Best Biographies by Rank
2816
439
2016
Amma Asante
David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Jack Davenport, Tom Felton, Laura Carmichael
Biography / Drama / Romance
Czech Republic / UK / USA
English
2816
439
2021
Lee Daniels
Andra Day, Leslie Jordan, Miss Lawrence, Natasha Lyonne, Trevante Rhodes
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
2816
439
2018
Kevin Macdonald
Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Bobby Brown, Nelson Mandela, Merv Griffin
Documentary / Biography / Music
UK / USA
English
2817
440
2011
David Lickley
Morgan Freeman, Birute Galdikas, Daphne Sheldrick
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2817
440
2010
Alex Gibney
Eliot Spitzer, Kim Allen, Wrenn Schmidt, Laura Somma
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2817
440
2014
James Keach
Glen Campbell, Bruce Springsteen, Bill Clinton, Paul McCartney, Jay Leno
Documentary / Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
2817
440
2021
Julie Cohen, Betsy West
José Andrés, Julia Child, André Cointreau, Susy Davidson
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2817
440
2009
Michael Hoffman
James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer
Biography / Drama / Period Film
Germany / Russia / UK
English
2817
440
1944
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, Dennis O'Keefe, Carol Thurston
Drama / Action / Adventure / Romance / War / Biography
USA
English
2817
440
2014
Jean-Marc Vallée
Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski, Keene McRae, Michiel Huisman
Biography / Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2817
440
2009
Ben Steinbauer
Jack Rebney, Ben Steinbauer, Keith Gordon, Nick Prueher, Joe Pickett
Documentary / Biography / Comedy
USA
English
2818
441
2009
Vikram Jayanti
Phil Spector, Lana Clarkson, Bobby Hatfield, Bill Medley, Ronma Perry
Documentary / Music / Biography / Crime
USA / UK
English
2818
441
2007
Shekhar Kapur
Jordi Mollà, Aimee King, Cate Blanchett, John Shrapnel, Geoffrey Rush
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
UK / France
English
2818
441
2008
Adam Del Deo, James D. Stern
Michael Bennett, Bob Avian, Marvin Hamlisch, Donna McKechnie, Baayork Lee
Documentary / Musical / Biography
USA
English
2818
441
2019
Stephen Merchant
Dwayne Johnson, Thomas Whilley, Tori Ellen Ross, Nick Frost, Lena Headey
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Sports
UK / USA
English
2818
441
2000
David Shapiro, Laurie Shapiro
Tobias Schneebaum, Norman Mailer, Charlie Rose, Mike Douglas
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2818
441
2018
Matthew Heineman
Rosamund Pike, Greg Wise, Alexandra Moen, Tom Hollander, Faye Marsay
Biography / Drama / War
UK / USA
English
2818
441
2015
Jay Roach
Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, John Goodman, Louis C.K., Elle Fanning
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2824
442
1994
Jacques Rivette
Tatiana Moukhine, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Marie Richier, Baptiste Roussillon
Biography / Drama / Epic / History
France
French
2824
442
1994
Jacques Rivette
Sandrine Bonnaire, André Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard, Marcel Bozonnet
Biography / Drama / Epic / History
France
French
2832
443
1955
Kinuyo Tanaka
Yumeji Tsukioka, Ryôji Hayama, Junkichi Orimoto, Hiroko Kawasaki
Biography / Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2835
444
1968
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang, Bob van Asperen, Bernd Weikl
Biography / History / Music / Drama
West Germany / Italy
German
2837
445
1912
James Keane, André Calmettes
Robert Gemp, Frederick Warde, Albert Gardner, James Keane, George Moss
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
France / USA
English (Silent)
2840
446
2013
Steve Hoover
Rocky Braat, Steve Hoover
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2840
446
1993
Andrew Young, Susan Todd, Michael Roemer, Robert M. Young
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA
English
2840
446
2002
Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco
Mai Thi Kim, Heidi Neville-Bub, Gerald Ford, Tom Miller, Tran Tuong Nhu
Documentary / Biography / War
USA
English
2840
446
1998
Liz Garbus, Wilbert Rideau, Jonathan Stack
Bernard Addison, Burl Cain, George Crawford, Wilbert Rideau, Vincent Simmons
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA
English
2840
446
1991
Camille Billops, James Hatch
Camille Billops
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2840
446
2006
Juan Carlos Rulfo
Sofia García López, José Guadalupe Calzada
Documentary / Biography
Mexico
Spanish
2840
446
2007
Jason Kohn
Documentary / Crime / Biography
Brazil / USA
English
2840
446
2013
Talal Derki
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Syria / Germany
Arabic
2840
446
2014
Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos
Documentary / Biography / Drama
USA
English
2840
446
