Biography Movies

Hendrix on Hendrix

73/100

An unauthorized biography. Leon Hendrix, brother to Jimi opens up in an exclusive interview first looking...

Brigham

51/100

The life of Brigham Young, the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the better part of the 1800s, founder of Salt Lake City and the first governor of the Utah Territory.

Playing Lecuona

83/100

A fabulous documentary with the all star Latin Jazz pianists and musicians doing the narration. Michel Camilo, Chucho Valdez and Ganzalo Rubalcaba. Music is the universal language.

Roger Touhy, Gangster

71/100

Malou

74/100

Malou feels that the difficulties she is experiencing in her relationships lie in her past and so she searches out information about her mother. Her mother, a nightclub singer who lived in ... See full summary »

Ocean of Mercy

82/100

A 160-minute version of the life of Jesus Christ filmed entirely with a cast and crew of Christian Indians in India.

Project M

55/100

Go behind the scenes of the infamous duo MC Randumb & Jewish Dave for the most controversial rapumentary ever made. A look at America's lust for violence and fame.

Krokodyle

65/100

Kaspar is a young filmmaker willing to develop his projects in cinema. He passes his time drawing, writing and making up his own imaginary world, that day by day seems to be getting more ... See full synopsis »

Pure Life

66/100

1949, a French explorer goes on a solitary expedition in the Amazon forest. He leaves behind him a diary that reflects the meaning of Pure Life and his encounters but leaves the mystery of his own disappearance unsolved.

Abschied

70/100

In August 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the seventeen year-old son of a Munich bürger, makes a decision: he will not take part in this war. This... See full summary »

Jason and Shirley

68/100

December 3, 1966, Oscar winning filmmaker Shirley Clarke invites Jason Holiday, a black gay hustler, drug addict and transient to her Chelsea Hotel penthouse in New York City to film him ... See full summary »

Erzählungen über Lenin

69/100

Gregório de Mattos

68/100

The life of irreverent poet Gregório de Mattos, who lived in Bahia, Brazil, in the 17th century. Nicknamed Mouth of Hell, he used his transgressive poetry against the élite of the time.

Time Flies When You're Alive

89/100

Time Flies When You're Alive is a gripping one-man show. Paul Linke recounts, in no small detail the highs and lows of his marriage, specifically around his wife's losing struggle with ... See full summary »

Sakay

80/100

(Tagalog with English subtitles) From acclaimed filmmaker Raymond Red-the first Filipino director to win at Cannes with his short-comes this true to life story of Macario Sakay, founder of the Tagalog Republic.

Jing cha ri ji

61/100

The film is inspired by the story of Hao Wanzhong, a policeman in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. Following his career, through the inner workings of a modern Chinese police department in Inner ... See full summary »

L'oro di Scampia

74/100

Brave Puran Appu

82/100

The Life of General Villa

70/100

The life and career of Panccho Villa from young man to revolutionary leader is chronicled.

Untold

67/100

A hate crime triggers disturbing flashbacks for a young veteran, finding herself reluctantly joining a PTSD support group. The eclectic group of women encourages her to peel away her families' lies.

Au cas où je n'aurais pas la palme d'or

59/100

Since his directorial debut 10 years ago, Simon, a forty something filmmaker, nowadays spends more time shooting the breeze than shooting films. Following a silly bet he makes with an actor... See full summary »

Pierlequin

29/100

Filmed as both a biopic and a parable, this film covers the life of Leonid Engibarov and famous clown/poet in Armenia in the 1960's and 1990's. It is also an allegory of the love affair of ... See full summary »

The Lastbenchers

73/100

Its a movie about the life of LastBenchers who are failures in their academic life but when it comes to real life they struggles hard to become someone whom world can recognize and judge ... See full summary »

David Oistrakh: Artist of the People?

82/100

A portrait of violinist David Oïstrakh, from his birth in Odessa in 1908 until his in 1974, and his career under Stalin's left wing terrorist regime. Featuring interviews with his peers ... See full summary »

Sokola Rimba

74/100

Following Butet Manurung's journey from anthropologist to educator to activist as she works with the indigenous Orang Rimba people who live upstream the Makekal river in the forest of Bukit Duabelas of Jambi, Sumatera, Indonesia.