Biography Movies

My House Is Full of Mirrors

65/100

Rasputin

55/100

The true story of the greatest occultist of 1900. The truth beyond the Legend.

Hunger auf Leben

73/100

Biographical TV-Movie about the live of the popular East-German novelist Brigitte Reimann. Follows her private life and her fight for and against her country and herself.

Don Bosco

72/100

This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco (1815 - 1888). He dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin. He was the founder of the Salesian order, ... See full summary »

Full Throttle

66/100

An autobiographical film about the racing life of Captain Henry "Tim" Birkin, a British gentleman racing driver of the nineteen thirties. Spectacular vintage car racing scenes. ... See full summary »

Bombal

54/100

Tells the story of María Luisa Bombal, an underground writer in the early twenties trying to reconcile her passionate and very sexual lifestyle with her life as a socialite among Santiago's very conservative elite.

Tränen aus Stein

71/100

About the Icelandic composer Jon Leifs (1899-1968) who spent much of his life in Germany before WWII. The film begins in the 1930s after he has married the daughter of an industrialist, ... See full summary »

Landru

65/100

Désiré Landru - husband, lover - and murderer. Based on documented facts, this is the full story of one of the most ambiguous criminals and lovers of the 20th century, the first modern serial killer.

Little Raoul

69/100

True-life story of a girl of the streets of Buenos Aires who passed for a boy.

Will There Really Be a Morning?

73/100

This is the story of actress Frances Farmer.

Aria dla atlety

73/100

Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony ... See full summary »

Saruhan

77/100

It is the beginning of the 17th century. The prince, who is about to become the sultan in the future, is on his way towards Saruhan and a murder is committed in Saruhan. One of Saruhan's ... See full summary »

Driven

74/100

Intense thriller where politics, big business and narcotics collide.

Mondo Plympton

69/100

A compilation of animator Bill Plympton's classic shorts, including "Your Face", "How to Kiss", "One of Those Days", "25 Ways to Quit Smoking", "Plymptoons", "Nosehair" and "How to Make ... See full summary »

Oh, You Beautiful Doll

65/100

In the early 1900s, song plugger Larry Kelly chances to meet Alfred Breitenbach, poor opera composer...and his lovely daughter Doris, who falls for Larry. To improve their acquaintance, ... See full summary »

Bouboulina

64/100

The life and action of Laskarina Bouboulina. Captain Lascarina decides to organize the revolution in Spetses and to participate herself, despite her double widowhood. In the struggle for ... See full summary »

Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes

69/100

Dramatization of the turbulent life of Elizabeth David, the original domestic goddess. She published her first book of Mediterranean Food in 1950, and went on to write eight more books that... See full summary »

Shooting Clerks

77/100

The true story of how convenience store clerk Kevin Smith made his grainy $27,000 film Clerks (1994) with maxed-out credit cards and the people who aided him in his indie crusade.

Selahattin Eyyubi

49/100

A lion-hearted Richard attacks the Al-Quds but in the face of him there is a Sultan Selahaddin.

Slepi putnik na brodu ludaka

81/100

1916. In occupied Belgrade, a mental hospital is the last free territory of Serbia.