Movie List for "biography"

Room and a Half (2009)

A semi-fictional account of the life of Nobel-Prize-winning Russian poet Josif Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972. Year 2009.

Generes: Animation, Biography
Director: Andrey Khrzhanovskiy
Writer: Yuriy Arabov, Andrey Khrzhanovskiy
Actors: Alisa Freyndlikh, Sergey Yurskiy, Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy, Artyom Smola

In Search of a Nation (2013)

Movie Summary 2014, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees there are 51.2 million people forcibly displaced across […]

Someone You Love: The HPV Epidemic (2014)

Narrated by Vanessa Williams. The Human Papilloma Virus HPV may be the most widespread, misunderstood and potentially dangerous epidemic that most people hardly know anything about. 80 … Year 2014.

Generes: Documentary, Biography
Director: Frederic Lumiere
Writer: Mark Hefti
Actors: Vanessa Williams, Christine Baze, Susie Carrillo, Ramani Durvasula

Freedom and Other Maladies (2016)

Gholam-Hossein Saedi was an acclaimed Iranian author, playwright and screenwriter with an oeuvre that contains more than thirty publications. Freedom And Other Maladies depicts Saedi’s … Year 2016.

Generes: Documentary, Biography
Director: Shirin Saghaie
Writer: Parvin Raki, Parvin Raki (story), Bahman Saghaei, Bahman Saghaei (story), Shirin Saghaie
Actors: Houshang Touzie

I Don’t Believe in Anarchy (2014)

Punk may have started in New York and London, but the extremely famous and famously extreme existential cult Siberian 80’s band Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Civil Defense) and it’s visionary … Year 2014.

Generes: Documentary, Biography, Music
Director: Natalya Chumakova, Anna Tsyrlina
Writer: N/A
Actors: Yegor Letov, Sergey Letov, Alexander Rozhkov, Oleg Sudakov

The Miracle Maker (2000)

The story of Jesus Christ. Year 2000.

Generes: Animation, Biography, Drama
Director: Derek W. Hayes, Stanislav Sokolov
Writer: Murray Watts
Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Michael Bryant, Julie Christie, Rebecca Callard

Urban Fruit (2013)

There is a huge divide between the cities we live in and where our food is grown. Three people as divers as the city of Los Angeles are trying to bridge that divide: Rishi, Indian-American … Year 2013.

Generes: Documentary, Biography
Director: Roman Zenz
Writer: Roman Zenz
Actors: Eugene Ahn, Adam Barber, Jenna Barber, Mike Davis

Father Sergius (1918)

Prince Kasatsky is a just and proud youth, shock and disappointment with the world bring him to church, he becomes father Sergius. It is a story of his piety and temptation. Year 1918.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Yakov Protazanov, Alexandre Volkoff
Writer: Leo Tolstoy (novel), Alexandre Volkoff
Actors: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Olga Kondorova, V. Dzheneyeva, Vladimir Gajdarov

Vasiliy Stalin (2013)

This is the story about the son of one of the greatest tyrants of the Twentieth Century- Joseph Stalin’s flesh and blood, Vasily. Year 2013.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
Actors: Gela Meskhi, Vasiliy Prokopev, Anatoliy Dzivaev, Sergey Gazarov

Projections of America (2014)

Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Riskin headed up a secret film unit that sought to redefine America in the eyes of the world during the darkest days of World War II. The … Year 2014.

Generes: Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Peter Miller
Writer: Peter Miller
Actors: John Lithgow, Victoria Riskin, Ian Scott, Kenneth Turan

Back on Track (2018)

A young man, whose world was sports and motorcycles, lost almost his life in a horrible crash. Now he is on the road to recovery to get back on track. Year 2018.

Generes: Documentary, Short, Biography, Drama
Director: Marius Fischer
Writer: N/A
Actors: Barnabás Böröcz, Arnold Merk, Patrick Schlichter

Ekaterina (2014–)

The life of the Russian Empress Ekaterina II (Catherine the Great), a German born princess who came to Russia as bride for the young Peter III, chosen by his aunt Elisabeth, and who, once … Year 2014–.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
Actors: Marina Aleksandrova, Sergey Koltakov, Michael Gor, Isabel Schosnig

No Place for Fools (2015)

Sergey Astahov is a gay man converted by Church and state propaganda into an orthodox pro-Putin activist. Composed of terrifying images from Astahov’s blog, this documentary by contemporary… Year 2015.

Generes: Documentary, Biography
Director: Oleg Mavromatti
Writer: Oleg Mavromatti, Po98 (idea), Po Prottok (idea)
Actors: Sergey Astakhov

His Daughter (2016)

N/A Year 2016.

Generes: Biography
Director: Tatiana Everstova
Writer: N/A
Actors: Sveta Portnyagina, Barbara Novogodina, Procope Yakovlev