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 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

312. 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

313. 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.

314. 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.

315. 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.

316. 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

317. 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

318. 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.

319. Endless Poetry ( Poesía sin fin )

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Actors: Adan Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Leandro Taub, Pamela Flores, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jeremias Herskovits

320. Heaven and Earth

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Joan Chen, Thuan K. Nguyen, Timothy Carhart, Hiep Thi Le, Dustin Nguyen
Plot: A story of a Vietnamese woman's struggle in her homeland during the war and in America after the war.

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