Browse Movies : TBA Month : Biography (Page #6)

A narrative that connects Leonardo da Vinci's art to his science and voracious curiosity and imagination.

A biopic about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.

While in Paris in the late 1700s, Madame Tussaud's initial interests in her art leads to her harrowing experiences in the French Revolution creating death masks and barely surviving the guillotine herself.

This film tells the story of John Madden, a legendary NFL coach. Madden's dream was to become a head coach, and he achieved great success. However, the pressures of the job eventually took a toll on him, leading him to step away. The film focuses on his friendship with Al Davis, the owner of the Oakland Raiders, and how Madden found a new path that made him even more famous.

A biopic of legendary matador Manuel Rodriguez Sanchez (Adrien Brody) and his love affair with actress Lupe Sino (Penelope Cruz), which continued until his death in the bullring in 1947 at 30.

Tells the tumultuous, beautiful, and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest opera singer, relived and re-imagined during her final days in 1970s Paris.

A method actor who refuses to put his private life on display, Montgomery Clift graduates from stage roles to screen success in films that include "A Place In The Sun" and "From Here To Eternity." His matinee idol good looks are destroyed by a devastating car accident that leaves him with a broken nose and facial scars. Though he continues to make movies, the accident haunts him until his death, even though he receives an Oscar nomination for one of his last performances in Judgment At Nuremberg.

An English journalist and war correspondent's account of the Bosnian War, and alternates between his experiences in Bosnia and personal reflections of his time in the British army, his parents’ divorce, his estrangement from his father, and his heroin addiction.

Set in Havana in 1959, it's the story of a young journalist searching for a father and family against the backdrop of the Cuban revolution, and how he finds his own "papa" in the drunken, gun-toting Hemingway.

A stereotypical Hollywood agent with a drug-fueled lifestyle and a collection of ex-wives, throws it all away and embeds himself with the Marines in Iraq as a war documentary filmmaker.

Betty Robinson sets an unofficial world record in the 100-meter at the age of 16. At the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, running in just her fourth official 100-meter race, Robinson wins gold — the first gold medal awarded to a woman in track and field at the Olympics. In 1931, tragedy strikes when Robinson is involved in a terrible plane crash. It takes her two years to learn to walk again, and, incredibly, she is able to make the U.S. team for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Sabrina Greenlee, a young, single mother, is attacked and left for dead. She finds herself in a battle to change the course of her life and stay on the new path she's created for herself and her four children, one of whom, DeAndre Hopkins, becomes a star wide receiver for the Houston Texans.

The film is set in the ghetto of Soviet Russia and follows two boys who are members of a gang of exiled Siberians.

Story of the landmark Signal Hill police brutality case in 1981 with Anthony Mackie playing attorney Johnnie Cochran.

Centers on the life and death of fashion superstar Roy Halston and his long-term friendship with Liza Minnelli.

Set in the 1970s, Janet Guthrie, a pilot turned racecar driver, makes a bid for the Indianapolis 500 in 1976 despite relentless opposition from the racing establishment and the men she hopes to race against. Janet qualifies for the race in 1978 where she finishes in the top ten, destroying many widely-held stereotypes about female drivers.

The story centers on the romance between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayme, Jazz Age icons whose courtship and marriage was riddled with jealousy and acrimony. Fitzgerald used their relationship as material for h is novels, and Sayre, who ended up being admitted to a sanitarium, did the same.

Based on a true story about the controversial love affair between an oil baron and his adopted daughter destroys the empire they built together.