Best Women Biography movies of 1980s

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 : Marta Becket, Pirjo Bergström, Virginia Capers, Atso Almila,

A story of a famous young violinist, loosely based on the life of Heimo Haitto.

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Liv Ullmann, Aurore Clément, Francesca Ciardi,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

A Jewish scientist in Russia becomes frustrated with the antisemitism in her country and decides to leave with her friend and sister. When they go to receive emigration permits, her sister and friend pass but she is declined.

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 : Stanislawa Celinska, Piotr Fronczewski, Dorota Stalinska, Bozena Dykiel,
Directors : Janusz Rzeszewski,

Loosely based on a biography of a famous Polish singer from the 1930's, Hanka Ordonowna. It opens in the Egyptian desert during African campaign in World War II where Hanka's husband is ...

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 : 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 : Torquil Campbell, Clare Barclay, John Bourgeois, Robert Bidaman,
Directors : Mario Azzopardi,

Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks, and the events that led to the birth of Canada as a nation. During the time of the American Revolution, while Britain faces full scale ...

Actors : Zhongxi Chen, Xu Chengxian, Qimin Wei, Yanfang Lu,

Set in the early stage after liberation of Shanghai, Chen Yi is delegated to be mayor and deals with a lot of economic and social issues.

Actors : Diego Vélez, María Eugenia Dávila, Maguso, Frank Ramírez,
Directors : Camila Loboguerrero,

Colombia 1920's. The country receives compensation for the separation of Panama and is open to foreign credit to undertake major development works. Growing mass of workers but not improve ...

Actors : Lucélia Santos, Ivan Cândido, Walmor Chagas, Joel Barcellos,
Directors : David Neves,

The biography of controversial Brazilian artist Luz del Fuego (her artistic name), highlighting her eccentric lifestyle and public manifestations. As in the film, she is best remembered for...

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 : Reine Brynolfsson, Gunilla Nyroos, Grethe Ryen, Lennart Hjulström,
Directors : Anders Wahlgren,

The life of Swedish writer Moa Martinson. In 1925 Moa's two youngest children drowns. She is politically active and a passionate. 1928 her husband commits suicide. The next year she marries...

Actors : Fang Xie, Fusheng Feng, Gengchen Jiang, Jiayuan Ding,
Directors : Jinglong Zhang,

Biography of famous ancient Chinese poetess Li Qingzhao who lived in the Song Dynasty.

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.