Best Biographies by Title
2335
278
1946
Kenji Mizoguchi
Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô
Drama / Biography / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2860
451
1991
Maurice Pialat
Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq
Drama / Biography / Period Film
France
French
2775
419
2003
Joel Schumacher
Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker, Don Wycherley
Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
USA / Ireland / UK
English
1660
142
2018
Adam McKay
Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Alison Pill
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Epic
USA
English
2693
394
2017
Stephen Frears
Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard, Adeel Akhtar, Michael Gambon
Biography | Drama | History / Comedy
UK / USA
English
2483
313
1937
Herbert Wilcox
Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilla, H.B. Warner, Mary Morris
Drama / History / Romance / Biography
UK
English
2807
434
2016
Dave Davidson, Amber Edwards
Vince Giordano, Garrison Keillor, David Johansen, Terry Gross, George Wein
Documentary / Biography / History / Music
USA
English
2801
432
2008
Jennifer Burns
Vincent Falk
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2231
252
1990
Robert Altman
Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Adrian Brine, Jean-François Perrier, Yves Dangerfield
Biography / Drama
Netherlands / UK / France
English
2783
421
1987
Paul Cox
John Hurt, Marika Rivera, Gabriella Trsek
Animation / Biography / Drama / Documentary
Australia
English
2801
432
2009
Marco Bellocchio
Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Corrado Invernizzi, Fausto Russo Alesi
Biography / Drama / History / Epic
Italy / France
Italian
2840
446
2011
Andrés Wood
Francisca Gavilán, Thomas Durand, Luis Machín, Gabriela Aguilera
Biography / Music / Drama
Chile / Argentina / Brazil
Spanish
1193
91
1934
Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman
Wallace Beery, Fay Wray
Western / Action / Biography
USA
English
951
67
1952
Elia Kazan
Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2664
378
2008
Oliver Stone
Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Ellen Burstyn, Thandie Newton
Biography / Comedy / Drama
USA / Hong Kong / Germany / UK / Australia
English
2801
432
1997
William Gazecki
Dan Gifford, Clive Doyle, Jack Harwell, Dick J. Reavis, James D. Tabor
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2840
446
1987
Jill Godmilow
Linda Bassett, Linda Hunt, Jacques Boudet, Pierre-Alain Chapuis
Drama / Biography
UK / France / USA / West Germany
English
2676
386
2009
Don Hahn
Roy Edward Disney, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Tim Burton, Don Bluth
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2807
434
2015
Robert Zemeckis
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Guillaume Baillargeon, Émilie Leclerc, Mark Trafford
Adventure / Biography / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1669
145
2005
James Mangold
Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick
Biography / Drama / Music / Romance
USA
English
2792
425
1987
Alex Cox
Ed Harris, Richard Masur, René Assa, Rene Auberjonois
Action / Adventure / War / Drama / Biography
USA / Mexico / Spain
English
2789
424
1970
Keith Larsen, Koji Senno, Nobuaki Shirai
Dale Robertson, Yûjirô Ishihara, Frank Sinatra Jr.
Drama / Biography / War
Japan
English
2689
392
1973
Phil Karlson
Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Gene Evans, Noah Beery Jr., Brenda Benet
Crime / Drama / Action / Thriller / Biography
USA
English
446
22
2008
Ari Folman
Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman, Dror Harazi, Yehezkel Lazarov, Mickey Leon
Animation / Biography / Drama / War / History
Israel / Germany / France
Hebrew
2539
339
2010
Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim
Vik Muniz, Fabio Ghivelder, Sebastiao Carlos Dos Santos
Documentary / Biography
Brazil / UK
Portuguese
2807
434
2004
Yaron Zilberman
Judith Haspel, Trude Hirschler, Anni Lampl, Hanni Lux, Ann Marie Pisker
Documentary / History / Sports / Biography
France / Israel / USA
English
2154
231
1982
Jim Brown
Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Arlo Guthrie, Mary Travers
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2732
404
2016
Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg
Anthony Weiner
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2807
434
2022
Eric Appel
Diedrich Bader, Daniel Radcliffe, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Richard Aaron Anderson
Comedy / Crime / Music / Biography
USA
English
2807
434
2018
Rob Garver
Pauline Kael, Roger Ebert, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Schrader, Francis Ford Coppola
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2676
386
1993
Brian Gibson
Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Jenifer Lewis, Phyllis Stickney
Biography / Drama / Musical
USA
English
1849
176
1996
Leon Gast
Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown, B.B. King, Mobutu Sese Seko
Documentary / History / Sports / Biography
USA
English
2663
377
2019
Matt Tyrnauer
Roy Cohn, Barbara Walters, Roger Stone, Ken Auletta, Anne Roiphe, Donald Trump
