Top Biography Movies


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

321. 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.

322. 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.

323. Romero

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Duigan
Actors: Raul Julia, Richard Jordan, Harold Gould, Tony Perez, Ana Alicia, Eddie Velez

324. 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.

325. Heaven and Earth

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Joan Chen, Thuan K. Nguyen, Timothy Carhart, Hiep Thi Le, Dustin Nguyen
Plot: A story of a Vietnamese woman's struggle in her homeland during the war and in America after the war.

326. 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

327. 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

328. 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

329. Selena

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Gregory Nava
Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Jackie Guerra, Constance Marie, Alex Meneses, Jon Seda, Edward James Olmos
Plot: Tells the real-life story of Selena Quintanilla, the Mexican-American
singer who topped the charts in the United States and beyond before she
was murdered at age 23.

330. 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.

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