Best Women Biography movies

Actors : Julie Andrews, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

Actors : Yvan Attal, Jack O'Connell, Kristen Stewart, Gabriel Sky,
Directors : Benedict Andrews,

Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.

Actors : Carly Schroeder, Andrew Shue, Jesse Lee Soffer, Elisabeth Shue,
Directors : Davis Guggenheim,

A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

Actors : Martha Plimpton, Lothaire Bluteau, Jared Harris, Lili Taylor,
Directors : Mary Harron,

Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 60s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to ...

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Keira Knightley, Dominic Cooper,
Directors : Saul Dibb,

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

Actors : Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain, Audrey Tautou,
Directors : Anne Fontaine,

The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world.

Actors : Chloë Sevigny, Kim Dickens, Fiona Shaw, Kristen Stewart,
Directors : Craig William Macneill,

A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family.

Actors : André Penvern, Nicole Kidman, Frank Langella, Tim Roth,
Directors : Olivier Dahan,

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.

Actors : Robert Pattinson, Damian Lewis, James Franco, Nicole Kidman,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Actors : Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot, Marie Féret, David Moreau,
Directors : René Féret,

A reimagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang, and a musical prodigy in her own right.

Actors : John Malkovich, Milla Jovovich, Stéphane Algoud, Rab Affleck,
Directors : Luc Besson,

A young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors.

Actors : Paul Rudd, Connie Nielsen, Shea Whigham, Sienna Miller,
Directors : Ben Lewin,

A major league baseball player, Moe Berg, lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Melanie Lynskey,
Directors : Peter Jackson,

Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.

Actors : Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Miranda Richardson, Matthew Goode, Emily Watson,
Directors : Amma Asante,

The mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral is raised by her aristocratic great-uncle in 18th century England.

Actors : Catherine Hiegel, Olivier Gourmet, Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain,
Directors : Martin Provost,

Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the ...

Actors : Armelle Leroy-Rolland, Juliette Binoche, Marion Keller, Jean-Luc Vincent,
Directors : Bruno Dumont,

Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.

Actors : Soraya Omar-Scego, Idriss Abdillahi Houfaneh, Awa Saïd Darar, Roun Daher Aïnan,
Directors : Sherry Hormann,

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3, sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN ...

Actors : Merab Ninidze, Juliane Köhler, Matthias Habich, Sidede Onyulo,
Directors : Caroline Link,

A German Jewish refugee family moves to and adjusts to a farm life in 1930s Kenya.

Actors : John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca, Trine Dyrholm, Sandor Funtek,
Directors : Susanna Nicchiarelli,

The last year of singer Nico's life, as she tours and grapples with addiction and personal demons.

Actors : Aneurin Barnard, Cara Bossom, Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley,
Directors : Marjane Satrapi,

A story of the scientific and romantic passions of Marie Sklodowska-Curie (Polish scientist) and Pierre Curie, and the reverberation of their discoveries throughout the 20th century.