Movie List for "biography"

N/A Year 1987.

Édith Giovanna Gassion is born in 1915. As a young girl she sings on the streets of Paris until a nightclub owner, Louis Leplée, discovers her. When he is murdered the composer Raymond Asso takes care of her and lets her perform a… Year 1974.

The story of Adèle Hugo’s unrequited love for a lieutenant. Year 1975.

While working at his editing table cartoon maker Paul Grimault is visited by a little clown, the star of his movie “Le Roi et l’Oiseau”. Paul, who is delighted, shows his guest several clips of his other films. Later on, they are … Year 1988.

Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family. Year 1994.

Camille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his sha… Year 1988.

Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage near Marseilles. During one of these holidays he meets Isabelle, a pretty but conceited girl… Adapted from the cult classic novel from Marcel Pagnol. Year 1990.

A Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Year 1983.

The spiritual journey of Kanakadasa, a poet and a philosopher belonging to the Dasa sect during the 16th century when the stone idol of Lord Krishna turns around as he’s being punished for wanting to see the Lord’s statue in Udupi. Year 1960.

The fictionalized biography of singer Paul Delmet at the time of the “Black Cat”. He has talent, and a little provincial who loves him more than anything. But he must choose between his audience, or the love of the girl. Year 1950.

Biography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook. Year 1998.

In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man’s claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army. Year 1982.

Based on the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a Punjabi woman, who was abused by her husband for 10 years. After killing her husband in self-defense, Ahluwalia is imprisoned as those close to her fight to set her free. Year 2006.

A story of doomed passion between two genius writers of the 19th century – novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. Year 1999.

N/A Year 1988.

The second part of the Ernst Thaelmann films encompasses the time period between 1930 and Thaelmann’s murder in 1944. It shows Thaelmann’s battle to achieve a united front with all German workers against the National Socialists, h… Year 1955.