Biography Movies

Patch Adams is a movie starring Robin Williams, Daniel London, and Monica Potter. The true story of a heroic man, Hunter "Patch" Adams, determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. He ventured where no...

Hilary and Jackie is a movie starring Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, and James Frain. The tragic story of world renowned classic cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s.

Esther is a TV movie starring Louise Lombard, F. Murray Abraham, and Jürgen Prochnow. The Bible story of Esther starring Louise Lombard, F. Murray Abraham and Jurgen Prochnow.

Pirates of Silicon Valley is a TV movie starring Anthony Michael Hall, Noah Wyle, and Joey Slotnick. History of Apple and Microsoft.

Endurance is a movie starring Haile Gebrselassie, Shawananness Gebrselassie, and Yonas Zergaw. The gold medal for the men's 10,000-metre race in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is won by Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie.

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge is a TV movie starring Halle Berry, Brent Spiner, and Klaus Maria Brandauer. Dorothy Dandridge's way to fame and fortune as a dancer, singer and actress.

Memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor husband, their ten year old son and his older sister. Through the household comes a numb

Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.

The story of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

An old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother.

A heartfelt documentary focusing on the day-to-day lives of professional wrestlers, some on the rise, some on the wane, and others fighting for their lives.

Joan of Arc is a movie starring Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich, and Rab Affleck. A young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors.

Man on the Moon is a movie starring Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, and Gerry Becker. The life and career of legendary comedian Andy Kaufman.

Angela's Ashes is a movie starring Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, and Joe Breen. Based on the best-selling autobiography by Irish expatriate Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as...

Tesla: Master of Lightning is a TV movie starring Stacy Keach, Elisabeth Noone, and Nikola Tesla. Biography of electrical inventor and visionary genius Nikola Tesla.

This film is based on the story of the capture of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick.

Erin Brockovich is a movie starring Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, and David Brisbin. An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a...

The story of Jesus Christ.

RKO 281 is a TV movie starring Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, and Melanie Griffith. Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane (1941), despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.

Vatel is the cook of Prince Condé. When the prince invites Louis XIV to hunt, he has to give lavish banquets in order to fall in his favor. But when Vatel falls in love with the king's mistress, love and duty come into conflict.

A bored Italian socialite (Kim Basinger) abandons her jet-set lifestyle for the rigors and rewards of rural Kenya in this true story, based on the best-selling memoir by Kuki Gallmann. Directed by Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire).

Chopper is a movie starring Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, and Vince Colosimo. Chopper tells the intense story of Mark "Chopper" Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison. His book,...

Steal This Movie is a movie starring Vincent D'Onofrio, Janeane Garofalo, and Jeanne Tripplehorn. After years of hiding, the notorious American leftist radical, Abbie Hoffman, discusses his life, his cause and the opposition he...

I cento passi is a movie starring Luigi Lo Cascio, Luigi Maria Burruano, and Lucia Sardo. "I cento passi" (one hundred steps) was the distance between the Impastatos' house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss,...

Before Night Falls is a movie starring Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, and Olatz López Garmendia. The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.

Pollock is a movie starring Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, and Robert Knott. A film about the life and career of the American painter, Jackson Pollock.

The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him.

Remember the Titans is a movie starring Denzel Washington, Will Patton, and Wood Harris. The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.

A prophet who has the ability to interpret dreams is sold into slavery in Egypt, where people learn of his gifts.

Quills is a movie starring Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, and Joaquin Phoenix. In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.

Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story is a TV movie starring Natalie Cole, Diahann Carroll, and James McDaniel. R&B singer Natalie Cole narrates this docudrama about her life, adapted from her autobiography.

Piñero is a movie starring Benjamin Bratt, Giancarlo Esposito, and Talisa Soto. Miguel Pinero's creative and turbulent life was cut short at the age of forty. A Tony Award nominee who did time at Sing-Sing, a volatile urban poet...

The Other Side of Heaven is a movie starring Christopher Gorham, Anne Hathaway, and Joe Folau. John Groberg, a farm kid from Idaho Falls, crosses an ocean to become a missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan islands during the...

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.

A pack of naïve teenagers conspire to murder a mutual friend, whose aggressive demeanor has proved too much.

A biopic about the actor James Dean, whose stardom of the ultimate teenage rebel as well as the premature death made him a legend. His roles are depicted having much in common with his personal life, most notably the difficult relati

A young woman struggles with depression during her first year at Harvard.

A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.

Nirgendwo in Afrika is a movie starring Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, and Matthias Habich. A German Jewish refugee family moves to and adjusts to a farm life in 1930s Kenya.

The Man Who Saved Christmas is a TV movie starring Jason Alexander, Kelly Rowan, and Ari Cohen. A.C. Gilbert figures out a way to keep Christmas alive after the war threatens to take it away in his name.

In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.

24 Hour Party People is a movie starring Steve Coogan, Lennie James, and John Thomson. In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.

The Rosa Parks Story is a TV movie starring Angela Bassett, Peter Francis James, and Tonea Stewart. A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

Joe and Max is a TV movie starring Til Schweiger, Leonard Roberts, and Richard Roundtree. True story of boxers Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and their enduring friendship.

Winston Churchill's wilderness years prior to World War II, when only he could see the threat that Adolf Hitler and a rearmed Germany posed to Europe.

Biopic about notorious American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, taking place in both the past and the present.