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Displaying Search Results: 34 Best Movies in Genre Biography

Midnight Express ( 1978 )

Genre:   Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  121

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English | Turkish | French

Director:  Alan Parker

Writer:   Oliver Stone | Billy Hayes | William Hoffer

Stars:   Brad Davis | Irene Miracle | Bo Hopkins | Paolo Bonacelli

Plot:    Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

Lenny ( 1974 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama

Runtime:  111

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Bob Fosse

Writer:   Julian Barry | Julian Barry

Stars:   Dustin Hoffman | Valerie Perrine | Jan Miner | Stanley Beck

Plot:    The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.

10 Rillington Place ( 1971 )

Genre:   Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  111

Country:  United Kingdom

Language:  English

Director:  Richard Fleischer

Writer:   Clive Exton | Ludovic Kennedy

Stars:   Richard Attenborough | Judy Geeson | John Hurt | Pat Heywood

Plot:    What happened to the women at 10 Rillington Place? The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.

Henry V ( 1989 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama | History | War

Runtime:  137

Country:  United Kingdom

Language:  English | French | Latin

Director:  Kenneth Branagh

Writer:   William Shakespeare | Kenneth Branagh

Stars:   Derek Jacobi | Kenneth Branagh | Simon Shepherd | James Larkin

Plot:    In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Coal Miner's Daughter ( 1980 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama | Music

Runtime:  124

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Michael Apted

Writer:   Loretta Lynn | George Vecsey | Thomas Rickman

Stars:   Sissy Spacek | Tommy Lee Jones | Levon Helm | Phyllis Boyens

Plot:    The fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s.

A Complete Unknown ( 2024 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama | Music

Runtime:  141

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  James Mangold

Writer:   James Mangold | Jay Cocks | Elijah Wald

Stars:   Timothée Chalamet | Joe Tippett | Edward Norton | Eriko Hatsune

Plot:    In 1961, an unknown 19-year-old Bob Dylan arrives in New York City with his guitar and forges relationships with musical icons on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking performance that reverberates around the world.

Ordinary Angels ( 2024 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama

Runtime:  118

Country:  United States | Canada

Language:  English

Director:  Jon Gunn

Writer:   Meg Tilly | Kelly Fremon Craig | Jeffrey Knight

Stars:   Hilary Swank | Alan Ritchson | Emily Mitchell | Skywalker Hughes

Plot:    Inspired by the incredible true story of a hairdresser who single-handedly rallies an entire community to help a widowed father save the life of his critically ill young daughter.

84 Charing Cross Road ( 1987 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama | Romance

Runtime:  100

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English

Director:  David Hugh Jones

Writer:   Helene Hanff | James Roose-Evans | Hugh Whitemore

Stars:   Anne Bancroft | Anthony Hopkins | Judi Dench | Jean De Baer

Plot:    Based on the true story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books, which later developed into a close, long-distance friendship that evolved over the course of two decades.

Waterloo ( 1970 )

Genre:   Action | Biography | Drama | History | War

Runtime:  134

Country:  Italy | Soviet Union

Language:  English

Director:  Sergey Bondarchuk

Writer:   H.A.L. Craig | Sergey Bondarchuk | Vittorio Bonicelli | Mario Soldati

Stars:   Rod Steiger | Christopher Plummer | Orson Welles | Jack Hawkins

Plot:    Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.

Good Morning, Vietnam ( 1987 )

Genre:   Biography | Comedy | Drama | War

Runtime:  121

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Barry Levinson

Writer:   Mitch Markowitz | Adrian Cronauer

Stars:   Robin Williams | Forest Whitaker | Tom T. Tran | Chintara Sukapatana

Plot:    In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam.

Reds ( 1981 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama | History | Romance

Runtime:  195

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Russian | German

Director:  Warren Beatty

Writer:   Warren Beatty | Trevor Griffiths

Stars:   Warren Beatty | Diane Keaton | Edward Herrmann | Jerzy Kosinski

Plot:    A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.

Born on the Fourth of July ( 1989 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama | War

Runtime:  145

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Oliver Stone

Writer:   Ron Kovic | Oliver Stone | Ron Kovic

Stars:   Tom Cruise | Bryan Larkin | Raymond J. Barry | Caroline Kava

Plot:    The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.

Mask ( 1985 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama

Runtime:  120

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Peter Bogdanovich

Writer:   Anna Hamilton Phelan

Stars:   Cher | Sam Elliott | Eric Stoltz | Estelle Getty

Plot:    A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

Out of Africa ( 1985 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama | Romance

Runtime:  161

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Swahili | Arabic

Director:  Sydney Pollack

Writer:   Karen Blixen | Judith Thurman | Errol Trzebinski | Kurt Luedtke

Stars:   Meryl Streep | Robert Redford | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Michael Kitchen

Plot:    In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.

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