Top Biography Movies


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

191. 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.

192. 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.

193. 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

194. Che ( Che Part 1, Che Part 2 )

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Joaquim de Almeida, Franka Potente
Plot: Follows the story of Latin American revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, his band of Cuban exhiles (including Fidel Castro) and how they took over the island nation.

195. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Clooney
Actors: Dick Clark, Sam Rockwell, Michelle Sweeney, Drew Barrymore, Michael Cera, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Plot: Chuck Barris is well-known for creating hit game shows - The Dating Game and The Gong Show amongst others, but that was just a cover for his real job - a CIA assassin carrying out covert missions for the government... or so he would have you believe.

196. The Private Life of Henry VIII

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alexander Korda
Actors: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall, Miles Mander, Laurence Hanray, Merle Oberon

197. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rob Cohen
Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, Robert Wagner, Michael Learned, Nancy Kwan, Ric Young
Plot: The life and times of Bruce Lee: a teenage, Chinese boy moves to the U.S.
and opens his own martial arts studio. Then, he becomes a movie star.

198. Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jan Harlan
Actors: Tom Cruise, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Paul Mazursky, Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen
Plot: Stanley Kubrick's frequent collaborator and brother-in-law, Jan Harlan, offers a fascinating inside look at the genius behind such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket and Dr. Strangelove.

199. Invincible

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ericson Core
Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks, Kevin Conway, Michael Rispoli, Kirk Acevedo
Plot: Based on the true story of Vince Papale, a blue-collar everyman who decided to attend an open tryout for the Philadelphia Eagles and became a working-class hero to his home town.

200. Carlos

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Olivier Assayas
Actors: Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo, Ahmad Kaabour, Talal El-Jordi, Juana Acosta
Plot: Mini-series based on the life of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez and idealist and sociopath who founded a terrorist organization and went on to raid the 1975 OPEC meeting.

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