Biography Movies (Page #27)

A biopic about the life of photographer Diane Arbus, considered one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly bold artists of the 20th century. Most known for her obsession with 'freak' subject-matter, her haunting work emerged from a deeply private place. Arbus' death was as mysteriously tragic as was the aura surrounding some of her most piercing portraits.

Bernard King plays in the NBA for 14 seasons until 1993 and is a four-time All-Star. But besides chronic physical injuries, the Knicks star endures cycles of negativity and self-destructiveness due to childhood trauma and sobriety issues.

Ulrich Mott, an ambitious social climber, marries a wealthy widow in Washington D.C. in hopes of mixing with powerful political players.

The story of con man Bo Stefan Eriksson, who has been in and out of Swedish and U.S. jails for fraud, extortion, auto theft, kidnapping and other charges, and the video game company, Gizmondo, that he founded before filing for bankruptcy.

A biopic of Belfast, Ireland-based music legend Terri Hooley, founder of the Good Vibrations record store and record label, home of punk rockers The Undertones and Rudi and the Outcasts.

Joan Didion moves to New York when she is in her 20s and lives there until 1964. She and her newlywed husband John Gregory Dunne then move to Los Angeles and thus, begin her writing career as a journalist, essayist, author and screenwriter (with her husband).

The story of George Wagner, a professional wrestler, who helped transform the industry when he created a pompous, arrogant character everyone loved to hate.

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum creates four sixty-foot presidential heads carved in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

A biopic about Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Academy Award.

Hortense Laborie (Catherine Frot) becomes the private chef for French president (Jean D'Ormesson) when he falls in love with her cooking.

John Falk rallied from a near-suicidal state of depression by plunging himself into Sarajevo at the height of the civil war in 1993. He went armed with primitive recording equipment, clothes and a tube sock stuffed with the antidepression drug Zoloft. He knew nothing about reporting and had no outlet for his dispatches. One family took pity on him and gave him his first big scoop, an interview with a Bosnian sharpshooter. Falk, in turn, helped the family by securing scholarships to U.S. colleges for their teenage kids.

Mary Murphy, who wrote the book, "Scout, Atticus and Boo: A Celebration of 50 Years of To Kill A Mockingbird"—reflects upon the impact of Harper Lee’s classic masterpiece with such personalities as Tom Brokaw, Mary Badham, Oprah Winfrey and James Patterson.

Carolyn Briggs grew up with modest means in the Iowa heartland. Pregnant at seventeen, married a few months later, by the age of 18 she found herself living in a trailer with no plans beyond having more babies-until she found Jesus.

J.D. Vance (Gabriel Basso), a former Marine from southern Ohio and current Yale Law student, is on the verge of landing his dream job when a family crisis forces him to return to the home he’s tried to forget. J.D. must navigate the complex dynamics of his Appalachian family, including his volatile relationship with his mother Bev (Amy Adams), who’s struggling with addiction. Fueled by memories of his grandmother Mamaw (Glenn Close), the resilient and whip-smart woman who raised him, J.D. comes to embrace his family’s indelible imprint on his own personal journey.

Based on Michael Drosnin’s Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness that focuses on the freakier decades of Hughes remarkably secretive and OCD-addled life.

Biopic about one of the biggest names in wrestling of all time, Hulk "Hollywood" Hogan.

Amy Purdy nearly dies after catching Neisseria meningitis at age 19. Though she loses both legs, Purdy becomes a world class snowboarder, a 2014 Paralympic medalist, and a fan favorite contestant on "Dancing With The Stars," where she finishes as runner-up in 2014.

At age 4 Sammy Davis, Jr. begins singing and dancing with his father on the vaudeville circuit. Later on he helps to shatter race barriers in Las Vegas, and he arouses the ire of racists by dating white actresses including Kim Novak, which hinders his film career. He also becomes a Rat Pack member and rubs elbows with everyone from Frank Sinatra to President Kennedy to Martin Luther King Jr.

Before Errol Flynn became one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood, he was braving cannibals and crocodiles while searching the jungles of Papua New Guinea for gold with his ragtag crew. Flynn is forced to learn what it means to be a master of his own destiny.