Top Biography Movies


The Top Biography Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Biography List". Lists are calculated daily.

181. Bukowski: Born Into This

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Dullaghan
Actors: Charles Bukowski, Bono, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Harry Dean Stanton, Barbet Schroeder

182. Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Jay
Actors: Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Brian Pillman, Blade Hart, Julie Hart, Stu Hart
Plot: Documentary focusing on the career of pro wrestler Bret Hart & his controversial exit from the WWF.

183. Machine Gun Preacher

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marc Forster
Actors: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Madeline Carroll, Kathy Baker, Barbara Coven
Plot: Sam Childers spent his life as a drug-dealing biker until he found God. He found a way to put his faith and former life to use by taking on the task of coming to the aid of Sudanese children forced to become soldiers.

184. Elizabeth I

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tom Hooper
Actors: Helen Mirren, Hugh Dancy, Toby Jones, Ian McDiarmid, Jeremy Irons, Patrick Malahide
Plot: Acclaimed miniseries about the later years of Queen Elizabeth I.

185. Pawn Sacrifice

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Edward Zwick
Actors: Liev Schreiber, Tobey Maguire, Peter Sarsgaard, Lily Rabe, Michael Stuhlbarg, Robin Weigert
Plot: American chess prodigy Bobby Fisher prepares to go up against legendary Russian Boris Spassky.

186. Miles Ahead

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Don Cheadle
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Don Cheadle, Michael Stuhlbarg, Keith Stanfield, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Austin Lyon
Plot: Explores the life and times and music of the great Miles Davis.

187. La Bamba

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Luis Valdez
Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Joe Pantoliano, Elizabeth Peña, Marshall Crenshaw
Plot: This is the true story Ritchie Valens a young rock & roll singer who tragically died in an air crash at the age of 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Paicoma, California where he in and his family makes a meager living working at plantations to his rise as a star. The film also focus on Richies friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob and his relationship with Donna, his girlfriend.

188. Skin

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Anthony Fabian
Actors: Sam Neill, Sophie Okonedo, Terri Ann Eckstein, Jonathan Pienaar, Alice Krige, Danny Keogh

189. Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicholas D. Wrathall
Actors: Gore Vidal, Joanne Woodward, Christopher Hitchens, David Mamet, Bill Maher, Jay Parini

190. Marshall

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Actors: Dan Stevens, Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Sophia Bush, Sterling K. Brown
Plot: Follows the life of a young Thurgood Marshall, as the first African American Supreme Court Justice, while he works on an early case that will be one of the cornerstones of his career.

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