Top Biography Movies


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

371. Kill Your Darlings

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Krokidas
Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster, David Cross, Elizabeth Olsen
Plot: It's 1944 and the biggest name of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg,
Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, find themselves brought together by a
murder.

372. Genius

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Michael Grandage
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Colin Firth, Guy Pearce, Dominic West, Laura Linney
Plot: Follows the life of Max Perkins as his time as book editor at Scribner where he was in charge of approving books from the likes of Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

373. The Smashing Machine

Year of Release: 2025
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Benny Safdie
Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten, Oleksandr Usyk, Marcus Aurelio
Plot: At the dawn of mixed-martial arts and the UFC, Mark Kerr aka The Smashing
Machine, was a fixture in the fledgling sport. But outside of the ring -
or octagon - his life held far more drama as he struggled with his
relationships, handling pain eventually opioid addiction.

374. Air Guitar Nation

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alexandra Lipsitz
Actors: Peter Cilella, Dan Crane, David S. Jung, Angela Shelton, Mark Teich, Zac Munro

375. Final Portrait

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stanley Tucci
Actors: Armie Hammer, Geoffrey Rush, Clémence Poésy, Tony Shalhoub, James Faulkner, Sylvie Testud
Plot: On a short trip to Paris in 1964, author and art connoisseur James Lord finds himself agreeing to sit for a portrait for his friend Alberto Giacometti. Told that it will only take a few days, and intrigued by the process, Lord agrees - opening the door to the insight, beauty, chaos, frustration and genius of the artistic endeavor.

376. Skin

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guy Nattiv
Actors: Jamie Bell, Vera Farmiga, Mike Colter, Danielle Macdonald, Jaime Ray Newman, Mary Stuart Masterson

377. Promised Land, The ( Bastarden )

Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Actors: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg, Melina Hagberg, Kristine Kujath Thorp, Gustav Lindh

378. Shut Up and Sing

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck
Actors: Natalie Maines, Emily Robison, Martie Maguire, Darlene Kegan, Adrian Pasdar, Rick Rubin
Plot: "Shut Up & Sing" travels with the Dixie Chicks, from the peak of their popularity as the national-anthem-singing darlings of country music and top-selling female recording artists of all time, through...( read more ) the now infamous anti-Bush comment made by the group's lead singer in 2003. The film follows the lives and careers of the Dixie Chicks over a period of three years during which they were under political attack and received death threats, while continuing to live their lives, have children, and of course make music. The film ultimately presents who the Dixie Chicks are as women, public figures, and musicians.

379. Anthropoid

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sean Ellis
Actors: Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Harry Lloyd, Toby Jones, Charlotte Le Bon, Bill Milner
Plot: Based on the true story behind Operation Anthropoid during WWII. The third in line to lead the Third Reich behind Hitelr and Himmer was SS General Reinhard Heydrich. The architect behind the Final Solution was also the commander of the brutal occupying force in Czechoslovakia. Allied soldiers, witnessing his work first hand, come up with a plot to assassinate Heydrich.

380. Hitler: The Rise of Evil

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Christian Duguay
Actors: Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Jena Malone, Julianna Margulies, Matthew Modine, Liev Schreiber
Plot: A TV movie based on the life of the infamous dictator, Adolf Hitler.

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