BIOGRAPHY Movies and Tvshows - Page 34

Don King: Only in America (1997)

IMDb: 6.9
1997

A cinematic portrait of the famous fight promoter and boxing manager

Jesse James (1939)

IMDb: 7.0
1939

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge

Solo (2018)

IMDb: 5.0
2018

After falling by a cliff on a desert beach, a seriously injured surfer starts a lonely fight to survive against the merciless nature

Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bun

IMDb: 7.8
2019

A look inside the mind of serial killer Ted Bundy, featuring interviews with him on death row

The Front Runner (2018)

IMDb: 6.1
2018

In 1987, U S Senator Gary Harts presidential campaign is derailed when hes caught in a scandalous love affair

Gentleman Jack (2019 )

IMDb: 8.2
2019–

A dramatization of the life of LGBTQ+ trailblazer, voracious learner, and cryptic diarist Anne Lister, who returns to Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1832, determined to transform the fate of her faded ancestral home Shibden Hall

Anastasia (1956)

IMDb: 7.1
1956

An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her

Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Never to

IMDb: 7.1
2018

Carlos Kaiser Henrique Raposo was a professional footballer But he never actually played a game By convincing others of his abilities with help from journalist friends he moved from club to club, avoiding football but partying

Beloved Infidel (1959)

IMDb: 6.1
1959

Toward the end of his life, F Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife He is also struggling against alcoholism Into his life comes the famous gossip columnist

Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey (2017

IMDb: 7.6
2017

Fred Beckey is the legendary American Dirtbag mountaineer whose name is spoken in hushed tones around campfires This rebel climbers pioneering ascents and lifestyle form an iconic legacy that continues to inspire generations

Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)

IMDb: 6.2
1966

Thrown out of his monestary for licentious and drunken behaviour, Rasputin travels to St Petersburg to try his luck Through a daliance with one of the czarinas ladies in waiting he soon gains influence at court with his powers of h

Angel of Evil (2010)

IMDb: 6.8
2010

A biography of Milanese bank robber Renato Vallanzasca

The Whole Wide World (1996)

IMDb: 7.1
1996

In 1933 Texas, a schoolteacher and aspiring writer meets a pulp fiction writer, and a relationship soon develops between the two, but it is doomed by his slavishly devotion to his ailing mother and insistence on his freedom

Matters of Life & Dating (2007)

IMDb: 4.8
2007

A dramatic and lighter look at breast cancer told from a single womans point of view Its the true story of Linda Dackman Ricki Lake, following her as she tries to re enter the dizzying

Million Dollar Arm (2014)

IMDb: 7.0
2014

A sports agent stages an unconventional recruitment strategy to get talented Indian cricket players to play Major League Baseball

American Soul (2018 )

IMDb: 7.0
2019–

American Soul

The Maestro (2018)

IMDb: 5.8
2018

After the Second World War, budding film composer Jerry Herst moves to Hollywood to study with infamous master teacher Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco

Lords of Chaos (2018)

IMDb: 6.6
2018

A teenagers quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the early 1990s results in a very violent outcome

Prozac Nation (2001)

IMDb: 6.3
2001

A young woman struggles with depression during her first year at Harvard

Mirandas Victim (2023)

IMDb: 8.6
2023

In 1963, eighteen year old Patricia Weir is kidnapped and brutally raped Committed to putting her attacker, Ernesto Miranda, in prison, Trishs life is destroyed by Americas legal system as she triggers a law that transforms the

Gabriel and the Mountain (2017)

IMDb: 7.0
2017

Before entering a prestigious American university, Gabriel Buchmann decided to travel the world for one year, his backpack full of dreams After ten months on the road, he arrived in Kenya determined to discover the African continent

Scarred Hearts (2016)

IMDb: 7.1
2016

Emanuel spends his days at a sanatorium Falling in love with another patient, he narrates his and his fellow patients attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly fade away, but their minds refuse to give up

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)

IMDb: 7.6
2019

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine

Fighting with My Family (2019)

IMDb: 7.1
2019

A former wrestler and his family make a living performing at small venues around the country while his kids dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment

The Ten Commandments (1923)

IMDb: 6.8
1923

After hearing the story of Moses, the sons of a devout Christian mother go their own ways, while the atheist brothers breaking of the Ten Commandments leads to tragedy

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

IMDb: 7.2
1965

The biographical story of Michelangelos troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II

Kit Carson (1940)

IMDb: 6.3
1940

Indian fighter, trapper and frontier scout Kit Carson leads a wagon train of settlers from Fort Bridger, along the Oregon Trail through Shoshone territory, to California which plans to secede from Mexico

Battle Hymn (1957)

IMDb: 6.3
1957

A remorseful bomber pilot turned minister rejoins for the Korean War

Walk. Ride. Rodeo. (2019)

IMDb: 6.4
2019

A courageous teenager is determined to resume competitive rodeo months after her paralyzing spinal cord injury

Van Diemens Land (2009)

IMDb: 6.0
2009

The true story of Alexander Pearce, Australias most notorious convict In 1822, Pearce and seven fellow convicts escaped from Macquarie Harbour, a place of ultra banishment and punishment, only to find a world less forgiving the A

Caravaggio (1986)

IMDb: 6.6
1986

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld

Good Vibrations (2012)

IMDb: 7.2
2012

A chronicle of Terri Hooleys life, a record store owner instrumental in developing Belfasts punk rock scene

Tab Hunter Confidential (2015)

IMDb: 7.6
2015

The story of matinee idol Tab Hunter from teenage stable boy to closeted Hollywood star of the 1950s

Joan of Arc (1948)

IMDb: 6.4
1948

The abbreviated life of the 15th Century French heroine

The Wind Rises (2013)

IMDb: 7.8
2013

A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II

Requiem for the American Dream (2015)

IMDb: 8.1
2015

Renowned academic and author Noam Chomsky elucidates 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power that have led to unprecedented inequality and the hollowing out of the American middle class