BIOGRAPHY Movies and Tvshows - Page 47

Menendez: Blood Brothers (2017)

IMDb: 5.9
2017

This film explores the inner lives and motivation behind the murders of entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty at the hands of their sons Lyle and Erik in 1989

Hostage (1983)

IMDb: 5.4
1983

Horrific true tale set in late 1970s Australia and later West Germany about an abused wife who learns in horror that her sadistic German born husband is actually a fanatical neo Nazi

Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

IMDb: 7.4
2004

Defiant young activists take the womens suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote

Capone (2020)

IMDb: 4.7
2020

The 47 year old Al Capone, after 10 years in prison, starts suffering from dementia and comes to be haunted by his violent past

Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior (2020)

IMDb: 7.6
2020

Tanhaji Malusare, a military chieftain in the army of the Maratha king Shivaji, leads the charge to capture the strategically important Kondhana fort guarded by the army of the fierce Rajput chieftain Udaybhan Rathod

Bad Education (2019)

IMDb: 7.1
2019

The beloved superintendent of New Yorks Roslyn school district and his staff, friends and relatives become the prime suspects in the unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history

Radioactive (2019)

IMDb: 6.2
2019

The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska Curie and her Nobel Prize winning work that changed the world

The Hiding Place (1975)

IMDb: 7.5
1975

During WW2, a Dutch family caught hiding Jews is sent to a concentration camp where their Christian faith helps them endure the hardships

Gour Hari Dastaan: The Freedom File (201

IMDb: 7.4
2015

The film tells the dramatic tale of two generations locked in a see saw battle one extolling values, the other groping in the dark

Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)

IMDb: 6.6
1952

Biopic of Australian swimming champ and entertainer Annette Kellerman After overcoming polio, Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one piece bathing suit is considered indecent

The Gospel According to Matthew (1993)

IMDb: 7.7
1993

The plot follows the birth, preaching, teaching and miracles of Jesus He preached and lived a radical message of Gods Love and was able to heal people of lifelong disabilities and illnesses and was able to command natural phenomena

The Conqueror (1956)

IMDb: 3.7
1956

Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan

The Broken Tower (2011)

IMDb: 5.0
2011

A biography of American poet Hart Crane who committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba

Zappa (2020)

IMDb: 7.6
2020

An in depth look into the life and work of musician Frank Zappa

Surviving Home (2017)

IMDb: 8.1
2017

They survived war, yet over the years, U S military veterans from four generations must find their own unique bridge of connection in order to survive and thrive back home

Farinelli (1994)

IMDb: 6.8
1994

The story of castrato opera singer Carlo Broschi, who enthralled 18th century European audiences under his stage name Farinelli

Joan the Maid 1: The Battles (1994)

IMDb: 7.2
1994

For the first installment of his ambitious yet restrained two part study, director and co screenwriter Jacques Rivette surveys the revelatory period where Joan met with royalty, joined the army, and led the French into battle against the English As J

Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)

IMDb: 6.5
1990

Swedish national Raoul Wallenberg, newcomer to politics and international machinations, travels to German occupied Budapest during WWII in order to effectively intervene in the fate of trapped Hungarian Jews, by providing them with s

Promise at Dawn (2017)

IMDb: 7.2
2017

From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous Frenc

Val (2021)

IMDb: 7.7
2021

Documentary centering on the daily life of actor Val Kilmer featuring never before seen footage spanning 40 years

La mort de Louis XIV (2016)

IMDb: 6.8
2016

Upon returning from a hunting expedition, King Louis XIV feels a sharp pain in his leg He begins to die, surrounded by loyal followers in the royal chambers

No Man of God (2021)

IMDb: 6.4
2021

In 1980, Ted Bundy was sentenced to death by electrocution In the years that followed, he agreed to disclose the details of his crimes, but only to one man During the early days of the agency s criminal profiling unit, FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier met w

Into Thin Air Death on Everest (1997)

IMDb: 5.7
1997

A dramatization of the disastrous 1996 Mount Everest expeditions

Tick, Tick Boom (2021)

IMDb: 7.5
2021

On the cusp of his 30th birthday, a promising young theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City

Respectable The Mary Millington Story (2

IMDb: 6.9
2016

Documentary chronicling the extraordinary life and tragic death of Mary Millington Britains most famous pornographic actress of the 1970s

An Impossible Love (2018)

IMDb: 7.1
2018

In the late 1950s in Chateauroux, France, Rachel, a modest office worker, meets Philippe, a brilliant young man born to a bourgeois family This brief but passionate connection results in the birth of a daughter, Chantal Philippe re

Padre Padrone (1977)

IMDb: 7.4
1977

The son of a shepherd embarks in the quest of emancipating himself from a tough lifestyle that his condition and his father force on him

Manaslu Berg der Seelen (2018)

IMDb: 7.4
2018

The great successes and tragedies in the life and work of Hans Kammerlander, the renowned mountaineer

Man of God (2021)

IMDb: 7.4
2021

Exiled unjustly, convicted without trial, slandered without cause Man of God depicts the trials and tribulations of Saint Nektarios of Aegina, as he bears the unjust hatred of his enemies while preaching the Word of God

Little Richard (2000)

IMDb: 6.6
2000

The story of Little Richard Penniman, from his poor Southern upbringing to dealing with the trials and tribulations of being a black singer in the 1950s, to his born again phase and brief retirement from rock and roll

The Road to Coronation Street (2010)

IMDb: 7.9
2010

The story of how the 22 year old Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street 1960

Prizefighter The Life of Jem Belcher (20

IMDb: 5.9
2022

At the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England

Broad Peak (2022)

IMDb: 6.0
2022

After climbing Broad Peak mountain, Maciej Berbeka learns his journey to the summit is incomplete 25 years later, he sets out to finish what he started

No Ordinary Man (2020)

IMDb: 6.7
2020

No Ordinary Man is an in depth look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton Complicated, beautiful and historically unrivaled, this groundbreaking film shows what is possible when a community collaborates to h

Filiberto (2017)

IMDb: 7.7
2017

The deeds of a professional musician who abandons his trumpet and family to live the clandestine life of an armed revolutionary for Puerto Rican independence

Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer

IMDb: 6.9
2021

In 1905, French seminarian Bruno Reidel is found guilty of murdering a child At the request of the doctors observing him, he writes his memoirs to explain his action