Movie List for "biography"

The story of self-taught Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani. Year 1969.

Manoel is an aging film director who travels with his film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France. In the process, he remembers his own youth. Year 1997.

N/A Year 1990.

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience. Year 1981.

Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and–most of all–the omnipresence o… Year 1969.

After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world. Year 1992.

A pseudo-documentary on the life of Yves Montand, who plays himself, in this tribute to his long career. During a musical tour, Montand returns to Marseille and revisits the many highlights of his life, meeting figures from his pa… Year 1988.

A Joan of Arc’s trial reconstruction concerning her imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English. Filmed in a spare, low-key fashion. Year 1962.

The art, life and times of Swedish painter Anders Zorn during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Year 1994.

Follows a family man who meets women through lonely-hearts ads. Year 1963.

The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant. Year 1982.

N/A Year 1975.

N/A Year 1988.

Nanni Moretti takes a comic look at the ebbs and flows of his life as he becomes a father for the first time. He struggles with distractions while trying to make a documentary of the Italian national elections. Year 1998.

The story of Monsieur de Sainte Colombe, fierce and somber man, grand master of the viola da gamba and professor of Marin Marais, prestigious musician in the court of Louis XIV. Year 1991.

A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband, and the lengths she goes to to rescue her husband f… Year 1997.