Biography Movies

Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder

66/100

The Life of Buddha

69/100

A BBC/Discovery Channel co-production, this docu-narrative film describes the life of Siddharta Gautama, the process by which he arrived at the fundamentals of Buddhism and the ... See full synopsis »

Hard Time: The David Milgaard Story

63/100

The story of David Milgaard, the victim of one of Canada's most notorious miscarriages of justice and the fight for his exoneration.

Hancock & Joan

73/100

In the mid-1960s, Joan, not long married to comic actor John Le Mesurier, meets and is mutually attracted to comedian Tony Hancock, married to the long-suffering Freddie. Hancock's most ... See full summary »

Mee Sindhutai Sapkal

70/100

This is the journey of Sindhutai Sapkal, a poor village girl who grew up tending buffaloes while craving an education, but her unsympathetic mother had her married off to an older man when ... See full summary »

FDR: A One Man Show

77/100

Chris Elliot plays FDR in his live "One Man Show" about the life and times of the president, however, he looks and sounds nothing like the man and he re-enacts events from Roosevelt's life that never happened.

Wambo

73/100

Feature Film about the life and death of the famous Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr.

Im Kopf des Mörders

73/100

Jean-Francois Abgrall, today the head of a private detective agency, was just a simple provincial gendarme back in 1989 when he was assigned to investigate a murder on a beach. Instead, his... See full summary »

Hughie Green, Most Sincerely

77/100

In 1934 Hughie Green, a nervous 14-year old performer, is pushed onto a stage in his native Canada. Twenty-four years later he is a big name in British television as the quiz-master of the ... See full summary »

Jeff Dunham: Birth of a Dummy

70/100

The Key for Determining Dwarfs or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver

76/100

A Czech director wrestles with problems personal and political during the Prague spring of 1969.

Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story

63/100

Drugs, alcohol and controversy mark the author's life.

Hunger auf Leben

73/100

Biographical TV-Movie about the live of the popular East-German novelist Brigitte Reimann. Follows her private life and her fight for and against her country and herself.

Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes

69/100

Dramatization of the turbulent life of Elizabeth David, the original domestic goddess. She published her first book of Mediterranean Food in 1950, and went on to write eight more books that... See full summary »

Camus

63/100

Bethune

67/100

Based on the true story of Canadian doctor Norman Bethune, this film traces his life from his beginnings with his deeply religious family in Ontario, through his medical studies in school, ... See full summary »

Tandra Paparayudu

81/100

The story of an Indian Freedom fighter who fought the French even before the British could establish their authority in India

Lusten till ett liv

61/100

The rise and fall of the "progg"-band "Verket". A beautiful story about friendship, love, music and politics.

Elvis and the Colonel: The Untold Story

51/100

The story of superstar Elvis Presley and the relationship between he and Colonel Tom Parker, his manager and the man who discovered--and, many say, exploited--him.

Veer Savarkar

77/100

Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story

59/100

A woman becomes the surrogate for her daughter's baby.

Varusham Padhinaaru

75/100

Forbes Celebrity 100: Who Made Bank?

42/100

Die Kirschernte

73/100

De Kersenpluk tells the story about Jan visiting his grandfather for the last time during the summer in a little village in Drenthe. Thanks to Jan, his grandfather decides to do what he ... See full summary »

Mat Mariya

74/100

Mother Maria Skobtsova, a Russian nun, helps Jews and other people hated by the Gestapo during World War II. Eventually, the Gestapo finds out and takes her away to the Ravensbruk Concentration Camp.