Biography movies

Goodbye Bafana (2007)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: Belgium | France | Germany | Italy | Luxembourg | South Africa | UK
Actors: Fiennes, Joseph | Haysbert, Dennis | Kruger, Diane | Henderson, Shiloh | Lyster, Patrick | Ndukwana, Faith | Bawa, Mehboob | Galley, Adrian | Grier, Warrick | Mongezi, Leslie | Msutu, Sizwe | Roberts, Matthew | van Jaarsveldt, Eduan | Pheto, Terry | Troiano, Giulia
Directors: August, Bille
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GOODBYE BAFANA is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner’s name was Nelson Mandela.

Factory Girl (2006)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Miller, Sienna | Pearce, Guy | Christensen, Hayden | Fallon, Jimmy | Huston, Jack | Amiri, Armin | Summers, Tara | Suvari, Mena | Hatosy, Shawn | Grant, Beth | Naughton, James | Herrmann, Edward | Douglas, Illeana | Winstead, Mary Elizabeth | Novello, Don
Directors: Hickenlooper, George
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A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality…

Control (2007)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: Australia | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Morton, Samantha | Riley, Sam | Lara, Alexandra Maria | Anderson, Joe | Kebbell, Toby | Parkinson, Craig | Pearson, James Anthony | Treadaway, Harry | Sheridan, Andrew | Shelly, Robert | McNulty, Matthew | Naylor, Ben | Grönemeyer, Herbert | Harris, Nigel | Plester, Tim
Directors: Corbijn, Anton
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Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one of the gigs and he’s almost never at home. Ian also suffers from epilepsy and has no-good medication for it. He doesn’t know how to handle the feelings he has for Debbie and Annik and the pressure the popularity of Joy Division and the energy performing costs him.

Miss Potter (2006)

Monday, April 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Zellweger, Renée | McGregor, Ewan | Watson, Emily | Flynn, Barbara | Paterson, Bill | Gibbs, Matyelok | Owen, Lloyd | Lesser, Anton | Bamber, David | Kerrigan, Patricia | Barker, Judith | Middleton, Chris | Boynton, Lucy | Jenkins, Oliver | Mulholland, Richard
Directors: Noonan, Chris
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Thirty years old and single, Beatrix Potter lives in London with her social-climbing parents, who are exasperated that she has turned down any number of eligible young men. Her only real friends are the animals which since childhood she has lovingly drawn and made up stories about. She finally succeeds in selling a book of the stories, and it becomes Norman Warne’s first project. He quickly falls in love with both the book and Beatrix and together they carefully arrange publication. This proves the first of many successes, offering her the possibility of escaping from both her parents’ way of life and London.

Buster (1988)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Collins, Phil | Walters, Julie | Lamb, Larry | Lawrence, Stephanie | Beaven, Ellie | Attwell, Michael | Brown, Ralph | Ellison, Christopher | Hancock, Sheila | Jarvis, Martin | Wood, Clive | Quayle, Anthony | Byrne, Michael | Innocent, Harold | Vansittart, Rupert
Directors: Green, David
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Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can’t contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.

Becoming Jane (2007)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hathaway, Anne | McAvoy, James | Walters, Julie | Cromwell, James | Smith, Maggie | Anderson, Joe | Cohu, Lucy | Fox, Laurence | Richardson, Ian | Maxwell Martin, Anna | Bill, Leo | Ashworth, Jessica | Methven, Eleanor | Ford, Michael James | Vaughan-Lawlor, Tom
Directors: Jarrold, Julian
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The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old and emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable - marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appointed husband to assure their daughter’s future social standing. They are eyeing Mr. Wisley, nephew to the very formidable, not to mention very rich, local aristocrat Lady Gresham, as a prospective match. But when Jane meets the roguish and decidedly non-aristocratic Tom Lefroy, sparks soon fly along with the sharp repartee. His intellect and arrogance raise her ire - then knock her head over heels. Now, the couple, whose flirtation flies in the face of the sense and sensibility of the age, is faced with a terrible dilemma. If they attempt to marry, they will risk everything that matters - family, friends and fortune.

To Hell and Back (1955)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Murphy, Audie | Thompson, Marshall | Drake, Charles | Kelly, Jack | Palmer, Gregg | Picerni, Paul | Janssen, David | Castle, Richard | Cowling, Bruce | Langton, Paul | Aragon, Art | Noriego, Felix | Pyle, Denver | Halsey, Brett | Kohner, Susan
Directors: Hibbs, Jesse
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True-life account of the military career of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in WWII. Native of Texas, he was placed in charge of his many younger siblings on the death of his mother and decided to join the military at the age of 18 to provide for them. His many acts of bravery and heroism during the US military advance through Italy, France and into Germany earn him increasing rank and responsibility as well as the respect of his comrades in arms. Eventually he receives two dozen of the highest medals the US and France can bestow, culminating in the awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Papillon (1973)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: McQueen, Steve | Hoffman, Dustin | Jory, Victor | Gordon, Don | Zerbe, Anthony | Deman, Robert | Parfrey, Woodrow | Mumy, Bill | Coulouris, George | Assan, Ratna | Smithers, William | Avery, Val | Sierra, Gregory | Tayback, Vic | Watson, Mills
Directors: Schaffner, Franklin J.
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Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for ‘butterfly’ (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in ‘Guiane’ (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to escape despite incarcerations in solitary confinement as punishment.

Into the Wild (2007)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hirsch, Emile | Harden, Marcia Gay | Hurt, William | Malone, Jena | Dierker, Brian | Keener, Catherine | Vaughn, Vince | Stewart, Kristen | Holbrook, Hal | Bear, Bart the | Burch, Dan | Dustin, Joe | Galifianakis, Zach | Jabaley, John | Lindhardt, Thure
Directors: Penn, Sean
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INTO THE WILD is based on a true story and the bestselling book by Jon Krakauer. After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless (Hirsch) abandons his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (2007)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Parker, Mary-Louise | Proulx, Brooklynn | Bollinger, Dustin | Affleck, Casey | Rockwell, Sam | Renner, Jeremy | Shepard, Sam | Dillahunt, Garret | Schneider, Paul | McNichol, Joel | Defelice, James | Roberts, J.C. | Orydzuk, Darrell | Drachenberg, Jonathan Erich
Directors: Dominik, Andrew
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Robert Ford, who’s idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.