Top Biography Movies


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

361. Air Guitar Nation

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alexandra Lipsitz
Actors: Peter Cilella, Dan Crane, David S. Jung, Angela Shelton, Mark Teich, Zac Munro

362. Genius

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Michael Grandage
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Colin Firth, Guy Pearce, Dominic West, Laura Linney
Plot: Follows the life of Max Perkins as his time as book editor at Scribner where he was in charge of approving books from the likes of Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

363. The Whole Wide World

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Dan Ireland
Actors: Vincent D'Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell, Benjamin Mouton, Michael Corbett
Plot: Based on the memoirs of Novalyne Price Ellis, this is a captivating story about the last years of never fully understood and appreciated writer, Robert E. Howard.

364. Anthropoid

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sean Ellis
Actors: Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Harry Lloyd, Toby Jones, Charlotte Le Bon, Bill Milner
Plot: Based on the true story behind Operation Anthropoid during WWII. The third in line to lead the Third Reich behind Hitelr and Himmer was SS General Reinhard Heydrich. The architect behind the Final Solution was also the commander of the brutal occupying force in Czechoslovakia. Allied soldiers, witnessing his work first hand, come up with a plot to assassinate Heydrich.

365. Nine Lives ( Ni liv )

Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Adventure/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Arne Skouen
Actors: Jack Fjeldstad, Henny Moan, Alf Malland, Joachim Holst-Jensen, Lydia Opøien, Edvard Drabløs

366. Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nick Broomfield
Actors: Nick Broomfield, Heidi Fleiss, Daryl Gates, Ron Jeremy, Jason Fleiss, Jesse Fleiss

367. Hannah Arendt

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Nicholas Woodeson, Julia Jentsch, Ulrich Noethen
Plot: Explores the life of philosopher, political theorist and reporter Hannah Arendt as she covers the trial of notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.

368. MacArthur

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joseph Sargent
Actors: Gregory Peck, Ivan Bonar, Ward Costello, Nicolas Coster, Marj Dusay, Ed Flanders

369. Infamous

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Douglas McGrath
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Toby Jones, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sandra Bullock, Juliet Stevenson, Michael Panes
Plot: While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

370. Hitler: The Rise of Evil

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Christian Duguay
Actors: Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Jena Malone, Julianna Margulies, Matthew Modine, Liev Schreiber
Plot: A TV movie based on the life of the infamous dictator, Adolf Hitler.

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