39 Movies in the Biography genre.
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Saving Mr. Banks [PG-13]
Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen. - USA, UK, Australia
Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley, Colin Farrell
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Captain Phillips [PG-13]
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. - USA
Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman
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Dallas Buyers Club [R]
In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is himself diagnosed with the disease. - USA
Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Denis O'Hare
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Rush [R]
The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda. - UK, Germany
Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara
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Infamous [R]
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. - USA
Sigourney Weaver, Toby Jones, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sandra Bullock
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The Iceman [R]
The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man. When finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor daughters have any clue about his real profession. - USA
Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Chris Evans, Ray Liotta
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Jobs [PG-13]
The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century. - USA, Switzerland
Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas
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The Railway Man [R]
A former British Army officer, who was tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him. - Australia, UK, Switzerland
Jeremy Irvine, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Michael MacKenzie
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Philomena [PG-13]
A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent. - UK, USA, France
Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Mare Winningham
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42 [PG-13]
The story of Jackie Robinson from his signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in 1945 to his historic 1947 rookie season when he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. - USA
Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni
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The King's Speech [R]
The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it. - UK, USA, Australia
Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi, Robert Portal
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The Fighter [R]
A look at the early years of boxer 'Irish' Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s. - USA
Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo
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Casino Jack [R]
A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder. - Canada
Kevin Spacey, Ruth Marshall, Graham Greene, Hannah Endicott-Douglas
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I Love You Phillip Morris [R]
A cop turns con man once he comes out of the closet. Once imprisoned, he meets the second love of his life, whom he'll stop at nothing to be with. - France, USA
Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro
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Rosewater [R]
Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy. - USA
Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas, Haluk Bilginer
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Selma [PG-13]
A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965. - UK, USA, France
David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Jim France, Trinity Simone
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Pirates of Silicon Valley [NOT RATED]
History of Apple and Microsoft. - USA
Noah Wyle, Joey Slotnick, J.G. Hertzler, Anthony Michael Hall
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Party Monster [R]
Based on the true story of Michael Alig, a Club Kid party organizer whose life was sent spiraling down when he bragged on television about killing his drug dealer and roommate. - USA, Netherlands
Seth Green, Macaulay Culkin, Diana Scarwid, Dillon Woolley
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The Imitation Game [PG-13]
During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians. - USA, UK
Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear
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Girl, Interrupted [R]
Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s. - USA, Germany
Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy
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Fruitvale Station [R]
The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008. - USA
Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Durand
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Lee Daniels' The Butler [PG-13]
As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society. - USA
Forest Whitaker, David Banner, Michael Rainey Jr., LaJessie Smith
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12 Years a Slave [R]
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. - USA, UK
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dwight Henry, Dickie Gravois, Bryan Batt
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A Moment in History: The Inauguration of Barack Obama [NOT RATED]
N/A - USA
Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Jimmy Carter
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Southside with You [PG-13]
The film chronicles the summer 1989 afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side. - USA
Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Phillip Edward Van Lear
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The Informant! [R]
The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre. - USA
Matt Damon, Lucas McHugh Carroll, Eddie Jemison, Rusty Schwimmer
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The Greatest Showman [PG]
Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. - USA
Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya
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BlacKkKlansman [R]
Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events. - USA
Alec Baldwin, John David Washington, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Robert John Burke
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Roots [TV-14]
A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation. - USA
Robert Reed, John Amos, Louis Gossett Jr., Lynda Day George
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Unbroken: Path to Redemption [N/A]
When the war ended, his battle began. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling book, UNBROKEN: PATH TO REDEMPTION begins where Unbroken ends, sharing the next amazing chapter of Olympian ... - USA
Samuel Hunt, Merritt Patterson, Bobby Campo, David Sakurai
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Boy Erased [R]
The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents. - Australia, USA
Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Madelyn Cline
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? [R]
When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception. - USA
Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? [R]
When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception. - USA
Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone
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At Eternity's Gate [PG-13]
A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France. - Switzerland, Ireland, UK, France, USA
Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen
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The Old Man & the Gun [PG-13]
Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. - USA
Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover
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Till [PG-13]
In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice. - United States, United Kingdom
Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison
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The Hurricane [R]
The story of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence. - United States
Denzel Washington, Vicellous Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger
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Piece by Piece [PG]
A vibrant journey through the life of Pharrell Williams, told through the lens of LEGO animation. - United States, Denmark
Pharrell Williams, Morgan Neville, Kendrick Lamar
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Bojangles [TV-14]
The life of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African-American tap-dancing star of stage and screen. - United States
Gregory Hines, Peter Riegert, Kimberly Elise
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