Biography Movies

George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

75/100

Sein Name war Franziskus

65/100

Long Live the Hobos

68/100

The film tells the story of an imigrant to Argentina who works for the railway company of this land. Being a witness to the history of the land of silver in this century the film is also a ... See full summary »

Einstein

78/100

Ernesto

61/100

The first film in forty years to be co-produced by Cuba and Japan, it recounts the story of Freddy Maymura Hurtado who was a Bolivian man of Japanese descent. He joined the freedom fighters... See full summary »

Vspominaya Chekhova

32/100

Enrico Mattei: The Man who Looked to the Future

65/100

Two-part miniseries Enrico Mattei - The man who looked to the future, the fiction directed by Giorgio Capitani, which tells the story of Enrico Mattei, one of the most important ... See full summary »

W.G. Belinski

69/100

National Theatre Live: Young Marx

72/100

Rory Kinnear (The Threepenny Opera, Penny Dreadful, Othello) is Marx and Oliver Chris (Twelfth Night, Green Wing) is Engels, in this new comedy written by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman. ... See full summary »

Strauss: The King of 3/4 Time

71/100

Johann Strauss Jr. is pressure to outdo himself with each new composition. When he meets Nicholas, a humble young stable boy, they embark on a remarkable collaboration

Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John

80/100

During World War II, Archbishop Angelo Roncalli attempts to save Jews in Italy from Nazi exterminators.

Marie Curie, une femme sur le front

74/100

A chronicle of Nobel Prize winning physicist Marie Curie's little known yet invaluable contribution to wounded soldiers' treatment during World War I, and her professional partnership with radiotherapy pioneer Claudius Regaud.

La vida de Pedro Infante

60/100

A bicycle mechanic, Pedro Infante falls in love with young Maria Luisa and they elope to Mexico's capital when her mother opposes their relationship. Pedro worked as a singer in the streets... See full summary »

Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern

69/100

Galileo: On the Shoulders of Giants

66/100

Galileo is thwarted in his pursuit to uncover the universe's mysteries by a lack of money, a lazy brother and a jealous rival. Luckily, he finds support from his student, Prince Cosimo, son of the Medici family.

Dogstar

62/100

The story of Dogstar, a reclusive artist, who lives with his bohemian mother in a remote mountain home.

Der Chirurg Pirogow

64/100

Salute

89/100

A Pakistani school boy from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan sacrifices his life by preventing a suicide bomber from entering his school. This film is a tribute to Aitzaz Hasan.

Lillian

84/100

This documentary-style film follows a day in the life of Lillian Folley, a loving caretaker of children and the elderly. This is the only life that Lillian knows, and we are shown a small ... See full summary »

O Paciente: O Caso Tancredo Neves

71/100

Revisits the final moments before the mysterious death of 1985 Brazilian president-to-be Tancredo Neves.