Top Biography Movies


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

311. The Soloist

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joe Wright
Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Foxx, Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander, Stephen Root, Justin Martin
Plot: A journalist discovers a schizophrenic, homeless musician and attempts to to help him overcome his problems and achieve his dream of playing at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

312. Last Days

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gus Van Sant
Actors: Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Scott Patrick Green, Nicole Vicius, Ricky Jay
Plot: A fictionalized account of the last days of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain
focusing on a disturbed singer by the name of Blake.

313. The Story of Louis Pasteur

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Dieterle
Actors: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise, Donald Woods, Fritz Leiber, Porter Hall

314. Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The ( Essex and Elizabeth )

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, Vincent Price

315. The Iron Lady

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Actors: Meryl Streep, Harry Lloyd, Jim Broadbent, Anthony Head, Richard E. Grant, Roger Allam
Plot: A film based on the life of the UK's first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher and what she had to sacrifice in order to rise to power in a male-dominated political society.

316. The Aeronauts

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tom Harper
Actors: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Himesh Patel, Anne Reid, Tim McInnerny, Phoebe Fox
Plot: In 1862, pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher teams up with daredevil hot air balloon operator Amelia Wren in order to fly higher than any human before them - for the advancement of weather science. While the unlikely pair form a bond when they leave the world below, they also face a dangerous ascent that will challenge both their physical and emotional limits.

317. Man of a Thousand Faces

Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph Pevney
Actors: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Marjorie Rambeau, Robert Evans, Jim Backus
Plot: Loosely adapted biography of actor Lon Chaney from his childhood growing up with deaf parents to his acting career playing a variety of strange, memorable characters.

318. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Errol Morris
Actors: Fred A. Leuchter Jr., Robert Jan Van Pelt, David Irving, Caroline Leuchter, James Roth, Shelly Shapiro

319. The Inn of the Sixth Hapiness

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mark Robson
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jürgens, Robert Donat, Michael David, Athene Seyler, Ronald Squire

320. Marie Antoinette

Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Actors: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Gladys George
Plot: Follows the life of the famed Marie Antoinette from her isolated teenage life, to finding high society (and a count) to becoming queen and responsible mother and rule to her death by beheading as France faces crippling poverty and revolution.

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