Best Biography movies

Actors : Alessandro Nivola, Abigail Breslin, Brittany Snow, Elisabeth Shue,
Directors : David M. Rosenthal,

A young girl who has been abandoned by her former-groupie mother informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter.

Actors : Hannah Murray, Matt Smith, Annabeth Gish, Suki Waterhouse,
Directors : Mary Harron,

Three young women were sentenced to death in the infamous Manson murder case, but when the death penalty was lifted, their sentence became life imprisonment. One young graduate student was ...

Actors : Tracy Middendorf, Miranda Otto, Glória Pires, Marcello Airoldi,
Directors : Bruno Barreto,

A chronicle of the tragic love affair between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.

Actors : Gene Kelly, Fredric March, Dick York, Spencer Tracy,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

Actors : Motoko Gollent, Tetsuya Bessho, Mike Wiluan, Yoshihiro Tatsumi,
Directors : Eric Khoo,

A story based on the life and short stories of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, a mangaka known for his gekiga style of alternate Japanese manga.

Actors : Noam Almaz, Nigel Terry, Dexter Fletcher, Sean Bean,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

Actors : Colin Morgan, Alma Hasun, Finnegan Oldfield, Vicky Krieps,
Directors : Marie Kreutzer,

Empress Elizabeth of Austria is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends. In 1877 Christmas Empress turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman she starts trying to maintain her public image.

Actors : Terry Chen, Greg Kinnear, Natasha Mumba,
Directors : Andrew Hyatt,

When a blind orphan arrives in his waiting room seeking a miracle, a world-renowned eye surgeon must confront his past--and draw on the resilience he gained growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution--to try to restore her sight.

Actors : Elijah Wood, Steven Mackintosh, Kelly Reilly, Celyn Jones,
Directors : Andy Goddard,

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.

Actors : Loren Dean, Sigourney Weaver, Armand Assante, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.

Actors : Jason Scott Lee, Michael Learned, Lauren Holly, Robert Wagner,
Directors : Rob Cohen,

A fictionalized account of the life of the martial arts superstar.

Actors : Simon Armstrong, Timothy Spall, Eddie Marsan, Juliet Stevenson,
Directors : Adrian Shergold,

The life and times of Albert Pierrepoint - Britain's most prolific hangman.

Actors : Eric Bana, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Marton Csokas, Franka Potente,
Directors : Richard Roxburgh,

It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.

Actors : Meron Getnet, Abel Abebe, Shitaye Abraha, Tizita Hagere,
Directors : Zeresenay Mehari,

A young lawyer travels to an Ethiopian village to represent Hirut, a 14-year-old girl who shot her would-be husband as he and others were practicing one of the nation's oldest traditions: abduction into marriage.

Actors : Eero Milonoff, Jarkko Lahti, Oona Airola, Joanna Haartti,
Directors : Juho Kuosmanen,

The true story of Olli Mäki, the famous Finnish boxer who had a shot at the 1962 World Featherweight title.

Actors : Graham Clarke, Liam Cunningham, Rutger Hauer, Carice van Houten,
Directors : Paula van der Oest,

In apartheid-torn South Africa, poet Ingrid Jonker struggles tragically in search of love and a sense of home.

Actors : Susan Lynch, Ewan McGregor, Andrew Scott, Vinnie McCabe,
Directors : Pat Murphy,

In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's ...

Actors : Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kevin Pollak, Vincent D'Onofrio, Janeane Garofalo,
Directors : Robert Greenwald,

Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment ...

Actors : Jason Isaacs, Maxine Peake, Ben Miles, Ciarán Hinds,
Directors : James Strong,

Journalist Anna Politkovskaya's brave crusade, fighting for an independent voice in Putin's Russia.

Actors : Alia Bhatt, Indira Tiwari, Vijay Raaz, Shantanu Maheshwari,
Directors : Sanjay Leela Bhansali,

A woman becomes a powerful underworld figure.