71. Shine
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Scott Hicks
Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Chris Haywood, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Alex Rafalowicz
Plot: Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this delightful movie charts the early and traumatic early years. Telling the story in flashback we see David as he grows up and into a child prodigy while his father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally breaks away from his father and goes away to study overseas, he later suffers a breakdown and returns to Australia and a life in an institution. Many years later he is released and through several twists of fate (in reality even more unlikely than film portrays) he starts playing a piano in a bar before finally returning to the concert hall
72. Motorcycle Diaries, The ( Diarios de motocicleta )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Walter Salles
Actors: Gael Garcia Bernal, Jean Pierre Noher, Mercedes Mor, Rodrigo De la Serna, Franco Solazzi, Marina Glezer
Plot: A man goes on an adventure as he travels South American on his motorcycle with a friend. Based on the early diaries of Che
73. Temple Grandin
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mick Jackson
Actors: Claire Danes, Catherine O'Hara, David Strathairn, Julia Ormond, Melissa Farman, Charles Baker
Plot: Biopic of Temple Grandin - an autistic woman who overcame disadvantages brought on by her condition early in life to become a Ph.D in the field of animal husbandry.
74. Jesus of Nazareth
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Actors: Robert Powell, Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Ian McShane, James Earl Jones, Christopher Plummer
Plot: A reverent depiction of the life of Christ using the Gospel accounts.
75. Hamilton
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Thomas Kail
Actors: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom Jr., Phillipa Soo, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Renée Elise Goldsberry
76. Breaker Morant
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bruce Beresford
Actors: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Terence Donovan
Plot: Three Australian officers, though acting under orders, are tried for shooting prisoners during the Boer war, but they put up a stronger defense to being used as scapegoats than anticipated.
77. Becket
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Glenville
Actors: Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton, John Gielgud, Paolo Stoppa, Pamela Brown, Siân Phillips
Plot: Based on the historical clash between Henry II and Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, this story shows how badly nepotism can actually go when one can't fire an appointee. Henry needs to appoint a replacement to the recently deceased Archbishop and, in an effort to bring the Church and his monarchy into closer alignment (with his direction, of course), Henry appoints his old friend to the post. Things go wrong when Becket pursues the will of God instead of his King's.
78. Silkwood
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Nichols
Actors: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Fred Ward, Diana Scarwid
Plot: Karen Silkwood worked at the Kerr-McGee nuclear power plant in Oklahoma and was about to go public with the dangerous practices there before dying under mysterious circumstances. This is her story.
79. American Splendor
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Actors: Paul Giamatti, Harvey Pekar, Earl Billings, Shari Springer Berman, Maggie Moore, Hope Davis
Plot: A file clerk finds success writing comics about an everyday man that people seem to enjoy reading about because of the real people he creates.
80. Wild
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Michiel Huisman, Gaby Hoffmann, Laura Dern, W. Earl Brown, Charles Baker
Plot: Following some life-changing and harrowing events in her life, Cheryl Strayed begins a solo journey - a 1,100 hike across the Pacific Crest Trail - stretching from Canada to Mexico - in hopes of recovery. Based on a true story.
