Biography Movies

Dreamrider

60/100

A young man loses his leg in a motorcycle accident. While rehabilitating, he takes up cycling. He becomes determined to become the first one-legged person to cycle across the U.S. The movie... See full summary »

Return to Babylon

62/100

The scandals and decadent lives of the 1920's greatest movie stars.

Gesprengte Fesseln

66/100

Sharaku

71/100

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal... See full summary »

Hancock & Joan

73/100

In the mid-1960s, Joan, not long married to comic actor John Le Mesurier, meets and is mutually attracted to comedian Tony Hancock, married to the long-suffering Freddie. Hancock's most ... See full summary »

Man of Conquest

64/100

The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.

Die Bubi Scholz Story

68/100

White Blessing

89/100

WHITE BLESSING is motivational sports drama and based on a true story.

Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige

68/100

Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, star pitcher in the Negro Leagues, and later in the major leagues. Traces his life from his troubled youth, including his life in a detention school for ... See full summary »

Yngsjömordet

68/100

Sweden 1889. The young Per Nilsson has a very dominant mother, Anna Månsdotter. His father died many years ago. Per and his mother have for a long time had an incestuous relationship. But ... See full summary »

Guilty of Treason

59/100

The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime ... See full summary »

Verdades verdaderas, la vida de Estela

67/100

In 1976, a coup d'etat by the Armed Forces replaced the argentine constitutional Government and policies of terror that trampled on human rights were implemented. In a few years, the hidden... See full summary »

My Name Was Sabina Spielrein

62/100

The history of psychoanalysis is littered with the discarded psyches of the women whose diagnoses were key to the fame of the great masters. One such woman was Sabina Spielrein. Unlike the ... See full summary »

My Daughter Hildegart

66/100

Based in the novel Aurora de Sangre (Eduardo de Guzman) and in the real events happened during the II Spanish Republic. Aurora Rodriguez goes to police to assume the death of her daughter ... See full summary »

Yona

66/100

The life story of legendary Israeli poet Yona Wallach.

Frankie's House

75/100

In 1964 in Laos, young Tim Page discovers his vocation as a photojournalist and is given a job, a camera, and a trip to Vietnam. There, he learns the ropes, learns about the war first in ... See full summary »

Mee Sindhutai Sapkal

70/100

This is the journey of Sindhutai Sapkal, a poor village girl who grew up tending buffaloes while craving an education, but her unsympathetic mother had her married off to an older man when ... See full summary »

John Wycliffe: The Morning Star

67/100

The story of 14th century John Wycliffe, AKA "The Morning Star of the Reformation", who was the first to translate the Bible into English.

The Iron Man

27/100

A tale based on the life of the inventor of the original "Iron Man".

Mae West

68/100

Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex.