Biography movies

Rob Roy (1995)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Jessica Lange | John Hurt | Tim Roth | Eric Stoltz | Andrew Keir | Brian Cox | Brian McCardie | Gilbert Martin | Vicki Masson | Gilly Gilchrist | Jason Flemyng | Ewan Stewart | David Hayman | Brian McArthur
Directors: Michael Caton-Jones
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In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.

El Greco (2007)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Greece | Spain
Actors: Nick Ashdon | Juan Diego Botto | Laia Marull | Lakis Lazopoulos | Dimitra Matsouka | Sotiris Moustakas | Dina Konsta | Giorgos Hristodoulou | Dimitris Kalivokas | Yorgos Charalabidis | Theo Zouboulidis | Lida Protopsalti | Katerina Helmy | Fermí Reixach | Roger Coma
Directors: Yannis Smaragdis
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El Greco is a Greek film about the life of the Greek painter Doménicos Theotokópoulos (El Greco). It was produced in 2007, directed by Yannis Smaragdis and written by Jackie Pavlenko and Dimitris Siatopoulos (book). A dramatization of the life of 16th century Greek painter, Doménicos Theotokópoulos, who, in search of freedom and love, sets off from Crete and goes to Venice and finally Toledo.

Goodbye Bafana (2007)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: Belgium | France | Germany | Italy | Luxembourg | South Africa | UK
Actors: Joseph Fiennes | Dennis Haysbert | Diane Kruger | Shiloh Henderson | Patrick Lyster | Faith Ndukwana | Mehboob Bawa | Adrian Galley | Warrick Grier | Leslie Mongezi | Sizwe Msutu | Matthew Roberts | Eduan van Jaarsveldt | Terry Pheto | Giulia Troiano
Directors: Bille August
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GOODBYE BAFANA is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner’s name was Nelson Mandela.

Factory Girl (2006)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sienna Miller | Guy Pearce | Hayden Christensen | Jimmy Fallon | Jack Huston | Armin Amiri | Tara Summers | Mena Suvari | Shawn Hatosy | Beth Grant | James Naughton | Edward Herrmann | Illeana Douglas | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Don Novello
Directors: George Hickenlooper
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A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality…

Control (2007)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: Australia | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Samantha Morton | Sam Riley | Alexandra Maria Lara | Joe Anderson | Toby Kebbell | Craig Parkinson | James Anthony Pearson | Harry Treadaway | Andrew Sheridan | Robert Shelly | Matthew McNulty | Ben Naylor | Herbert Grönemeyer | Nigel Harris | Tim Plester
Directors: Anton Corbijn
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Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one of the gigs and he’s almost never at home. Ian also suffers from epilepsy and has no-good medication for it. He doesn’t know how to handle the feelings he has for Debbie and Annik and the pressure the popularity of Joy Division and the energy performing costs him.

Talk to Me (2007)

Friday, April 11th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries:
Actors: Jim Annan | Benz Antoine | Matt Birman | David Brown | Cedric the Entertainer | Don Cheadle | J. Miles Dale | Davidx | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Mike Epps | Kamal Jones | Jeff Kassel | Jim Malmberg | Erick Peterson | Kwame Rakes
Directors: Kasi Lemmons
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The true life story of Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. In the mid-to-late 1960s, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and “tell it like it is.” With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He forges a friendship and a partnership with fellow prison inmate Milo’s brother Dewey Hughes. From the first wild morning on the air, Petey relies on the more straight-laced Dewey to run interference at WOL-AM, where Dewey is the program director. At the station, Petey becomes an iconic radio personality, surpassing even the established popularity of his fellow disc jockeys, Nighthawk and Sunny Jim. Combining biting humor with social commentary, Petey openly courts controversy for station owner E.G. Sonderling. Petey was determined to make not just himself but his community heard during an exciting and turbulent period in American history. As Petey’s voice, humor, and spirit surge across the airwaves with the vitality of the era, listeners tune in to hear not only incredible music but also a man speaking directly to them about race and power in America like few people ever have. Through the years, Petey’s “The truth just is” style — on - and off-air - would redefine both Petey and Dewey, and empower each to become the man he would most like to be.

Miss Potter (2006)

Monday, April 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Renée Zellweger | Ewan McGregor | Emily Watson | Barbara Flynn | Bill Paterson | Matyelok Gibbs | Lloyd Owen | Anton Lesser | David Bamber | Patricia Kerrigan | Judith Barker | Chris Middleton | Lucy Boynton | Oliver Jenkins | Richard Mulholland
Directors: Chris Noonan
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Thirty years old and single, Beatrix Potter lives in London with her social-climbing parents, who are exasperated that she has turned down any number of eligible young men. Her only real friends are the animals which since childhood she has lovingly drawn and made up stories about. She finally succeeds in selling a book of the stories, and it becomes Norman Warne’s first project. He quickly falls in love with both the book and Beatrix and together they carefully arrange publication. This proves the first of many successes, offering her the possibility of escaping from both her parents’ way of life and London.

Buster (1988)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Phil Collins | Julie Walters | Larry Lamb | Stephanie Lawrence | Ellie Beaven | Michael Attwell | Ralph Brown | Christopher Ellison | Sheila Hancock | Martin Jarvis | Clive Wood | Anthony Quayle | Michael Byrne | Harold Innocent | Rupert Vansittart
Directors: David Green
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Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can’t contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.

Becoming Jane (2007)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Anne Hathaway | James McAvoy | Julie Walters | James Cromwell | Maggie Smith | Joe Anderson | Lucy Cohu | Laurence Fox | Ian Richardson | Anna Maxwell Martin | Leo Bill | Jessica Ashworth | Eleanor Methven | Michael James Ford | Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
Directors: Julian Jarrold
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The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old and emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable - marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appointed husband to assure their daughter’s future social standing. They are eyeing Mr. Wisley, nephew to the very formidable, not to mention very rich, local aristocrat Lady Gresham, as a prospective match. But when Jane meets the roguish and decidedly non-aristocratic Tom Lefroy, sparks soon fly along with the sharp repartee. His intellect and arrogance raise her ire - then knock her head over heels. Now, the couple, whose flirtation flies in the face of the sense and sensibility of the age, is faced with a terrible dilemma. If they attempt to marry, they will risk everything that matters - family, friends and fortune.

To Hell and Back (1955)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Audie Murphy | Marshall Thompson | Charles Drake | Jack Kelly | Gregg Palmer | Paul Picerni | David Janssen | Richard Castle | Bruce Cowling | Paul Langton | Art Aragon | Felix Noriego | Denver Pyle | Brett Halsey | Susan Kohner
Directors: Jesse Hibbs
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True-life account of the military career of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in WWII. Native of Texas, he was placed in charge of his many younger siblings on the death of his mother and decided to join the military at the age of 18 to provide for them. His many acts of bravery and heroism during the US military advance through Italy, France and into Germany earn him increasing rank and responsibility as well as the respect of his comrades in arms. Eventually he receives two dozen of the highest medals the US and France can bestow, culminating in the awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor.