Origin: United States
Genre: Biography
324 content found
J. Edgar 2011

J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly fifty years, looks back on his professional and personal life.

Category: Biography, Drama, romance, Romantic

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts

6.5 IMDB Rating 4,881 Views
Pain & Gain 2013

A trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong.

Category: Action, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie

6.4 IMDB Rating 12,416 Views
8 Seconds 1994

This movie chronicles the life of Lane Frost, 1987 PRCA Bull Riding World Champion, his marriage and his friendships with Tuff Hedeman (three-time World Champion) and Cody Lambert.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Luke Perry, Stephen Baldwin, James Rebhorn

6.6 IMDB Rating 1,611 Views
The Curious Case of Natalia Grace 2023–2024

This docuseries offers extraordinary access and exclusive insight into a world-renowned mystery. Initially assumed to be a 6-year-old Ukrainian orphan with a rare bone growth disorder she was actually a fully grown adult.

Category: Biography, Crime, Documentary, Mystery

Stars: Dan Cody, Beth Karas, Michael Barnett

6.8 IMDB Rating 1,634 Views
Escape at Dannemora 2018

A female prison employee in upstate New York becomes romantically involved with a pair of inmates and helps them escape.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano

7.9 IMDB Rating 28,944 Views
Confirmation 2016

Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States Supreme Court is called into question when Anita Hill, a former colleague, testifies that he sexually harassed her.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Kerry Washington, Wendell Pierce, Greg Kinnear

6.8 IMDB Rating 4,479 Views
Chasing Mavericks 2012

When young Jay Moriarity discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to train him to survive it.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Jonny Weston, Gerard Butler, Elisabeth Shue

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,427 Views
Son Of The South 2020

The true story of one young white Southerner in the Summer of 1961, caught in a place and time where he had to choose which side he was on.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Lucas Till, Jim Klock, Michael Sirow

6.2 IMDB Rating 1,734 Views
Takedown 2000

This film is based on the story of the capture of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Skeet Ulrich, Russell Wong, Angela Featherstone

6.2 IMDB Rating 3,599 Views
Kill the Messenger 2014

Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims

6.9 IMDB Rating 5,293 Views
The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996

The story of controversial pornography publisher Larry Flynt, and how he became a defender of free speech.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton

7.3 IMDB Rating 4,369 Views
The Philadelphia Experiment 1984

A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy "invisibility" experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors forty years into the future.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Stars: Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas

6.1 IMDB Rating 4,008 Views
I Can Only Imagine 2018

The inspiring and unknown true story behind MercyMe's beloved, chart topping song that brings ultimate hope to so many is a gripping reminder of the power of true forgiveness.

Category: Biography, Drama, Family

Stars: John Michael Finley, Madeline Carroll, Dennis Quaid

7.3 IMDB Rating 6,822 Views
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind 2020

Exploring Natalie Wood's life and career through the unique perspective of her daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner, and others who knew her best.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Natalie Wood, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Julie Salamon

7.1 IMDB Rating 2,984 Views
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese 2019

In an alchemic mix of fact and fantasy, Martin Scorsese looks back at Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour and a country ripe for reinvention.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith

7.5 IMDB Rating 4,685 Views
Rosewater 2014

Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas

6.6 IMDB Rating 3,176 Views
John Adams 2008

The life of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nation's first 50 years.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, John Dossett

8.4 IMDB Rating 8,551 Views
The Glass Castle 2017

A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,952 Views
Georgetown 2019

Ulrich Mott, an ambitious social climber, marries a wealthy widow in Washington D.C. in order to mix with powerful political players.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Christoph Waltz, Vanessa Redgrave, Annette Bening

6.2 IMDB Rating 3,525 Views
Cleveland Abduction 2015

A single mother, who becomes the first victim of kidnapper Ariel Castro, finds herself trapped in his home for 11 years, where she eventually becomes a friend and sister to two other women who are taken captive by Castro.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Taryn Manning, Raymond Cruz, Katie Sarife

6.6 IMDB Rating 11,072 Views