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34 Best Movies in Genre Biography
12th Fail ( 2023 )
Genre: Biography | Drama
Runtime: 147
Country: India
Language: Hindi
Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Writer: Vidhu Vinod Chopra | Jaskunwar Kohli | Anurag Pathak | Aayush Saxena
Stars: Vikrant Massey | Medha Shankr | Anant Joshi | Anshuman Pushkar
Plot: The real-life story of IPS Officer Manoj Kumar Sharma and IRS Officer Shraddha Joshi.
Amadeus ( 1984 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | Music
Runtime: 160
Country: United States | France
Language: English | Italian | Latin
Director: Milos Forman
Writer: Peter Shaffer | Peter Shaffer | Zdenek Mahler
Stars: F. Murray Abraham | Tom Hulce | Elizabeth Berridge | Roy Dotrice
Plot: The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Ainda Estou Aqui ( 2024 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Runtime: 137
Country: Brazil | France
Language: Portuguese | French
Director: Walter Salles
Writer: Murilo Hauser | Heitor Lorega | Marcelo Rubens Paiva
Stars: Fernanda Torres | Fernanda Montenegro | Selton Mello | Valentina Herszage
Plot: A woman married to a former politician during the military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.
Oppenheimer ( 2023 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Runtime: 180
Country: United States | United Kingdom
Language: English | German | Italian
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Christopher Nolan | Kai Bird | Martin Sherwin
Stars: Cillian Murphy | Emily Blunt | Robert Downey Jr. | Alden Ehrenreich
Plot: A dramatization of the life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who had a large hand in the development of the atomic bombs that brought an end to World War II.
The Elephant Man ( 1980 )
Genre: Biography | Drama
Runtime: 124
Country: United States | United Kingdom
Language: English | French
Director: David Lynch
Writer: Christopher De Vore | Eric Bergren | David Lynch | Frederick Treves | Ashley Montagu
Stars: Anthony Hopkins | John Hurt | Anne Bancroft | John Gielgud
Plot: 'A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.'
The Message ( 1976 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | War
Runtime: 177
Country: Lebanon | Libya | Kuwait
Language: Arabic | English
Director: Moustapha Akkad
Writer: H.A.L. Craig | Abdel Hamid Gouda El Sahhar | Tewfik El-Hakim | A.B. Rahman El-Sharkawi | Mohammad Ali Maher
Stars: Anthony Quinn | Irene Papas | Michael Ansara | Johnny Sekka
Plot: Historical fresco recounting the life and times of the Prophet Mohammed, the last of the Abrahamic religion, in the sense that, according to Islam, he completed and sealed the monotheistic revelation made to Abraham.
Raging Bull ( 1980 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | Sport
Runtime: 129
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Jake LaMotta | Joseph Carter | Peter Savage | Paul Schrader | Mardik Martin
Stars: Robert De Niro | Cathy Moriarty | Joe Pesci | Frank Vincent
Plot: The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 )
Genre: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Runtime: 125
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Sidney Lumet
Writer: Frank Pierson | P.F. Kluge | Thomas Moore
Stars: Penelope Allen | Sully Boyar | John Cazale | Beulah Garrick
Plot: Three amateur robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice, simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Papillon ( 1973 )
Genre: Biography | Crime | Drama
Runtime: 151
Country: France | United States
Language: English | Spanish
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Writer: Dalton Trumbo | Lorenzo Semple Jr. | Henri Charrière | William Goldman
Stars: Steve McQueen | Dustin Hoffman | Victor Jory | Don Gordon
Plot: A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Gandhi ( 1982 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Runtime: 191
Country: United Kingdom | India
Language: English | Hindi
Director: Richard Attenborough
Writer: John Briley
Stars: Ben Kingsley | Rohini Hattangadi | Roshan Seth | Candice Bergen
Plot: The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Patton ( 1970 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | War
Runtime: 172
Country: United States
Language: English | German | French
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola | Edmund H. North | Francis Ford Coppola | Edmund H. North | Ladislas Farago | Omar N. Bradley
Stars: George C. Scott | Karl Malden | Stephen Young | Michael Strong
Plot: The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
Glory ( 1989 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | War
Runtime: 122
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Edward Zwick
Writer: Kevin Jarre | Lincoln Kirstein | Peter Burchard | Robert Gould Shaw
Stars: Matthew Broderick | Denzel Washington | Cary Elwes | Morgan Freeman
Plot: Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown ( 1989 )
Genre: Biography | Drama
Runtime: 103
Country: Ireland | United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: Jim Sheridan
Writer: Shane Connaughton | Jim Sheridan | Christy Brown
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis | Brenda Fricker | Alison Whelan | Kirsten Sheridan
Plot: Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
The Killing Fields ( 1984 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | War
Runtime: 141
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English | French | Central Khmer
Director: Roland Joffé
Writer: Bruce Robinson
Stars: Sam Waterston | Haing S. Ngor | John Malkovich | Julian Sands
Plot: A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during Pol Pot's bloody Year Zero cleansing campaign.
The Right Stuff ( 1983 )
Genre: Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
Runtime: 193
Country: United States
Language: English | Russian | Spanish
Director: Philip Kaufman
Writer: Philip Kaufman | Tom Wolfe
Stars: Sam Shepard | Scott Glenn | Ed Harris | Dennis Quaid
Plot: The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.
Serpico ( 1973 )
Genre: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Runtime: 130
Country: United States | Italy
Language: English | Italian | Spanish
Director: Sidney Lumet
Writer: Peter Maas | Waldo Salt | Norman Wexler
Stars: Al Pacino | John Randolph | Jack Kehoe | Biff McGuire
Plot: An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
The Last Emperor ( 1987 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Runtime: 163
Country: China | Italy | United Kingdom
Language: English | Mandarin | Japanese
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Writer: Enzo Ungari | Mark Peploe | Bernardo Bertolucci | Puyi
Stars: John Lone | Joan Chen | Peter O'Toole | Ruocheng Ying
Plot: Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatization of China's eleventh and final monarch of the Qing dynasty: Emperor Puyi.
Missing ( 1982 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 122
Country: United States | Mexico
Language: English | Spanish | French
Director: Costa-Gavras
Writer: Costa-Gavras | Donald E. Stewart | Thomas Hauser | John Nichols
Stars: Jack Lemmon | Sissy Spacek | Melanie Mayron | John Shea
Plot: "When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him."
The Iron Claw ( 2023 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | Sport
Runtime: 132
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English
Director: Sean Durkin
Writer: Sean Durkin
Stars: Holt McCallany | Maura Tierney | Grady Wilson | Valentine Newcomer
Plot: The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s.
Escape from Alcatraz ( 1979 )
Genre: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Runtime: 112
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Don Siegel
Writer: J. Campbell Bruce | Richard Tuggle
Stars: Clint Eastwood | Patrick McGoohan | Roberts Blossom | Jack Thibeau
Plot: Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possibly successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.