Best Biography movies

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 : Dustin Hoffman, Stanley Beck, Jan Miner, Valerie Perrine,
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 : Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Sam Rockwell, Steve Carell,
Directors : Adam McKay,

VICE explores how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways still felt today.

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 : Nick Nolte, Estelle Eonnet, Greta Scacchi, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Directors : James Ivory,

One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson, in the years before he became president, had an affair with (and fathered a child with) his 15-year-old ...

Actors : Taron Egerton, Emma Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Ansel Elgort,
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 : Tommy Lee Jones, Ned Bellamy, Lolita Davidovich, Robert Wuhl,
Directors : Ron Shelton,

A reporter hired to write the 'official' biography of Ty Cobb discovers just how dark the baseball legend's real story is.

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 : Nassar, Arvind Swamy, Samuthirakani, Kangana Ranaut,
Directors : A.L. Vijay,

A biopic on the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Ken Russell,

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.

Actors : Minka Kelly, Giovanni Ribisi, Adrian Sparks, Joely Richardson,
Directors : Bob Yari,

In 1959, a young journalist ventures to Havana, Cuba to meet his idol, the legendary Ernest Hemingway who helped him find his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them.

Actors : Mitch Martín, Tristán Ulloa, Llúcia Garcia,
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 : 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 : Spencer Rocco Lofranco, Ving Rhames, James Woods, Mary-Louise Parker,
Directors : Trevor White,

A young gang member turns his life around in prison, thanks to the friendship he forms with a convicted murderer who becomes his mentor.

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 : Ali Suliman, Matthias Schweighöfer, James Krishna Floyd, Alfredo Tavares,
Directors : Sally El Hosaini,

A story of the miraculous journey made by swimming sisters Yusra and Sarah Mardini who fled as refugees from war-torn Syria all the way to the 2016 Rio Olympics.

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.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington,
Directors : Edward Zwick,

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.

Actors : Ganesh Deshmukh, Jerico Robert, Babu Kshatriya, Ankush Gedam, Abhinay Raj Singh, Amitabh Bachchan, Vicky Kadian,
Directors : Nagraj Manjule,

Based on the life of Vijay Barse, a retired sports teacher who founded an NGO called Slum Soccer. He managed to rehabilitate street kids by keeping them off drugs and crime by turning them into soccer players and building a whole team.

Actors : Peter Boyle, Bill Murray, Rene Auberjonois, Bruno Kirby,
Directors : Art Linson,

Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.