Top Biography Movies


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361. Shut Up and Sing

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck
Actors: Natalie Maines, Emily Robison, Martie Maguire, Darlene Kegan, Adrian Pasdar, Rick Rubin
Plot: "Shut Up & Sing" travels with the Dixie Chicks, from the peak of their popularity as the national-anthem-singing darlings of country music and top-selling female recording artists of all time, through...( read more ) the now infamous anti-Bush comment made by the group's lead singer in 2003. The film follows the lives and careers of the Dixie Chicks over a period of three years during which they were under political attack and received death threats, while continuing to live their lives, have children, and of course make music. The film ultimately presents who the Dixie Chicks are as women, public figures, and musicians.

362. Kill Your Darlings

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Krokidas
Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster, David Cross, Elizabeth Olsen
Plot: It's 1944 and the biggest name of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, find themselves brought together by a murder.

363. Lumumba

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Peck
Actors: Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto, Dieudonné Kabongo, Pascal N'Zonzi

364. Bleed for This

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ben Younger
Actors: Miles Teller, Katey Sagal, Aaron Eckhart, Ciarán Hinds, Ted Levine, Christine Evangelista
Plot: Follows the true-life story of World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza. When a car crash leaves him nearly unable to walk, Pazienza, showing incredible strength and dedication, makes on of the most stunning comebacks in sports history.

365. Genius

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Michael Grandage
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Colin Firth, Guy Pearce, Dominic West, Laura Linney
Plot: Follows the life of Max Perkins as his time as book editor at Scribner where he was in charge of approving books from the likes of Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

366. The Whole Wide World

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Dan Ireland
Actors: Vincent D'Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell, Benjamin Mouton, Michael Corbett
Plot: Based on the memoirs of Novalyne Price Ellis, this is a captivating story about the last years of never fully understood and appreciated writer, Robert E. Howard.

367. Air Guitar Nation

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alexandra Lipsitz
Actors: Peter Cilella, Dan Crane, David S. Jung, Angela Shelton, Mark Teich, Zac Munro

368. Anthropoid

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sean Ellis
Actors: Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Harry Lloyd, Toby Jones, Charlotte Le Bon, Bill Milner
Plot: Based on the true story behind Operation Anthropoid during WWII. The third in line to lead the Third Reich behind Hitelr and Himmer was SS General Reinhard Heydrich. The architect behind the Final Solution was also the commander of the brutal occupying force in Czechoslovakia. Allied soldiers, witnessing his work first hand, come up with a plot to assassinate Heydrich.

369. Nine Lives ( Ni liv )

Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Adventure/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Arne Skouen
Actors: Jack Fjeldstad, Henny Moan, Alf Malland, Joachim Holst-Jensen, Lydia Opøien, Edvard Drabløs

370. Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nick Broomfield
Actors: Nick Broomfield, Heidi Fleiss, Daryl Gates, Ron Jeremy, Jason Fleiss, Jesse Fleiss

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