Biography Movies

Camille Claudel is a movie starring Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, and Madeleine Robinson. Camille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for...

Triumph of the Spirit is a movie starring Willem Dafoe, Edward James Olmos, and Robert Loggia. In Greece during World War II, a young Jewish boxer, meets regularly with girlfriend Allegra until they and their families are sent to...

Ken Russell's biopic on his own life and career.

Francesco is a movie starring Mickey Rourke, Helena Bonham Carter, and Andréa Ferréol. Docudrama about the life of St-Francis of Assisi.

Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.

A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy. He's on the go from L.A., to Paris, to Monte-Carlo,

The life and career of wildly controversial rock 'n' roll star Jerry Lee Lewis.

Fictionalized account based on the actions of serial killer Dennis Nilsen.

Romero is a movie starring Raul Julia, Richard Jordan, and Ana Alicia. The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.

Fat Man and Little Boy is a movie starring Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, and Bonnie Bedelia. This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.

Communion is a movie starring Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, and Frances Sternhagen. Oct.4 and Dec.26 the Strieber family drives from NYC to their cabin in the woods. Both nights there are some powerful lights outside and maybe...

Blaze is a movie starring Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, and Jerry Hardin. A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a...

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.

The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.

Goodfellas is a movie starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, and Joe Pesci. The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mob, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the...

Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.

Anaïs Nin meets the American writer, Henry Miller, in Paris in 1931. She keeps a diary of her sexual awakening which includes Henry and his wife, June.

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.

Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage near Marseilles. During one of these holidays he meets Isabelle, a pretty but conceited girl... Adapted from the cult classic novel from Marcel Pagnol.

Awakenings is a movie starring Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, and Julie Kavner. The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

The Doors is a movie starring Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, and Kyle MacLachlan. The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los...

In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

Director Michael Apted interviews the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

A Brief History of Time is a movie starring Stephen Hawking, Isobel Hawking, and Janet Humphrey. A film about the life and work of the cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, who despite his near total paralysis, was one of the great minds of...

The story of how Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel started Las Vegas.

L'amant is a movie starring Jane March, Tony Ka Fai Leung, and Frédérique Meininger. In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that...

Arriving by train in Guangzhou, 1895, the trio fight off White Lotus followers, who want to kill all foreigners and the cute, European dressed 13th Aunt. It's not kung fu master Dr. Wong's (Jet Li) last fight.

Babe Ruth becomes a baseball legend but is unheroic to those who know him.

The Long Day Closes is a movie starring Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates, and Anthony Watson. A lyrical reverie about a young Liverpool boy coming of age in the 1950s among his loving family and the austere Catholic Church as he...

1492: Conquest of Paradise is a movie starring Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, and Sigourney Weaver. Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.

Malcolm X is a movie starring Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, and Delroy Lindo. Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his...

After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world.

An elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, recounting his amazing journey from his poverty-stricken childhood to world-wide success after the ingenious invention of the Little Tramp.

The story of the notorious American labor union figure Jimmy Hoffa, who organizes a bitter strike, makes deals with members of the organized crime syndicate and mysteriously disappears in 1975.

Lorenzo's Oil is a movie starring Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, and Peter Ustinov. A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn all about it and tackle the problem himself.

Wong Fei Hung III: Si wong jaang ba is a movie starring Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, and Siu Chung Mok. Master Wong and his disciples enroll in the 'Dancing Lion Competition' to stop an assassination plot and to battle an arrogant,...

Alive is a movie starring Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, and Josh Hamilton. A Uruguayan rugby team stranded in the snow swept Andes are forced to use desperate measures to survive after a plane crash.

Fire in the Sky is a movie starring D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, and Craig Sheffer. An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975. His co-workers endure ridicule and...

Wittgenstein is a movie starring Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, and Tilda Swinton. A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein...

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story is a movie starring Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, and Robert Wagner. A fictionalized account of the life of the martial arts superstar.

The story of singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner.

A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

Caro diario is a movie starring Nanni Moretti, Renato Carpentieri, and Giovanna Bozzolo. Director Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three antological vignettes presented as the chapters of an open diary.

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

In the Name of the Father is a movie starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, and Alison Crosbie. A man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English...

Shadowlands is a movie starring Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, and Julian Fellowes. C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the...

A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.