191. Lady Sings the Blues
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Actors: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan, Paul Hampton, Sid Melton
192. Che ( Che Part 1, Che Part 2 )
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Joaquim de Almeida, Franka Potente
Plot: Follows the story of Latin American revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, his band of Cuban exhiles (including Fidel Castro) and how they took over the island nation.
193. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Clooney
Actors: Dick Clark, Sam Rockwell, Michelle Sweeney, Drew Barrymore, Michael Cera, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Plot: Chuck Barris is well-known for creating hit game shows - The Dating Game
and The Gong Show amongst others, but that was just a cover for his real
job - a CIA assassin carrying out covert missions for the government... or
so he would have you believe.
194. The Iron Claw
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Sport
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sean Durkin
Actors: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney, Holt McCallany, Lily James
195. Elvis
Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Actors: Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Kodi Smit-McPhee, David Wenham, Dacre Montgomery
Plot: Biopic of of one of rock n roll's greatest legends, Elvis Presley.
196. Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jan Harlan
Actors: Tom Cruise, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Paul Mazursky, Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen
Plot: Stanley Kubrick's frequent collaborator and brother-in-law, Jan Harlan, offers a fascinating inside look at the genius behind such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket and Dr. Strangelove.
197. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rob Cohen
Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, Robert Wagner, Michael Learned, Nancy Kwan, Ric Young
Plot: The life and times of Bruce Lee: a teenage, Chinese boy moves to the U.S.
and opens his own martial arts studio. Then, he becomes a movie star.
198. Carlos
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Olivier Assayas
Actors: Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo, Ahmad Kaabour, Talal El-Jordi, Juana Acosta
Plot: Mini-series based on the life of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez and idealist and sociopath who founded a terrorist organization and went on to raid the 1975 OPEC meeting.
199. The Life of Emile Zola
Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: William Dieterle
Actors: Paul Muni, Gloria Holden, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Louis Calhern
Plot: The biography of French writer Emile Zola who was a muckraker in the
1860's about anti-semitism.
200. Frances
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Graeme Clifford
Actors: Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard, Bart Burns, James Karen, Lane Smith
Plot: The story of Francis Farmer as she goes from an actress to the mental
asylum.
