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The 50 Best Biography Movies of All Time. by malthe-tuxen • Created 7 years ago • Modified 5 months ago. My 50 personal favorite biography movies of all time. Honourable Mentions: Elvis (2022) Mank (2020) Dolemite Is My Name (2019) First Man (2018) The Disaster Artist (2017) The Danish Girl (2015) Trumbo (2015) 127 Hours (2010) Hachi (2009)
- Amarcord (1974) - 87%
- Almost Famous (2000) - 89%
- The Big Red One (1980) - 90%
- Lost in Translation (2003) - 95%
- American Graffiti (1973) - 96%
- Persepolis (2007) - 96%
- Au Revoir Les Enfants (1988) - 97%
- The 400 Blows (1959) - 99%
- Lady Bird (2017) - 99%
- Fanny and Alexander (1983) - 100%
Federico Fellini was one of Italy's great auteurs, and Amarcordis one of his most acclaimed movies, having won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, alongside two nominations Fellini received for Best Director and Original Screenplay. The story is a series of vignettes about the eccentric inhabitants of a small town in Fascist Italy, tol...
Almost Famous is a story of young would-be music journalist William Miller, who adventures with the band Stillwater. Considering Cameron Crowe had written forRolling Stone as a teenager, he created the leading characters based on his own life, which makes his comedy-drama his most personal film (via Indiewire). Although Stillwater is a fictional ba...
The Big Red Oneis a highly underrated World War II movie about five soldiers in the eponymous 1st Infantry Division. The film has some impressive battle sequences and great performances from actors like Lee Marvin and Mark Hamill, but what makes it stand out is that director Samuel Fuller used his own wartime experiences as a basis for the story. R...
Lost in Translationwas a critical darling and a surprise hit with audiences, grossing over $118 million worldwide against a $4 budget (via Box Office Mojo). The movie showed Sofia Coppola's directorial talents, Scarlett Johansson as a then-upcoming star, and Bill Murray's dramatic chops, as some fans still want a sequelto follow up on that infamous...
Before he cemented his legacy as a pop-cultural icon with Star Wars, George Lucas' magnum opus was American Graffiti, a beloved teen comedy that has left a huge impact on many of the coming-of-age movies that followed it. In one of his best-directed movies, Lucaswas innovative in creating the film's structure and authentic teen narrative, as he cam...
Based on the autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, Persepolisis a coming-of-age film based on young "Marji's" life after the Iranian Revolution. Satrapi co-wrote and directed the movie herself, along with fellow French graphic novelist Vincent Paronnaud. RELATED: The 10 Best Graphic Novels Not About Superheroes, According To Ranker The...
Since so many great filmmakers lived through World War II, it makes sense that they would integrate the deadliest conflict in human history into their works. Louis Malle's Au revoir les enfants is the French filmmaker's take on the subject, following a young boy who discovers that his school's headmaster is sheltering Jewish children. Au revoir les...
The 400 Blows may have been François Truffaut's feature debut, but viewers can already see a filmmaker in the making of becoming one of the French New Wave's essential figures. The movie is a slice-of-life look at Antoine Doinel, a rebellious boy who is misunderstood and mistreated by all the adults in his life. Truffaut put a lot of himself into A...
Greta Gerwig's solo directorial debut, Lady Birdfollows Christine "Lady Bird" MacPherson, a nonconformist teenage girl who doesn't fit in with her peers and has to contend with well-being but an overbearing mother. The film received critical acclaim, with high praise going to Saoirse Ronan's performance, as well as Gerwig's direction. RELATED: 10 D...
The story of a brother and sister whose lives are turned upside down when their mother marries an abusive tyrant of a bishop, but Fanny and Alexander was Ingmar Bergman's cinematic swan song. The movie's three-hour running time and slow pacing mean it's not for everyone, but admirers like Sam Mendes consider it one of their favorite movies. For ins...
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- The 400 Blows (1959) François Truffaut’s debut is not just one of the most influential movies ever made, but also introduced the way in which a director could tell their own personal story with breathtaking intimacy.
- Amarcord (1973) While The 400 Blows sees its director looking at the past from the perspective of its teenage protagonist, Armarcord feels much like we’re experiencing a flood of memories coming back to the director as he looks back on his youth.
- Fanny and Alexander (1982) It’s hard to think of a filmmaker more committed to exploring themes that only adults are forced to ponder than Ingmar Bergman.
- Crooklyn (1994) Though there is a character in Crooklyn that is a fictionalized childhood Spike Lee (he has oversized glasses and loves the Knicks), this is the rare example of a film that’s autobiographical for multiple storytellers.
- Zéro de conduite (1933) Director: Jean Vigo. Opening with white titles over a soundtrack of schoolkids bellowing like animals, Jean Vigo’s 40-minute epic is looser and more free-spirited than almost any other film of its era.
- My Childhood (1972) Director: Bill Douglas. On the evidence of his unflinching trilogy of autobiographical dramas – My Childhood, My Ain Folk (1973) and My Way Home (1978) – it’s a marvel that Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas survived at all, let alone went on to a successful career in cinema.
- American Graffiti (1973) Director: George Lucas. Barely a decade had elapsed between the events depicted in George Lucas’s wistful second feature and the film’s production.
- Mirror (1975) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky. Widening the concept of autobiography to include members of his own family – his poet father Arseny Tarkovsky, his mother Maria Vishnyakova – and ultimately the entire Russian populace in the 20th century, Andrei Tarkovsky’s most oblique and wondrous film is aptly named.
- ‘Amadeus’ (1984) — 8.4/10. Released in 1984, Amadeus is a biographical film loosely based on the life of the Austrian musical prodigy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- ‘Gandhi’ (1982) — 8.1/10. Gandhi is a biographical film based on the events that occurred in the life of the adored Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi (more commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi).
- ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ (1962) — 8.3/10. Lawrence of Arabia tells the story of a British Lieutenant T. E. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole), who, with extensive knowledge of Bedouin tribes (nomadic Arab tribes), is sent to Arabia to serve as the link between the Arabs and the British in their battle against the Turks.
- ‘Schindler’s List’ (1993) — 9.0/10. Steven Spielberg’s epic historical drama Schindler’s List is set in the Polish city of Kraków during World War II. The film is based on the heroic acts of a German industrialist, Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), and his vigorous attempts to save more than a thousand Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust.
Sep 29, 2022 · From The 400 Blows to Minari, here are the best autobiographical movies by major filmmakers.
2 days ago · The film uses two of Cash's autobiographies as the basis for the script, 1975's Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words and 1997's Cash: The Autobiography, and details the late singer ...
