Biography Movies

Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story

73/100

Based on the life of Kitty O'Neil, a young girl who overcame her deafness to become one of the top stuntwomen in Hollywood, and the holder of the women's land-speed record for driving a rocket-powered racing car.

Alexander Graham Bell: The Sound and the Silence

70/100

Zina

70/100

After Stalin's purges, Zinaida Volkova, daughter of Leon Trotsky, is exiled to Berlin. As the Nazis rise to power, and World War II is approaching, she becomes obsessed with Antigone, the protagonist of a famous Greek tragedy, and loses her mind.

Once Upon a Time the City of Fools

83/100

Italian psychiatrists releas schizophrenia patiantas out of hospitals, to treat them near their families or in community.

Die Hochzeiten des Herrn Peter Vok

69/100

The nobleman Petr Vok of Rozmberk (Milos Kopecký) is no longer so young, but his amatory adventures continue to arouse the envy of men and the indignation of respectable ladies. In his "... See full summary »

Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story

62/100

This is the story of boxer Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini.

Side by Side: The True Story of the Osmond Family

69/100

This is the story of the Osmond Family and is based on the book written by Olive (Mother) Osmond. This film tells of the beginnings of this family and how they got to where they were by the late '70's.

Flight Nurse

56/100

This movie is about the war hero "flight nurse" Lillian Keil Flight Nurse Army Air Corps. One of a Cadre of FIRST flight nurses in military. Lillian is the MOST DECORATED WOMAN IN MILITARY ... See full summary »

Buamama

91/100

The story of the film revolves around the epic of Sheikh Bouamama, a leader of the national resistance in Algeria during the French colonial era. The events are taking place in southwestern... See full summary »

Skånska mord - Bessingemordet

61/100

Late 19th century. In the little village of Bessinge near Hörby, Skåne, have the farmer and churchwarden Ola Månsson been murdered. Three people stand trial, two men and one woman. The woman is his wife.

Der Verleger

45/100

L'Autrichienne

73/100

Last days of queen Marie Antoinette stunningly portrayed by a director who's clearly done a massive historical research. An accurate plot and a very moving rendering.

Gefangene der Hölle

60/100

Spanish right-wingers equally devoted to Catholic religion and Franco dictatorship, go soldiering as volunteers with the Germans when these started hostilities against Russia (1943), then ... See full summary »

The Life Story of David Lloyd George

68/100

Bio-pic of Britain's World War 1 Prime Minister.

Wir drei

67/100

Young W.A. Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with "normal" boys, falls in love for the first time and tries to escape his destiny of... See full summary »

Endless Waltz

74/100

Koji Wakamatsu's biopic about a Japanese free jazz/improvisation saxophonist named Kaoru Abe.

La maison du pêcheur

62/100

The true story that traces the summer of the future Chénier FLQ cell, at Gaspé, one year before the October Crisis in 1970.

Piaf: The Early Years

70/100

Édith Giovanna Gassion is born in 1915. As a young girl she sings on the streets of Paris until a nightclub owner, Louis Leplée, discovers her. When he is murdered the composer Raymond Asso... See full summary »

Die Affäre Seznec

72/100

Marco Polo: Das geheime Abenteuer

58/100

In the midst of a war between Venice and Genoa, Marco Polo, a citizen of Venice, is imprisoned by the inquisition and is charged with heresy.The Genoans, whose real interest is seizing ... See full summary »

El Inca

76/100

A tragic love story based in the life of the great Latin American boxer Edwin "El Inca" Valero. The only fight he lost, was the one against himself.

Hombre de fe

71/100

The story of real life Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas, from his humble beginnings in his home town to his rise to greatness as an elite soccer player.

Nelligan

65/100

Film romancé sur la vie du poète québécois Émile Nelligan, qui met l'accent sur sa relation trouble avec sa mère et ses rapports avec le père Seers, un imprimeur érudit, à travers les moments les plus déterminants de sa vie.

Fräulein Stinnes fährt um die Welt

66/100

The true story of Claerenore Stinees, who became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by car.

Behold the Monkey

76/100

A well-intentioned parishioner restores a church fresco in a small Spanish town, which leads him to become a global overnight internet sensation.