Top Biography Movies


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

371. Hannah Arendt

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Nicholas Woodeson, Julia Jentsch, Ulrich Noethen
Plot: Explores the life of philosopher, political theorist and reporter Hannah Arendt as she covers the trial of notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.

372. A United Kingdom

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Amma Asante
Actors: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Jack Davenport, Tom Felton, Laura Carmichael, Jessica Oyelowo
Plot: The Botswana prince, Seretse Khama, causes an international scandal when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s.

373. MacArthur

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joseph Sargent
Actors: Gregory Peck, Ivan Bonar, Ward Costello, Nicolas Coster, Marj Dusay, Ed Flanders

374. Infamous

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Douglas McGrath
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Toby Jones, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sandra Bullock, Juliet Stevenson, Michael Panes
Plot: While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a
close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

375. Lady Jane

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Trevor Nunn
Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes, John Wood, Patrick Stewart, Sara Kestelman, Joss Ackland

376. Hitler: The Rise of Evil

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Christian Duguay
Actors: Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Jena Malone, Julianna Margulies, Matthew Modine, Liev Schreiber
Plot: A TV movie based on the life of the infamous dictator, Adolf Hitler.

377. Final Portrait

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stanley Tucci
Actors: Armie Hammer, Geoffrey Rush, Clémence Poésy, Tony Shalhoub, James Faulkner, Sylvie Testud
Plot: On a short trip to Paris in 1964, author and art connoisseur James Lord finds himself agreeing to sit for a portrait for his friend Alberto Giacometti. Told that it will only take a few days, and intrigued by the process, Lord agrees - opening the door to the insight, beauty, chaos, frustration and genius of the artistic endeavor.

378. Skin

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guy Nattiv
Actors: Jamie Bell, Vera Farmiga, Mike Colter, Danielle Macdonald, Jaime Ray Newman, Mary Stuart Masterson

379. Evita

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alan Parker
Actors: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail, Victoria Sus, Julian Littman
Plot: In this musical biopic, a skeptical journalist recounts the rise of Eva Peron -- from unwanted child to big city star to first lady of Argentina.

380. Gospel According to St. Matthew, The ( Vangelo secondo Matteo, Il )

Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Actors: Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante, Mario Socrate, Settimio Di Porto

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