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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 19.

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

Biographical picture, biographical film, comedy drama

In 1944, Florence Foster Jenkins is a New York City socialite heiress who founded the Verdi Club to celebrate her love of music. St. Clair Bayfield, a British Shakespearean actor, is her manager and long-time companion.

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The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)

Drama, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film

Set mainly in 1913, the film is about Francis Ouimet, the first amateur to win the U.S. Open. Amateur golf in that era was a sport only for the wealthy, and Francis came from an Irish and French-Canadian immigrant family that was part of t…

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The Wizard of Lies (2017)

Biographical picture, Crime, biographical film, drama film

Bernard Madoff founded his company on Wall Street in the early 1960s, which, over time, turned into one of the largest investment funds. Madoff had enjoyed a reputation as a successful and influential financier, broker, financial consultan…

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Behind the Candelabra (2013)

Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, romance film

In 1977, 18-year-old Scott Thorson, who works as an animal trainer for films, meets Bob Black, a Hollywood producer, in a gay bar in Los Angeles. At Black's urging, he leaves his adopted home in search of better-paying work. Black introduc…

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Devil's Knot (2013)

Biographical picture, Justice Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film, satanic film

In 1993, in the working class and deeply religious community of West Memphis, Arkansas, three eight-year-old boys – Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore – go missing from their neighborhood. After an extensive search, their …

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Deliver Us from Evil (2014)

Horror, biographical film, crime film, horror film, satanic film

In Iraq in 2010, a four-man Marine team is closing in on a firefight across an open desert area. One of the Marines takes a round to the head. The other three close in on the firefight.

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Primary Colors (1998)

Political Drama, biographical film, comedy film, crime film, drama film

Henry Burton, a young political idealist and grandson of a civil rights leader, is recruited to join the campaign of Jack Stanton, a charismatic Southern governor trying to win the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United St…

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Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)

Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film

In 1945, 13-year-old Loretta Webb is one of eight children of Ted Webb, a Van Lear coal miner raising a family with his wife in the midst of grinding poverty in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky (pronounced by locals as "Butcher Holler"). In 1948, …

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Soldier's Girl (2003)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, romance film

Barry is a private with the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army, stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, while Calpernia works as a showgirl at a transgender revue in Nashville, Tennessee. Barry's roommate Justin Fisher brings …

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Reversal of Fortune (1990)

Biographical picture, Mysterie, biographical film, drama film, mystery film, trial film

Sunny von Bülow, a millionaire heiress and socialite, lies in a hospital bed in a persistent vegetative state after falling into a coma from diabetic shock on December 21, 1980. She had previously fallen into a coma on December 26, 1979, b…

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The Hill (2023)

Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film

In a small Texan town, a young Rickey Hill wears leg braces due to a degenerative spinal disease, but enjoys playing baseball and is regarded as a batting prodigy. James, his strict father and a pastor, dissuades Rickey from the sport, wan…

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At Eternity's Gate (2018)

Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film

Vincent van Gogh seems to always be in artistic and emotional exhaustion. He is occasionally enraptured by his aesthetic responses to the landscapes around Arles; he renders them in oil on canvas or in a sketch pad using his own style of c…

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Love & Mercy (2014)

Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film

The film alternates between the 1960s and the 1980s. The early timeline begins with a young Brian Wilson suffering a panic attack on an airplane. After recovering, Brian convinces his brothers Carl and Dennis to let him quit touring with t…

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The Runaways (2010)

Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Musical, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film, musical film, teen film

Cherie Currie is a teenager in Los Angeles who desperately wants to be a rock star. She idolizes David Bowie and cuts her hair and does make-up so she will resemble Bowie's character Aladdin Sane. At her high school talent show, she lip sy…

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The Informant! (2009)

Criminal Comedy Film, Political Thriller, comedy film, crime film, drama film

Mark Whitacre, a rising star at the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) office in Decatur, Illinois, during the early 1990s, blows the whistle on the company's price-fixing tactics at the urging of his wife Ginger. One night in November 1992, Whi…

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Honey Boy (2019)

Drama, biographical film, drama film

In 2005, Otis Lort is a movie star who suffers from alcoholism. He crashes his car, gets into a drunken altercation with the police and is forced to go into rehabilitation. Dr.

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Julia (1977)

Drama, biographical film, drama film

Young Lillian Hellman and her friend Julia, who is being raised by her wealthy grandparents in the United States, enjoy a close friendship from childhood into late adolescence. Later, Julia studies medicine at the University of Oxford and …

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Notorious (2009)

Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, hood film, musical film

In 1997, Biggie Smalls is shot and killed by a drive-by assailant. In the 1980s in Brooklyn, young Biggie sells crack with his friends D-Roc and Lil Cease. By 1990, Biggie's girlfriend Jan is pregnant, so he needs to make more money.

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Capone (2020)

Biographical picture, Crime, biographical film, drama film, gangster film

On Thanksgiving 1945, Alphonse Capone, the notorious mob boss of Prohibition-era Chicago, lives at his Florida estate with his wife Mae after being paroled from prison due to the effects of neurosyphilis and a stroke. He continues to decli…

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Wonderland (2003)

Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film

John Holmes and Dawn Schiller The girlfriend of John Holmes, Dawn Schiller, is on the streets and picked up by a holy roller after Holmes leaves Schiller in a hotel room. Schiller eventually calls Holmes to come and get her. Holmes arrives…

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Fly Away Home (1996)

Adventure, Coming Of Age, Family Drama, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film

After surviving a car accident, in which her mother Aliane dies swerving out of the way of an oncoming truck on a rainy night, 13-year-old Amy Alden is brought from New Zealand to Ontario, Canada, by her estranged father Thomas Alden, a sc…

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