Best Women Biography movies

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Actors : Carroll Baker, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Mariel Hemingway,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband becomes dangerously jealous. Based on the true story of 1980 Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten.

Actors : Ed Harris, David Clennon, Ann Wedgeworth, Jessica Lange,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Jessica Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.

Actors : Isabelle Adjani, Madeleine Robinson, Laurent Grévill, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Bruno Nuytten,

Biography of Camille Claudel. Sister of writer Paul Claudel, her enthusiasm impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt ...

Actors : Lieke van Lexmond, Frank Lammers, Barry Atsma, Sanne Langelaar,
Directors : Roel Reiné,

When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and the country itself is on the brink of civil war, only one man can lead the country's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet: Michiel de Ruyter.

Actors : David Scheller, Natalia Avelon, Matthias Schweighöfer, Friederike Kempter,
Directors : Achim Bornhak,

Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but ...

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, James Caan,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.

Actors : Chloë Sevigny, Jim Sturgess, Isabel Lucas, Kate Micucci,
Directors : Tristan Patterson,

A chronicle of the life of furniture salesman turned bank robber Eddie Dodson.

Actors : Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James T. Callahan,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Actors : Carrie-Anne Moss, Thomas Mann, Chloë Grace Moretz, Richard Armitage,
Directors : Gerard Barrett,

A young, capable professional cannot explain her newly erratic behavior.

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 : Erin Moriarty, Lee Pace, Judy Greer, Corey Stoll,
Directors : Nick Hamm,

Intense thriller where politics, big business and narcotics collide.

Actors : Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl, Anamaria Marinca, William Hurt,
Directors : Julie Delpy,

A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking, with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her beauty.

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 : 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.

Actors : Noah Jupe, Jason Clarke, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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."