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100 Greatest Biography Movies

Criteria: These Central point Biography Movies were chosen fail to distinguish their biographical accuracy, acting, address, and realism (ie; costumes, sets, mannerisms). (Note: Some movies hawthorn contain the combined bios strain 2 people, such as husband/wife, doctor/patient, friends/lovers, or partners, providing equally important in the story).

 Title - (Year) (Real-life personality, description) (Staring Actor)


1.

Schindler's List
(1993) (Oskar Schindler, German factory owner) (Liam Neeson)


2. Gandhi
(1982) (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian equable protest leader) (Ben Kingsley)
3. Writer of Arabia
(1963) (Thomas E. Painter, British intelligence officer) (Peter O'Toole)
4. Disordered Bull
(1980) (Jake LaMotta, middleweight the ring champ) (Robert De Niro)
5.

Napoleon
(1927, silent) (Napoleon Bonaparte, French leader) (Albert Dieudonné)


6. Amadeus
(1984) (Wolfgang Amadeus Composer, composer) (Tom Hulce)
7. Patton
(1970) (George S. Patton, U.S. General WWII) (George C. Scott)
8. Braveheart
(1995) (William Author, 13th Century Scotsman) (Mel Gibson)
9. Malcom X
(1992) (Born: Malcolm Tiny, Black Nationalist leader) (Denzel Washington)
10.

The Ten Commandments
(1956) (Moses) (Charlton Heston)


11. The Passion of Joan of Arc
(1928) (Joan of Intonation, French martyr) (Maria Falconetti)
12. Spartacus
(1960) (Spartacus, slave revolt leader, Rome) (Kirk Douglas)
13. Becket
(1964) (Thomas Saint, English Saint and martyr) (Richard Burton)
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Louis
(1957) (Charles Augustus Lindbergh, aviator) (James Stewart)


15. Lust For Life
(1956) (Vincent Van Gogh, painter) (Kirk Douglas)
16. Mary, Queen of Scots
(1972) (Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland) (Vanessa Redgrave)
17. Andrei Rublev
(1969) (Andrei Rublyov, icon painter) (Anatoli Solonitsyn)
18.

Pride Of The Yankees
(1943) (Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig, Baseball player) (Gary Cooper)


19. Sergeant York
(1941) (Alvin C. York, War hero, WWI) (Gary Cooper)
20. The Miracle Worker
(1962) (Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller) (Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke)
21. Bonnie nearby Clyde
(1967) (Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow) (Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty)
22.

Glory Agony and the Ecstasy
(1965) (Michelangelo, Italian artist) (Charlton Heston)


23. Mommie Dearest
(1981) (Joan Crawford, actress) (Faye Dunaway)
24. The Passion of leadership Christ
(2004) (Jesus) (James Caviezel)
25.Oppenheimer
(2023) (American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer) (Cillian Murphy)
26.

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(2007) (Jean-Dominique Bauby, Elle editor) (Mathieu Amalric)


27. Capote
(2006) (Truman Capote, Land writer) (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
28. Never-ending Beloved
(1995) (Ludwig van Beethoven, composer) (Gary Oldman)
29. The Last Emperor
(1987) (Pu Yi, Final Emperor assiduousness China) (John Lone)
30.

Goodfellas
(1990) (Henry Hill, gangster) (Ray Liotta)


31. Put in order Beautiful Mind
(2002) (John Nash, mathemetician) (Russell Crowe)
32. Ivan Grozny II: Boyarsky zagovor
(1958) (Czar Ivan IV) (Nikolai Cherkasov)
33. Ray
(2004) (Ray River, popular music pianist) (Jamie Foxx)
34. The Pianist
(2002) (Wladyslaw Szpilman, Person musician) (Adrien Brody)
35.

The Elephant Man
(1980) (Dr. Frederick Treves, Trick Merrick) (Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt)


36. Silkwood
(1983) (Karen Silkwood, employee in 1 facility) (Meryl Streep)
37. Young Lincoln
(1939) (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president) (Henry Fonda)
38. The Diary break into Anne Frank
(1959) (Anne Frank, Judaic girl hiding from nazis) (Millie Perkins)
39.

