Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,019 films · Page 12.
Action, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, teen film
In the Dogtown area of Santa Monica/Venice in the mid-1970s, teenagers Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, and Jay Adams enjoy the life of skating and surfing the pier with board designer Skip Engblom and other locals. One day, Skip is given polyure…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Social Drama, crime film, drama film
In 1994, in Long Beach, California, Erin Gruwell has been hired to teach Freshman English for at-risk students at Woodrow Wilson High School, a formerly prestigious school that has declined since voluntary integration had been enforced and…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The film tells the story of John Allen Chau, a missionary who attempted to evangelize to the Sentinelese, an intentionally self-isolated tribe living on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean.
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Biographical picture, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama
In 1966 Southern California, Richard Montañez grows up as a hard-working child with a strict father and supportive grandfather. He meets his future wife Judy in school where he sells burritos to other children. He is arrested at a young ag…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Drama, biographical film, drama film
On the morning of 2 March 1998, 10-year-old Natascha Kampusch walks to school alone and angry after her mother slaps her during an argument. On the way, she is dragged into a van and later wakes up in a cellar. Her captor is 35-year-old te…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Conspiracy Thriller, Detective Film, Historie, Horror, Mysterie, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, thriller film
In 1888, Mary Kelly and a small group of London prostitutes trudge through unrelenting daily misery. Their friend Ann Crook is a former prostitute now married to a wealthy painter named Albert, and she has recently given birth to a daughte…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, Maud Dowley lives with her Aunt Ida and brother Charles in the 1930s. She has severe arthritis and is shocked to learn that Charles has sold their family home, which their parents had left to him. In the meant…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Adventure, Historie, Romantic Drama, biographical film, drama film, historical drama film, romance film
In 1607, Pocahontas, the adventurous daughter of Chief Powhatan, and others from her tribe witness the arrival of three ships sent by English royal charter to found a colony in the New World. Aboard one ship is Captain John Smith, sentence…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film
When 29-year-old London stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in 1938, just weeks after the Munich Agreement was signed, he encounters families in Prague who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria. They are livin…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Carl Brashear leaves his native Kentucky and the life of a sharecropper in 1949 by joining the United States Navy. Carl promised his father that he would never quit and would fight for what he wants. As a crew member of the salvage ship US…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, psychological drama film
In 1977, Maria Callas lives in an apartment in Paris, with her butler Ferruccio and housekeeper Bruna. She is attempting to sing again after a years-long hiatus in her opera career due to her declining health. While Ferruccio insists that …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Biographical picture, Musical, musical film
Biographical picture, Family Drama, Sport, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film, sport film
Wrestlers Ricky and Julia Knight raise their children, Saraya and Zak, to follow in their footsteps; as young adults, the siblings apply to join the WWE, and are evaluated by veteran trainer Hutch Morgan, who agrees to let them try out bef…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Biographical picture, Fairy-Tale Film, Historie, adventure film, comedy film, crossover fiction, fantasy film, horror film, werewolf film
In 1811, Will and Jake Grimm are traveling con artists who use Jake's extensive knowledge of folklore to fool people into believing they exorcise the supernatural, along with their sidekicks Hidlick and Bunst, in French-occupied Germany. I…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Biographical picture, Crime, biographical film, crime thriller film, drama film, trial film
In 1969 Seattle, law student Ted Bundy meets Liz Kendall, a young secretary and divorced mother. The two begin dating, and Ted helps Liz raise her young daughter, Molly. By 1974, news reports announce the recent murders of multiple young w…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film
The film opens backstage at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, on February 26, 1995, right before Tejano superstar Selena plays to a sold-out crowd ("Disco Medley"). In 1961, young Abraham Quintanilla and his doo-wop group “The Dinos" are un…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 2003, Amy Loughren is a single mother and nurse working in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Parkfield Memorial Hospital in New Jersey, who is suffering from cardiomyopathy, unbeknownst to anyone at the hospital, and fears dismissal. Hav…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Biographical picture, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film
In 1958 in Kenya, Robin Cavendish falls ill from polio at age 28, not long after meeting and marrying his wife Diana. Paralysed from the neck down and unable to breathe without the assistance of a respirator, he is given only three months …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film, political film
Moscow, today, Russian politician Andrei Novikov arrives at the home of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, and questions why the Soviet Union fell. Petrovich, who was assigned to surveil U.S. politician Ronald Reagan, discusses the Soviet …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Drama, biographical film, drama film, romance film, trial film
In 1958, Margaret Ulbrich leaves her then-husband Frank and takes her young daughter Jane to North Beach, San Francisco, where she gets a job painting illustrations at a furniture factory. While doing portraits at an outdoor art show, she …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Action, Historie, action film, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, medieval film
In 1304, outside the besieged Stirling Castle, John Comyn, Robert Bruce, and their allies, surrender to Edward I of England and pay him their homage. Afterwards, Bruce spars with the king's son, Edward, Prince of Wales, whom he had known a…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film
In April 2005, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, is called to the Vatican after the death of Pope John Paul II to elect a new pope. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a prominent German prelate, is elected Pope Benedict X…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Biographical picture, Family Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Psychodrama, Social Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film
In 1959, the Clutter family murders take place on their Kansas farm. After reading The New York Times, riveted by the story, Truman Capote calls The New Yorker magazine editor William Shawn to tell him that he plans to document the tragedy…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Coming Of Age, Destiny, biographical film, drama film, fantasy film
In 1903, following the dismal reception of his latest play, Little Mary, James Matthew Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her four young sons (George, Jack, Peter and Michael) in Kensington Gardens. A strong friendship develops among them…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution