Best Biography movies

Actors : Jackie Burroughs, Richard Farnsworth, Ken Pogue, Wayne Robson,
Directors : Phillip Borsos,

When an aging, but gentlemanly stagecoach robber is released from prison, he decides to go to Canada to become a train robber.

Actors : Thure Lindhardt, Trine Dyrholm, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Amelia Pidgeon,
Directors : Sherry Hormann,

A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the factual case of Natascha Kampusch.

Actors : Con O'Neill, Pam Ferris, Kevin Spacey, JJ Feild,
Directors : Nick Moran,

A music-infused drama about Joe Meek, the flamboyantly gay, tone deaf, songwriter-producer behind the '60s hits "Have I the Right," "Just Like Eddie," "Johnny, Remember Me" and "Telstar."

Actors : Ed Flanders, Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ivan Bonar,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

Biopic of General Douglas MacArthur covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War.

Actors : Jodhi May, Eva Birthistle, Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting 'The Night Watch'.

Actors : Aloe Blacc, Avicii, Chris Martin,
Directors : Henrik Burman,

This is the story of Tim Bergling, a shy and insecure boy who, without realizing it, suddenly created one of the world's most loved artists - Avicii.

Actors : Marny Kennedy, Sky Yang, Radhika Apte,
Directors : Justin Lin,

A 26-year-old missionary journeys to the remote North Sentinel Island, determined to convert an isolated tribe, while authorities attempt to intervene before potential harm occurs.

Actors : Albrecht Becker, Christoph Eichhorn, Michael Fegley, Cora Frost,

Documentary with dramatised episodes about the lives of Erika and Klaus Mann, children of German writer Thomas Mann.

Actors : Jessica Biel, Woody Harrelson, Milla Jovovich, James Marsden,
Directors : Rob Reiner,

A group of journalists covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."

Actors : Jason Clarke, Noah Jupe, Jack O'Connell, Rosamund Pike,
Directors : Cédric Jimenez,

1942: The Third Reich is at its peak. The Czech resistance in London decides to plan the most ambitious military operation of WWII: Anthropoid. Two young recruits in their late twenties, ...

Actors : Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Valentina Cervi, Luca Zingaretti, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Agnès Merlet,

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter ...

Actors : Ed Harris, Richard Masur, Keith Szarabajka, Rene Auberjonois,
Directors : Alex Cox,

An unconventional retelling of the life of William Walker, a 19th century American mercenary leader who became the president of Nicaragua.

Actors : Gaspard Ulliel, Mélanie Thierry, Soko, Lily-Rose Depp,
Directors : Stéphanie Di Giusto,

Loïe Fuller was the toast of the Folies Bergères at the turn of the 20th century and an inspiration for Toulouse-Lautrec and the Lumière Brothers. The film revolves around her complicated relationship with protégé and rival Isadora Duncan.

Actors : Donal Logue, Russell Wong, Angela Featherstone, Skeet Ulrich,
Directors : Joe Chappelle,

This film is based on the story of the capture of computer hacker "Kevin Mitnick".

Actors : David Midthunder, Sam Rockwell, Jessica Chastain, Ciarán Hinds,
Directors : Susanna White,

Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.

Actors : Vlasta Vrana, Annie Galipeau, Stewart Bick, Pierce Brosnan,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.

Actors : Sofiko Chiaureli, Gogi Gegechkori, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan,
Directors : Sergei Parajanov,

A super-stylized, surreal biography of Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova, whose life is depicted through non-narrative amalgamations of poetic images.

Actors : Sergey Bezrukov, Vladislav Vetrov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Elizaveta Boyarskaya,
Directors : Andrey Kravchuk,

The story of admiral Aleksandr Kolchak who remained faithful to his oath to the Russian Emperor and fought against the Bolshevik rule after the 1917 October Revolution.

Actors : Joseph Blatchley, Bruce Robinson, Isabelle Adjani, Sylvia Marriott,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.

Actors : Evgeniy Tsyganov, Yuliya Peresild, Anatoliy Kot, Joan Blackham,
Directors : Sergey Mokritskiy,

A story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.