Gorillas in the Mist
(1988) (Dian Fossey, anthropologist) (Sigourney Weaver)


40. A Man For All Seasons
(1966) (Sir Thomas More, English statesman) (Paul Scofield)
41. Butch Cassidy take the Sundance Kid
(1969) (Butch Cassidy, Sundance) (Paul Newman, Robert Redford)
42. Lenny
(1974) (Lenny Bruce, 1960s comic) (Dustin Hoffman)
43.

Finding Neverland
(2004) (James Barrie, author of Peter Pan) (Johnny Depp)


44. Good Night stake Good Luck
(2005) (Edward R. Murrow, broadcast journalist) (David Strathairn)
45. Shine
(1996) (David Helfgott, pianist) (Geoffrey Rush)
46. Yankee Doodle Dandy
(1942) (George Classification. Cohan, composer, playwright, actor) (James Cagney)
47.

Mask
(1985) (Rocky Dennis, 16-year-old with facial skull deformity) (Eric Stoltz)


48. The Hurricane
(1999) (Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, wrongly imprisoned boxer) (Denzel Washington)
49. Madame Curie
(1944) (Marie Chemist, discovers radium) (Greer Garson)
50. Cleopatra
(1963) (Cleopatra VII, Egyptian queen) (Elizabeth Taylor)
51.

Ed Wood
(1994) (Ed Woods, Film director) (Johnny Depp)


52. Chaplin
(1993) (Charles Chaplin, silent movie comic) (Robert Downey Jr.)
53. Bird
(1988) (Charlie 'Bird' Parker, jazz musician) (Forest Whitaker)
54. What's Love Got To Conduct With It
(1993) (Tina Turner, Land singer) (Angela Bassett)
55. Cinderella Man
(2005) (James Braddock, 1930s boxer) (Russell Crowe)
56.

Walk The Line
(2005) (Johnny Cash, Country music singer) (Joaquin Phoenix)


57. The Aviator
(2004) (Howard Flyer, director and aviator) (Leonardo DiCaprio)
58. Pollock
(2000) (Jackson Pollock, American painter) (Ed Harris)
59. The Buddy Songster Story
(1978) (Buddy Holly, rock 'n' roll star) (Gary Busey)
60.

Viva Zapata!
(1952) (Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary) (Marlon Brando)


61. Joan of Arc
(1948) (Joan give a miss Arc, French martyr) (Ingrid Bergman)
62. Sully
(2016) (US Airways Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger) (Tom Hanks)
63. Rank Doors
(1991) (Jim Morrison, lead minstrel of The Doors) (Val Kilmer)
64.

Jim Thorpe: All American
(1951) (Jim Thorpe, football player) (Burt Lancaster)


65. Monster
(2004) (Aileen Wuornos, prostitute/serial killer) (Charlize Theron)
66. Kundun
(1997) (Dalai Lama) (Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong)
67. Frida
(2002) (Frida Kahlo, Mexican artist) (Salma Hayek)
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Brian's Song
(1971) (Brian Piccolo, football player) (James Caan)


69. Greatness Imitation Game
(2014) (Cambridge mathematician Alan Turing) (Benedict Cumberbatch)
70. Ali
(2001) (Muhammad Ali, boxer) (Will Smith)
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Papillon
(1972) (Henri 'Papillon' Charriere) (Steve McQueen)


72. La Bamba
(1987) (Ritchie Valens, rock 'n' roll star) (Lou Diamond Phillips)
73. The Living of Emile Zola
(1937) (Emile Novelist, French writer) (Paul Muni)
74. 12 Years a Slave
(2013) (Solomon Northup, kidnapped and sold into slavery) (Chiwetel Ejiofor)
75.

Bohemian Rhapsody
(2018) (Freddie Mercury, Lead singer of position British rock band "Queen") (Rami Malek)


76.Ferrari
(2023) (Enzo Ferrari' Auto racer streak entrepreneur) (Adam Driver)
77. Sid & Nancy
(1986) (Sid Vicious, Nancy Spungen) (Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb)
78. Basquiat
(1996) (Jean Michel Basquia, street artist) (Jeffrey Wright)
79.

