Top Biography Movies


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321. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Errol Morris
Actors: Fred A. Leuchter Jr., Robert Jan Van Pelt, David Irving, Caroline Leuchter, James Roth, Shelly Shapiro

322. The Inn of the Sixth Hapiness

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mark Robson
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jürgens, Robert Donat, Michael David, Athene Seyler, Ronald Squire

323. Man of a Thousand Faces

Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph Pevney
Actors: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Marjorie Rambeau, Robert Evans, Jim Backus
Plot: Loosely adapted biography of actor Lon Chaney from his childhood growing
up with deaf parents to his acting career playing a variety of strange,
memorable characters.

324. Marie Antoinette

Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Actors: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Gladys George
Plot: Follows the life of the famed Marie Antoinette from her isolated teenage life, to finding high society (and a count) to becoming queen and responsible mother and rule to her death by beheading as France faces crippling poverty and revolution.

325. Freud

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Huston
Actors: Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks, Susan Kohner, Eileen Herlie, Fernand Ledoux

326. Papillon

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Noer
Actors: Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Eve Hewson, Michael Socha, Christopher Fairbank, Brian Vernel
Plot: Devil's Island is a remote, dangerous penal colony. The rather meek Henri "Papillon" Charrière, a Parisian safecracker is sent to the island after being framed for murder. He will do anything to escape and thus strikes up a friendship with the quirky counterfeiter Louis Dega - who has the money and the means - but a plan of this magnitude can't be down overnight and over several years, ups and downs, they form an unbreakable bond.

327. The Iron Lady

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Actors: Meryl Streep, Harry Lloyd, Jim Broadbent, Anthony Head, Richard E. Grant, Roger Allam
Plot: A film based on the life of the UK's first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher and what she had to sacrifice in order to rise to power in a male-dominated political society.

328. The Plainsman

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Actors: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Porter Hall, John Miljan
Plot: Wild Bill Hickok helps protect a fort from Native American attacks, after they have gotten a hold of repeating rifles from gun-runners.

329. Factory Girl

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Hickenlooper
Actors: Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon, Mena Suvari, Illeana Douglas

330. Iris

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Eyre
Actors: Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville, Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Penelope Wilton, Juliet Aubrey

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