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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 56.

A Woman Called Golda (1982)

Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film

left|thumb|Ingrid Bergman, Yossi Graber (with eyepatch) and the make up team In 1977, Golda Meir returns to her old school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she tells the students her life story. She recounts her early years in Russia, and how…

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Avicii - I'm Tim (2024)

Biographical documentary, documentary film

The former movie description from Tribeca Festival reads: "Before there was Avicii, there was just Tim. For the first time through his own words, witness the journey of a shy but prodigious musical talent who would soon become one of the d…

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Mesmer (1994)

Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film

In 18th century Vienna, Franz Anton Mesmer believes he is able to heal people by drawing out something unique from inside his patients. However, the only ones who seem to have improvements are the young ladies he helps. His controversial m…

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Enid (2009)

Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film

The Fixer (1968)

Drama, biographical film, drama film

In Kiev, Russian Jewish handyman Yakov Bok is falsely accused and imprisoned for the ritual murder of a Ukrainian boy named Andrei Yushchinsky, an example of the Blood Libel.

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Stoned (2005)

biographical film

The film is a cinematic work of historical fiction, taking as its premise the idea that Jones was murdered by Frank Thorogood, a builder who had been hired to renovate and improve Jones's house Cotchford Farm in East Sussex, though there i…

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Isadora (1968)

Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film

In 1927, Isadora Duncan has become a legend as the innovator of modern dance, a temperamental bohemian, and an outspoken advocate of free love. Now past 40, she lives in poverty in a small hotel on the French Riviera with her companion Mar…

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Stander (2003)

Action, Gangster Film, biographical film, heist film

André Stander is an officer for the South African Police, newly married with a rising reputation as the youngest captain on the force. In 1976, he and his partner are assigned along with other officers to a protest duty in the wake of the …

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RBG (2018)

Documentation, biographical film, documentary film

RBG chronicles the career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which spans several decades, and how she developed a legal legacy while becoming a pop culture icon. The film is a biographical depiction of Ginsburg from her bir…

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Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film

In Brooklyn, New York, an upright piano is being lifted into the home of the Gershwins, Morris and Rose, and the two sons, Ira Gershwin, and his little brother, George Gershwin. Morris tells Ira that she set him up for piano lessons, but I…

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Eleni (1985)

Drama, biographical film, drama film, war film

The film is told in a flashback format with Gage, now living in the United States, returning to his native Greece to solve the mystery of his mother's death when he was a child. The film looks back to the effect of the 1940s Greek Civil Wa…

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Bernard and Doris (2006)

Komödie, biographical film, drama film

In 1987, Doris Duke, considered the wealthiest woman in the world, hires Bernard Lafferty, who lists Elizabeth Taylor and Peggy Lee as former employers on his résumé, as her majordomo. He explains a six-month gap in his employment history …

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Romulus, My Father (2007)

Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, biographical film, coming-of-age film

The film tells the story of Romulus Gaita, a Yugoslavian immigrant to Australia after World War II and his struggle to bring up his son, Raimond, in an isolated shack in the Victorian bush. Raimond's mother has an undiagnosed mental illnes…

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Lumumba (2000)

Biographical picture

The film begins with a montage of Lumumba and his compatriots Joseph Okito and Maurice Mpolo being driven to their executions, cutting to their bodies being exhumed, dismembered, and burned on the orders of Joseph Mobutu. The film then jum…

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Liz & Dick (2012)

Drama, biographical film, drama film

Throughout the film, Elizabeth and Richard appear in a dark room and reminisce about their life together. On August 5, 1984 in Celigny, Switzerland, an elderly Richard is writing what would be his last letter to Elizabeth and recalls the f…

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Justin Bieber's Believe (2013)

Concert film, biographical film, documentary film, musical film

The sequel to Never Say Never continues to focus on Bieber's rise to international fame as he embarks on his Believe Tour. In new interviews with Bieber, the movie reveals long-awaited answers to questions about his passion to make music, …

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The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)

Biographical picture, biographical film

The film stars Helen Mirren as the philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand, who engages in an affair with a psychologist 25 years her junior by the name of Nathaniel Branden, played by Eric Stoltz. Branden built up an institute to spread Rand's …

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