Best biography movies of all time imdb - Page 5
In the following page, you will see a ranking of the best biography movies of all time. We have gathered the ratings of Imdb, Metacritic, Filmaffinity and crafted our own algorithm and generated the following ratings.
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81. Loving Vincent (2017)
Loving Vincent is a painterly, oil-animated mystery-biography that follows Armand Roulin investigating Van Gogh’s last days. Lush painted frames, conflicting memories and elegiac mood leave his death ambiguous. read more
Genres: Animation, Biography, Crime
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82. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God follows a 16th-century Spanish quest for El Dorado that, under the unhinged Aguirre, degenerates into greed, paranoia, violence and collapse. read more
Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography
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83. Grizzly Man (2005)
Grizzly Man (2005) uses Timothy Treadwell’s own footage and Herzog’s commentary to depict his 13 summers living with Alaskan grizzlies, his obsession, the 2003 tragic deaths, and the ethical tensions. read more
Genres: Biography, Documentary
7.2
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84. Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022)
Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022) follows Ganga, betrayed and sold into a Mumbai brothel, who rises from exploitation to become a powerful underworld leader and activist fighting for women's dignity. read more
Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama
7.8
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7.8
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85. Pride (2014)
Pride (2014) is a warm, funny true-story about London LGBT activists who ally with striking Welsh miners in 1984. Against Thatcherism they build solidarity, blending comedy, politics and heart. read more
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama
7.2
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7.6
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86. The Killing Fields (1984)
The Killing Fields (1984) follows NYT reporter Sydney Schanberg and Cambodian interpreter Dith Pran amid the Khmer Rouge’s takeover — a harrowing, personal chronicle of survival, friendship and guilt. read more
Genres: Biography, Drama, History
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7.6
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87. The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
Burt Munro (Anthony Hopkins) obsessively rebuilds a 1920 Indian to race on Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats. A warm, uplifting underdog tale of craft, grit and quiet melancholy. read more
Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport
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88. Amy (2015)
Amy (2015) by Asif Kapadia uses archival footage to follow Amy Winehouse’s rise to fame and tragic decline into addiction, exposing pressures of stardom; Oscar winner. read more
Genres: Biography, Documentary, Music
7.3
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89. Argo (2012)
Argo (2012) follows CIA specialist Tony Mendez's audacious ruse to rescue six Americans during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis by posing as a Canadian film crew, blending tense espionage, human drama and Hollywood satire. read more
Genres: Biography, Drama, Thriller
7.2
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86
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90. The Theory of Everything (2014)
A tender biopic of Stephen Hawking, tracing his love with Jane, rise in cosmology and struggle with motor neuron disease—showing scientific brilliance amid physical decline and personal sacrifice. read more
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance
7.0
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7.3
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91. Donnie Brasco (1997)
Donnie Brasco: FBI agent Joe Pistone infiltrates the 1970s NYC Mafia, befriends Lefty. His double life ruins his marriage and morals — a slow, emotional drama about loyalty and betrayal. read more
Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama
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92. Changeling (2008)
Changeling (2008): In 1928 Los Angeles, Christine Collins refuses an impostor returned as her son, igniting a grim, personal fight against police corruption as horrific crimes emerge. read more
Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama
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93. Finding Neverland (2004)
Finding Neverland: J.M. Barrie befriends a widowed mother and her four boys in 1903; their imaginative play inspires Peter Pan. A tender, bittersweet story of creativity, loss and healing. read more
Genres: Biography, Drama, Family
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94. Ray (2004)
Ray is a music-driven biopic of Ray Charles—Jamie Foxx’s Oscar-winning portrayal—tracing his rise from a blinded, impoverished childhood to R&B stardom, amid racism, volatile relationships and heroin addiction. read more
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music
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95. Serpico (1973)
Serpico is a tense biographical drama about NYPD officer Frank Serpico, who exposes widespread police corruption, faces isolation and betrayal, survives a shooting, and helps spark the Knapp Commission. read more
Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama
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96. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) dramatizes the real-life crime spree of lovers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow: romantic thrills, bank robberies and car chases that escalate into brutal notoriety and a harrowing climax. read more
Genres: Action, Biography, Crime
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97. Frost/Nixon (2008)
Frost/Nixon dramatizes the 1977 TV interviews where David Frost, seeking credibility, confronts a defensive Richard Nixon over Watergate. Tense, psychological duel of media, power and reputation. read more
Genres: Biography, Drama, History
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98. The Last Emperor (1987)
The Last Emperor traces Pu Yi's rise from child emperor to gardener: lavish Forbidden City life, wartime collaboration in Manchukuo, capture and imprisonment, and painful reintegration—an elegiac meditation on power and identity. read more
Genres: Biography, Drama, History
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99. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) follows 23-year-old Ernesto "Che" Guevara and friend Alberto on a 1952 motorcycle trip across South America that shifts from playful adventure to a profound moral and political awakening. read more
Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama
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100. Malcolm X (1992)
Spike Lee’s Malcolm X (1992) traces Malcolm Little’s journey from crime and the Nation of Islam to pilgrimage, spiritual rebirth and his 1965 assassination — a powerful, complex biopic on identity, racism and leadership. read more
Genres: Biography, Drama, History
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