Genre: Biography
1501 content found
One Night with the King 2006

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Tiffany Dupont, Luke Goss, John Noble

6.0 IMDB Rating 6,721 Views
Three Identical Strangers 2018

In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they're triplets who were separated at birth. Then they discover why.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Drama

Stars: Silvi Alzetta-Reali, Eddy Galland, Ron Guttman

7,8 IMDB Rating 9,487 Views
Unabomber: In His Own Words 2020

The beginning of the Unabomber's campaign of terror from 1978 to 1985; a look into his childhood to discover what might have turned the young mathematical genius with few friends, Ted Kaczynski, into a sociopathic terrorist.

Category: Biography, Crime, Documentary

Stars: Joel Moss, Kevin Fagan, David Kaczynski, Peter Vronsky

7.2 IMDB Rating 5,410 Views
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women 2017

detail the unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941. Marston was in a polyamorous relationship with his wife Elizabeth, a psychologist and inventor in her own right, and Olive Byrne, a former student who became an academic. This relationship was key to the creation of Wonder Woman, as Elizabeth and Olive's feminist ideals were ingrained in the character from her creation. Marston died of skin cancer in 1947, but Elizabeth and Olive remained a couple and raised their and Marston's children together. The film is said to focus on how Marston dealt with the controversy surrounding Wonder Woman's creation.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Luke Evans,Rebecca Hall,Bella Heathcote,Connie Britton

7.2 IMDB Rating 9,891 Views
The Disaster Artist 2017

When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Dave Franco,James Franco,Seth Rogen,Ari Graynor

8.2 IMDB Rating 10,075 Views
Agora 2009

Alexandria, 391 AD: Hypatia teaches astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy. Her student Orestes is in love with her, as is Davus, her personal slave. As the city's Christians, led by Ammonius and Cyril, gain political power, the institutions of learning may crumble along with the governance of slavery. Jump ahead 20 years: Orestes, the city's prefect, has an uneasy peace with Christians, led by Cyril. A group from the newly empowered Christians has now taken to enforce their cultural hegemony zealously; first they see the Jews as their obstacle, then nonbelievers. Hypatia has no interest in faith; she's concerned about the movement of celestial bodies and "the brotherhood of all". Although her former slave doesn't see it that way.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Stars: Rachel Weisz,Max Minghella,Oscar Isaac,Ashraf Barhom

7.2 IMDB Rating 7,296 Views
Kill the Irishman 2011

The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken, Vincent D'Onofrio

7.0 IMDB Rating 8,368 Views
The Great Debaters 2007

A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Kimberly Elise

7.5 IMDB Rating 6,267 Views
Darkest Hour 2017

In May 1940, the fate of Western Europe hangs on British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean a humiliating defeat for Britain and its empire.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas

7.4 IMDB Rating 10,172 Views
Glory Road 2006

In 1965, the coach of the high school girl basketball team Don Haskins is invited by the Texas Western Miners to be their coach. Despite the lack of budget, Haskins sees the chance to dispute the NCAA and moves with his wife and children to the college dormitory. He recruits seven talented and rejected black players to play with five Caucasian players and formed a legendary team that won the 1966 national championship against the powerful Kentucky.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Josh Lucas,Derek Luke,Austin Nichols,Jon Voight

7.2 IMDB Rating 8,119 Views
The Jesus Film Project – The Story of Jesus – According to the Gospel of Luke 1979

Filmed on location in Israel at authentic biblical sites, this inspirational drama and commercial success retells the life of Christ.

Category: Biography, Drama, Family

Stars: Brian Deacon, Rivka Neuman, Alexander Scourby

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,481 Views
Medici 2016–2019

A political family drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century. Cosimo de Medici finds himself at the helm of his banking dynasty when his father, Giovanni, dies suddenly.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Daniel Sharman, Alessandra Mastronardi, Synnove Karlsen

7.9 IMDB Rating 28,620 Views
Cornelis 2010

Cornelis is the unique chronicle about one of Sweden's greatest music legends - Cornelis Vreeswijk. An honest and gripping account of an exceptionally talented, but self-destructive artist's intense life both on and behind the stage. A man who during his whole life was searching for love and confirmation.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Hans Erik Dyvik Husby,Malin Crépin,Helena Af Sandeberg,David Dencik

6.3 IMDB Rating 7,975 Views
Charlie Wilson’s War 2007

In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Houston Socialite Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gustav "Gust" Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can be had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Tom Hanks, Amy Adams, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman

7.1 IMDB Rating 7,279 Views
Nowhere Boy 2009

The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth of The Beatles.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Threlfall, Josh Bolt

7.1 IMDB Rating 7,378 Views
The Post 2017

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Meryl Streep,Tom Hanks,Sarah Paulson,Bob Odenkirk

7.5 IMDB Rating 9,725 Views
Schumacher 2021

Documentary on the life of seven time Formula 1 world champion driver Michael Schumacher.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Sport

Stars: Michael Schumacher, Jean Todt, Sebastian Vettel

3,123 Views
La Bamba 1987

This is the true story of Ritchie Valens, a young rock and roll singer who tragically died in a plane crash at age 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Pacoima, California where he and his family make a meager living working on farms to his rise as a star. The film also focuses on Ritchie's friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob Morales and his relationship with Donna Ludwig, his girlfriend.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips,Esai Morales,Rosanna DeSoto,Elizabeth Peña

6.8 IMDB Rating 6,949 Views
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes 2022

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to his gruesome crimes in unguarded interviews, offering an unsettling view into a disturbed mind.

Category: Biography, Crime, Documentary

Stars: Jeffrey Dahmer

7.6 IMDB Rating 4,580 Views
Underbelly: Vanishing Act 2022

The story of a woman who disappeared after swindling over $40 million from her most trusted clients. This is the story of Melissa Caddick.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Kate Atkinson, Maya Stange, Jerome Velinsky

6.1 IMDB Rating 3,820 Views