Top Biography Movies


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131. Blinded by the Light

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Actors: Viveik Kalra, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Ganatra, Aaron Phagura, Dean-Charles Chapman, Nikita Mehta
Plot: In 1987, as Margaret Thatcher rules Britain, a teen grows, learns to understands his family and find his own voice - all to the soundtrack of Bruce Springsteen.

132. Lenny

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bob Fosse
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner , Stanley Beck, Frankie Man, Rashel Novikoff

133. My Best Friend ( Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski )

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Claudia Cardinale, Benino Moreno Placido, Eva Mattes
Plot: From the time he was a teenager, Werner Herzog had a fascination with actor Klaus Kinski. When the two moved into an apartment later in life, Kinski flew into a rage and completely destroyed the bathroom. Thus a love-hate-respect developed between the two men and Herzog would cast Kinski in Aguirre, Wrath of God and more films - all the while, their turbulent relationship would continue.

134. George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
Director: George Stevens Jr.
Actors: George Stevens Jr., George Stevens, Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Max von Sydow, Frank Capra

135. Something the Lord Made

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph Sargent
Actors: Alan Rickman, Mos Def, Kyra Sedgwick, Gabrielle Union, Merritt Wever, Charles S. Dutton

136. The Iron Claw

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Sport
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sean Durkin
Actors: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney, Holt McCallany, Lily James

137. Immortal Beloved

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bernard Rose
Actors: Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna ter Steege, Marco Hofschneider, Miriam Margolyes
Plot: Examines the life of legendary composer Ludwig van Beethoven including the mystery behind the famous love letter to his nameless beloved - which the film tries to identify amongst the many women in Beethoven's life.

138. Reds

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Warren Beatty
Actors: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino, Jerzy Kosinski
Plot: An American journalist joins the communist revolution in Russia in the beginning of the twentieth century.

139. Mask

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Actors: Cher, Sam Elliott, Eric Stoltz, Estelle Getty, Richard Dysart, Laura Dern
Plot: A boy with a disease that causes facial deformity has a mother who loves him.

140. The Krays

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Medak
Actors: Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Alfred Lynch, Susan Fleetwood
Plot: Follows the lives of twin brothers Ronald and Reginald Kray - London-born boys who rose to power in the 1960s as crime lords of the underworld.

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