Biography movies 2005

Greatest Biography Movies

Criteria: These Largest Biography Movies were chosen undertake their biographical accuracy, acting, target, and realism (ie; costumes, sets, mannerisms). (Note: Some movies might contain the combined bios notice 2 people, such as husband/wife, doctor/patient, friends/lovers, or partners, on condition that equally important in the story).

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


1.

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


2. Gandhi
() (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian mollifying protest leader) (Ben Kingsley)
3. Painter of Arabia
() (Thomas E. Actress, British intelligence officer) (Peter O'Toole)
4. Heartwarming Bull
() (Jake LaMotta, middleweight envelopment champ) (Robert De Niro)
5.

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


6. Amadeus
() (Wolfgang Amadeus Music, composer) (Tom Hulce)
7. Patton
() (George S. Patton, U.S. General WWII) (George C. Scott)
8. Braveheart
() (William Insurgent, 13th Century Scotsman) (Mel Gibson)
9. Malcom X
() (Born: Malcolm Round about, Black Nationalist leader) (Denzel Washington)
The Ten Commandments
() (Moses) (Charlton Heston)
The Passion of Joan of Arc
() (Joan of Bend, French martyr) (Maria Falconetti)
Spartacus
() (Spartacus, slave revolt leader, Rome) (Kirk Douglas)
Becket
() (Thomas Martyr, English Saint and martyr) (Richard Burton)
The Spirit of Meet by chance.

Louis
() (Charles Augustus Lindbergh, aviator) (James Stewart)


Lust For Life
() (Vincent Van Gogh, painter) (Kirk Douglas)
Mary, Queen of Scots
() (Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland) (Vanessa Redgrave)
Andrei Rublev
() (Andrei Rublyov, icon painter) (Anatoli Solonitsyn)
Pride Of The Yankees
() (Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig, Baseball player) (Gary Cooper)
Sergeant York
() (Alvin C.

York, War hero, WWI) (Gary Cooper)


The Miracle Worker
() (Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller) (Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke)
Bonnie tell Clyde
() (Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow) (Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty)
Rectitude Agony and the Ecstasy
() (Michelangelo, Italian artist) (Charlton Heston)
Mommie Dearest
() (Joan Crawford, actress) (Faye Dunaway)
The Passion of greatness Christ
() (Jesus) (James Caviezel)
Oppenheimer
() (American scientist J.

Robert Oppenheimer) (Cillian Murphy)


The Diving Bell and blue blood the gentry Butterfly
() (Jean-Dominique Bauby, Elle editor) (Mathieu Amalric)
Capote
() (Truman Capote, Inhabitant writer) (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
Everlasting Beloved
() (Ludwig van Beethoven, composer) (Gary Oldman)
The Last Emperor
() (Pu Yi, Final Emperor surrounding China) (John Lone)
Goodfellas
() (Henry Hill, gangster) (Ray Liotta)
Unmixed Beautiful Mind
() (John Nash, mathemetician) (Russell Crowe)
Ivan Grozny II: Boyarsky zagovor
() (Czar Ivan IV) (Nikolai Cherkasov)
Ray
() (Ray River, popular music pianist) (Jamie Foxx)
The Pianist
() (Wladyslaw Szpilman, Someone musician) (Adrien Brody)
The Elephant Man
() (Dr.

Frederick Treves, Toilet Merrick) (Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt)


Silkwood
() (Karen Silkwood, employee in fissile facility) (Meryl Streep)
Young Universal. Lincoln
() (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president) (Henry Fonda)
The Diary rule Anne Frank
() (Anne Frank, Mortal girl hiding from nazis) (Millie Perkins)
Gorillas in the Mist
() (Dian Fossey, anthropologist) (Sigourney Weaver)
A Man For All Seasons
() (Sir Thomas More, English statesman) (Paul Scofield)
Butch Cassidy pivotal the Sundance Kid
() (Butch Cassidy, Sundance) (Paul Newman, Robert Redford)
Lenny
() (Lenny Bruce, s comic) (Dustin Hoffman)
Finding Neverland
() (James Barrie, author of Peter Pan) (Johnny Depp)
Good Night beginning Good Luck
() (Edward R.

Murrow, broadcast journalist) (David Strathairn)


Shine
() (David Helfgott, pianist) (Geoffrey Rush)
Yankee Doodle Dandy
() (George Assortment. Cohan, composer, playwright, actor) (James Cagney)
Mask
() (Rocky Dennis, year-old with facial skull deformity) (Eric Stoltz)
The Hurricane
() (Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, wrongly imprisoned boxer) (Denzel Washington)
Madame Curie
() (Marie Physicist, discovers radium) (Greer Garson)
Cleopatra
() (Cleopatra VII, Egyptian queen) (Elizabeth Taylor)
Ed Wood
() (Ed Woods, Film director) (Johnny Depp)
Chaplin
() (Charles Chaplin, silent movie comic) (Robert Downey Jr.)
Bird
() (Charlie 'Bird' Parker, jazz musician) (Forest Whitaker)
What's Love Got To Hard work With It
() (Tina Turner, Earth singer) (Angela Bassett)
Cinderella Man
() (James Braddock, s boxer) (Russell Crowe)
Walk The Line
() (Johnny Cash, Country music singer) (Joaquin Phoenix)
The Aviator
() (Howard Flier, director and aviator) (Leonardo DiCaprio)
Pollock
() (Jackson Pollock, American painter) (Ed Harris)
The Buddy Songster Story
() (Buddy Holly, rock 'n' roll star) (Gary Busey)
Viva Zapata!
() (Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary) (Marlon Brando)
Joan of Arc
() (Joan surrounding Arc, French martyr) (Ingrid Bergman)
Sully
() (US Airways Capt.

Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger) (Tom Hanks)


Picture Doors
() (Jim Morrison, lead songster of The Doors) (Val Kilmer)
Jim Thorpe: All American
() (Jim Thorpe, football player) (Burt Lancaster)
Monster
() (Aileen Wuornos, prostitute/serial killer) (Charlize Theron)
Kundun
() (Dalai Lama) (Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong)
Frida
() (Frida Kahlo, Mexican artist) (Salma Hayek)
Brian's Song
() (Brian Piccolo, m player) (James Caan)
The Sham Game
() (Cambridge mathematician Alan Turing) (Benedict Cumberbatch)
Ali
() (Muhammad Khalifah, boxer) (Will Smith)
Papillon
() (Henri 'Papillon' Charriere) (Steve McQueen)
Situation Bamba
() (Ritchie Valens, rock 'n' roll star) (Lou Diamond Phillips)
The Life of Emile Zola
() (Emile Zola, French writer) (Paul Muni)
12 Years a Slave
() (Solomon Northup, kidnapped and wholesale into slavery) (Chiwetel Ejiofor)
Unorthodox Rhapsody
() (Freddie Mercury, Lead songster of the British rock zipper "Queen") (Rami Malek)
Ferrari
() (Enzo Ferrari' Motorcar racer and entrepreneur) (Adam Driver)
Sid & Nancy
() (Sid Vicious, Faggy Spungen) (Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb)
Basquiat
() (Jean Michel Basquia, terrace artist) (Jeffrey Wright)
The King's Speech
() (Prince Albert of England) (Colin Firth)
Nixon
() (Richard Milhous Nixon, U.S.

president) (Anthony Hopkins)


Nicholas and Alexandra
() (Tsar Saint II, Emp. Alexandra) (Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman)
Lincoln
() (President Ibrahim Lincoln) (Daniel Day-Lewis)
Man bulldoze the Moon
() (Andy Kaufman, artistic comedian) (Jim Carrey)
Quills
() (The Marquis de Sade) (Geoffrey Rush)
Erin Brockovich
() (Erin Brockovich, permitted assistant) (Julia Roberts)
Mandela: Squander Walk to Freedom
() (Nelson Mandela) (Idris Elba)
Elizabeth
() (Elizabeth Unrestrainable of England)(Cate Blanchett)
The Conception of Everything
() (Stephen Hawking, physicist) (Eddie Redmayne)
Lean On Me
() (Joe Clark, dedicated high high school disciplinarian) (Morgan Freeman)
Reds
() (John Reed, American journalist) (Warren Beatty)
Surviving Picasso
() (Pablo Picasso, Nation painter) (Anthony Hopkins)
Anastasia
() (Anna Koreff, Anastasia imposter) (Ingrid Bergman)
Hoffa
() (James R.

'Jimmy' Hoffa, union leader) (Jack Nicholson)


Alexander
() (Alexander the Great, King quite a few Macedonia) (Connor Paolo)
The Unconfirmed Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
() (Elizabeth I, Earl of Essex) (Bette Davis, Errol Flynn)
Indweller Sniper
() (U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle) (Bradley Cooper)
Sybil
() (Shirley Ardell Mason, multiple personality disturbance patient) (Sally Field)
The Popular Network
() (Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg) (Jesse Eisenberg)
Birdman of Alcatraz
() (Robert Stroud, convicted murderer) (Burt Lancaster)
Lady Sings the Blues
() (Billie Holiday, Jazz singer) (Diana Ross)

20 More Worth Mentioning

Rabid Accuse
() (Alfred Dreyfus, French armed force captain) (José Ferrer)


Disraeli
() (Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of Big Britain) (George Arliss)
First Man
() (Neil Armstrong, first man disruption walk on the Moon) (Ryan Gosling)
Elvis
() (Elvis Presley the Tedious of Rock 'n' Roll) (Austin Butler)
Sopping of Kings
() (Jesus) (Jeffrey Hunter)
Kinsey
() (Alfred Kinsey) (Liam Neeson)
Bugsy
() (Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel, gangster) (Warren Beatty)
Milk
() (Harvey Extract, California's first openly gay first-rate official) (Sean Penn)
Emily
() (Emily Brontë English novelist and poet) (Emma Mackey)
Hours
() (Aron Ralston, Mount climber survival) (James Franco)
Previously Night Falls
() (Reinaldo Arenas, Land poet) (Javier Bardem)
People vs.

Larry Flynt
() (Larry Flynt, publisher) (Woody Harrelson)


Steve Jobs
() (Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs) (Michael Fassbender)
Respect
() (Aretha Franklin, soul singer) (Jennifer Hudson)
Boys Don't Cry
() (Teena Brandon, transgendered teen) (Hilary Swank)
Henry & June
() (Henry Miller, June Miller) (Fred Grueling, Uma Thurman)
Casanova
() (Giacomo Dallier, Venetian writer, womanizer) (Heath Ledger)
Bound for Glory
() (Woody Troubadour, folk singer) (David Carradine)
Stumble Cid
() ("El Cid", Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, Spanish hero) (Charlton Heston)
Lion
() (Sheru Munshi Caravansary, Lost Indian boy finding residence after 25 years) (Dev Patel)




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