81. Control
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Anton Corbijn
Actors: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara, Joe Anderson, Toby Kebbell, Craig Parkinson
82. Love & Mercy
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Bill Pohlad
Actors: Paul Dano, John Cusack, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti, Jake Abel, Kenny Wormald
Plot: Follows the life of reclusive "Beach Boy' Brian Wilson - from he early years as an influential musician, through his nervous breakdown and relationship with controversial therapist Dr. Eugene Landy and redemption with his wife Melinda.
83. John Adams
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tom Hooper
Actors: Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, Stephen Dillane, John Dossett, Sarah Polley, David Morse
Plot: HBO presents a 7 part miniseries based on David McCullough's popular book/biography of the second president of the United States. The series chronicles Adams' defense of the Boston Massacre offenders, his influence in writing the Declaration of Independence, his rise in politics through the vice presidency and presidency to his final days in retirement.
84. Chaplin
Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Richard Attenborough
Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Moira Kelly, Anthony Hopkins, Dan Aykroyd, Marisa Tomei
Plot: The life and times of Charlie Chaplin: from his first stage performance before the age of ten to Vaudeville, to Mack Sennett's movies, to making his own movies, to winning an Oscar.
85. Sid and Nancy
Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alex Cox
Actors: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Debby Bishop, Andrew Schofield, Xander Berkeley
Plot: A look into the true love story of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen.
86. What's Love Got to Do With It
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brian Gibson
Actors: Angela Bassett, Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly, Laurence Fishburne, Khandi Alexander, Chi McBride, Jenifer Lewis
Plot: This is the biography of singer Tina Turner, who went from being a small town country girl to a super star, yet, behind the scenes, faced unimaginable abuse from her husband and lead guitarist, Ike Turner.
87. Behind the Candelabra
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Rob Lowe, Dan Aykroyd, Caroline Jaden Stussi, Scott Bakula
Plot: Based on the autobiography, the film explores the relationship between Liberace and his six-year relationship with young lover Scott Thorson.
88. Green Book
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Farrelly
Actors: Linda Cardellini, Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Don Stark, Sebastian Maniscalco, Jenna Laurenzo
Plot: In the 1960s, Italian-American bouncer Tony Lip becomes the personal driver of black classical pianist Don Shirley as he plays a series of venues in the south.
89. Chopper
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andrew Dominik
Actors: Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, David Field, Daniel Wyllie, Bill Young, Kate Beahan
Plot: Mark 'Chopper' Reed is a small time crook who dreams of becoming a legendary crime figure.
90. Sergeant York
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges, Margaret Wycherly
Plot: This is the story of a Tennessee pacifist who is drafted into the military
during WWI and grows to understand that sometimes there is a need for war.
He ultimately becomes the most decorated hero of the war by single-
handedly capturing over a hundred enemy soldiers.
