Best Biography movies of 1980s

Actors : Anouk Aimée, Paul Grimault, Mathieu Demy, 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 : 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 : 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 : Carmen de Lirio, Raúl García Losada, Frank Braña, Teresa Giménez,

Juan Jose Moreno Cuenca, alias the Heifer, is 23 years old and tells his story as a criminal offender from 1 Ocaña Toledo. Fatherless, the offender has his childhood and how everything changed when her mother went to prison.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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.

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

Actors : Lene Brøndum, Stellan Skarsgård, Helge Jordal, Pia Vieth,
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 : 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 : Teresa Menezes, Diogo Dória, Mário Barroso, Francisco Brás,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

Actors : Zhongxi Chen, Xu Chengxian, Qimin Wei, Yanfang Lu,

Set in the early stage after liberation of Shanghai, Chen Yi is delegated to be mayor and deals with a lot of economic and social issues.

Actors : Ladislav Bambas, Daniela Bambasová, Josef Vinklár, Zlata Adamovská,
Directors : Frantisek Vlácil,

Composer Antonín Dvorák (Josef Vinklár) conducts a rehearsal at the Royal Albert Hall in London, where a series of his musical pieces is to be performed. He is suddenly being haunted by a ...

Actors : Torquil Campbell, Clare Barclay, John Bourgeois, Robert Bidaman,
Directors : Mario Azzopardi,

Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks, and the events that led to the birth of Canada as a nation. During the time of the American Revolution, while Britain faces full scale ...

Actors : Michail Marmarinos, Aristotelis Aposkitis, Yiorgos Kendros, Takis Moschos,
Directors : Takis Spetsiotis,

A documentary about the rise and fall of Greek's most esteemed poet, Napoleon Lapathiotis.

Actors : Gill Dontchevsky, Gabi Eldor, Shai Golan, Ilan Dar,
Directors : Michal Bat-Adam,

Two doctors from Tel Aviv join 'Doctors Without Borders' and travel to Thailand to help out refugees. They leave their daughter, Aya (aged 10) at a kibbutz where the children are housed by ...

Actors : Norma Bengell, Carla Camurati, Antônio Fagundes, Otávio Augusto,
Directors : Norma Bengell,

Biography of Patrícia Galvão, aka Pagu, a legendary personage, muse and activist of Brazilian Modernism in art, during the 1920s until the 1940s. She shocked the society of her time, but ...

Actors : Swetlana Schönfeld, Ulrich Mühe, Jenny Gröllmann, Michael Gwisdek,
Directors : Herrmann Zschoche,

Ten decisive years (1796 - 1806) in the life of the great German poet Friedrich Hölderlin. In order to earn money as a tutor "Hölder" moves in with the Gontards, a banker's family in ...