Genre: Biography
1352 content found
Woman in Gold 2015

Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl

7.3 IMDB Rating 5,259 Views
Listen to Me Marlon 2015

A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend's story.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Marlon Brando, Stella Adler, Bernardo Bertolucci

8.1 IMDB Rating 4,063 Views
Megan Leavey 2017

Based on the true life story of a young Marine corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq.

Category: Biography, Drama, War

Stars: Kate Mara, Ramón Rodríguez, Tom Felton

7.1 IMDB Rating 8,256 Views
Aretha Franklin: Soul Sister 2020

A vibrant portrait of Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul, who has become a symbol of freedom and power for all African American women.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Mark Bego, Renaud Bertin, Daphne Brooks

7.3 IMDB Rating 118 Views
Skandalen på Huseby 2021

Florence Stephens inherited one of Sweden's richest estates. Her home was visited by royalty and nobility. As heir to her large estate, she appoints, herself unmarried and childless, the young extravagant Prince Carl Bernadotte trustee. A well-known family secret suggests that Florence Stephens might have blood ties to the Royal family.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Florence Stephens, Carl Bernadotte, Lena Ebervall

6.1 IMDB Rating 211 Views
Karin och Carl Larsson 2023

One of the world's most famous artists' homes is located in Sundborn, Dalarna, Sweden. In this documentary we get to accompany Karin and Carl Larsson home and take part in the unique artist environment that exists at Lilla Hyttnäs.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Elsa Billgren, Ami Bergöö, Beata Heuman

7.0 IMDB Rating 149 Views
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open 2023

Over the years, Oscar winner Nicole Kidman, became both a pop culture icon and a complex dramatic actress. Her career is a unique body of work that mirrors her personal life, which is more political than it might seem.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Jane Campion, Nicole Kidman, Gus Van Sant

6.7 IMDB Rating 250 Views
Benny och Kulturhuset 2021

A portrait of Benny Fredriksson who for 16 years was CEO of Kulturhuset / Stadsteatern. He also had a background as an actor and director. In connection with a media hunt he resigned and later took his own life.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Benny Fredriksson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Per Ahrbom

8.0 IMDB Rating 106 Views
Alice Guy, 1st Female Filmmaker 2021

In the early days of film-biz Alice joined the company of pioneer Gaumont, rose in the ranks and directed more than 400 films. But the company eventually erased her from her credits, she was forgotten, even experts have to redisco...

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Gustave Eiffel, Léon Gaumont, Alice Guy

85 Views
Brad Pitt, la revanche d’un blond 2022

Brad Pitt is a singular actor in Hollywood's glamorous world, breaking through his "playboy image" and embodying American cinema's renewal. At the beginning there was a humble Midwestern aware of being a smokescreen for the illusi...

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Brad Pitt, Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain, Gabi Franke

6.7 IMDB Rating 201 Views
Exposing Muybridge 2021

Exposing Muybridge tells the story of trailblazing 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who changed the world with his camera. Muybridge set the course for the development of cinema when he became the first photographer to capture something moving faster than the human eye can see--Leland Stanford's galloping horses.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Gary Oldman, Marta Braun, Philip Brookman

6.8 IMDB Rating 124 Views
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America 2019

This documentary follows the life of the renowned American director, author of more than 150 works and winner of more Oscar awards than any other, and shed light on the significance of his most outstanding films.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Paul Bandey, John Ford, Joseph McBride

5.7 IMDB Rating 122 Views
Lords of Dogtown 2005

The film follows the surf and skateboarding trends that originated in Venice, California during the 1970s.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Heath Ledger, Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk

7.1 IMDB Rating 7,012 Views
Trotskiy 2017

A flashback to earlier episodes in the life of Leon Trotsky, the Marxist revolutionary, framed by events during his asylum in Mexico City 1939-1940

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mikhail Porechenkov, Maksim Matveev

7.1 IMDB Rating 361 Views
Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind 2021

Joyce Carol Oates has written over one hundred novels in a variety of genres over an award-winning career. Years of friendship and tireless research gave director Stig Björkman unprecedented access to the writer's solitude.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Joyce Carol Oates, Laura Dern

6.4 IMDB Rating 125 Views
Les années Super-8 2022

Home videos shot by Ernaux and her family from 1972 to 1981 and feeds into the themes of her work over the past 60 years.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Drama

Stars: Blanche Madeleine Dumenil Duchesne, Annie Ernaux, Dominique Ernaux

6.8 IMDB Rating 90 Views
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot 2018

On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara

6.8 IMDB Rating 4,681 Views
Censored 2019

This is a metaphorical story about the tragic and mysterious death of the most powerful poet of 1960's, human rights activist, hero of Ukraine Vasyl Stus and his struggle with the Soviet system. The events of the film unfold during the last attempt by the KGB to seduce the poet with a whimsical "freedom".

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Dmytro Yaroshenko, Diana Rozovlyan, Evgeniya Gladiy

7.4 IMDB Rating 122 Views
Dans les yeux de Johnny Depp 2022

It is by selling pens by telephone at the turn of the eighties that Johnny Depp, young punk rocker in galley in the City of the Angels, affirms to have begun his "training" of actor, inventing at the end of the wire of the different characters to deceive the boredom.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Johnny Depp, Céline Sallette, Annette Wunsch

7.3 IMDB Rating 224 Views
Ali
Ali 2001

A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight

6.7 IMDB Rating 6,166 Views