Biography Movies

Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking

86/100

Homero Manzi, un poeta en la tormenta

46/100

Actor

65/100

A musical play based on the early years of actor Paul Muni.

Cartas de Sorolla

65/100

The life and work of Valencian painter Joaquín Sorolla. An autobiographical story of a simple man, devoted body and soul to painting from his initiation in the Drawing Department of the ... See full summary »

Dylan Thomas

53/100

My Best Friend's Birthday

73/100

When young man Donny Carleton gets his heart broken 3 days before his birthday, his close friend Jay Baron will gather a group of young men who will come together to throw Donny a birthday party he'll never forget.

Den förtrollade vägen

63/100

Writer and psychiatrist Oscar Parland (1912-1997) narrates this nostalgic story about his early childhood memories and fantasies. Five-year-old Riki spends the summer of 1917 at his ... See full summary »

Vis a Vis: Native Tongues

61/100

This innovative documentary delves into the lives of two indigenous artists, James Luna (Luiseno tribe in Southern California) and Ningali Lawford (Walmajarri tribe). Over a four-day period... See full summary »

Carl Lutz

74/100

Carl Lutz, an Appenzell diplomat and second-in-command at the Swiss Embassy in Budapest, saved tens of thousands of persecuted Hungarian Jews from death during World War II. His ... See full synopsis »

Vorsehung

65/100

Celles qui aimaient Richard Wagner

62/100

Broken Morning

79/100

The French philosopher, writer and Nobel Prize winner died in a car crash in 1960, at the age of forty-six. Despite the unremitting seriousness of his intellectual stance as an ... See full synopsis »

The Fall of the Romanoffs

68/100

A dramatization of the Russian revolution and the influence upon the Russian royal family of the famous "mad monk," Rasputin.

Medardo

81/100

Inspired by the brief and yet intense life of Ecuadorian poet Medardo Ángel Silva, this movie reveals intimate details of one of the most important Guayaquilean writers of 19th century: his... See full summary »

Nights of Farewell

69/100

The Bootlegger

89/100

THE BOOTLEGGER is the story of Henry "Kelly" Wagle, a hometown gangster turned folk hero in the town of Colchester, Illinois (population 1,493).

Don Bosco

41/100

Chaïbia

69/100

Perurena

69/100

Dong Cunrui

59/100

Dong Cunrui is a young soldier of PLA. This movies describes his growth from a common civilian into a brave soldier and his heroic sacrifice of life in the destruction of the enemy's blockhouse.

Diva!

64/100

The moving life and international career of actress Valentina Cortese is acted out by eight Italian actresses who interpret parts of her biography. A rich assortment of stock footage and film clips creates a vibrant portrait of our Diva.

I Am What I Am

78/100

Elvis: The Journey

85/100

This programme takes an in-depth look at the boy and the man who was born to be a legend. Together with rare unseen footage we chart his progress from his poor beginnings, through his teenage years to the eventual meteoric rise of a star.

Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash

73/100

Die schwedische Nachtigall

64/100

The movie tells the beautiful love story of the Swedish writer Hans Christian Andersen and the singer Jenny Lind. Andersen dedicated his fairy tale "The Nightingale of the Chinese Emperor" to Lind.