Genre: Biography
Year: Before 2010
369 content found
The Runaways 2010

A coming-of-age biographical film about the 1970s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways. The relationship between band members Cherie Currie and Joan Jett is also explored.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon

6.5 IMDB Rating 8,841 Views
La Vie en Rose 2007

Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory

7.5 IMDB Rating 6,333 Views
Dog Day Afternoon 1975

Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen

8.0 IMDB Rating 6,122 Views
Mesrine: Killer Instinct 2008

The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life before the early 1970s and the events that led to him being declared Public Enemy No. 1 in France.

Category: Action, Biography, Crime

Stars: Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu

7.5 IMDB Rating 6,402 Views
Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 2008

The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life and death as France's Public Enemy No. 1 in the 1970s.

Category: Action, Biography, Crime

Stars: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric

7.4 IMDB Rating 5,918 Views
Iron Jawed Angels 2004

A little known, yet integral piece of American history: based on the lives of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, two young radical women who were instrumental in getting women the right to vote in America.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Hilary Swank, Margo Martindale, Anjelica Huston

7.3 IMDB Rating 124 Views
The Queen 2006

After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell

7.3 IMDB Rating 6,273 Views
Creation 2009

Torn between faith and science, and suffering hallucinations, English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to complete 'On the Origin of Species' and maintain his relationship with his wife.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic, Romantic

Stars: Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Ian Kelly

6.6 IMDB Rating 298 Views
A Cry in the Dark 1988

A mother whose child was killed in a dingo attack in the Australian Outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Bruce Myles

6.9 IMDB Rating 220 Views
Rescue Dawn 2006

A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

Category: Adventure, Biography, War

Stars: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies

7.3 IMDB Rating 9,639 Views
Papillon 1973

A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory

8.0 IMDB Rating 8,528 Views
Silkwood 1983

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher

7.1 IMDB Rating 938 Views
Desert Flower 2009

Waris Dirie, born 1965 in Somalia, flees at thirteen when sold to be a mans fourth wife. She works as a maid at the Somalian embassy in London, then in a McDonald's where she's discovered and becomes an international top model.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Soraya Omar-Scego, Idriss Abdillahi Houfaneh, Awa Saïd Darar

7.3 IMDB Rating 595 Views
North Face 2008

A secretary at a Berlin newspaper in 1936 gets to write about two Alpinists, as she knows them well. She later gets to report on and photograph her friends' and other Alpinists' climbs of the dangerous Swiss Eiger north face.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Sport

Stars: Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek

7.4 IMDB Rating 837 Views
The Duchess 2008

A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was revered for her extravagant political and personal life.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper

6.9 IMDB Rating 9,436 Views
The Riverman 2004

A series of interviews are conducted with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy in hopes of gaining insight into the Green River Killer who is terrorizing Seattle.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Bruce Greenwood, Sam Jaeger, Sarah Manninen

5.9 IMDB Rating 946 Views
Elvira Madigan 1967

The Danish tightrope dancer Elvira Madigan meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic, Romantic

Stars: Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer

7.0 IMDB Rating 4,754 Views
God afton, herr Wallenberg 1990

A story of how a Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the final months of World War II.

Category: Biography, Drama, War

Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Katharina Thalbach, Károly Eperjes

6.5 IMDB Rating 2,078 Views
Jeder fur sich und Gott gegen alle 1974

A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira

7.6 IMDB Rating 582 Views
Blow 2001

The story of how George Jung, along with the Medellín Cartel headed by Pablo Escobar, established the American cocaine market in the 1970s in the United States.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente

7.5 IMDB Rating 13,093 Views