Best Biography movies of 1980s

Actors : Carmen Thomas, Cynthia Leake, Cary Guffey, Gary Busey,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Biopic about the great college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant of the University of Alabama.

Actors : Minas Christidis, Dimitris Myrat, Manos Katrakis, Giannis Voglis,
Directors : Pantelis Voulgaris,

The life and work of Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos from his election in 1910 until 1927.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Andrews,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

During WW2 Hanna Szenes, a Hungarian Jew living in British Palestine, volunteers to go behind enemy lines to rescue Jews from deportation to death camps.

Actors : Carlos Augusto Strazzer, Marieta Severo, Reginaldo Faria, Fernanda Torres,
Directors : Lui Farias,

Based on a famous autobiography, this film tells of teenage angst, as lived in the miserable lower middle class Rio bedroom suburbs, by 15 year-old Eliane. To boot, she comes from a ...

Actors : Ignacio López Tarso, Carlos Bracho, Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Adjani,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

A French psychologist investigates about famous suicidal women. She finds the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, a Mexican writer who died inside Paris' Notre Dame in 1931. To follow the ...

Actors : Jürgen Arndt, Eva Mattes, Norbert Wartha, Wolf Euba,
Directors : Percy Adlon,

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered...

Actors : Brian Benben, Michael Nouri, Joe Penny, Richard S. Castellano,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Three poor ghetto kids in turn-of-the-century New York grow up to become feared gangsters.

Actors : Ángel Pardo, Pastora Vega, Imanol Arias, Jorge Sanz,
Directors : Vicente Aranda,

Actors : Michael Madsen, Cecil Moe, Rex Flores, Maureen McCarthy,
Directors : Edward T. McDougal,

A man struggling with alcoholism turns to a reverend for help

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Kristina van Eyck, Mathieu Carrière, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Herbert Vesely,

The life of cursed painter Egon Shiele, specialized in nudes, and on his late conflicting love for two women.

Actors : Anouk Aimée, Mathieu Demy, Paul Grimault, Jean-Charles Rousseau,

While working at his editing table cartoon maker Paul Grimault is visited by a little clown, the star of his movie "Le Roi et l'Oiseau". Paul, who is delighted, shows his guest several ...

Actors : Gerard Thoolen, Kitty Courbois, Ester Spitz, Frank Rigter,
Directors : Kees Van Oostrum,

15 year old Sara, a Jewish girl living in the Netherlands during the German occupation slowly begins to realize the danger she and her family are in. When her parents are forced to move to ...

Actors : Herbert Grönemeyer, Rolf Hoppe, Anja-Christine Preussler, Nastassja Kinski,
Directors : Peter Schamoni,

Actors : Nikolay Eryomenko, Natalya Bondarchuk, Dmitriy Zolotukhin, Tamara Makarova,
Directors : Sergey Gerasimov,

Part one of a pair of historical films about the life of Peter the Great.

Actors : Lene Brøndum, Stellan Skarsgård, Pia Vieth, Helge Jordal,
Directors : Kjell Grede,

The life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, rather a portrait of a way of life. The ...

Actors : Sofie Gråbøl, Jean Yanne, Max von Sydow, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Henning Carlsen,

This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin (Donald Sutherland), follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his ...

Actors : Emanoil Petrut, Ion Dichiseanu, Alexandru Repan, George Constantin,
Directors : Gheorghe Vitanidis,

The life of Dacian war-leader Burebista who ruled between 80-44 B.C.and founded a strong Dacian Kingdom despite considerable pressure from the neighboring Celtic warlords and the Greek cities of the Black Sea coast.

Actors : Piotr Polk, Maya Ramati, Horst Buchholz, Didi Ramati,
Directors : Alexander Ramati,

This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.

Actors : Jack Elam, Carol Bagdasarian, Peter Brown, Dottie West,
Directors : Jim McCullough Sr.,

A tiny alien lands in the small town Aurora in Texas in the times of the Wild West. He flies around in his spaceship and checks out everything. While the kids are fascinated, their parents ...

Actors : Hema Malini, Pradeep Kumar, Parveen Babi, Dharmendra,
Directors : Kamal Amrohi,

An account of the reign of Indian empress Razia Sultan and her love for her slave Jamaluddin Yakut.