Best Biography movies

Actors : Alessandro Sperduti, Sergio Castellitto, Carlotta Gamba, Enrico Lo Verso,
Directors : Pupi Avati,

Italy, 1330. Ten years after Dante Alighieri's death, Giovanni Boccaccio travels to Ravenna in search of his daughter Beatrice to whom he must deliver ten gold florins from the Orsanmichele's Company as compensation for unjust exile.

Actors : Mica Bara, Ilse Amberger-Bendin, Marc Bluhm, Steffen Bielig,
Directors : Rosa von Praunheim,

A karate expert recounts his early life, his turbulent childhood, rife with sexual abuse and a career as a pimp. Andreas "Karate Andy" Marquardt's subsequent rehabilitation treatment, ...

Actors : Arly Jover, Karel Roden, Hanns Zischler, Oldrich Kaiser,
Directors : Julius Sevcík,

A period in the life of diplomat and politician Jan Masaryk, who was the son of Czechoslovakia's founder, served as the country's minister of foreign affairs and is believed by many to have been killed by the Communists in 1948.

Actors : Jakob Öhrman, Elena Leeve, Aku Hirviniemi, Sara Melleri,
Directors : Anna Paavilainen,

Cosmetics saleswoman Kirsi Viilonen dreams of a career as a star artist. When Kirsi meets DJ and radio journalist Paula, she decides to give in completely to her dream of becoming a singer....

Actors : Jenny Chang, Lukman Sardi, Dion Wiyoko, Laura Basuki,
Directors : Sim F.,

Susi Susanti rises through the rank to become Indonesia's most beloved athlete. In time of economic turmoil, Susi seizes the opportunity to show her country and the world that heroism is measured by the depth of one's sacrifice.

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Husein Cokic, Ljuba Tadic, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Midhat Mutapdzic,

The story begins in 1941 and shows one of the people who which were actually, very brave and proudly fought against the Ustasha, Germans and other butchers, not related to that ideology was...

Actors : Vladimir Grachyov, Yuliya Novikova, Aleksandr Galibin, Lynda Bellingham,
Directors : Gleb Panfilov,

The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.

Actors : Preston Hanson, Terence Locke, Patch Mackenzie, Misty Rowe,
Directors : Larry Buchanan,

Aspiring actress Norma Jean Baker lives in squalor in the early '40s as she works at the munitions plant and dreams of being a movie star. Abused as a child and an adult, she lacks ...

Actors : Manoj Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Hema Malini, Sudhir Dalvi,
Directors : Ashok V. Bhushan,

Pooja lives with her doctor husband and a young son. Her son becomes seriously ill and does not respond to any medication, her husband wants him to be moved to a hospital for further ...

Actors : Paolo Graziosi, Carmen Maura, Maxime Mansion, Jocelyn Quivrin,
Directors : Roger Planchon,

The title of this major French costume drama means "Louis, child-king", and indeed it's a fascinating fresco about the formative years of the young king Louis XIV, before he became the ...

Actors : Nathan Bexton, Kathryn Fiore, Natasha Melnick, Nick Nicotera,
Directors : Alex Nam,

A tale based on the life of the inventor of the original "Iron Man".

Actors : Sven Wollter, Féodor Atkine, Judit Danyi, Rita Russek,
Directors : Vilgot Sjöman,

The life of the Swedish engineer Alfred Nobel. How he invented dynamite and later in his life founded the Nobel-Prize.

Actors : Vladimir Mashkov, Fanny Ardant, Anna Mikhalkova, Gérard Depardieu,

The life of Rasputin and his friendship and influence on the Tsar and Tsarina.

Actors : Alain Azoulay, Julia Eringer, Pamela Cedar, Kahlen Burrus,
Directors : Jason Boritz,

A biography on the life of Amy Winehouse.

Actors : Alexander Scheer, Damien Chapelle, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Rolf Lassgård,
Directors : Jens Jonsson,

Sonja Wigert is a diva and star in Stockholm when WW2 breaks out, rapidly getting attention from the Nazi officer Josef Terboven. She's then recruited by Swedish intelligence as a spy, but Terboven makes her spy on the Swedes.

Actors : Artur Smolyaninov, Agnese Budovska, Arturs Skrastins,
Directors : Dzintars Dreibergs,

In the Soviet era, a young woman plays basketball as her only chance to cross the Iron Curtain and reunite with her brother.

Actors : Alessandro Haber, Galatea Ranzi, Stefano Accorsi, Laura Morante,
Directors : Michele Placido,

The life and scandalous loves of early 20th century poet Sibilla Aleramo.

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Mário Barroso, Teresa Madruga,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

Actors : Luciana Rigueira, Tuca Andrada, Joana Fomm, Cassiano Carneiro,
Directors : José Joffily,

Based on the true story of Fernando Ramos da Silva, actor of Hector Babenco's Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981).