Best Biography movies

Actors : John Doe, Winona Ryder, Stephen Tobolowsky, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Jim McBride,

The life and career of wildly controversial rock 'n' roll star Jerry Lee Lewis.

Actors : Bhoomika Chawla, Akshaye Khanna, Shefali Shah, Darshan Jariwala,
Directors : Feroz Abbas Khan,

The account of troubled relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and his eldest son.

Actors : Brigitte Catillon, Ariana Rivoire, Noémie Churlet, Isabelle Carré,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Améris,

Marie Heurtin is born both blind and deaf. Sister Marguerette wins her trust and teaches her how to express herself.

Actors : Diljit Dosanjh, Parineeti Chopra, Apinderdeep Singh,
Directors : Imtiaz Ali,

Follows the life of pop star duo Amar Singh Chamkila and Amarjot Kaur, whose songs that were social commentaries or devotionals became massive hits in the 80's.

Actors : Jonathan Pryce, Vincent Perez, Sarah Wynter, Simon Verhoeven,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

This movie is a biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.

Actors : James Brown, Harry Belafonte, Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson, Ed Sullivan, The Beatles,
Directors : Sacha Jenkins,

Ed Sullivan broke barriers by booking Black artists on his Sunday night variety show. This documentary spotlights the TV pioneer's legacy of equality.

Actors : Luna Wedler, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Enzo Brumm,
Directors : Ildikó Enyedi,

Set in the botanical garden of a medieval town in Germany. Three epochs, three personalities, three sometimes clumsy but sincere attempts to free themselves and to create links with the plants and the world of the garden. An encounter.

Actors : Russell Brand, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Nicolas Cage, Amer Chadha-Patel,
Directors : Larry Charles,

After a personal visit by God himself, the eccentric construction worker Gary Faulkner takes the decision to embark on an adventure in the badlands of Pakistan to bring Al-Qaeda's leader Osama Bin Laden to justice.

Actors : Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld,
Directors : Angus Wall,

Follows a comprehensive look at Eddie Murphy's life and career.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, Stanley Beck, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.

Actors : Maxine Peake, Aidan Gillen, Gabriel Byrne,
Directors : James Marsh,

Many parts of the literary Samuel Beckett giant's life: Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse.

Actors : Brandon Mychal Smith, Michael Chernus, Juno Temple, Melissa Leo,
Directors : Tommy O'Haver,

The life of Madelyn Murray O'Hair, the outspoken activist and founder of American Atheists.

Actors : John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Anthony Hopkins,
Directors : David Lynch,

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

Actors : Orgyen Tobgyal, Kelsang Chukie Tethtong, Jamyang Lodro, Jamyang Nyima,
Directors : Neten Chokling,

Milarepa is a tale of greed and vengeance - demons, magic, murder and redemption. It is the story of the man who became Tibet's greatest mystic.

Actors : Mitch Martín, Llúcia Garcia, Tristán Ulloa,
Directors : Carla Simón,

With her mother's diary in hand, Marina's search for official documents for university leads her to her biological family on the Atlantic coast. What starts as an administrative quest reveals long-buried family secrets.

Actors : Dmitrijus Denisiukas, Anatoliy Beliy, Alexander Kuznetsov,
Directors : Sergey Loznitsa,

In the USSR in 1937, a newly appointed prosecutor discovers an undestroyed letter from a prisoner that reveals corruption in the secret police, the NKVD. His search for the truth becomes dangerous.

Actors : Taron Egerton, Kevin Spacey, Ansel Elgort, Emma Roberts,
Directors : James Cox,

A group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establish a 'get-rich-quick' scam that turns deadly.

Actors : John Benjamin Hickey, Matt Smith, Mark Moses, Hari Nef,
Directors : Ondi Timoner,

A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.

Actors : Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler, Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn,
Directors : Louis Malle,

Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.

Actors : Jon Finch, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler, Francesca Annis,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.