Type: Movies
Genre: Biography
1153 content found
Donnie Brasco 1997

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen

7.7 IMDB Rating 8,728 Views
August 2007

In 1876, Strindberg is penniless and once again his play "Master Olof" is rejected by the Royal Dramatic Theater. Debt collectors his furniture and Strindberg is on the verge of committing suicide.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Jonas Karlsson, Gunilla Abrahamsson, Börje Ahlstedt

6.3 IMDB Rating 2,384 Views
Rise 2022

Based on the real life story about the family that produced the first trio of brothers to become NBA champions in the history of the league.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Manish Dayal, Taylor Nichols, Maximiliano Hernández

7.2 IMDB Rating 1,783 Views
Civil: Ben Crump 2022

Crump's mission to raise the value of Black life as the civil lawyer for the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Black farmers and banking while Black victims, Crump challenges America to come to terms with what it owes his clients.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Benjamin Crump

4,8 IMDB Rating 1,052 Views
Tucker: The Man and His Dream 1988

The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau

6.9 IMDB Rating 1,205 Views
McFarland, USA 2015

Jim White moves his family after losing his last job as a football coach, and at his new school he turns seven disappointing students into one of the best cross-country teams in the region.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Ramiro Rodriguez

7.4 IMDB Rating 5,298 Views
Creation Stories 2021

Creation Stories tells the unforgettable tale of infamous Creation Records label head Alan McGee; and of how one written-off young Glaswegian upstart rose to irrevocably change the face of British culture.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Ewen Bremner, Leo Flanagan, Richard Jobson

6.4 IMDB Rating 2,027 Views
Zelenskyy: The Man Who Took on Putin 2022

The life of Volodymyr Zelenskyy from law student to actor-comedian to President of Ukraine to wartime hero refusing to leave the country after the Russian invasion.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Matt Frei, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Anna Reid

7.1 IMDB Rating 1,460 Views
The Journey 2016

During the 2006 Northern Ireland peace talks, Sinn Féin leader Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney) and Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall) are forced to travel by car together.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, John Hurt

6.6 IMDB Rating 1,208 Views
Father Stu 2022

Follows the life of Father Stuart Long, a boxer-turned-priest who inspired countless people during his journey from self-destruction to redemption.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Mel Gibson, Mark Wahlberg, Jacki Weaver

7.1 IMDB Rating 3,957 Views
The New World 2005

The story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer

6.7 IMDB Rating 7,460 Views
Navalny 2022

Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, Dasha Navalnaya

5.5 IMDB Rating 1,751 Views
Jag ar Zlatan 2021

Son of Balkan immigrants Zlatan Ibrahimovic, born in Sweden, becomes, after a rough childhood, a Swedish football champion of several decades.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Granit Rushiti, Dominic Andersson Bajraktati, Cedomir Glisovic

6.7 IMDB Rating 5,602 Views
Un sac de billes 2017

In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family onc...

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Dorian Le Clech, Batyste Fleurial, Patrick Bruel

7.3 IMDB Rating 1,295 Views
Secretariat 2010

Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery -- with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin -- manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in twenty-five years.

Category: Biography, Drama, Family

Stars: Diane Lane,John Malkovich,Dylan Walsh,Margo Martindale

7.2 IMDB Rating 7,040 Views
The Pianist 2002

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

Category: Biography, Drama, War

Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay

8.5 IMDB Rating 11,097 Views
Blow 2001

A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Johnny Depp,Penélope Cruz,Franka Potente,Rachel Griffiths

7.6 IMDB Rating 10,195 Views
The Killing Fields 1984

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich

7.8 IMDB Rating 5,654 Views
Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie 2021

A car racing movie Hollywood legend and avid racing fan Steve McQueen started production on in the mid-1960s as his passion project, but never completed.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Sport

Stars: James Garner, Steve McQueen, David Letterman

6.8 IMDB Rating 1,183 Views
Christiane F. 1981

A teen girl in 1970's Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Natja Brunckhorst, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck

7.6 IMDB Rating 1,245 Views