181. Born to Be Blue
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Budreau
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum Keith Rennie, Tony Nappo
Plot: A re-imagining of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker's life in the 60s set with the setup being a film about himself with an enigmatic co-star who pushes him to look beyond his turbulent past and stage his own comeback.
182. Bukowski: Born Into This
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Dullaghan
Actors: Charles Bukowski, Bono, Sean Penn, Tom Waits
183. Ivan the Terrible, Part I ( Ivan Groznyy I )
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Actors: Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman, Mikhail Nazvanov
Plot: In this first part of the two-part life of Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) we explore his early days after he crowns himself Tsar of Russia and beings cultivating his power and reclaiming lost territory. From various campaigns to an illness that nearly takes his life to threats from the aristocracy and his own family - he deftly plays his hand to keep his title.
184. Elizabeth I
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tom Hooper
Actors: Helen Mirren, Hugh Dancy, Toby Jones, Ian McDiarmid
Plot: Acclaimed miniseries about the later years of Queen Elizabeth I.
185. Florence Foster Jenkins
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Stephen Frears
Actors: Rebecca Ferguson, Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg
Plot: Florence Foster Jenkins is a New York heiress with the dream of becoming a world-renowned opera singer. There is just the slight problem that she has absolutely no aptitude for singing whatsoever.
186. Pawn Sacrifice
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Edward Zwick
Actors: Liev Schreiber, Tobey Maguire, Peter Sarsgaard, Lily Rabe
Plot: American chess prodigy Bobby Fisher prepares to go up against legendary Russian Boris Spassky.
187. Miles Ahead
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Don Cheadle
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Don Cheadle, Michael Stuhlbarg, Keith Stanfield
Plot: Explores the life and times and music of the great Miles Davis.
188. Skin
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Anthony Fabian
Actors: Sam Neill, Sophie Okonedo, Terri Ann Eckstein, Jonathan Pienaar
189. Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicholas D. Wrathall
Actors: Gore Vidal, Joanne Woodward, Christopher Hitchens, David Mamet
190. La Bamba
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Luis Valdez
Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Joe Pantoliano
Plot: This is the true story Ritchie Valens a young rock & roll singer who tragically died in an air crash at the age of 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Paicoma, California where he in and his family makes a meager living working at plantations to his rise as a star. The film also focus on Richies friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob and his relationship with Donna, his girlfriend.
