Genre: Biography
1346 content found
Gotti 2018

The story of crime boss John Gotti and his son.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: John Travolta, Spencer Rocco Lofranco, Kelly Preston

4.7 IMDB Rating 11,006 Views
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ 2005

A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from a life of crime to pursue his passion of rap music.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: 50 Cent, Joy Bryant, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

5.4 IMDB Rating 17,576 Views
Something the Lord Mad 2004

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Cliff McMullen, Yasiin Bey, Luray Cooper

8.1 IMDB Rating 724 Views
Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago 2016

The history of legendary rock band Chicago is chronicled from their inception in 1967 all the way to the present.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Lee Loughnane, Robert Lamm, Walter Parazaider

7.0 IMDB Rating 556 Views
Dickinson 2019–2021

An inside look at the world of writer Emily Dickinson.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Adrian Enscoe, Hailee Steinfeld, Anna Baryshnikov

7.4 IMDB Rating 46,417 Views
Cocaine Godmother 2017

The real life of Colombian drug lord, Griselda Blanco, who reportedly masterminded more than 200 murders. This film presents her life story from the time she was a young girl to the end of her life.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jenny Pellicer, Alejandro Edda

5.6 IMDB Rating 7,713 Views
Burning Bush 2013

Based on real characters and events, this drama focuses on the personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, Jan Palach, who set himself on fire in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1969. Dagmar Buresová, a young female lawyer, became part of his legacy by defending Jan's family in a trial against the communist government, a regime which tried to dishonor Palach's sacrifice, a heroic action for the freedom of Czechoslovakia.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Tatiana Pauhofová, Jaroslava Pokorná, Petr Stach, Vojtech Kotek

7.9 IMDB Rating 4,806 Views
Shadowlands 1993

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S.

Category: Biography, Drama, romance

Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Julian Fellowes

7.4 IMDB Rating 670 Views
Stockholm 2018

Based on the absurd but true 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm that was documented in the New Yorker as the origins of the 'Stockholm Syndrome'.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Crime

Stars: Ethan Hawke, Noomi Rapace, Mark Strong

6.1 IMDB Rating 723 Views
Red Dog 2011

Based on the legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Josh Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Rohan Nichol

7.3 IMDB Rating 5,129 Views
Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters 2016

A chronicle of the Brontë sisters' battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Finn Atkins, Charlie Murphy, Chloe Pirrie

7.4 IMDB Rating 630 Views
Mr. Jones 2019

A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.

Category: Biography, Drama, Thriller

Stars: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard

6.9 IMDB Rating 4,210 Views
Alias Grace

Baserat på den sanna historien om Grace Marks, en Husa och invandrare från Irland som fängslades 1843, kanske felaktigt, för mordet på hennes arbetsgivare Thomas Kinnear. Grace påstår sig ha något minne av mordet men fakta är obestridliga. Ett decennium efter, försöker Dr. Simon Jordan hjälpa Grace minns sitt förflutna.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Sarah Gadon, Edward Holcroft, Zachary Levi

8.6 IMDB Rating 12,308 Views
Elizabeth: The Golden Age 2007

A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush

6.8 IMDB Rating 5,497 Views
Blood, Sex & Royalty 2022–

A modern take on the British royal drama, offering a window into the lives of history's deadliest, sexiest and most iconic monarchs.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Amy James-Kelly, Max Parker, Adam Astill

5.9 IMDB Rating 1,926 Views
Cobain: Montage of Heck 2015

An authorized documentary on the late musician Kurt Cobain, from his early days in Aberdeen, Washington to his success and downfall with the grunge band Nirvana.

Category: Animation, Biography, Documentary

Stars: Kurt Cobain, Wendy O'Connor, Don Cobain

7.5 IMDB Rating 6,002 Views
The Silent Twins 2022

Based on the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons, real-life identical twins who grew up in Wales and became known as "the silent twins" because of their refusal to communicate with anyone but each other.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrance, Leah Mondesir-Simmonds

5.9 IMDB Rating 680 Views
The Great Train Robbery 2013

A two-part drama which portrays The Great Train Robbery of 8 August 1963, firstly from the point of view of the robbers and then from the point of view of the police who set out to identify and catch the robbers.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Robert Glenister, Jack Roth, Luke Evans

7.3 IMDB Rating 1,113 Views
Ted Bundy 2002

The story of serial killer Ted Bundy.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Bliss, Julianna McCarthy

5.8 IMDB Rating 795 Views
Bonnie and Clyde 1967

Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

Category: Action, Biography, Crime

Stars: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard

7.7 IMDB Rating 696 Views