.

Actors : Ben Silverstone, Heinz Hoenig, Patrick Swayze, Martine McCutcheon,
Directors : Joshua Sinclair,

Police in 1928 Austria arrest Phillippe Halsman, of Jewish origin, for Patricide and allege that he killed his father, Morduch, while on a hiking trip. Phillippe is defended by a Jewish ...

Actors : Aleksandr Ivashkevich, Viktor Verzhbitskiy, Svetlana Chuykina, Aleksey Kravchenko,
Directors : Dmitriy Korobkin,

Young Russian Prince Yaroslav fights the robbers, tribes and the invaders. He is the first to unite Russian lands and to create the original Russian state.

Actors : Björn Kjellman, Amanda Ooms, Rikard Wolff, Björn Granath,
Directors : Jan Troell,

Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer's daughter, in the early 1900s, who dreams of getting away from the farm and becoming an aviatrix.

Actors : Burt Young, Andrea Iaia, Anna Valle, Paolo Seganti,
Directors : Renzo Martinelli,

The life of Primo Carnera a.k.a. "Ambling Alp", Italian professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from June 1933 to June 1934, but also accused by some of having ties to the mob.

Actors : Valentina Cervi, JJ Feild, Raymond J. Barry, Marcel Iures,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

Tulse Luper is a 20th century everyman whose collection of 92 suitcases intersects with every person, event and movement in history. Here in the second of a three part story, we find him ...