Biography Movies

Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance

59/100

The meeting and courtship of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

The Jackie Robinson Story

64/100

Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.

One Foot in Heaven

70/100

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

72/100

The true story of a decorated officer's legal challenge to her involuntary discharge when she admitted she was homosexual.

Goltzius and the Pelican Company

67/100

Hendrik Goltzius, a late sixteenth-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books.

My Childhood

74/100

The second part (My ain folk) of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the ... See full summary »

Dovlatov

66/100

DOVLATOV charts six days in the life of brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought preserve his own talent and decency with ... See full summary »

Dschungelkind

71/100

The family of a German linguist lives with an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea.

Korczak

75/100

Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, ... See full summary »

The Great Waltz

67/100

In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II - Schani to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. ... See full summary »

The Last Mitterrand

71/100

A young journalist (Lespert) helps the French President compile his memoirs.

Elis

67/100

The life of Elis Regina, undoubtedly the greatest Brazilian singer of all time, is told in this biopic film with energetic and pulsating rhythm.

Jud Süss - Film ohne Gewissen

60/100

Rise and fall of actor Ferdinand Marian, who takes the chance and stars in the anti-semitic movie Jud Süß (1940).

Dieter

35/100

The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

61/100

Hosted by Orson Welles, this documentary utilizes a grab bag of dramatized scenes, stock footage, TV news clips and interviews to ask: Did 16th century French astrologer and physician ... See full summary »

Ciao Manhattan

60/100

CIAO! MANHATTAN parallels Andy Warhol Factory star Edie Sedgwick's glory days in the late 1960s through her inevitable downfall and the tragic addiction that would take her life only weeks after filming wrapped in 1971.

Breaking the Limits

74/100

Based on a true story of a drug addict who became a triathlon champion and a winner of Ironman competition.

Montparnasse 19

75/100

Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Modigliani, a poor painter in Paris of 1919, falls in love with a daughter from a wealthy family. Her parents ... See full summary »

Above and Beyond

70/100

Col. Paul Tibbetts piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War 2.

Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland

67/100

Based on the best-selling book, Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days, and told through the eyes of Jackson's trusted bodyguards, Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard. ... See full summary »

A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story

79/100

Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets a restraining order, and the police do little to help. When he brutally beats her and ... See full summary »

Young Tom Edison

69/100

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns ... See full summary »

Zapata - El sueño del héroe

19/100

A look at the life of Mexican Revolution Hero Emiliano Zapata.

Born in Heinola

65/100

The story of Finnish punk rock band Apulanta.

Joe and Max - Rivalen im Ring

68/100

True story of boxers Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and their enduring friendship.