Biography Movies

Lola, la película

55/100

Movie about the life Lola Flores, the most famous Spanish flamenco singer of all times.

It's Russian

66/100

Maxwell

71/100

The final two months of the life of media tycoon Robert Maxwell.

Ramses

79/100

A chronicle of legendary Dutch singer Ramses Shaffy's rise to fame, from his early days as a stage actor in late 1950s Amsterdam to his emergence as a national music icon throughout the following two decades.

Catherine the Great

74/100

Drama documentary reconstructing the life and times of Catherine the Great of Russia.

Stars

54/100

A story of passion, rivalry, love, and friendship. Jan Banas, acclaimed Silesian football player of the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to makes his dreams come true on and off the field. Stars ... See full summary »

Keep the Faith, Baby

71/100

New Yorker Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Harry J. Lennix) becomes a congressman and condemns all forms of segregation and discrimination.

Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story

70/100

Margaret Sanger, a nurse who, in 1914, became a pioneering crusader for women's reproductive rights after she published a booklet on birth control techniques that flew in the face of a law ... See full summary »

Malarek

61/100

Based on Victor Malarek's best-selling autobiography, this is the true story of a streetwise kid who emerges from a violent and unjust background to become one of journalism's top reporters.

Your Name Here

50/100

The lines between reality and perception blur in this comic journey into the life and mind (literally!) of one of sci-fi's most brilliant authors. Paranoid conspiracies of the highest order... See full summary »

Arletty A Guilty Passion

63/100

Paris lives under the control of German occupation. While filming "the Children of Paradise" Arletty, an unconventional actress, continues to live according to her desires. While she ... See full summary »

Und die Geigen verstummen

70/100

This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.

The Life of Buddha

69/100

A BBC/Discovery Channel co-production, this docu-narrative film describes the life of Siddharta Gautama, the process by which he arrived at the fundamentals of Buddhism and the ... See full synopsis »

One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story

68/100

True story of Ron LeFlore, a troubled Detroit youth who rose from Michigan prisons to star in Major League Baseball.

Serpent of the Nile

48/100

In 44 BC, after the assassination of the leader of Rome Julius Caesar, Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and one of the highest ranking Roman generals and Caesar's possible successor Mark Anthony begin a tragic love affair.

Viagem a Portugal

67/100

Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year in with her husband, also a doctor. She is approached by agents of the Immigration Services that take her to an interrogation ... See full summary »

Story of San Michele

58/100

Gorky 3: My Universities

67/100

The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's Maxim Gorky trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938) and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My ... See full summary »

Leila Diniz

70/100

A star studded biography of Brazilian legend Leila Diniz, born in 1945 to a communist couple. She grows up to be an extraordinary woman in her own, undefinable, and unique style, unheard of... See full summary »

On Distant Shores

76/100

Portray the life of the Mehdi Huseynzade, legendary Azerbaijani guerrilla of the WW2, who fought the Nazi forces in the present-day Italy and Slovenia.