1993
Peter Friedman, Tom Joslin
Liane Bonin, Tom Joslin, Mark Massi
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2840
446
2001
Kate Davis
Robert Eads, Lola Cola, Maxwell Scott Anderson, Cas Piotrowski, Corissa Anderson
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2840
446
2004
Leonard Retel Helmrich
Documentary / Religion / Biography
Netherlands
Indonesian
2840
446
1995
Steven Ascher, Jeanne Jordan
Bob Blankenship, Dean Eilts, Marge Harold, Gini Jordan, Grace Jordan
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2840
446
2011
Andrés Wood
Francisca Gavilán, Thomas Durand, Luis Machín, Gabriela Aguilera
Biography / Music / Drama
Chile / Argentina / Brazil
Spanish
2840
446
1987
Jill Godmilow
Linda Bassett, Linda Hunt, Jacques Boudet, Pierre-Alain Chapuis
Drama / Biography
UK / France / USA / West Germany
English
2840
446
2015
Crystal Moselle
Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo, Krsna Angulo, Mukunda Angulo,
Documentary / Biography / Drama
USA
English
2849
447
1971
Werner Herzog
Heinrich Fleischmann, Vladimir Kokol, Fini Straubinger
Documentary / Biography
West Germany
German
2852
448
1993
Nikita Mikhalkov
Anna Mikhalkova, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Nikita Mikhalkov
Documentary / Biography
Russia / France
Russian
2852
448
1995
Scott Kalvert
Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol, James Madio, Patrick McGaw
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2852
448
2001
Ted Demme
Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente, Rachel Griffiths, Paul Reubens
Biography / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2852
448
2006
Amy Berg
Thomas Doyle, Oliver O'Grady
Documentary / Biography / Religion
USA
English
2852
448
1997
Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Keith Fulton, Terry Gilliam, Dorothea Braemer, Kristi Connors, Ken Haas
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2852
448
2001
Richard Eyre
Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville, Penelope Wilton
Biography / Drama
UK / USA
English
2852
448
1995
Krzysztof Wierzbicki
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Documentary / Biography
Denmark / Poland
Polish
2852
448
1994
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Örvar Jens Arnarson, Rúrik Haraldsson, Orri Helgason
Drama / Biography
Iceland / Germany / Denmark
Icelandic
2852
448
1996
Barry Levinson
Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Vittorio Gassman, Brad Pitt
Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2852
448
1992
Daniel Bergman
Thommy Berggren, Henrik Linnros, Lena Endre, Jacob Leygraf, Anna Linnros
Adventure / Drama / Biography
Sweden / Denmark / Finland / Iceland / Norway
Swedish
2852
448
1994
Adawna, Frank Cardon, La Traun Parker
Frank Cardon, Adwana, Gloria, La Traun Parker
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2852
448
1996
Dan Ireland
Vincent D'Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell
Biography / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2856
449
1972
Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Documentary / History / Biography
Japan
Japanese
2859
450
1972
Luchino Visconti
Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Gert Fröbe
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film / Epic
France / Italy / West Germany
Italian
2860
451
1991
Nicolás Echevarría
Juan Diego, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Roberto Sosa
Action / Adventure / Drama / Biography
Mexico / Spain / USA / UK
Spanish
2860
451
1976
Federico Fellini
Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne, Carmen Scarpitta
Drama / Comedy / Biography / Period Film
Italy / USA
Italian
2860
451
1978
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Zdzislaw Mrozewski, Marek Walczewski, Henryk Bista
Drama / Biography
Poland
Polish
2860
451
1974
Werner Herzog
Walter Steiner
Documentary / Biography / Sports
West Germany
German
2860
451
1991
Maurice Pialat
Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq
Drama / Biography / Period Film
France
French
NR
-
2012
Mark Christopher Covino, Jeff Howlett
Alice Cooper, Bobby Hackney, Dannis Hackney, David Hackney, Henry Rollins
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
NR
-
2006
Eric Steel, Raymond Wood
Randall Blizzard, Harold Blizzard, Chris Piner, Allison Ruby Poss, Tommy Roche
Documentary / Biography
UK / USA
English
NR
-
1917
J. Gordon Edwards
Theda Bara, Fritz Leiber, Thurston Hall, Alan Roscoe, Herschel Mayall
Biography / Drama / History / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
NR
-
2016
Nitesh Tiwari
Aamir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Aparshakti Khurana
Action | Biography | Drama | Sports
India
Hindi
NR
-
1940
Clarence Brown
Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
NR
-
1980
William Wiard
Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush, Slim Pickens
Western / Biography
USA
English
