Biography Movies

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces;...

This iconic statue was a gift from France to the new-born American Republic and was the first crowd-funded monument of all time. A symbol of...

A fiction film based on the real story of a 16 year-old boy who, aided by the internet, won over the world with his talent for music and art. Fluent...

Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely...

The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime...

Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery...

The life and political activism of Messali Hadj (1898-1974), an Algerian internationalist politician who played a pioneering role in the process...

The plot is a loose autobiographical interpretation of the life of Vernon and Irene Castle, interspersed among a typical melodrama of the period

A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.

A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated...

The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.

Documentary about the life of Brazillian journalist Paulo Francis

A young Sardar Udham Singh left deeply scarred by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, escaped into the mountains of Afghanistan, reaching London in...

A French documentary on Superman actor Christopher Reeve as told by his French voice dubbing actor, Pierre Arditi.

Brilliant, long in-the-works story of the life and art of the world's greatest comedian and the cinema's first genius, Charlie Chaplin. Produced,...

A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.

Inspired by the life of a fearless young officer who made history by becoming the first Indian female Air Force officer to fly in a combat zone...

How did a poor little black girl from Missouri become the Queen of Paris, before joining the French Resistance and finally creating her dream family...

Over a 50-year career and more than a hundred movies, filmmaker John Ford (1894-1973) forged the legend of the Far West. By giving a face to the...