Top Biography Movies


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341. The Executioner's Song

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lawrence Schiller
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Christine Lahti, Rosanna Arquette, Eli Wallach, Steven Keats, Jordan Clarke

342. Hilary and Jackie

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Anand Tucker
Actors: Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain, David Morrissey, Charles Dance, Rupert Penry-Jones
Plot: Based in the biography of Jacqueline du Pré.

343. Colette

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wash Westmoreland
Actors: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson, Fiona Shaw, Ray Panthaki, Aiysha Hart
Plot: Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette marries Parisian writer "Willy" moving from her rural French home to the heart of intellectual and cultural spledor: Paris. When Willy convinces her to ghostright for him, she comes up with Colette, a semi-autobiographical tale, which becomes a best-seller and sensation. She pens additional novels about Claudine, but makes her mark moreso when she fights for artistic rights over her creation, sparking a change that has lasting effects on gender conformity.

344. Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest, Mako, Elias Koteas
Plot: Based on a true story - following the end of WWII, Preston Tucker has a grand idea to challenge the auto industry with his maverick attitude and revolutionary designs, along with some smooth-talking, Tucker began his dream only to run afoul of the SEC.

345. Wilde

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brian Gilbert
Actors: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle, Gemma Jones, Tom Wilkinson

346. Grey Owl

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Richard Attenborough
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Stewart Bick, Vlasta Vrana, Annie Galipeau, Neil Kroetsch, Serge Houde

347. Chasing Ice

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jeff Orlowski
Actors: James Balog, Svavar Jonatansson, Adam LeWinter, Louie Psihoyos, Jeff Orlowski, Kitty Boone
Plot: James Balog was once a climate change skeptic, until his Extreme Ice Survey provided undeniable evidence of the changing planet. Using time-lapse photography, a multi-year record of the changing glaciers is presented in minutes and Balog takes a cross-continent journey, and risks his career, to show this change.

348. Stan & Ollie

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jon S. Baird
Actors: John C. Reilly, Steve Coogan, Nina Arianda, Danny Huston, Shirley Henderson, Rufus Jones
Plot: Long after their golden age has passed, the world famous comedic duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy reunite for their final act: a hectic theatre tour of post-war Britain. With the support of their respective wives, Lucille Hardy and Ida Kitaeva Laurel, the pair will solidify their place in history as they embark on one, last adventure for their adoring fans.

349. Calamity Jane

Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Butler
Actors: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick Wesson, Paul Harvey
Plot: The Wild West is oft thought of as the domain of gunslinging men, but rough-riding, gun-toting Calamity Jane can hold her own with the best of them - including friend/rival/possible lover Wild Bill HIckock. Sent to Chicago to recruit a an actress for her saloon stage, she finds a perfect, pretty face - one that at first seems to overshadow her own.

350. Boy Erased

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Edgerton
Actors: Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Joel Edgerton, Russell Crowe, Xavier Dolan, Troye Sivan
Plot: Jared, the teenage son of a baptist preacher, is forced to go to a church-supported gay conversion program. Based on the 2016 memoir by Garrard Conley.

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