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Biography movie is a genre characterized by a concentration on the individual and his or her inner world.
The biography film tells about the life of some great personality. It should be a worldwide known personality. Often, the biography film is an attempt to make clear for audience who this person actually was. Even if this individual during his or her lifetime was not at all a noble person, film biography tries to find justification for his or her disagreeable actions. The biography focuses on the inner world of a man, explains his motives and aims.
Genre Biography
Soul Surfer
Genres: Biography
Starring: Stephen McCole, John Diehl, Heather Robinson, Joe Kelly, Nuno Ãvila
A teenage surfer girl summons the courage to go back into the ocean after losing an arm in a shark attack.
There Be Dragons
Genres: Biography
Starring: Marc Forster, Tanea Heke, Sally Spencer Harris, Hilary Cleary, Rakai Karaitiana
A young journalist long ago rejected by his now aged and dying father finds himself investigating one of his father's former friends, a candidate for canonization. Uncovering the two men's complicated relationship from childhood through the horrors of the Spanish Civil War unveils a compelling drama filled with passion, betrayal, love and religion. An action packed story set during a murderous time in history that ultimately serves the present by revealing the importance and timeless power of forgiveness.
Kill the Irishman
Genres: Biography
Starring: Brad Wright, Rebecca Chatfield, Jermaine Washington
The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's.
Guan yun chang
Genres: Biography
Starring: Jeff Maguire, Jac Flanders, Sebastian Maniscalco, David Beatty, Jael Elizabeth Steinmeyer
This historical martial arts film adapted from the story of Guan Yu crossing five passes and slaying six generals in Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In AD 200 during the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao eliminates his political opponents Dong Cheng and others, before turning his attention towards rival warlords Liu Bei and Yuan Shao. To avoid fighting a war on two fronts, Cao Cao decides to attack Liu Bei first. Liu Bei flees north to join Yuan Shao, while his family is captured by the enemy. Liu Bei's sworn brother Guan Yu (Donnie Yen), surrenders to Cao Cao to uphold his oath of brotherhood and preserve his honor. Cao Cao knows he's a great warrior & hopes that Guan Yu will continue serving him. Meanwhile, Guan Yu is secretly in love with his sworn brother's concubine Qilan, but is afraid to express his feelings to her. Qilan reproaches Guan Yu for serving Cao Cao...
The Devil's Double
Genres: Biography
Starring: Erin Bethea, Brianna Hochstedler, Breena Shepard, General Fermon Judd Jr., Marilyn M. Matheus
Bagdad, the playground for the rich and infamous, where anything can be bought - but for a price. This is Uday Hussein's world and with his depraved lust for debauchery and immorality, he helps himself to whatever turns him on. When army lieutenant Latif Yahia, is summoned to Saddam's palace, he is faced with an impossible request - to be Uday's 'fiday' - his body double, or have his family condemned to death. In a world entrenched in betrayal and corruption knowing who to trust becomes a matter of life or death for Latif, as he battles to escape from his forced existence.
Moneyball
Genres: Biography
Starring: Kien Shih, Eugenie Bondurant, Kirk Douglas, Walter Brooke, Henry O
Oakland A's GM Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series, Billy must find a competitive advantage. Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the team.
God Bless Ozzy Osbourne
Genres: Biography
Starring: Tristian Martinez
Ozzy Osbourne's four decade track record as a culturally relevant artist is unprecedented, but his personal struggles have been shrouded in secrecy, until now. Featuring never before seen footage uncovered from the archives and interviews with Paul McCartney, Tommy Lee and others, God Bless Ozzy Osbourne is the first documentary to take viewers inside the complex mind of rock's great icon. Emerging from a working class family in war torn England, Osbourne and his neighborhood friends formed Black Sabbath and invented heavy metal. Plagued by self doubt, Osbourne the solo superstar went on a binge that lasted 40 years. God Bless Ozzy Osbourne will relive the highs of his triumphs as well as his journey to sobriety, which Ozzy regards as his greatest accomplishment.
J. Edgar
Genres: Biography
Starring: Eric Bross, Chris, James Upton, Patricia Wells, Anne Jackson
As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.
William & Kate
Genres: Biography
Starring: David Cronenberg, Teerawat Mulvilai, Michelle Nicastro, Cory Martin, Matt Birch
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The Iron Lady
Genres: Biography
Starring: Oliver Stone, Ali Marsh, Peter Morgan, Khail Bryant, William Duffy
Tells the story of a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is a surprising and insightful portrait of an extraordinary and complex woman.
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Genres: Biography
Starring:
IF A TREE FALLS is a rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's 'number one domestic terrorist threat.' With unprecedented access and a nuanced point of view, the documentary tells the story of Daniel McGowan, an ELF member who faced life in prison for two multi-million dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies. The film employs McGowan's story to examine larger questions about environmentalism, activism, and terrorism.
Howl
Genres: Biography
Starring: George Bush, Steve Wertimer, Brittany Slattery, Alexandra Lee, Sanford Jensen
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and animation that echoes the poem's surreal style. All three coalesce in hybrid that dramatizes the birth of a counterculture.
Conviction
Genres: Biography
Starring: Jon Bon Jovi, Craig Cox, Harry Enfield, Chris J. Nelson, Marieno Savoie
Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
Casino Jack
Genres: Biography
Starring: Danny Mora, Oscar Harts, Brittany Ishibashi , Jarion Monroe, Jimmy MacInnis
A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.
