Type: Movies
Genre: Biography
1153 content found
Saving Mr. Banks 2013

When Walt Disney's daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins (1964), he made them a promise - one that he didn't realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney's plans for the adaptation. For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn't budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp. It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley, Colin Farrell

7.5 IMDB Rating 5,237 Views
Silvana – Väck mig när ni vaknat 2017

Film about Swedish artist and feminist Silvana Imam.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Music

Stars: Beatrice Eli, Silvana Imam

7.1 IMDB Rating 3,110 Views
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RBG 2018

The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bill Clinton, Sharron Frontiero

7,4 IMDB Rating 4,914 Views
Citizen Schein 2017

A movie about the life of Harry Schein and his workings in the Swedish culture primetime.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Annica Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Roy Andersson, Aina Bellis

8.0 IMDB Rating 2,847 Views
Mannen som lekte med elden 2018

A documentary about the Millennium-trilogy author Stieg Larsson and his pioneering work of fighting right wing extremists and neo-Nazis, an obsession with fatal consequences.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Emil Almén, Johan Eriksson, Magnus Höqqvist, Jan Simonsson

7,2 IMDB Rating 3,341 Views
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael 2015

A portrait of the work and life of controversial film critic Pauline Kael, and her battle to achieve success and influence in the 20th century movie business.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Quentin Tarantino, Alec Baldwin, Francis Ford Coppola, David O. Russell

2,415 Views
Shooting the Mafia 2019

Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia spends her career documenting the life and crimes of the Mafia.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Letizia Battaglia

7.0 IMDB Rating 3,756 Views
The Duchess 2008

Georgiana Spencer became Duchess of Devonshire on her marriage to the Duke in 1774, at the height of the Georgian period, a period of fashion, decadence, and political change. Spirited and adored by the public at large she quickly found her marriage to be a disappointment, defined by her duty to produce a male heir and the Duke's philandering and callous indifference to her. She befriends Lady Bess but finds she is once again betrayed by her husband who wields his power with the three eventually living uncomfortably together. Against this background, and with the pressures of an unfaithful husband, strict social pressures and constant public scrutiny, Georgiana falls passionately in love with Charles Grey, a rising young Whig politician. However, despite his ongoing liaison with Lady Bess, the Duke refuses to allow her to continue the affair and threatens to take her children from her.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper

6.9 IMDB Rating 6,989 Views
El Pepe, Una Vida Suprema 2019

An examination of the life, times, and legacy of Uruguay's last president, José "Pepe" Mujica.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Pepe Mujica

7,1 IMDB Rating 2,829 Views
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 2016

A journalist recounts her wartime coverage in Afghanistan.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman

6,6 IMDB Rating 4,022 Views
Meeting Gorbachev 2018

The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Yuri Andropov, James Baker, Leonid Brezhnev

7,2 IMDB Rating 3,224 Views
The Aeronauts 2019

Pilot Amelia Rennes (Felicity Jones) and scientist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) find themselves in an epic fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a gas balloon.

Category: Action, Adventure, Biography

Stars: Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Himesh Patel

6,6 IMDB Rating 5,933 Views
Sid & Judy 2019

Revealing new look at Judy Garland fifty years after her tragic, untimely death. Fusing the unpublished recollections of producer, manager and third husband, Sid Luft, with film clips, rare concert footage and Judy's own inimitable words.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Fred Astaire, Count Basie, George Cukor

7,8 IMDB Rating 3,313 Views
Deadman Standing 2018

The true story of a recently widowered lawman who befriends a boy dying of tuberculosis and a madam of the local brothel while their town is being politically and violently overtaken by a gang of reckless cattlemen from Texas.

Category: Biography, Thriller, Western

Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Viva Bianca, Richard Riehle

4,8 IMDB Rating 4,033 Views
The Two Popes 2019

Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín

7,7 IMDB Rating 4,467 Views
Jarhead 2005

A psychological study of operations desert shield and desert storm during the gulf war; through the eyes of a U.S marine sniper who struggles to cope with the possibility his girlfriend may be cheating on him back home.

Category: Action, Biography, Drama

Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black

7,0 IMDB Rating 5,584 Views
Brian Banks 2019

A football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is wrongly convicted and sent to prison. Years later, he fights to clear his name within an unjust system.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Greg Kinnear, Aldis Hodge, Melanie Liburd

6,7 IMDB Rating 5,552 Views
Queen of the Desert 2015

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Damian Lewis,James Franco,Nicole Kidman,Robert Pattinson

5,7 IMDB Rating 6,009 Views
Captain Phillips 2013

Captain Phillips is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is - through director Paul Greengrass's distinctive lens - simultaneously a pulse-pounding thriller, and a complex portrait of the myriad effects of globalization. The film focuses on the relationship between the Alabama's commanding officer, Captain Richard Phillips (two time Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks), and the Somali pirate captain, Muse (Barkhad Abdi), who takes him hostage. Phillips and Muse are set on an unstoppable collision course when Muse and his crew target Phillips' unarmed ship; in the ensuing standoff, 145 miles off the Somali coast, both men will find themselves at the mercy of forces beyond their control.

Category: Biography, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Tom Hanks,Catherine Keener,Barkhad Abdi,Barkhad Abdirahman

7.8 IMDB Rating 11,463 Views
The Wolf of Wall Street 2013

Jordan Belfort is a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 22 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Crime

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio,Jonah Hill,Margot Robbie,Matthew McConaughey

8.2 IMDB Rating 29,828 Views