Top Biography Movies


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

411. Dangerous Minds

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John N. Smith
Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance, Robin Bartlett, Beatrice Winde, Lorraine Toussaint
Plot: An ex-marine becomes a first-time teacher to a tough, intelligent class at a Northern California inner-city school. When conventional methods fail to reach them, she decides a new self-taught curriculum will work better.

412. Fellini's Casanova ( Casanova di Federico Fellini, Il )

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne, Carmen Scarpitta, Clara Algranti, Daniela Gatti

413. Notorious

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Actors: Angela Bassett, Derek Luke, Anthony Mackie, Jamal Woolard, Antonique Smith, Sean Ringgold
Plot: The story of Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. from his days as a street hustler to his rise to fame in the rap world.

414. Gypsy

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Paul Wallace, Betty Bruce, Parley Baer

415. Jimi: All is by My Side

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Ridley
Actors: Imogen Poots, André Benjamin, Hayley Atwell, Burn Gorman, Ruth Negga, Ashley Charles
Plot: Before he became one of the most influential and incendiary rock musicians, Jimi Hendrix was just a man. This is the story of the man before the music, and the people in his life that shaped his future.

416. Hands of Stone

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz
Actors: Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Édgar Ramírez, John Turturro, Usher Raymond, Rubén Blades
Plot: Follows the life of boxing legend Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arce as both push each other to become the best.

417. Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joe Berlinger
Actors: James J. Bulger Jr., Tommy Donahue, Dick Lehr, Steve Davis, Patricia Donahue, Bob Long

418. Red Army

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Gabe Polsky
Actors: Scotty Bowman, Mark Deakins, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Anatoli Karpov, Alexei Kasatonov, Ken Kurtis

419. The Man Who Knew Infinity

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Matt Brown
Actors: Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel, Stephen Fry, Toby Jones, Jeremy Northam, Kevin McNally

420. The Danish Girl

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tom Hooper
Actors: Alicia Vikander, Eddie Redmayne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw, Sebastian Koch
Plot: In the 1920s Gerda Wegener, a Danish artist, depicted her husband, Einer, as a female in one of her paintings. As the painting gains attention, Einer begins to transform as well - becoming more and more feminine until Einer becomes Lili Elbe - and becomes the first person to receive a male-to-female sex reassignment surgery. While Gerda is supportive, she comes to realize this change will prove a challenging ordeal to their relationship - even more so when Hans Axgil, an art dealer and old friend of Einer, comes into her life.

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