Biography movies, page 59

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

Action,Biography,Documentary

2011 year 97 min 7.1IMDB

Sharon Tate,Catherine Deneuve,Emmanuelle Seigner,Barbara Lass

A documentary about Roman Polanski, the man and filmmaker. Roman Polanski speaks about his eventful life story and career in conversation with Andrew ...
Quiz Show

Action,Biography,Drama,History

1994 year 97 min 7.5IMDB

Ralph Fiennes,Ethan Hawke,Grace Phillips,Harriet Sansom Harris

An idealistic young lawyer working for a Congressional subcommittee in the late 1950s discovers that TV quiz shows are being fixed. His investigation ...
Jobs

Action,Biography,Drama

2013 year 97 min 6IMDB

Ashton Kutcher,Brett Gelman,J.K. Simmons,Kent Shocknek

The film opens in 2001 with a middle-aged Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher) introducing the iPod at an Apple Town Hall meeting.[6] It then flashes back to R...
Fruitvale Station

Action,Biography,Crime,Drama,Romance

2013 year 97 min 7.5IMDB

Chad Michael Murray,Michael B. Jordan,Octavia Spencer,Kevin Durand

This is the true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not ...
Abraham Lincoln

Action,Biography,Drama,History,War

1930 year 97 min 5.7IMDB

Jason Robards Sr.,Edgar Dearing,Henry B. Walthall,George MacQuarrie

Brief vignettes about Lincoln's early life include his birth, early jobs, (unsubstantiated) affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, and the ...
The Butler

Action,Biography,Drama

2013 year 97 min 7.2IMDB

Robin Williams,Alan Rickman,Minka Kelly,Mo McRae

Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually strik...
Rush

Action,Biography,Drama,History,Sport

2013 year 97 min 8.1IMDB

Chris Hemsworth,Devora Wilde,Aaron Ly,Tom Wlaschiha

Set against the sexy, glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing in the 1970s, the film is based on the true story of a great sporting rivalry between h...
Captain Phillips

Action,Adventure,Biography,Crime,Drama,Thriller

2013 year 97 min 7.8IMDB

Catherine Keener,Tom Hanks,Chris Palermo,David Warshofsky

Captain Phillips is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is - t...
The Fifth Estate

Action,Biography,Crime,Drama,History,Thriller

2013 year 97 min 6.2IMDB

Stanley Tucci,Anthony Mackie,Benedict Cumberbatch,Michelle Obama

The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become ...
The Bell Witch Haunting

Action,Biography,Horror

2013 year 97 min 3.6IMDB

Benjamin James

Found-footage horror. The Robertson County Sheriff's Department has released videos found on the bodies of the Sawyer family's cell phones and video c...
Coal Miner's Daughter

Action,Biography,Drama,Music,Musical

1980 year 97 min 7.5IMDB

Tommy Lee Jones,Sissy Spacek,Beverly D'Angelo,Billy Strange

At only 13, Loretta Webb marries Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn and is soon responsible for a large family. She appears destined to a life of homemaking, but...
Dallas Buyers Club

Action,Biography,Drama

2013 year 97 min 7.9IMDB

Matthew McConaughey,Jared Leto,Steve Zahn,James DuMont

In mid 1980s Texas, electrician Ron Woodroof is starting to learn that he has AIDS. Though told he has just 30 days left to live, Woodroof refuses to ...
Catch Me If You Can

Action,Biography,Crime,Drama

2002 year 97 min 8.1IMDB

Amy Adams,Leonardo DiCaprio,Tom Hanks,Joshua Boyd

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor...
Milk

Action,Biography,Drama,History,Romance,Comedy,Crime,Horror

2008 year 97 min 7.5IMDB

James Franco,Josh Brolin,Dave Franco,Peter Jason

Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milk's career from his 40th birth...
Ed Wood

Action,Biography,Comedy,Drama

1994 year 97 min 7.8IMDB

Jeffrey Jones,Johnny Depp,Norman Alden,Juliet Landau

Because of his eccentric habits and bafflingly strange films, director Edward D. Wood Jr. is a Hollywood outcast. Nevertheless, with the help of the f...
The Armstrong Lie

Action,Biography,Documentary,Sport

2013 year 97 min 7.2IMDB

Jon Stewart,Alex Gibney,Anderson Cooper,Lance Armstrong

In 2009 director Alex Gibney set out to film The Road Back, a documentary on cyclist Lance Armstrong's comeback year after a four-year retirement from...
12 Years a Slave

Action,Biography,Drama,History

2013 year 97 min 8.1IMDB

Paul Dano,Benedict Cumberbatch,Sarah Paulson,Brad Pitt

Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man f...
Jamesy Boy

Action,Biography,Crime,Drama,Romance

2014 year 97 min 6.3IMDB

Taissa Farmiga,Mary-Louise Parker,James Woods,Ving Rhames

The true story of James Burns who, as a teenager goes from the suburban street gangs of Denver to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardene...
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Action,Biography,Drama,History

2013 year 97 min 7.1IMDB

Idris Elba,Naomie Harris,Nelson Mandela,Jamie Bartlett

Nelson Mandela is a South African lawyer who joins the African National Congress in the 1940s when the law under the Apartheid system's brutal tyranny...
One Chance

Action,Biography,Comedy,Drama,Music

2013 year 97 min 6.8IMDB

Mackenzie Crook,Valeria Bilello,Jon Wennington,Declan Donnelly

Director David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Marley & Me (2008)) teams with Screenwriter Justin Zackham (The Bucket List (2007)) to tell the ...