271. 24 Hour Party People
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Actors: Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Nigel Pivaro, Lennie James, Shirley Henderson, Paddy Considine
272. Bird
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Keith David, Samuel E. Wright, Michael McGuire
Plot: On the life and times of the musician, Charlie Parker.
273. Madame Curie
Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann, Robert Walker, C. Aubrey Smith
Plot: The story of scientist couple Pierre and Marie Curie, who embark on a journey of discovery over the radioactive element radium. From young love the Nobel Prize, the story has both a tragic and uplifting end.
274. An Honest Liar
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tyler Measom, Justin Weinstein
Actors: James Randi, Penn Jillette, Bill Nye, Adam Savage, Alice Cooper, Michael Shermer
275. Napoléon
Year of Release: 1929
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Abel Gance
Actors: Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële, Alexandre Koubitzky, Antonin Artaud, Abel Gance
276. Sweet Dreams
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Karel Reisz
Actors: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth, David Clennon, James Staley, John Goodman
277. Story of Adèle H., The ( Histoire d'Adèle H., L' )
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: François Truffaut
Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley, Ivry Gitlis, Louise Bourdet
278. Samurai 1: Miyamoto Musashi
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Adventure/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni, Kuroemon Onoe, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada, Akihiko Hirata
Plot: a young man in a small fuedal japanese village wishes to leave the farming life, and become a samurai warrior. During various attacks by local ronin, he learns what he must do, to become the man he is destined to be, and to obtain the skill that he will soon perfect.
279. Ivan the Terrible, Part II ( Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarsky zagovor )
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Biography/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein, M. Filimonova
Actors: Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Mikhail Nazvanov
280. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Niels Mueller
Actors: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson, Michael Wincott, Nick Searcy
