Genre: Biography
1361 content found
The Great Debaters 2007

A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Kimberly Elise

7.5 IMDB Rating 4,924 Views
Darkest Hour 2017

In May 1940, the fate of Western Europe hangs on British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean a humiliating defeat for Britain and its empire.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas

7.4 IMDB Rating 8,180 Views
Glory Road 2006

In 1965, the coach of the high school girl basketball team Don Haskins is invited by the Texas Western Miners to be their coach. Despite the lack of budget, Haskins sees the chance to dispute the NCAA and moves with his wife and children to the college dormitory. He recruits seven talented and rejected black players to play with five Caucasian players and formed a legendary team that won the 1966 national championship against the powerful Kentucky.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Josh Lucas,Derek Luke,Austin Nichols,Jon Voight

7.2 IMDB Rating 6,436 Views
The Jesus Film Project – The Story of Jesus – According to the Gospel of Luke 1979

Filmed on location in Israel at authentic biblical sites, this inspirational drama and commercial success retells the life of Christ.

Category: Biography, Drama, Family

Stars: Brian Deacon, Rivka Neuman, Alexander Scourby

7.1 IMDB Rating 4,007 Views
Medici 2016–2019

A political family drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century. Cosimo de Medici finds himself at the helm of his banking dynasty when his father, Giovanni, dies suddenly.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Daniel Sharman, Alessandra Mastronardi, Synnove Karlsen

7.9 IMDB Rating 25,136 Views
Cornelis 2010

Cornelis is the unique chronicle about one of Sweden's greatest music legends - Cornelis Vreeswijk. An honest and gripping account of an exceptionally talented, but self-destructive artist's intense life both on and behind the stage. A man who during his whole life was searching for love and confirmation.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Hans Erik Dyvik Husby,Malin Crépin,Helena Af Sandeberg,David Dencik

6.3 IMDB Rating 6,070 Views
Charlie Wilson’s War 2007

In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Houston Socialite Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gustav "Gust" Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can be had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Tom Hanks, Amy Adams, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,546 Views
Nowhere Boy 2009

The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth of The Beatles.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Threlfall, Josh Bolt

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,793 Views
Elvira Madigan 1967

Hedvig Jensen is a famous ropewalker and is known to her public as Elvira Madigan. She meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away, but since Sixten deserted the army, he cannot find any job and the couple encounters many hardships. Moreover, while on the run, Sixten meets a friend who tries to convince him to come back to his country and family.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Pia Degermark,Thommy Berggren,Lennart Malmer,Cleo Jensen

7.6 IMDB Rating 2,992 Views
The Post 2017

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Meryl Streep,Tom Hanks,Sarah Paulson,Bob Odenkirk

7.5 IMDB Rating 7,710 Views
Schumacher 2021

Documentary on the life of seven time Formula 1 world champion driver Michael Schumacher.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Sport

Stars: Michael Schumacher, Jean Todt, Sebastian Vettel

1,753 Views
La Bamba 1987

This is the true story of Ritchie Valens, a young rock and roll singer who tragically died in a plane crash at age 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Pacoima, California where he and his family make a meager living working on farms to his rise as a star. The film also focuses on Ritchie's friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob Morales and his relationship with Donna Ludwig, his girlfriend.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips,Esai Morales,Rosanna DeSoto,Elizabeth Peña

6.8 IMDB Rating 5,120 Views
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes 2022

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to his gruesome crimes in unguarded interviews, offering an unsettling view into a disturbed mind.

Category: Biography, Crime, Documentary

Stars: Jeffrey Dahmer

7.6 IMDB Rating 3,055 Views
Underbelly: Vanishing Act 2022

The story of a woman who disappeared after swindling over $40 million from her most trusted clients. This is the story of Melissa Caddick.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Kate Atkinson, Maya Stange, Jerome Velinsky

6.1 IMDB Rating 2,125 Views
Wu-Tang: An American Saga 2019–

The show tracks the Wu Tang Clan's formation, a vision of Bobby Diggs, who strives to unite a dozen young, black men that are torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Ashton Sanders, Shameik Moore, Siddiq Saunderson

8.3 IMDB Rating 46,522 Views
Seberg 2019

Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.

Category: Biography, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Kristen Stewart, Yvan Attal, Gabriel Sky, Jack O'Connell

5.0 IMDB Rating 3,931 Views
The Look of Love 2013

The life of Paul Raymond, the controversial entrepreneur who became Britain's richest man.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Steve Coogan, Matt Lucas, Anna Friel

6.0 IMDB Rating 3,168 Views
Belle 2013

The biracial daughter, Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), of Royal Navy Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) is raised by aristocratic Great-uncle Lord William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) in 18th century...

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Matthew Goode, Emily Watson

7.3 IMDB Rating 5,988 Views
Marshall 2017

The story of Thurgood Marshall, the crusading lawyer who would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson

7.3 IMDB Rating 5,695 Views
The Long Road Home 2017–

American forces occupying Iraq are ambushed in a Baghdad neighborhood.

Category: Action, Biography, Drama

Stars: Michael Kelly, Jason Ritter, Kate Bosworth, E.J. Bonilla

7.5 IMDB Rating 19,737 Views