World Biography Movies

A Dangerous Practice

2022

Through the spirit of Dr. Fritz, a German doctor who died during the First World War, José Arigó became a hope for a cure for millions of people by performing spiritual surgery, helping about 2 million people....

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Portuguese   2022   108 min   Biography Movies   2023-07-16

Eine geschlossene Gesellschaft

2019

Follows the lives of students and their teachers based on the director's childhood memories. The events of the film take places in the actual boarding school called "Gymnasium Canisianum", founded in 1946 by a German catholic priest....

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German   2019   N/A   Biography Movies   2023-07-23

Nema aviona za Zagreb

2012

It is 2012 and a very old Louis van Gasteren is reviewing an earlier phase in his life in a video editing suite. In the movie he is watching, a 42 year old Louis stands watching garbage cans loaded into a truck in 1964. The older ......

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Dutch, English, Serbian, French, Spanish   2012   82 min   Biography Movies   2023-08-02

Beloved Clara

2008

A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann....

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German   2008   107 min   Biography Movies   2023-08-25

Olhar o Cinema Português: 1896-2006

2007

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Portuguese   2007   55 min   Biography Movies   2023-07-22

Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe

2006

The story of Catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz....

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Polish, German   2006   90 min   Biography Movies   2023-07-04

Olga

2004

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put ......

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Portuguese, German   2004   141 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-07

Imelda

2003

A "beyond the shoes" documentary on the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos....

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Filipino, English, Tagalog   2003   103 min   Biography Movies   2023-08-13

Frida

2002

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work....

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English, French, Russian   2002   123 min   Biography Movies   2023-07-16

Path to War

2002

In the mid 1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson (Sir Michael Gambon) and his foreign-policy team debate the decision to withdraw from or escalate the war in Vietnam....

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English   2002   165 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-22

Antwone Fisher

2002

Antwone Fisher, a young navy man, is forced to see a psychiatrist after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins....

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English, Japanese   2002   120 min   Biography Movies   2023-08-19

I banchieri di Dio

2002

This movie attempts to reconstruct the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through the story of its President Roberto Calvi (Omero Antonutti), who was notoriously found dead under t......

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Italian   2002   125 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-18

White Hotel

2001

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English   2001   90 min   Biography Movies   2023-07-14

Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story

2001

This made-for-TV bio-pic is about Marilyn Bell, a Canadian teenager who, in 1954, was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. She won the Toronto Canadian National Exhibition prize after Florence Chadwick, a then-famous Amer......

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English   2001   90 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-20

Aleksis Kiven elämä

2001

Finland in the 1850's take the first steps towards independence. The Finnish-language authors introduce themselves....

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Finnish, Swedish   2001   104 min   Biography Movies   2023-08-20

Druids

2001

An entire nation's destiny lies in the hands of one man....

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French, English   2001   120 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-09

Stairway to Heaven

2001

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English   2001   26 min   Biography Movies   2023-08-22

Boss of Bosses

2001

The story of the rise and fall of the powerful New York City organized crime boss, Paul Castellano....

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English   2001   93 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-13

Lauren Hutton

2001

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English   2001   60 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-16

Bride of the Wind

2001

This movie is a biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka....

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English   2001   99 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-18

Riding in Cars with Boys

2001

A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father....

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English   2001   132 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-09

Nowhere in Africa

2001

A German Jewish refugee family moves to and adjusts to a farm life in 1930s Kenya....

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German, Swahili, English   2001   141 min   Biography Movies   2023-08-14

Blow

2001

The story of how George Jung, along with the Medellín Cartel headed by Pablo Escobar, established the American cocaine market in the 1970s in the United States....

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English   2001   124 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-24

Så vit som en snö

2001

Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer's daughter, in the early 1900s, who dreams of getting away from the farm and becoming an aviatrix....

