Top Biography Movies


The Top Biography Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Biography List". Lists are calculated daily.

191. Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicholas D. Wrathall
Actors: Gore Vidal, Joanne Woodward, Christopher Hitchens, David Mamet, Bill Maher, Jay Parini

192. Florence Foster Jenkins

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Stephen Frears
Actors: Rebecca Ferguson, Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Neve Gachev, John Kavanagh
Plot: Florence Foster Jenkins is a New York heiress with the dream of becoming a world-renowned opera singer. There is just the slight problem that she has absolutely no aptitude for singing whatsoever.

193. Marshall

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Actors: Dan Stevens, Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Sophia Bush, Sterling K. Brown
Plot: Follows the life of a young Thurgood Marshall, as the first African American Supreme Court Justice, while he works on an early case that will be one of the cornerstones of his career.

194. The Railway Man

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine, Sam Reid
Plot: During WWII Eric Lomax was one of thousands of Allied soldiers who were captured and forced to work on the Thai/Burma railway. Her survived - many did not. Years later, he meets Patti while on a train and the two connect. Knowing about the demons that haunt him - Patti sets off on her own investigation and discovers a once-young Japanese officer, and Eric's chief tormentor, is still alive.

195. Lady Sings the Blues

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Actors: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan, Paul Hampton, Sid Melton

196. Che ( Che Part 1, Che Part 2 )

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Joaquim de Almeida, Franka Potente
Plot: Follows the story of Latin American revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, his band of Cuban exhiles (including Fidel Castro) and how they took over the island nation.

197. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Clooney
Actors: Dick Clark, Sam Rockwell, Michelle Sweeney, Drew Barrymore, Michael Cera, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Plot: Chuck Barris is well-known for creating hit game shows - The Dating Game and The Gong Show amongst others, but that was just a cover for his real job - a CIA assassin carrying out covert missions for the government... or so he would have you believe.

198. The Private Life of Henry VIII

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alexander Korda
Actors: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall, Miles Mander, Laurence Hanray, Merle Oberon

199. Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jan Harlan
Actors: Tom Cruise, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Paul Mazursky, Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen
Plot: Stanley Kubrick's frequent collaborator and brother-in-law, Jan Harlan, offers a fascinating inside look at the genius behind such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket and Dr. Strangelove.

200. Invincible

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ericson Core
Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks, Kevin Conway, Michael Rispoli, Kirk Acevedo
Plot: Based on the true story of Vince Papale, a blue-collar everyman who decided to attend an open tryout for the Philadelphia Eagles and became a working-class hero to his home town.

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