Type: Movies
Genre: Biography
1163 content found
Bunch of Kunst 2017

British punk duo Sleaford Mods have been called "the voice of Britain" by their fans, "Britain's angriest band" by the Guardian and "The world's greatest rock 'n' roll band" by Iggy Pop. "Bunch of Kunst" follows them on their two-year journey from Nottingham bedroom recording sessions to chart success.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Music

Stars: Andrew Fearn, Steve Ignorant, Sleaford Mods

7,8 IMDB Rating 3,990 Views
The Edge of Love 2008

Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys

6,3 IMDB Rating 7,153 Views
LBJ
LBJ 2016

Lyndon Baines Johnson aligns himself with Jack Kennedy, rises to the presidency, and deals with the civil rights struggles of the 1960s.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Woody Harrelson, Michael Stahl-David, Richard Jenkins

6,5 IMDB Rating 5,911 Views
Concussion 2015

Will Smith stars in Concussion, a dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Will Smith,Alec Baldwin,Albert Brooks,Gugu Mbatha-Raw

7.1 IMDB Rating 8,962 Views
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 2018

A romance sparks between a young actor and a Hollywood leading lady.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Kenneth Cranham

6,7 IMDB Rating 4,759 Views
Nada a Perder 2018

Self-financed biopic of Brazilian evangelical bishop Edir Macedo, founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and owner of Record TV network.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Petrônio Gontijo, Day Mesquita, Beth Goulart

6,9 IMDB Rating 3,277 Views
Becoming Bond 2017

The stranger-than-fiction true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), despite having never acted a day in his life. Then after being offered the next seven Bond films and a $1 million signing bonus, he turned it all down...

Category: Biography, Comedy, Documentary

Stars: George Lazenby, James Walsh, Jason Maybaum

7,6 IMDB Rating 5,133 Views
Winchester 2018

Ensconced in her sprawling California mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.

Category: Biography, Fantasy, Horror

Stars: Helen Mirren, Sarah Snook, Finn Scicluna-O'Prey

5,4 IMDB Rating 8,753 Views
Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage 2005

A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held

7,6 IMDB Rating 4,611 Views
Paterno 2018

The film centers on Joe Paterno, who, after becoming the winningest coach in college football history, is embroiled in Penn State's Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure regarding the victims.Paterno centers on Penn State's Joe Paterno (played by Al Pacino) in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal. After becoming the winningest coach in college football history, Paterno's legacy is challenged and he is forced to face questions of institutional failure in regard to the victims.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Riley Keough, Al Pacino, Annie Parisse

7,1 IMDB Rating 4,955 Views
Julie & Julia 2009

Julia Child and Julie Powell - both of whom wrote memoirs - find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Meryl Streep,Amy Adams,Stanley Tucci,Chris Messina

7.0 IMDB Rating 5,096 Views
The Blind Side 2009

Based on the true story of Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy who take in a homeless teenage African-American, Michael Oher. Michael has no idea who his father is and his mother is a drug addict. Michael has had little formal education and few skills to help him learn. Leigh Anne soon takes charge however, as is her nature, ensuring that the young man has every opportunity to succeed. When he expresses an interest in football, she goes all out to help him, including giving the coach a few ideas on how best to use Michael's skills. They not only provide him with a loving home, but hire a tutor to help him improve his grades to the point where he would qualify for an NCAA Division I athletic scholarship. Michael Oher was the first-round pick of the Baltimore Ravens in the 2009 NFL draft.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Sandra Bullock,Tim McGraw,Quinton Aaron,Jae Head

7.7 IMDB Rating 14,027 Views
Barry 2016

A look at the early life of Barack Obama. Before he became President of the United States, he was one of the few black students at Columbia University NY in the early 80's. Faced with judgmental and racist opinions all around him, he tries to find his place in the world.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Devon Terrell,Anya Taylor-Joy,Jason Mitchell,Ellar Coltrane

5.9 IMDB Rating 8,938 Views
Gauguin – Voyage de Tahiti 2017

Focused on French painter Paul Gauguin's affair with a younger lady in Tahiti.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Vincent Cassel, Tuheï Adams, Malik Zidi

5,8 IMDB Rating 3,811 Views
Rebel in the Rye 2017

Livet av firade men tillbakadragen författare, JD Salinger, som fick världsberömmelse med publiceringen av hans roman, "The Catcher i Rye".

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Zoey Deutch, Kevin Spacey, Nicholas Hoult

6.4 IMDB Rating 4,871 Views
I Love You Phillip Morris 2009

Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life. Steven becomes open about his homosexuality and decides to live life to the fullest - even if it means breaking the law. Steven's new, extravagant lifestyle involves cons and fraud and, eventually, a stay in the State Penitentiary where he meets sensitive, soft-spoken Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts Steven to attempt and often succeed at one impossible con after another.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Crime

Stars: Jim Carrey,Ewan McGregor,Leslie Mann,Rodrigo Santoro

6.6 IMDB Rating 6,172 Views
Neruda 2016

An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán

7.0 IMDB Rating 4,442 Views
Milada 2017

Berättelsen om Milada Horáková, demokratiska pre-WW2 tjeckiska politiker först greps och försökte av nazisterna under kriget och sedan efterkrigstidens kommunistiska regering för hennes vägran att upphöra med sin oppositions verksamhet och lämna landet.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Ayelet Zurer, Robert Gant, Daniel Rchichev

4,580 Views
A Futile & Stupid Gesture 2017

In the 1970s and '80s, National Lampoon's success and influence creates a new media empire overseen in part by the brilliant and troubled Doug Kenney.

Category: Biography

Stars: Emmy Rossum,Domhnall Gleeson,Natasha Lyonne,Finn Wittrock

3,115 Views
F for Franco 2016

With books, art shows, and director credits on his resume, one cannot call James Franco an actor and leave it at that. In an unconventional examination of his inspiration and creative process for many works that may be unknown to--or dismissed by--critics and the general public, author, art theorist, and filmmaker Francisco J. Ricardo discusses and presents, with James Franco, some of the films and art projects that lie outside the realm of the feature films for which Franco is famous.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Seth Rogen,James Franco,Evan Goldberg,Frank Bidart

3,936 Views