Genre: Biography
Year: Before 2010
373 content found
Ned Kelly 2003

An innocent man becomes one of the most wanted criminals the world has ever known.

Category: Action, Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, romance, Romantic, Western

Stars: Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush

6.4 IMDB Rating 5,922 Views
The Basketball Diaries 1995

A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol

7.3 IMDB Rating 14,264 Views
Mar adentro 2004

The factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 28-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas

8.0 IMDB Rating 213 Views
The Informant! 2009

The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama

Stars: Matt Damon, Tony Hale, Patton Oswalt

6.5 IMDB Rating 4,395 Views
Sigrid & Isaac 2005

About the artist couple Sigrid Hjertén and Isaac Grünewald, their love, artistry and struggle for survival, in a difficult time.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Gunilla Röör, Philip Zandén

5.9 IMDB Rating 135 Views
Michael Collins 1996

Neil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War

Stars: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,433 Views
Balibo 2009

War correspondent Roger East and the young Jose Ramos-Horta travel to East Timor to investigate the murders of the Balibo Five in 1975.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Jane Hampson, Bea Viegas, Christine Martins

7.0 IMDB Rating 256 Views
The Beaches of Agnes 2008

Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier

8.0 IMDB Rating 176 Views
The Express 2008

A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Rob Brown, Dennis Quaid, Clancy Brown

7.2 IMDB Rating 6,191 Views
The Right Stuff 1983

The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris

7.8 IMDB Rating 5,019 Views
Barabbas 1961

Governor Pontius Pilate gave the populace a choice to spare either Barabbas, a criminal, or Jesus, condemned as a heretic, from crucifixion. The masses chose Barrabas, and he is haunted by the image of Jesus for the rest of his life.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy

6.9 IMDB Rating 271 Views
El Cid 1961

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, romance, Romantic, War

Stars: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone

7.2 IMDB Rating 389 Views
1492: Conquest of Paradise 1992

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver

6.4 IMDB Rating 477 Views
Boys Don’t Cry 1999

A young transgender man named Brandon navigates love, life, and trying to pass as a boy in rural Nebraska.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, romance

Stars: Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard

7.5 IMDB Rating 354 Views
Funny Lady 1975

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical, romance, Romantic

Stars: Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif

6.2 IMDB Rating 324 Views
Dangerous Minds 1995

LouAnne, a retired US marine, becomes a teacher in a Californian high school. But her mostly Latino and black students from an impoverished and racially segregated locality do not easily embrace her.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance

6.5 IMDB Rating 314 Views
Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson

7.4 IMDB Rating 4,380 Views
Holy Rollers 2010

In Brooklyn, a youth from an Orthodox Jewish community is lured into becoming an Ecstasy dealer by his pal who has ties to an Israeli drug cartel.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Danny A. Abeckaser

5.9 IMDB Rating 4,350 Views
Assembly 2007

A soldier fights to gain recognition for comrades who died during the Chinese Civil War.

Category: Action, Biography, Drama

Stars: Hanyu Zhang, Chao Deng, Wenkang Yuan

7.3 IMDB Rating 5,312 Views
You Don’t Know Jack 2010

A look at the life and work of doctor-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Al Pacino, Brenda Vaccaro, John Goodman

7.5 IMDB Rating 4,281 Views