Genre: Biography
1492 content found
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2019

Against all the odds, a thirteen-year-old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maxwell Simba, Felix Lemburo

7.6 IMDB Rating 5,508 Views
Brexit: The Uncivil War 2019

Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Belcher, Malcolm Freeman

7.0 IMDB Rating 6,605 Views
Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America 2016

Daryl Davis is an accomplished musician who was played all over the world. He also has an unusual hobby, particularly for a middle aged black man. When not displaying his musical chops, Daryl likes to meet and befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan. When many of these people eventually leave the Klan with Daryl's support, Daryl keeps their robes and hoods; building his collection piece by piece, story by story, person by person, in hopes of one day opening a museum of the Klan.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Daryl D. Davis, Kenneth Nwadike, Jeff Schoep

7.6 IMDB Rating 4,200 Views
El Clan 2015

The true story of the Puccio Clan, a family who kidnapped and killed people in the 80s.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Guillermo Francella, Gastón Cocchiarale, Peter Lanzani

6.9 IMDB Rating 4,206 Views
Nothing to Lose 2018

Self-financed fictional biopic of Brazilian bishop Edir Macedo, founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and owner of Record TV network.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Petrônio Gontijo, Day Mesquita, Beth Goulart

2.4 IMDB Rating 4,011 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 4,361 Views
Mr. Turner 2014

J.M.W. Turner, an unconventional British painter, goes down memory lane and recalls his romantic relationship with a seaside landlady and the various accolades he received for his works of art.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson

6.8 IMDB Rating 5,899 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 5,319 Views
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger 2014

A look at James 'Whitey' Bulger, one of the most infamous criminals in American history.

Category: Biography, Crime, Documentary

Stars: Stephen Rakes, James 'Whitey' Bulger, Tommy Donahue

6.7 IMDB Rating 4,302 Views
Neruda 2016

An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán

6.8 IMDB Rating 5,315 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 4,286 Views
Milada 2017

The story of Milada Horáková, democratic pre-WW2 Czech politician first arrested and tried by the Nazis during the War and then the post-war Communist government for her refusal to cease her opposition activity and leave the country.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Ayelet Zurer, Robert Gant, Daniel Rchichev

6.3 IMDB Rating 5,333 Views
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007

Robert Ford, who has idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the resurgent gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard

7.5 IMDB Rating 5,936 Views
Red Army 2014

The story of the Soviet Union's famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History, Sport

Stars: Viacheslav Fetisov, Vladislav Tretiak, Scotty Bowman

7.6 IMDB Rating 4,878 Views
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986

Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles

7.0 IMDB Rating 4,377 Views
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2017

Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, War

Stars: Sareum Srey Moch, Phoeung Kompheak, Sveng Socheata

7.2 IMDB Rating 4,875 Views
The White Crow 2018

The story of Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann

6.6 IMDB Rating 5,089 Views
Sophie Scholl The Final Days 2005

A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War

Stars: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held

7.6 IMDB Rating 5,412 Views
The Ploy 2016

In the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate plan that will bring the great poet to his violent death.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Massimo Ranieri, Libero De Rienzo, Matteo Taranto

6.3 IMDB Rating 2,809 Views
Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer 2015

The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.

Category: Biography, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Burghart Klaußner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Lilith Stangenberg

7.1 IMDB Rating 2,720 Views