127 Hours
Genres: Biography
Starring: Barton Heyman, Bjorn Thorstad, Irene Drake, Sharon Gurney, Jim Ngaata
127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he can be rescued. Throughout his journey, Ralston recalls friends, lovers, family, and the two hikers he met before his accident. Will they be the last two people he ever had the chance to meet?
Fair Game
Genres: Biography
Starring: Andre Braugher, Dylan Mooney, Stephen Slates, Alisha Boe, Domenico Paolella
Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.
The King's Speech
Genres: Biography
Starring: Mickey Liddell, Orlando Wells, Roland Düringer, Tobias Moretti, Chulpan Khamatova
Tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stammer and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country through war.
Cornelis
Genres: Biography
Starring: Karren Karagulian, Victoria Tate, Cindy Lopez, Roger Harkavy, Chris Bergoch
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.
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Genres: Biography
Starring: Katarzyna Dolinska, Felix Pire, Sam Hilwi, Zaa Nkweta
This documentary follows one year in the life of , who sees herself first and foremost as an actress, with her life as a comedienne/writer just an extension of being an actress. Now at age 75, Rivers has faced her ups and downs in her forty plus year career, the year leading up to filming being a down compared to what she would have wanted, which is a calendar full of engagements with several engagements each day. That want is in part to support her opulent personal lifestyle, but is more a need to bolster her own sense of self-worth as a basically insecure person who is probably best known now for her overuse of cosmetic surgery rather than her professional work. She feels that , who she admires, is now getting all the engagements she would have gotten in her prime. During this year, Rivers is seen going from engagement to engagement, some big - such as a Kennedy Center Honors for ...
Vallanzasca - Gli angeli del male
Genres: Biography
Starring: Joan Heney, Zach Selwyn, Roger Barnes, Molly Orr, Nikki Tilroe
A biography of Milanese bank robber Renato Vallanzasca.
The Fighter
Genres: Biography
Starring: Bill Callahan, Norman Forsey, Jonathan Blick, Katrina Hobbs, Ken Blackburn
The Fighter, is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KO'd by drugs and crime.
Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque)
Genres: Biography
Starring: Chad Thumann, Geoffrey Wigdor, Bryan Gordon, Nicole Miller, Dee Arlen
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
Yip Man 2
Genres: Biography
Starring: Nicole McCree, W.D. Richter, Adriana Maggs, Steve Cochrane, Jonny Harris
Ip Man 2 is a 2010 Hong Kong biographical martial arts film loosely based on the life of Ip Man, a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun. A sequel to the 2008 film Ip Man, the film was directed by Wilson Yip, and stars Donnie Yen, who reprises the leading role. Continuing after the events of the earlier film, the sequel centers on Ip's movements in Hong Kong, which is under British colonial rule. He attempts to propagate his discipline of Wing Chun, but faces rivalry from other practitioners, including the local master of Hung Ga martial arts.
Marwencol
Genres: Biography
Starring: Whitney Harris
"Marwencol" is a documentary about the fantasy world of Mark Hogancamp. After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, Mark builds a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. Mark populates the town he dubs "Marwencol" with dolls representing his friends and family and creates life-like photographs detailing the town's many relationships and dramas. Playing in the town and photographing the action helps Mark to recover his hand-eye coordination and deal with the psychic wounds of the attack. When Mark and his photographs are discovered, a prestigious New York gallery sets up an art show. Suddenly Mark's homemade therapy is deemed "art", forcing him to choose between the safety of his fantasy life in Marwencol and the real world that he's avoided since the attack.
Holy Rollers
Genres: Biography
Starring: Bill Nunn, James Blackwell, Vic Browder, Kristina Copeland, Derek Green
Inspired by a true story of a young Hasidic man who was lured into the world of international drug trafficking in the late 90s.
The Wildest Dream
Genres: Biography
Starring: Richard T. Jones
Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory's frozen remains 75 years later.
The Weird World of Blowfly
Genres: Biography
Starring:
Clarence Reid is a musician who wrote and produced romantic and spiritual songs for some of the greatest Southern soul and R&B acts of the 1960s and '70s. He is also the gonzo performer Blowfly, Clarence's freaky alter ego and the original X-rated rapper. "The Weird World of Blowfly" explores both sides of this hilarious and controversial artist, providing a rare, inside peek at the infamous linguist's daily life. Now 69-years-old, with a gold-spangled superhero costume and a catalog of the world's raunchiest tunes, Blowfly tours the world, still struggling for success and recognition after 50 years of making music. The film highlights both Clarence's and Blowfly's unique contributions to music history, including Top-10 R&B hits and what might be the world's first rap song, recorded in 1965. Shot over the course of two years, the film follows Clarence at home and around the world...
Biography films reflect the life stories of real people. In most cases, these films are dramas. One of the subgenres of biography is autobiography, where the story (a literary work or a screen script) is written by a major participant of the film events.
Below you can see a list of the most successful biography films:
• The Aviator, 2004
• Alexander. Battle of the Neva (2008)
• Andersen. Life without love (2006)
•Miss Potter, 2006
•The Pianist, 2002
• The Social Network, 2010
• A River Runs Through It, 1992