Best Biography movies

Actors : Almendra Andrade, Francisco Acuña, Orlando Alfaro, Juan Alfaro,
Directors : Andrés Wood,

A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.

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

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

Actors : Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, Tony Leung Chiu-wai,
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 : Harry Belafonte, James Brown, 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 : Robert Patrick, D.B. Sweeney, Peter Berg, Craig Sheffer,
Directors : Robert Lieberman,

An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975.

Actors : Sarah Wynter, Simon Verhoeven, Jonathan Pryce, Vincent Perez,
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 : Janhvi Kapoor, Viineet Kumar, Manav Vij, Pankaj Tripathi, Angad Bedi,
Directors : Sharan Sharma,

Inspired by the life of a fearless young officer who made history by becoming the first Indian female Air Force officer to fly in a combat zone during the 1999 Kargil War

Actors : Seu Jorge, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rodrigo Santoro, Diego Boneta,

Pele's meteoric rise from the slums of Sao Paulo to leading Brazil to its first World Cup victory at the age of 17 is chronicled in this biographical drama.

Actors : Wendi McLendon-Covey, Amer Chadha-Patel, Russell Brand, Nicolas Cage,
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 : Akshaye Khanna, Shefali Shah, Bhoomika Chawla, Darshan Jariwala,
Directors : Feroz Abbas Khan,

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

Actors : Darci Shaw, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Emily Watson,
Directors : Joe Stephenson,

On Thursday 9 November 1961, a man named Brian descended the stairs to a cellar in Liverpool and changed the world forever.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, John Gielgud,
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 : Mikhail Bychkov, Vladimir Khrulev, Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.

Actors : Sanya Malhotra, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Vicky Kaushal,
Directors : Meghna Gulzar,

Revolves around the high and low points of Sam Manekshaw who became the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of Field Marshal.

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 : 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 : 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 : Scott Glenn, Joelle Carter, Dennis Quaid, Colin Ford,
Directors : Jeff Celentano,

The remarkable true-life story of Rickey Hill's improbable journey to play Major League Baseball.

Actors : Timothy Spall, Vanessa Redgrave, David Schaal, Stephen Lord,
Directors : Adrian Noble,

A portrait of the artist L.S. Lowry and the relationship with his mother, who tries to dissuade him from pursuing his passion.