Genre: Biography
1355 content found
All is True 2019

A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen

6,1 IMDB Rating 4,299 Views
The Crash Reel 2013

Fifteen years of verite footage show the epic rivalry between half-pipe legends Shaun White and Kevin Pearce, childhood friends who become number one and two in the world leading up to the Vancouver Winter Olympics, pushing one another to ever more dangerous tricks, until Kevin crashes on a Park City half-pipe, barely surviving. As Kevin recovers from his injury, Shaun wins Gold. Now all Kevin wants to do is get on his snowboard again, even though medics and family fear this could kill him. We also celebrate Sarah Burke who crashed in Park City and died January 19, 2012.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Sport

Stars: Kevin Pearce, Shaun White, Mason Aguirre

8,2 IMDB Rating 4,106 Views
Hemingway & Gellhorn 2012

It was a romance born out of war...and later torn apart by it. This powerful drama recounts one of the great love stories of the 20th century: the relationship between literary giant Ernest Hemingway and trailblazing war correspondent Martha Gellhorn.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Nicole Kidman,Clive Owen,David Strathairn,Rodrigo Santoro,Molly Parker,Parker Posey,Tony Shalhoub,Santiago Cabrera,Lars Ulrich,Peter Coyote,Joan Chen,Saverio Guerra,Mark Pellegrino,Remy Auberjonois,Anthony Brandon Wong

6.1 IMDB Rating 5,342 Views
El Ángel 2018

The angelic face of Carlos, a 17-year-old teenager, hides a dark facet of robberies, lies and murders.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Lorenzo Ferro, Cecilia Roth, Luis Gnecco

7,1 IMDB Rating 4,188 Views
Pasolini 2014

A kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Willem Dafoe,Maria de Medeiros,Riccardo Scamarcio,Giada Colagrande

5.8 IMDB Rating 4,425 Views
Into the Storm 2009

Continuing the storyline of The Gathering Storm (2002), Churchill at War is a look at the former British prime minister's life and career at the end of WWII.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Clive Mantle, Adrian Scarborough

7,1 IMDB Rating 4,720 Views
Girl, Interrupted 1999

Unable to cope with reality and the difficulty that comes with it, 18 year old Susanna, is admitted to a mental institution in order to overcome her disorder. However, she has trouble understanding her disorder and therefore finds it difficult to tame, especially when she meets the suggestive and unpredictable Lisa.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Winona Ryder,Angelina Jolie,Clea DuVall,Brittany Murphy

7.3 IMDB Rating 7,666 Views
Path to War 2002

In the mid-1960s, President Johnson and his foreign-policy team debate the decision to withdraw from or escalate the war in Vietnam.

Category: Biography, Drama, War

Stars: Michael Gambon, Donald Sutherland, Alec Baldwin

7,4 IMDB Rating 4,394 Views
Fighting with My Family 2019

A former wrestler and his family make a living performing at small venues around the country while his kids dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Thomas Whilley, Tori Ellen Ross, Nick Frost

7.5 IMDB Rating 11,529 Views
The Best of Enemies 2019

Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell, Babou Ceesay

6,7 IMDB Rating 6,779 Views
The Greatest Game Ever Played 2005

In the 1913 US Open, 20-year-old Francis Ouimet played golf against his idol, 1900 US Open champion, Englishman Harry Vardon.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane, Elias Koteas

7,5 IMDB Rating 5,394 Views
Invincible 2006

In the sumer of 1976, 30-year old Vince Papale is having a tough run of luck. He's been working as a substitute teacher for two days a week but has just found out that his job has been eliminated because of budget cuts. His wife gives up on him saying he'll never amount to anything and asks for a divorce. He works as a bartender and plays football with his friends. When the the new coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, Dick Vermeil, announces that he will hold open tryouts for the team, Vince reluctantly decides to give a try. Based on a true story.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Mark Wahlberg,Greg Kinnear,Elizabeth Banks,Kevin Conway

7.1 IMDB Rating 8,761 Views
Devil’s Knot 2013

Based on the actual events of the West Memphis Three, where three young boys were savagely murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Spurred on by the demand from a grieving town, the local police act quickly to bring three "devil-worshipping" teenagers to trial. With their lives hanging in the balance, investigator Ron Lax is trying to find the truth between the town's need for justice and the guilt of the accused.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Reese Witherspoon,Colin Firth,Alessandro Nivola,James Hamrick

6.0 IMDB Rating 5,805 Views
Ip Man 2 2010

Ip Man 2 is a 2010 Hong Kong biographical martial arts film loosely based on the life of Ip Man, a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun. A sequel to the 2008 film Ip Man, the film was directed by Wilson Yip, and stars Donnie Yen, who reprises the leading role. Continuing after the events of the earlier film, the sequel centers on Ip's movements in Hong Kong, which is under British colonial rule. He attempts to propagate his discipline of Wing Chun, but faces rivalry from other practitioners, including the local master of Hung Ga martial arts.

Category: Action, Biography, Drama

Stars: Donnie Yen,Xiaoming Huang,Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,Lynn Hung

7.6 IMDB Rating 8,546 Views
Ip Man 2008

In 1935 in Foshan, south China, there are martial arts schools on every street corner. Ip Man is the undisputed martial arts champion, yet he has not devoted himself to teaching. Despite this, it seems that all the kung fu masters of the city are eager to fight him to improve their reputation.

Category: Action, Biography, Drama

Stars: Donnie Yen,Simon Yam,Lynn Hung,Hiroyuki Ikeuchi

8.1 IMDB Rating 9,522 Views
Loro 2018

During a tumultuous period in the career of Silvio Berlusconi, as his marriage to second wife Veronica Lario fractures, LORO speculates on what may or may not have taken place behind closed doors, depicting a wide variety of characters from multiple levels of society and their attempts to either ingratiate or distance themselves from him.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Toni Servillo, Elena Sofia Ricci, Riccardo Scamarcio

6,7 IMDB Rating 4,939 Views
Framing John DeLorean 2019

Who was the real John DeLorean? To some, he was a renegade visionary who revolutionized the automobile industry. To others, he was the ultimate con man.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Drama

Stars: Alec Baldwin, Morena Baccarin, Josh Charles

6,8 IMDB Rating 5,078 Views
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007

Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard

7,5 IMDB Rating 5,930 Views
Race 2016

In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American athlete quickly impresses with his tremendous potential that suggests Olympic material. However, as Owens struggles both with the obligations of his life and the virulent racism against him, the question of whether America would compete at all at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany is being debated vigorously. When the American envoy finds a compromise persuasive with the Third Reich to avert a boycott, Owens has his own moral struggle about going. Upon resolving that issue, Owens and his coach travel to Berlin to participate in a competition that would mark Owens as the greatest of America's Olympians even as the German film director, Leni Riefenstahl, locks horns with her country's Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, to film the politically embarrassing fact for posterity.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Stephan James,Jason Sudeikis,Eli Goree,Shanice Banton

7.1 IMDB Rating 7,381 Views
Another Day of Life 2018

A gripping story of a three-month-long journey that renowned Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski took across Angola ravaged by a war in which the front lines shifted like a kaleidoscope from one day to the next.

Category: Animation, Biography

Stars: Miroslaw Haniszewski, Vergil J. Smith, Tomasz Zietek

7,3 IMDB Rating 4,666 Views