Biography Movies

In 1973, towards the end of the Franco regime, the famous catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda bumped into the literary critic Josep Maria Castellet in Genev...

A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.

Scenes of the childhood of a girl, living in a small Brazilian town.

In the midst of a war between Venice and Genoa, Marco Polo, a citizen of Venice, is imprisoned by the inquisition and is charged with heresy.

This music biography portrays the life of the legendary blues singer and songwriter Alberta Hunter. After 40 years of show business success beginning...

Boasting an impressive physique, Lex Luger is given the moniker "The Narcissist" and later "The All-American"; Luger's winning streak comes to a halt...

Kishan, a bandit, is betrayed by his friend, gets arrested and is sent to prison during the British rule in India. The police suspect his wife and bro...

Who was Kevin Smith before he was Kevin Smith? Well, he was THIS guy...no seriously, this is based on a true story.

Based on the memoir of the same name, A House in the Sky tells the story of Amanda Lindhout, whose deep passion for exploration of the world's most re...

YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE: Franz Liszt was a virtuoso pianist that took early nineteenth-century Europe by storm. He conquered the Parisian salons with pass...

Originally aired as part of the Arena series, this BBC biography of Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex. She is one of the first black women singer-songwriters...

At 18, George Ward left the Gypsy community. He had felt rejected having come out as gay. Leaving his Gypsy identity behind, he invented Cherry Valent...

Guido Magnone's incredible adventure begins strangely on the banks of the Ourcq canal among a group of kids who dream of swimming. Guido, the solitary...

Two-part documentary about French director Jacques Tati chronicles the evolution of the filmmaker's alter ego, Monsieur Hulot, through archival interv...

Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) was a literary sensation who after a few productive years, suddenly fell silent. Struggling with writer's blo...

A biopic of the legendary Paul Bellini, by Bellini, of Bellini, for Bellini.

A portrait of the British writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928),who, although he had radical instincts, hated hypocrisy, was of great poetic brilliance, ha...