Top Biography Movies


The Top Biography Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Biography List". Lists are calculated daily.

181. Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Jay
Actors: Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Brian Pillman, Blade Hart, Julie Hart, Stu Hart
Plot: Documentary focusing on the career of pro wrestler Bret Hart & his controversial exit from the WWF.

182. Trumbo

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jay Roach
Actors: Bryan Cranston, Elle Fanning, Helen Mirren, Diane Lane, Alan Tudyk, John Goodman
Plot: Dalton Trumbo was one of the most successful screenwriters in the 1940s, winning an Oscar for Kitty Foyle. But as WWII swept across the world, his political view and ideologies clashed, and, along with publishing the novel "Johnny Got His Gun", he would eventually become the most famous face to be blacklisted by Hollywood.

183. Machine Gun Preacher

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marc Forster
Actors: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Madeline Carroll, Kathy Baker, Barbara Coven
Plot: Sam Childers spent his life as a drug-dealing biker until he found God. He found a way to put his faith and former life to use by taking on the task of coming to the aid of Sudanese children forced to become soldiers.

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, Jeremy Irons, Patrick Malahide
Plot: Acclaimed miniseries about the later years of Queen Elizabeth I.

185. 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, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Austin Lyon
Plot: Explores the life and times and music of the great Miles Davis.

186. 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, Elizabeth Peña, Marshall Crenshaw
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.

187. Marshall

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Actors: Dan Stevens, Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Sophia Bush, Sterling K. Brown
Plot: Follows the life of a young Thurgood Marshall, as the first African American Supreme Court Justice, while he works on an early case that will be one of the cornerstones of his career.

188. Florence Foster Jenkins

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 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, Neve Gachev, John Kavanagh
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.

189. The Railway Man

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine, Sam Reid
Plot: During WWII Eric Lomax was one of thousands of Allied soldiers who were captured and forced to work on the Thai/Burma railway. Her survived - many did not. Years later, he meets Patti while on a train and the two connect. Knowing about the demons that haunt him - Patti sets off on her own investigation and discovers a once-young Japanese officer, and Eric's chief tormentor, is still alive.

190. Lady Sings the Blues

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Actors: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan, Paul Hampton, Sid Melton

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