Top Biography Movies


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

341. Grey Owl

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Richard Attenborough
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Stewart Bick, Vlasta Vrana, Annie Galipeau, Neil Kroetsch, Serge Houde

342. Chasing Ice

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jeff Orlowski
Actors: James Balog, Svavar Jonatansson, Adam LeWinter, Louie Psihoyos, Jeff Orlowski, Kitty Boone
Plot: James Balog was once a climate change skeptic, until his Extreme Ice Survey provided undeniable evidence of the changing planet. Using time-lapse photography, a multi-year record of the changing glaciers is presented in minutes and Balog takes a cross-continent journey, and risks his career, to show this change.

343. Fighting with My Family

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Stephen Merchant
Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Lena Headey, Florence Pugh, Vince Vaughn, Nick Frost, Jack Lowden
Plot: A former wrestler and his family travel to small venues all over the country, making a living performing for the crowds. Yet his children want something more - a chance to make it to prime time by joining the WWE.

344. Stan & Ollie

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jon S. Baird
Actors: John C. Reilly, Steve Coogan, Nina Arianda, Danny Huston, Shirley Henderson, Rufus Jones
Plot: Long after their golden age has passed, the world famous comedic duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy reunite for their final act: a hectic theatre tour of post-war Britain. With the support of their respective wives, Lucille Hardy and Ida Kitaeva Laurel, the pair will solidify their place in history as they embark on one, last adventure for their adoring fans.

345. Calamity Jane

Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Butler
Actors: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick Wesson, Paul Harvey
Plot: The Wild West is oft thought of as the domain of gunslinging men, but rough-riding, gun-toting Calamity Jane can hold her own with the best of them - including friend/rival/possible lover Wild Bill HIckock. Sent to Chicago to recruit a an actress for her saloon stage, she finds a perfect, pretty face - one that at first seems to overshadow her own.

346. On the Basis of Sex

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mimi Leder
Actors: Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Cailee Spaeny, Kathy Bates, Sam Waterston
Plot: Biopic on the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from a young lawyer winning cases that will have lasting effects on equal rights for women, to her appointment as just the second female Supreme Court Justice.

347. Boy Erased

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Edgerton
Actors: Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Joel Edgerton, Russell Crowe, Xavier Dolan, Troye Sivan
Plot: Jared, the teenage son of a baptist preacher, is forced to go to a church-supported gay conversion program. Based on the 2016 memoir by Garrard Conley.

348. The Man Who Invented Christmas

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Actors: Dan Stevens, Jonathan Pryce, Christopher Plummer, Simon Callow, Donald Sumpter, Miriam Margolyes
Plot: Takes a look in to the life of Charles Dickens, and the real people around him who helped inspire "A Christmas Carol" and forever altered the holiday as we know it today.

349. The Glenn Miller Story

Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan, Charles Drake, George Tobias, Barton MacLane

350. Blaze

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ron Shelton
Actors: Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin, Gailard Sartain, Richard Jenkins, Robert Wuhl
Plot: The aging, outspoken Louisiana governor, Earl Long fuels his conservative opponents with all the ammo they need after his frequent visits to local gentlemen establishments have him falling for the young, talented Blaze Starr.

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