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2794
427
2018
Ralph Fiennes
Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann, Adèle Exarchopoulos
Biography / Drama
UK / France
English
2807
434
2014
Joe Berlinger
James 'Whitey' Bulger, Stephen Rakes, Tommy Donahue, David Boeri, Steve Davis
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA
English
2816
439
2018
Kevin Macdonald
Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Bobby Brown, Nelson Mandela, Merv Griffin
Documentary / Biography / Music
UK / USA
English
2852
448
1996
Dan Ireland
Vincent D'Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell
Biography / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2817
440
2014
Jean-Marc Vallée
Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski, Keene McRae, Michiel Huisman
Biography / Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2689
392
1923
Clifford Smith
William S. Hart, Ethel Grey Terry, Kathleen O'Connor, Jim Farley, Jack Gardner
History / Western / Biography
USA
English (Silent)
1115
78
1970
François Truffaut
François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol
Drama / Period Film / Biography
France
French
2807
434
2003
Judy Irving
Mark Bittner, Judy Irving
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2801
432
1997
Brian Gilbert
Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle, Gemma Jones
Biography / Drama / Period Film
UK / Germany / Japan
English
1447
119
1944
Henry King
Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2197
241
2013
Hayao Miyazaki
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Martin Short, Stanley Tucci
Animation / Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Fantasy
Japan
Japanese
2743
409
1957
John Ford
John Wayne, Dan Dailey, Maureen O'Hara, Ward Bond, Ken Curtis
Drama / Biography / War
USA
English
2817
440
2009
Ben Steinbauer
Jack Rebney, Ben Steinbauer, Keith Gordon, Nick Prueher, Joe Pickett
Documentary / Biography / Comedy
USA
English
2807
434
1952
Lewis Seiler
Doris Day, Ronald Reagan, Frank Lovejoy, Eve Miller, James Millican
Biography / Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
2260
257
1952
Walter Lang
Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne, Thelma Ritter
Drama / Musical / Biography
USA
English
2809
436
1930
unknown
Richard E. Byrd, Clair D. Alexander, Bernt Balchen, George H. Black
Documentary / Adventure / Biography / History
USA
English
963
68
2013
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill, Jon Bernthal
Biography / Comedy / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2840
446
2015
Crystal Moselle
Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo, Krsna Angulo, Mukunda Angulo,
Documentary / Biography / Drama
USA
English
2807
434
2015
Gillian Armstrong
Darren Gilshenan, Deborah Kennedy, Louis Alexander, Nathaniel Middleton, Lara Cox
Documentary / Biography
Australia
English
2801
432
1993
Ray Müller
Leni Riefenstahl, Marlene Dietrich, Walter Frentz, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess
Documentary / Biography / History / War
France / UK / Germany / Belgium
German
2514
331
2018
Morgan Neville
Fred Rogers, Joanne Rogers, Jim Rogers, John Rogers, Bill Clinton
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2807
434
2011
Robert B. Weide
Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Diane Keaton, Letty Aronson, Scarlett Johansson
Documentary / Biography / History / Music / Romance
USA
English
2546
341
1984
Jim Brown
Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2756
413
1977
Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein
Pat Bond, John Burnside, Sally M. Gearhart, Elsa Gidlow, Donald Hackett
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2807
434
2004
Eric Chaikin, Julian Petrillo
Mike Birbiglia, Joe Edley, Stefan Fatsis, Matt Graham, Marlon Hill, Joel Sherman
Documentary / Comedy / Biography
USA
English
2807
434
2006
Ian A. Hunt
Nat King Cole
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
2807
434
2005
Roger Donaldson
Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Cauffiel, Saginaw Grant, Diane Ladd, Christopher Lawford
Adventure / Biography / Drama / Sports
New Zealand / USA
English
324
12
1942
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Joan Leslie
Drama / Music / Biography
USA
English
2807
434
2009
Aviva Kempner
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gertrude Berg, Lewis Berg, Sara Chase, Viola Harris
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2814
438
2007
Stephen Walker
Bob Cilman, Stan Goldman, Jeanne Hatch, Patricia Linderme, Steve Martin
Documentary / Drama / Music / Biography
UK
English
2797
429
1953
George Sidney
Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2691
393
1950
Michael Curtiz
Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez
Biography / Drama / Music / Romance
USA
English
568
31
1939
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2807
434
2009
Jean-Marc Vallée
Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent
Drama / History / Romance / Biography
UK / USA
English
2773
418
1972
Richard Attenborough
Robert Shaw, Simon Ward, Anne Bancroft, Jack Hawkins
Adventure / War / Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
