Type: Movies
Genre: Biography
1163 content found
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 4,728 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 7,675 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 4,403 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 11,539 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 6,786 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 5,404 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 8,772 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 5,810 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 8,555 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 9,534 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 4,948 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 5,084 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 5,939 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 7,395 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 4,674 Views
The Last Station 2009

The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her husband's loyal disciple, whom she believes was the person responsible for Tolstoy signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Helen Mirren,Christopher Plummer,Paul Giamatti,James McAvoy

7.0 IMDB Rating 5,060 Views
Charlie Says 2019

The tragic tale of an all-American girl who was transformed into a cold-blooded killer in the summer of 1969.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Suki Waterhouse, Hannah Murray, Annabeth Gish

5,7 IMDB Rating 6,367 Views
Shock and Awe 2018

A group of journalists covering former President George W. Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the President's claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Woody Harrelson, James Marsden, Rob Reiner

5,8 IMDB Rating 6,073 Views
The King’s Speech 2010

The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter

8,0 IMDB Rating 5,270 Views
Rescue Dawn 2006

In 1965, while bombing Laos in a classified mission, the propeller plane of the German-American US Navy pilot Dieter Dengler is hit and crashes in the jungle. Dieter is arrested by the peasants, tortured by the Vietcong and sent to a prisoner camp, where he meets five other mentally deranged prisoners and guards. He becomes close to Duane and organizes an escape plan; however, the unstable Gene opposes to Dieter's plan. When they discover that there is no more food due to the constant American bombings in the area and their guards intend to kill them, Dieter sets his plan in motion. However, an unexpected betrayal splits the group and Dieter and Duane find that the jungle is their actual prison.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Stars: Christian Bale,Zach Grenier,Marshall Bell,Toby Huss

7.3 IMDB Rating 6,976 Views