Oppenheimer
2023
Rating: 8.0
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....
biography movies
Indexed titles: 82
Lone Survivor
2013
Rating: 7.4
Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of ...
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013
Rating: 8.0
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world an...
GoodFellas
1990
Rating: 8.5
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs ...
I Swear
2025
Rating: 8.0
Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, ...
The Imitation Game
2014
Rating: 8.0
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his br...
Schindler's List
1993
Rating: 8.6
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his facto...
Hacksaw Ridge
2016
Rating: 8.2
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientiou...
The Greatest Showman
2017
Rating: 7.9
The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus....
Bohemian Rhapsody
2018
Rating: 8.0
Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they for...
Ford v Ferrari
2019
Rating: 8.0
American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physi...
Hidden Figures
2016
Rating: 8.0
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as...
Napoleon
2023
Rating: 6.3
An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism ...
Catch Me If You Can
2002
Rating: 8.0
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pil...
Reagan
2024
Rating: 6.3
Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked with Ronald Reagan's when Reagan first c...
A Complete Unknown
2024
Rating: 7.1
New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minneso...
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
2016
Rating: 7.3
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos....
The Smashing Machine
2025
Rating: 6.5
In the late 1990s, up-and-coming mixed martial artist Mark Kerr aspires to become the greatest fighter in the world. However, he must also b...
The Zone of Interest
2023
Rating: 7.0
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to t...
Michael
2026
Rating: 0.0
Discover the story of Michael Jackson, one of the most influential artists the world has ever known, and his life beyond the music, tracing ...
The Big Short
2015
Rating: 7.4
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown....
Megan Leavey
2017
Rating: 7.3
The true story of Marine Corporal Megan Leavey, who forms a powerful bond with an aggressive combat dog, Rex. While deployed in Iraq, the tw...
First Man
2018
Rating: 7.0
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moo...
Lee
2024
Rating: 7.0
The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during W...
Anthropoid
2016
Rating: 7.1
In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heyd...
The Pianist
2002
Rating: 8.4
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves f...
Tesla
2020
Rating: 5.8
The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by ...
Blonde
2022
Rating: 5.9
From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Ho...
Legend
2015
Rating: 7.1
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 196...
Secretariat
2010
Rating: 7.4
Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing k...
The King's Speech
2010
Rating: 7.7
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, Georg...
Waterloo
1970
Rating: 7.1
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has c...
American Sniper
2014
Rating: 7.4
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American histor...
Argo
2012
Rating: 7.3
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have foun...
Amina
2021
Rating: 6.4
In 16th-century Zazzau, now Zaria, Nigeria, Amina must utilize her military skills and tactics to defend her family's kingdom. Based on a tr...
Elvis
2022
Rating: 7.5
The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker....
Mank
2020
Rating: 6.7
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to fin...
The Aviator
2004
Rating: 7.2
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film...
The Pursuit of Happyness
2006
Rating: 7.9
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career....
Tolkien
2019
Rating: 6.9
England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a s...
Audrey
2020
Rating: 7.2
An unprecedented and intimate look at the life, work and enduring legacy of British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)....
Val
2021
Rating: 7.2
For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft thro...
Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012
Rating: 6.1
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn....
House of Gucci
2021
Rating: 6.6
When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the fami...
Vincere
2009
Rating: 6.7
The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to th...
I, Tonya
2017
Rating: 7.5
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown...
Stavisky...
1974
Rating: 5.9
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French politi...
Klimt
2006
Rating: 5.1
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early...
Colette
2018
Rating: 6.9
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in ru...
Experimenter
2015
Rating: 6.5
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re deliv...
Capone
2020
Rating: 5.0
The 47-year old Al Capone, after 10 years in prison, starts suffering from dementia and comes to be haunted by his violent past....
The Post
2017
Rating: 7.0
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 unpr...
Faye
2024
Rating: 6.3
Through honest reflection, complemented by insight from colleagues and friends, Faye Dunaway contextualizes her life and filmography, laying...
Taking Woodstock
2009
Rating: 6.2
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into...
Lola Montès
1955
Rating: 6.8
Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important...
Zappa
2020
Rating: 7.3
With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting t...
Monsieur Aznavour
2024
Rating: 7.3
From his poor childhood to his rise to fame, from his triumphs to his failures, from Paris to New York, discover the exceptional journey of ...
Outlaw King
2018
Rating: 6.8
Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne....
Molly's Game
2017
Rating: 7.2
Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she esta...
Milk
2008
Rating: 7.2
The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becom...
The Duchess
2008
Rating: 7.0
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and perso...
Mapplethorpe
2019
Rating: 6.3
A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989....
Hidalgo
2004
Rating: 6.9
Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a...
Sissi
1955
Rating: 7.3
The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to a...
BlacKkKlansman
2018
Rating: 7.5
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercove...
Napoleon
1927
Rating: 7.8
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign...
Radio
2003
Rating: 7.3
In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots a mentally disabled African-American you...
Darkest Hour
2017
Rating: 7.4
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing...
Chop Suey
2001
Rating: 4.0
A homage to Bruce Weber's Favourite things, these being mixing film, photography and classic movies. With portraits of a lesbian jazz singer...
Judy
2019
Rating: 6.7
Thirty years after starring in "The Wizard of Oz," beloved actress and singer Judy Garland arrives in London to perform sold-out shows at th...
Chaplin
1992
Rating: 7.4
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his tur...
Raging Bull
1980
Rating: 7.9
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it....
Bronson
2009
Rating: 7.0
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this ...
Into the Wild
2007
Rating: 7.8
After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $2...
Nixon
1995
Rating: 6.9
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from ...
Erin Brockovich
2000
Rating: 7.4
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes ...
Cass
2008
Rating: 5.9
The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London...
The Express
2008
Rating: 7.1
Follow the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy....
Saturday Night
2024
Rating: 6.7
At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. This is the story of what happ...
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
2025
Rating: 6.8
Bruce Springsteen, a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of h...
Malcolm X
1992
Rating: 7.5
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the ...
Frida
2002
Rating: 7.4
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work....