Top Biography Movies


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

321. Papillon

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Noer
Actors: Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Eve Hewson, Michael Socha, Christopher Fairbank, Brian Vernel
Plot: Devil's Island is a remote, dangerous penal colony. The rather meek Henri "Papillon" Charrière, a Parisian safecracker is sent to the island after being framed for murder. He will do anything to escape and thus strikes up a friendship with the quirky counterfeiter Louis Dega - who has the money and the means - but a plan of this magnitude can't be down overnight and over several years, ups and downs, they form an unbreakable bond.

322. Freud

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Huston
Actors: Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks, Susan Kohner, Eileen Herlie, Fernand Ledoux

323. Romero

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Duigan
Actors: Raul Julia, Richard Jordan, Harold Gould, Tony Perez, Ana Alicia, Eddie Velez

324. Selena

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Gregory Nava
Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Jackie Guerra, Constance Marie, Alex Meneses, Jon Seda, Edward James Olmos
Plot: Tells the real-life story of Selena Quintanilla, the Mexican-American singer who topped the charts in the United States and beyond before she was murdered at age 23.

325. Iris

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Eyre
Actors: Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville, Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Penelope Wilton, Juliet Aubrey

326. Factory Girl

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Hickenlooper
Actors: Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon, Mena Suvari, Illeana Douglas

327. Ali

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Mann
Actors: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright
Plot: The life and times of Muhammad Ali.

328. Grey Gardens

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Sucsy
Actors: Drew Barrymore, Jessica Lange, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Daniel Baldwin, Arye Gross, Justin Louis
Plot: HBO Films presents a movie based on the two Edith Beales, relatives of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy, and the creation of the 1975 documentary that featured their lives. Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore play the mother-daughter duo.

329. The Plainsman

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Actors: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Porter Hall, John Miljan
Plot: Wild Bill Hickok helps protect a fort from Native American attacks, after they have gotten a hold of repeating rifles from gun-runners.

330. Hoffa

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danny DeVito
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Armand Assante, J.T. Walsh, John C. Reilly, Kevin Anderson
Plot: Jack Nicholson portrays the polarizing figure of union leader Jimmy Hoffa,
as seen through the eyes of his friend Bobby Ciaro (Danny DeVito). As
Hoffa battles everyone from the RTA to the president himself, he makes
many enemies - leading to his "disappearance" in 1975.

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