Top Biography Movies


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

401. Message, The ( Mohammed: Messenger of God )

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Moustapha Akkad
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara, Johnny Sekka, Michael Forest, Damien Thomas

402. Phil Spector

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Mamet
Actors: Al Pacino, Helen Mirren, Jeffrey Tambor, Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Pirruccello, James Tolkan
Plot: Explores the relationship of music legend Phil Spector and his defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden while he is on trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson.

403. Sacco & Vanzetti ( Sacco e Vanzetti )

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Giuliano Montaldo
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack, Rosanna Fratello, Geoffrey Keen, Milo O'Shea
Plot: The story is based on the events surrounding the trial and judicial execution of Nicola
Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti , two anarchists of Italian origin, who were sentenced to
death by a United States court in the 1920s

404. The Crash Reel

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lucy Walker
Actors: Shaun White, Kevin Pearce, Scotty Lago, Jake Burton, Luke Mitrani, Jack Mitrani

405. Maria by Callas

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Tom Volf
Actors: Maria Callas, Fanny Ardant, Joyce DiDonato, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Aristotle Onassis
Plot: A deeply personal look into the life of Greek-American opera singer Maria
Callas as told in her own words.

406. Remembering Gene Wilder

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ron Frank
Actors: Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks, Alan Alda, Carol Kane, Ben Mankiewicz, Harry Connick Jr.

407. The Left Handed Gun

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Arthur Penn
Actors: Paul Newman, Lita Milan, John Dehner, James Best, James Congdon, Hurd Hatfield

408. Denial

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mick Jackson
Actors: Rachel Weisz, Andrew Scott, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Gatiss, Harriet Walter
Plot: Denial follows the real-life case between writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt and David Irving, who sues Lipstadt for libel when she accuses him of being a Holocaust denier. In the English legal system the burden of proof falls on the accused, thus Lipstadt and her team must prove the Holocaust actually happened in a court of law.

409. Vincent & Theo

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Adrian Brine, Jean-François Perrier, Yves Dangerfield, Hans Kesting

410. Triumph of the Spirit

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert M. Young
Actors: Willem Dafoe, Edward James Olmos, Robert Loggia, Wendy Gazelle, Kelly Wolf, Costas Mandylor

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