BIOGRAPHY Movies and Tvshows - Page 41

Finding Fela! (2014)

IMDb: 7.0
2014

A look at the life and music of Nigerian singer Fela Kuti

I Am Ali (2014)

IMDb: 7.2
2014

Unprecedented access to Muhammad Alis personal archive of audio journals as well as interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends are used to tell the legends life story

Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)

IMDb: 6.3
2012

A drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and World War II correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingways inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer

The Angel (2018)

IMDb: 6.6
2018

As his country prepares for war, top Egyptian official Ashraf Marwan makes contact with Israel and wades into a shadowy game of high stakes espionage

Total Divas (2013)

IMDb: 6.5
2013–

Follow the lives of the WWE divas in their work and relationships

Tom & Viv (1994)

IMDb: 6.3
1994

In 1915, T S Tom Eliot and Vivienne Haigh Wood elope, but her longstanding gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their planned honeymoon Her father is angry because Toms poetry doesnt bring in enough to live on, but her

Dont Worry, He Wont Get Far on Foot (201

IMDb: 6.9
2018

On the rocky path to sobriety after a life changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life

The Railway Man (2013)

IMDb: 7.1
2013

A former British Army officer, who was tortured as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him

Whitney (2018)

IMDb: 7.3
2018

An in depth look at the life and music of Whitney Houston

Gia (1998)

IMDb: 7.0
1998

The story of the life of Gia Carangi, a top fashion model from the late 1970s, from her meteoric rise to the forefront of the modeling industry, to her untimely death

Once Upon a Time in China III (1992)

IMDb: 6.8
1992

Master Wong and his disciples enroll in the Dancing Lion Competition to stop an assassination plot and to battle an arrogant, deceitful opponent

Sanju (2018)

IMDb: 7.7
2018

Sanju is a biopic of the controversial life of actor Sanjay Dutt his film career, jail sentence and personal life

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

IMDb: 8.1
2004

Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

IMDb: 8.1
1928

In 1431, Jeanne dArc is placed on trial on charges of heresy The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions

Kundun (1997)

IMDb: 7.0
1997

From childhood to adulthood, Tibets fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems

Rembrandt (1936)

IMDb: 7.1
1936

The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies

Hes a Legend, Hes a Hero (1976)

IMDb: 4.2
1976

A highly fictionalized biography of the famous Bruce Lee, this movie traces his college life, his marriage to Linda Lee, his relationship with his master, and his untimely death

The Pathological Optimist (2017)

IMDb: 5.0
2017

In the center of the recent Tribeca Film Festival scandal surrounding his film VAXXED From Cover up to Controversy stands Andrew Wakefield, discredited and stripped of his medical license for his infamous study suggesting a link bet

Elvis Presley: The Searcher (2018)

IMDb: 7.7
2018

A look at the development of Elvis spellbinding artistry, from his early blues and country roots and influences through his seismic contributions to popular culture to his 1976 recording sessions at the Jungle Room in Graceland

Age of Consent (1969)

IMDb: 6.4
1969

A grizzled Australian painter decides to jolt his stale creativity by moving to a remote island on the Great Barrier Reef, where he takes on an alluring, uninhibited young woman as his muse

Holding the Man (2015)

IMDb: 7.4
2015

The warm, funny and achingly sad story of the 15 year long love affair between Timothy Conigrave and the boy he fell in love with at high school, John Caleo

The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005)

IMDb: 7.9
2005

Daniel Johnston, manic depressive genius singersongwriterartist is revealed in this portrait of madness, creativity and love

Music Within (2007)

IMDb: 7.3
2007

The true story of Richard Pimentel, a brilliant public speaker with a troubled past, who returns from Vietnam deafened, and finds a new purpose in his landmark efforts on the behalf of Americans with disabilities

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010)

IMDb: 6.6
2010

A biography of Ian Dury, who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founders of the punk rock scene in Britain in the 1970s

The Man Who Saved the World (2014)

IMDb: 7.6
2014

Retired Soviet Lt Col Stanislav Petrov, who saved the world from WW3, talks about his life as retiree and shares his opinions on the Cold War with actor Kevin Costner in this melancholic mixture of documentary and reenacted footage

Adolf Eichmann (2007)

IMDb: 5.9
2007

Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less, a young Israeli police officer, of his past as the architect of Hitlers plan for the fFnal Solution Captur

McKellen: Playing the Part (2017)

IMDb: 7.4
2017

Feature documentary on the life and work of Sir Ian McKellen

José and Pilar (2010)

IMDb: 8.3
2010

A documentary on Nobel Prize Winner Jose Saramago and his feelings over his wife, his country and life, as a whole

The Devils Violinist (2013)

IMDb: 6.1
2013

19th Century violinist and composer Niccolo Paganini incurs the wrath of his diabolical manager while preparing for his debut performance in London, and falling for the daughter of an English impresario

Reaching for the Moon (2013)

IMDb: 7.0
2013

A chronicle of the tragic love affair between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares

Finding Graceland (1998)

IMDb: 6.4
1998

An eccentric drifter claiming to be Elvis Presley hitches a ride with a young man and they find themselves on an adventurous road trip to Memphis

Boy Erased (2018)

IMDb: 6.9
2018

The son of a Baptist preacher unwillingly participates in a church supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents

My Darling Clementine (1946)

IMDb: 7.8
1946

After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family

Bad Reputation (2018)

IMDb: 7.3
2018

Documentary about rock star Joan Jett

DEATH by MetaL (2018)

IMDb: 7.5
2016

The story of the influential American death metal band Death from Orlando, Florida, founded in 1983 by the late guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner

The HalfLife of Genius Physicist Raemer

IMDb: 6.8
2017

Schreiber was one of Oppenheimers brilliant young physicists recruited for the Manhattan Project during World War II He was entrusted to carry the Plutonium core to Tinian Island where hed assemble the atomic bomb known to history