BIOGRAPHY Movies and Tvshows - Page 9

Gangsters Americas Most Evil (2012-)

IMDb: 7.5
2012–

Gangsters Americas Most Evil is a cinematic documentary series that explores the rise and fall of some of the most nefarious and notorious criminals brought to justice by the United States government

The Ron Clark Story (2006)

IMDb: 7.5
2006

A small town teacher relocates to one of the toughest classrooms in the country

The Young Karl Marx (2017)

IMDb: 6.6
2017

The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London

Jhund (2022)

IMDb: 7.4
2022

Based on the life of Vijay Barse, a retired sports teacher who founded an NGO called Slum Soccer He managed to rehabilitate street kids by keeping them off drugs and crime by turning them into soccer players and building a whole

The Nurse (2023)

IMDb: 6.9
2023

A new nurse at a hospital begins to suspect that her colleagues desire for attention might be tied to a series of patient deaths

The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simp

IMDb: 7.5
2024

Nicole Brown Simpsons sisters and closest friends break their silence about her murder and O J Simpsons controversial trial, aiming to shed light on the truth

The Real Peaky Blinders (2022)

IMDb: N/A
2022

A historical presentation of the gang movements and organized crime from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century in England

Biggest Heist Ever (2024)

IMDb: N/A
2024

Morgan, a hipster rapper otherwise known as Razzlekhan and Forbes contributor, and her husband Lichtenstein were arrested after being accused of conspiring to launder nearly 120,000 Bitcoin

Conviction (2010)

IMDb: 7.2
2010

A working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders

Cadillac Records (2008)

IMDb: 7.0
2008

Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists

Frankie & Alice (2010)

IMDb: 6.5
2010

A drama centered on a go go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her

Argo (2012)

IMDb: 7.7
2012

Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U S hostage crisis in Iran in 1979

Unbroken 2014

IMDb: 7.2
2014

After a near fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before hes caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner of war camp

The Imitation Game (2014)

IMDb: 8.0
2014

During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians

The Lion in Winter (1968)

IMDb: 7.9
1968

1183 A D King Henry IIs three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he wont commit to a choice They and his wife variously plot to force him

Dangerous Beauty (1998)

IMDb: 7.2
1998

A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft

Queen of the Desert (2015)

IMDb: 5.7
2015

A chronicle of Gertrude Bells life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attache for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century

Eddie the Eagle (2016)

IMDb: 7.4
2015

The story of Eddie Edwards, the notoriously tenacious British underdog ski jumper who charmed the world at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Three Girls (2017)

IMDb: 8.2
2017

Based on three young girls who were groomed, sexually abused and trafficked by a group of men in Rochdale and of the failure of the authorities to do anything about it

Loving Vincent (2017)

IMDb: 7.8
2017

In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh Robert Gulaczyk to deliver the troubled artists final letter and ends up investigating his final days there

Caligula and Messalina (1981)

IMDb: 3.6
1981

Seductive Messalina will stop at nothing to become the most powerful woman in Rome

Mary Shelley (2017)

IMDb: 6.5
2017

Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein

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

Temple Grandin (2010)

IMDb: 8.3
2010

A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry

Borgia (20112014)

IMDb: 7.8
2011–2014

Story of the rise and the fall of the Renaissance dynasty

American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story

IMDb: 7.5
2017

The Amazon Original Series draws from unprecedented access to more than 17,000 hours of footage and over 2,600 scrapbooks from Hefners personal archives, chronicling the life of an American icon and the history of the brand he creat

Bruce Lee A Warriors Journey (2000)

IMDb: 8.0
2000

A documentary showing the life of Bruce Lee up close

Psycho The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein (2023-)

IMDb: 5.8
2023–

Follows grave robber and serial killer Ed Gein, better known as The Ghoul of Plainfield and The Mad Butcher, from whose crimes such iconic films as Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs have e

Dovlatov (2018)

IMDb: 6.4
2018

The film actions unfold in 1971, telling about the four days of life of famous writer Sergei Dovlatov The film raises the eternal issue of the Russian and European culture the issue of moral choice

Midas Man (2024)

IMDb: 7.0
2024

On Thursday 9 November 1961, a man named Brian descended the stairs to a cellar in Liverpool and changed the world forever

Running Brave (1983)

IMDb: 6.7
1983

The story of Billy Mills, the American Indian who came from obscurity to win the 10,000 meter long distance foot race in the Tokyo Olympics in 1964

Glory 1989

IMDb: 7.8
1989

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U S Civil Wars first all black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates

Whitey USA v. James J. Bulger (2014)

IMDb: 6.8
2014

A look at James Whitey Bulger, one of the most infamous criminals in American history

Ali (2001)

IMDb: 6.8
2001

A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974

A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story

IMDb: 7.9
1989

A victim of domestic violence winds up in an ongoing struggle to get the police to take her seriously, until the abuse escalates to the worst extreme

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

IMDb: 7.8
2014

U K gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984