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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 78.

Winchell (1998)

Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film

The film follows Walter Winchell from his early days as a tabloid gossip columnist to his rise as he takes on the United States' most powerful propagandist.

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Turn Every Page (2022)

Biographical documentary, documentary film

The film focuses on biographer Robert Caro and his editor, the documentarian's father Robert Gottlieb, as they work methodically to complete the final, fifth volume of Caro's Lyndon Johnson biography. The pair, both in their late 80s, had …

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Martin Luther (1953)

Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film

During the life of Martin Luther power is divided between the Holy Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church. The narrator states: "the church had largely forgotten the mercies of God and, instead, it emphasized God's implacable judgments…

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The Dolly Sisters (1945)

Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film, romance film

In 1904, Uncle Latsie comes to New York from Hungary with two little nieces, Jenny and Rosie who immediately take to cafe dancing. In 1912, they're still at it, but to pay Uncle's card debts they decide to go into vaudeville. They meet ano…

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Dante's Inferno (1967)

biographical film

The exhumation of Lizzie Siddal's desiccated body is seen, followed by a shot of Rossetti dancing among the flames of a bonfire of paintings by Reynolds and Gainsborough. A voice-over informs us that Rossetti is a founder of a revolutionar…

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Monarch (2014)

biographical film, drama film

Monarch is part fact, part fiction and unfolds around one night in the life of a hated king susceptible to assassination, and paranoid with the thought of his own mortality. The film is set in just one night when the injured Henry VIII arr…

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Nadia (1984)

biographical film, sport film

As a young child, Romanian Nadia Comăneci was discovered by domineering gymnastics coach Béla Károlyi. Károlyi and his wife Márta trained Comăneci in their gymnastics school for eight years. Comăneci eventually became a world champion gymn…

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My Flesh and Blood (2003)

documentary film

The documentary takes an in-depth look at the Tom family, which mostly consists of children who were rejected by their birth families due to mental or physical disabilities. The film is broken up into seasons, starting out with the family …

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Barbara Forever (2026)

Biographical documentary, documentary film

The documentary utilizes a "kinetic tapestry" of archival footage, guided by Barbara Hammer's own voice, to explore her life, body, lovers, and lesbian identity. It chronicles her persistence and ambition in recording her own history to en…

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Berdella (2009)

LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, exploitation film, horror film

Beginning in 1984 and ending in 1988, the film follows Robert "Bob" Berdella, a homosexual bazaar owner and sexually sadistic serial killer who is introduced drunkenly bludgeoning Jimmy Hower, a man whom Bob had been holding captive in the…

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Evel Knievel (2004)

biographical film, drama film

The film begins with Evel Knievel preparing to jump the fountains at Caesars Palace in front of a large audience. A flashback to Butte, Montana in 1950, 12-year-old Bobby Knievel steals some hubcaps and then escapes on his bicycle before b…

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Cold Light of Day (1990)

biographical film, crime film, horror film

In late-1970s London, middle-aged civil servant Jordan March, apprehended by authorities, recounts the various murders he committed to Inspector Simmons, which are relayed through flashbacks. Jordan's killing spree began with a young forme…

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Two Years Before the Mast (1946)

biographical film, drama film

thumb|upright=1.2|Brian Donlevy, Esther Fernández and Alan Ladd in a promotional picture of the film. In 1834, Charles Stewart, the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own shi…

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