Best Women Biography movies

Actors : Pierre Deladonchamps, Karole Rocher, Garance Marillier, Roschdy Zem,
Directors : Sylvie Verheyde,

Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the french political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.

Actors : Simon Yam, Emil Chau, Hsiao-Fen Lu, Hsiu-Ling Lin,
Directors : Kun-Hou Chen,

Ti Hung's parents die when she is twelve. When she is sixteen, she determines to change her fate, swearing to forget about the poverty. Based upon her famous clever hands at embroidery and ...

Actors : Aleksandr Timoshkin, Leonid Markov, Lyudmila Kasatkina, Igor Gorbachyov,
Directors : Sergey Kolosov,

Mother Maria Skobtsova, a Russian nun, helps Jews and other people hated by the Gestapo during World War II. Eventually, the Gestapo finds out and takes her away to the Ravensbruk Concentration Camp.

Actors : María Luisa Lamata, Jesús Maella, Amalia Aviles, Rufino Inglés,
Directors : Agustín Navarro,

Biographical film about the venezolan physician José Gregorio Hernández.

Actors : Richard Moir, Mathilda May, Peter O'Toole, Tchéky Karyo,
Directors : Ian Pringle,

Story of a young woman journalist who becomes enmeshed in the politics of the annexation of Morrocco from Algeria at the turn of the twentieth century. The focus is on her hardships because...

Actors : Mitzura Arghezi, Constantin Galeriu, Mircea Constantinescu, Corina Druc Catalina Mustata,
Directors : Grid Modorcea,

Religion in Arghezi's life and work.

Actors : Norma Bengell, Antônio Fagundes, Carla Camurati, Otávio Augusto,
Directors : Norma Bengell,

Biography of Patrícia Galvão, aka Pagu, a legendary personage, muse and activist of Brazilian Modernism in art, during the 1920s until the 1940s. She shocked the society of her time, but ...

Actors : Coles Burroughs, Duncan Hannah, Lisa Anomaiprasert, Bryan Keane,
Directors : Jennifer Montgomery,

Jennifer, an intelligent but insecure 14-year-old student at a boarding school, seduces her married dormitory counselor, a photographer who has offered to teach her about his art and winds ...

Actors : Shannen Torres, Sharon Cuneta, Joel Torre, Cesar Montano,
Directors : Carlo J. Caparas,

Sharon Cuneta plays the biographical account of the murder case of Filipina movie actress Lilian Velez during the 1950's.

Actors : Massimo Foschi, Simonetta Stefanelli, Anna Orso, Ettore Manni,
Directors : Luciano Ercoli,

Simonetta Stefanelli stars as Lucrezia Borgia in Luciano Ercoli's version of the early life of this fascinating historical persona. If the accuracy of the historical facts may be drawn into...

Actors : Stacy Keach, Nick Mancuso, Gudrun Landgrebe, Valérie Kaprisky,
Directors : Véra Belmont,

Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with ...

Actors : Karen Houghton, Cyril Grosse, Daniel F. Houghton, Cynthia Grosse,
Directors : Daniel F. Houghton,

A Trip Into the Supernatural warns us of the fascinating lure of occultism and opens our eyes to the titanic supernatural struggle taking place in our world today. As a young boy, Roger ...

Actors : Brigitte Ariel, Pierre Vernier, Pascale Christophe, Guy Tréjan,
Directors : Guy Casaril,

Édith Giovanna Gassion is born in 1915. As a young girl she sings on the streets of Paris until a nightclub owner, Louis Leplée, discovers her. When he is murdered the composer Raymond Asso...

Actors : Mariska Hargitay, Zoltán Hargitay, Jayne Mansfield,
Directors : Mariska Hargitay,

Explores the life and legacy of Mariska Hargitay's mother, Hollywood icon Jayne Mansfield, who died tragically in a car accident at age 34 when Mariska was only three years old.