Biography Movies

Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les prisons is a movie starring Sandrine Bonnaire, André Marcon, and Jean-Louis Richard. Film about the later life of Joan Of Arc including her trial and execution.

Jeanne la Pucelle I - Les batailles is a movie starring Tatiana Moukhine, Sandrine Bonnaire, and Jean-Marie Richier. A part of Joan of Arc's life. At the beginning, Jeanne (Joan) has already left Domremy, she is trying to convince a...

This movie chronicles the life of Lane Frost, 1987 PRCA Bull Riding World Champion, his marriage and his friendships with Tuff Hedeman (three-time World Champion) and Cody Lambert.

Backbeat is a movie starring Stephen Dorff, Sheryl Lee, and Ian Hart. A dramatization of the Hamburg, Germany phase of The Beatles' early history.

A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

La Reine Margot is a movie starring Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, and Jean-Hugues Anglade. Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to...

From Wichita to Dodge City to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, a man becomes a myth in this thrilling journey of romance, adventure and desperate, heroic action.

Quiz Show is a movie starring Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, and Rob Morrow. A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle is a movie starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Campbell Scott, and Matthew Broderick. Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers,...

An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.

Two teenage girls share a unique bond; their parents, concerned that the friendship is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.

Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams, despite his lack of talent.

A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two teenage daughters on his own, and still make a dishonest living in 1950s Indiana.

A reporter hired to write the 'official' biography of Ty Cobb discovers just how dark the baseball legend's real story is.

Jacob is a TV movie starring Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Sean Bean. In the foreign land of Canaan lives Isaac, son of Abraham, with his clever, strong-willed wife Rebekah and his twin sons Esau and Jacob. The first-born,...

Immortal Beloved is a movie starring Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, and Isabella Rossellini. The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Besides all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter...

The Madness of King George is a movie starring Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, and Rupert Graves. When King George III goes mad, his Lieutenants try to adjust the rules to run the country without his participation.

Widower Thomas Jefferson (3rd US president 1801-09) lives in Paris 1785-90 with his daughter. He has a pretty slave girl accompany his other daughter to France. He has an alleged affair with her resulting in kids.

Rob Roy is a movie starring Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, and John Hurt. In 1713 Scotland, Rob Roy MacGregor is wronged by a nobleman and his nephew, becomes an outlaw in search of revenge while fleeing the Redcoats, and faces charges...

A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

Anne Frank Remembered is a movie starring Kenneth Branagh, Glenn Close, and Janny Brandes-Brilslijper. Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this academy award-winning documentary...

An ex-Marine turned teacher struggles to connect with her students in an inner city school.

The early career of legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickock is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.

A biographical story of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame.

The Making of the Mahatma is a movie starring Rajit Kapoor, Pallavi Joshi, and Keith Stevenson. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was invited to South Africa in 1893 to settle a case for a wealthy Indian settled there. He expected to...

Citizen X is a TV movie starring Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, and Max von Sydow. During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

Shine is a movie starring Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Justin Braine. Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

The passionate Merchant Ivory drama tells the story of Françoise Gilot (Natascha McElhone), the only lover of Pablo Picasso (Sir Anthony Hopkins) who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty, and move on with her life.

The Whole Wide World is a movie starring Vincent D'Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, and Ann Wedgeworth. In 1933 Texas, a schoolteacher and aspiring writer meets a pulp fiction writer, and a relationship soon develops between the two, but...

The hit musical based on the life of Eva Perón (Evita Duarte), a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Domingo Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.

A bitter love story between a talented writer and a gentle nurse.

The autobiographical story of Howard Stern, the radio rebel who is now also a TV personality, an author and a movie star.

The true story of Selena, a Texas-born Tejano singer who rose from cult status to performing at the Astrodome, as well as having chart topping albums on the Latin music charts.

In 1946 Denver, an aspiring writer who enjoys irresponsible adventures with his friend, writes a letter about his life before and after the suicide attempt by his sad girlfriend who wants a commitment.

Mrs Brown is a movie starring Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, and Geoffrey Palmer. When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown, but their relationship also brings scandal and...

Wilde is a movie starring Stephen Fry, Jude Law, and Vanessa Redgrave. The turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality.

True story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China's takeover of Tibet.

Little Dieter Needs to Fly is a movie starring Dieter Dengler, Werner Herzog, and Eugene Deatrick. German-American Dieter Dengler discusses his service as a U.S. naval pilot in the Vietnam War. Dengler also revisits the sites of his...

From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.

The last days of Frankenstein (1931) director James Whale are explored.

Gia is a TV movie starring Angelina Jolie, Faye Dunaway, and Elizabeth Mitchell. The story of the life of Gia Carangi, a top fashion model from the late 1970s, from her meteoric rise to the forefront of the modeling industry, to her...

A documentary focusing on the life of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, the author of the bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and originator of the Objectivist philosophy.

Dangerous Beauty is a movie starring Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, and Oliver Platt. A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.

42 Up is a TV movie starring Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, and Symon Basterfield. Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that...

Three women each claim to be the widow of 1950s doo-wop singer Frankie Lymon, claiming legal rights to his estate.

Without Limits is a movie starring Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, and Monica Potter. The life of renowned runner Steve Prefontaine and his relationship with legendary coach Bill Bowerman.

The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.