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Swedish   2001   154 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-09

Da jeg traff Jesus... med sprettert

2000

Little Oddemann uses every means available to find Jesus, including his slingshot. The film takes us to Norway in the late 30's, where we meet a series of burlesque and humorous characters, whose antics convince Oddemann that grow......

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Norwegian   2000   88 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-07

Erin Brockovich

2000

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply....

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English   2000   131 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-06

Men of Honor

2000

The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him....

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English   2000   129 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-11

Palavra e Utopia

2000

The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery....

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Portuguese   2000   130 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-09

Hellhounds on My Trail: The Afterlife of Robert Johnson

2000

This music documentary looks at the life and legend of singer and guitarist Robert Johnson, arguably the most important figure in the history of the blues....

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English   2000   N/A   Biography Movies   2023-09-08

Noriega: God's Favorite

2000

The story of Panamanian general Manuel Antonio 'Tony' Noriega, whose meteoric career, from utter poverty, as a soldier and CIA informant who also served as source to various other powers and even the Colombian drug mafia he claims......

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English   2000   120 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-11

Takedown

2000

This film is based on the story of the capture of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick....

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English   2000   96 min   Biography Movies   2023-08-12

Rated X

2000

Biopic of notorious Mitchell Brothers who opened up a successful San Francisco strip club and thriving porn business that led to a downward spiral of power and greed....

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English   2000   115 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-10

Benek Blues

2000

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Polish   2000   56 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-23

Lennon

2000

Life story of John Lennon....

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English   2000   N/A   Biography Movies   2023-08-12

King of the World

2000

The early career of boxer Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, as he prepares for a title fight against Sonny Liston, while struggling to come to terms with his private and public personas....

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English   2000   95 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-23

Marlene

2000

The movie follows the life and personality of the famous actress Marlene Dietrich....

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German   2000   125 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-04

Nel cuore del padre

2000

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Italian   2000   70 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-17

Nora

2000

Dublin, 1904, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste....

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English, Italian   2000   106 min   Biography Movies   2023-08-11

Best

2000

Pulling no punches in its depiction of soccer legend George Best's slow descent from the heights of his Manchester United career, the man once dubbed the fifth Beatle for his glamorous lifestyle and good looks....

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English   2000   102 min   Biography Movies   2023-08-27

Pandaemonium

2000

Friendship and betrayal between two poets during the French Revolution....

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English   2000   124 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-16

Sade

2000

A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth....

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French   2000   100 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-21

The Three Stooges

2000

A biography of the Three Stooges, in which their careers and rise to fame is shown throughout the eyes of their leader, Moe Howard....

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English   2000   88 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-19

Pollock

2000

A film about the life and career of the American painter, Jackson Pollock....

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English   2000   122 min   Biography Movies   2023-08-29

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

2000

Epic television miniseries exploring the complicated relationship of Thomas Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings, who conducted a 38 year love affair, spanning an ocean, ultimately producing children, grandchildren, and lots of contr......

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English, French   2000   251 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-14

Padre Pio

2000

The poor Italian peasant boy Francesco already has visions of Jesus and Mary as a child, but the Devil visits him too. Francesco is quite certain that he will become a priest. After entering the Capuchin Order it becomes clear tha......

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Italian   2000   202 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-17

Steal This Movie

2000

After years of hiding, the notorious American leftist radical, Abbie Hoffman, discusses his life, his cause and the opposition he endured....

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English   2000   107 min   Biography Movies   2023-08-13

The Color of Friendship

2000

A white South African girl finds herself in a difficult situation when she is sent to spend a term with a black family in America....

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English   2000   87 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-19

Vengo

2000

Vengo is a majestic ode to the artistry and magic of flamenco dancing, set against the compelling backdrop of two gypsy families locked in an age old struggle for power....

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French, Spanish   2000   90 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-17

Remember the Titans

2000

The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit....

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English   2000   113 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-17

The Komediant

2000

A documentary on the life and career of Yiddish actor Pesach Burstein and his family....

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Hebrew, English, Yiddish   2000   80 min   Biography Movies   2023-09-19