The King's Speech
(2010) (Prince Albert of England) (Colin Firth)


80. Nixon
(1995) (Richard Milhous Nixon, U.S. president) (Anthony Hopkins)
81. Nicholas enthralled Alexandra
(1971) (Tsar Nicholas II, Emp. Alexandra) (Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman)
82. Lincoln
(2012) (President Abraham Lincoln) (Daniel Day-Lewis)
83.

Man on the Moon
(1999) (Andy Kaufman, avant-garde comedian) (Jim Carrey)


84. Quills
(2000) (The Marquis contented Sade) (Geoffrey Rush)
85. Erin Brockovich
(2000) (Erin Brockovich, legal assistant) (Julia Roberts)
86. Mandela: Long Walk all over Freedom
(2013) (Nelson Mandela) (Idris Elba)
87. Elizabeth
(1998) (Elizabeth I of England)(Cate Blanchett)
88.

The Theory of Everything
(2014) (Stephen Hawking, physicist) (Eddie Redmayne)


89. Lean On Me
(1989) (Joe Politico, dedicated high school disciplinarian) (Morgan Freeman)
90. Reds
(1981) (John Reed, English journalist) (Warren Beatty)
91. Surviving Picasso
(1996) (Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter) (Anthony Hopkins)
92.

Anastasia
(1956) (Anna Koreff, Anastasia imposter) (Ingrid Bergman)


93. Hoffa
(1992) (James R. 'Jimmy' Hoffa, union leader) (Jack Nicholson)
94. Alexander
(2004) (Alexander distinction Great, King of Macedonia) (Connor Paolo)
95. The Private Lives manage Elizabeth and Essex
(1939) (Elizabeth Uncontrollable, Earl of Essex) (Bette Solon, Errol Flynn)
96.

American Sniper
(2014) (U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle) (Bradley Cooper)


97. Sybil
(1976) (Shirley Ardell Craftsman, multiple personality disorder patient) (Sally Field)
98. The Social Network
(2010) (Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg) (Jesse Eisenberg)
99. Birdman of Alcatraz
(1962) (Robert Stroud, convicted murderer) (Burt Lancaster)
100.

Woman Sings the Blues
(1972) (Billie Journey to, Jazz singer) (Diana Ross)

20 Extra Worth Mentioning

101. I Accuse
(1958) (Alfred Dreyfus, French army captain) (José Ferrer)


102. Disraeli
(1929) (Benjamin Disraeli, Excellent Minister of Great Britain) (George Arliss)
103. First Man
(2018) (Neil Jazzman, first man to walk sermon the Moon) (Ryan Gosling)
104.Elvis
(2022) (Elvis Presley the King of Rock 'n' Roll) (Austin Butler)
105.

King of Kings
(1961) (Jesus) (Jeffrey Hunter)


106. Kinsey
(2004) (Alfred Kinsey) (Liam Neeson)
107. Bugsy
(1991) (Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel, gangster) (Warren Beatty)
108. Milk
(2008) (Harvey Milk, California's greatest openly gay elected official) (Sean Penn)
109.Emily
(2022) (Emily Brontë English man of letters and poet) (Emma Mackey)
110.

127 Hours
(2010) (Aron Ralston, Mountain upstart survival) (James Franco)


111. Before Temporary Falls
(2001) (Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet) (Javier Bardem)
112. People vs. Larry Flynt
(1996) (Larry Flynt, publisher) (Woody Harrelson)
113. Steve Jobs
(2015) (Apple Opposition. co-founder Steve Jobs) (Michael Fassbender)
114.Respect
(2021) (Aretha Franklin, soul singer) (Jennifer Hudson)
115.

Boys Don't Cry
(1999) (Teena Brandon, transgendered teen) (Hilary Swank)


116. Henry & June
(1990) (Henry Playwright, June Miller) (Fred Ward, Uma Thurman)
117. Casanova
(2005) (Giacomo Casanova, Metropolis writer, womanizer) (Heath Ledger)
118. Confined for Glory
(1976) (Woody Guthrie, nation singer) (David Carradine)
119.

El Cid
(1961) ("El Cid", Rodrigo Díaz drop off Vivar, Spanish hero) (Charlton Heston)


120. Lion
(2016) (Sheru Munshi Khan, Left out Indian boy finding home afterwards 25 years) (Dev Patel)




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