Biopic movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant biopic movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, dramatic, interesting, serious, inspirational and intense films and TV shows about / with biopic, storytelling, mentor, runaway, dialogue, redemption, life, destiny, catastrophe and adaptation plots mostly in Biography, Drama and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as biopic: Pawn Sacrifice (2014), Steve Jobs (2015), Gandhi (1982), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), The Founder (2016), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Catch Me If You Can (2002), What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), Big Eyes (2014), Jobs (2013).
Best films
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
Style:
realistic, inspirational, captivating, political, factual ...
Plot:
chess, cold war, biopic, genius, mental illness, politics, destiny, obsession, eccentricity, rivalry, contests and competitions, anti semitism ...
Time:
70s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1951, year 1959 ...
Place:
new york, canada, former yugoslavia, israel, reykjavik iceland ...
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186K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Style:
cerebral, realistic, factual, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
entrepreneur, business, entrepreneurship, marketing, computer, biopic, prodigy, internet, father daughter relationship, computers and web, technology, inventions and discoveries ...
Time:
20th century, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, year 1998 ...
Place:
san francisco, north america, usa, california
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247K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, India
Duration: 191 min.
Story:
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of ...
Style:
spiritual, epic, political, inspirational, breathtaking ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
protest, idealism, biopic, freedom, politics, life philosophy, independence, british empire, leadership, religious intolerance, assassination, indian history ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, year 1948, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place:
india, south africa, britain, los angeles, new delhi ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, erotic, intense, surreal ...
Plot:
photographer, photograph, couples, biopic, photography, making love, fall in love, love story, artist, art, friends, self discovery ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a ...
Style:
breathtaking, philosophical, epic, spiritual, scenic ...
Audience:
family outing, adult
Plot:
buddhism, beautiful scenery, mountain, expedition, traveler, biopic, world war two, life philosophy, spirituality, wanderlust, travel, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 90s, year 1997
Place:
tibet, himalaya, austria, chile, asia ...
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202K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise ...
Style:
inspirational, motivational, realistic, cerebral, uplifting ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
business, businessman, fast food, capitalism, rags to riches, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, salesman, money, marketing, greed, food ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 2010s, year 2016, year 1954 ...
Place:
usa, america, california, arizona, illinois ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, sentimental, uplifting, motivational ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, teens, family friendly
Plot:
homeless, life, human spirit, rags to riches, life philosophy, success, single father, poverty, rise to the top, family drama, life is a bitch, biopic ...
Time:
80s, year 2006, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california, bay area, san francisco, america
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not ...
Style:
clever, exciting, captivating, entertaining, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
con artists, adaptation, master criminal, creativity, deception, fbi, fraud, con man, impostor, prodigy, business, biopic ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1967, 70s, year 2002 ...
Place:
los angeles, new orleans, new york, washington d.c., france ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A film about the singer Tina Turner and how she rose to stardom with her abusive husband Ike Turner and how she gained the courage to break free.
Style:
inspirational, sincere, intense, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
music, musician, domestic violence, african american, black woman, biopic, singer, violence against women, abusive husband, rape victim, african american woman, female protagonist ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s, 60s, year 1993 ...
Place:
usa, tennessee, california, africa, new york ...
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104K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the awakening of the painter, Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.
Style:
thought provoking, suspense, serious, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
painter, art, painting, artist, biopic, plagiarism, abusive husband, couples, courtroom, manipulation, art history, marriage ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 20th century, year 2014, 1900s ...
Place:
hawaii, san francisco, california, usa, honolulu hawaii ...
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107K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.
Style:
inspirational, serious, factual, realistic, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
entrepreneur, business, creativity, computer, rise to the top, entrepreneurship, biopic, inventor, marketing, inventions and discoveries, prodigy, startup ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 2013, 90s ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, india, new jersey
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be ...
Style:
inspirational, unusual plot structure, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Plot:
disability, cerebral palsy, biopic, artist, working class, writers, paralysis, handicapped, medical, painter, poet, art ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1989, 1930s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe, canada
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48K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
NOTORIOUS is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to pregnant women) to one of the greatest rappers of all time; THE NOTORIOUS ...
Style:
hood, sincere, melancholic, factual, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, african american, urban ghetto life, music, biopic, rising to stardom, musician, fame, success, ghetto, female singer, sacrifice ...
Time:
year 2009, 20th century, 80s, year 1983, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, los angeles, brooklyn new york city, new jersey
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
The true story of boxer, Jim Braddock who, in the 1920’s after his retirement, has a surprise comeback in order to get him and his family out of a socially poor state.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sentimental, motivational, uplifting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, manly
Plot:
boxing, underdog, human spirit, great depression, boxer, biopic, athlete's life, roman empire, poverty, fight scenes, depression, protective male ...
Time:
1930s, year 2005, 2000s, year 2006, 1920s ...
Place:
netherlands, usa, new jersey, new york, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had ...
Style:
emotional, visually stunning, visual, dramatic, touching ...
Plot:
composer, biopic, classical music, music, musician, classical composer, artist, art, deafness, true love, beethoven, piano ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, regency period, 1820s, ancient times ...
Place:
austria, europe, hungary
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A swirling, impressionistic portrait of an artist who regretted nothing, writer-director Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose stars Marion Cotillard in a blazing performance as the legendary French icon Edith Piaf. From the mean streets of the ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, disturbing, gloomy, period piece ...
Plot:
music, musician's life, singer, biopic, musician, love story, death, life philosophy, childhood, art, artist, rising to stardom ...
Time:
20th century, year 2007, 1940s, 90s, 1950s ...
Place:
france, europe, paris france, new york, montmartre paris ...
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1.0M
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style:
emotional, sad, harsh, reflective, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, anti semitism, hunger, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1939, 1930s, year 2002 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, central europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A film about the life and career of the eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
Style:
inspirational, depressing, touching, humorous, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
comedian, biopic, showbiz, wrestler, female nudity, sexism, character study, prank, life philosophy, human spirit, actor's life, rising to stardom ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, year 1999, 70s ...
Place:
new york, usa, north america, manhattan new york city, lithuania ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Style:
touching, uplifting, inspirational, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick
Plot:
genius, disability, love, cambridge university, physicist, mathematics, husband wife relationship, prodigy, supportive spouse, handicapped, against the odds, relationships ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 60s, 70s ...
Place:
oxford university, england, united kingdom
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Style:
inspirational, intense, stylized, talky, sincere ...
Plot:
music, musician's life, blues, rock and roll, jazz, biopic, african american, singer, pop music, success, chess, music business ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1950s, year 2008, 1940s ...
Place:
chicago, usa, indiana, london, mississippi ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph ...
Style:
emotional, touching, psychological, sad, poignant ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
disability, hospital, dignity, freak, melancholy, disfigurement, social misfits, cruelty, isolation, hopes, biopic, humanism ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 20th century, turn of the century ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe
Is relevant?
1.4M
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Style:
rough, homoerotic, realistic, epic, inspirational ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, gangster, rise and fall, violence, mentor, mobster, drug traffic, cosa nostra, italian mafia, murder, psychopath ...
Time:
50s, 70s, 90s, year 1990, year 1980 ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, florida, italy, usa ...
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405K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe ...
Style:
epic, inspirational, realistic, period piece, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, success, aviation, entrepreneurship, businessman, test pilot, entrepreneur, biopic, business, filmmaking, obsessive compulsive disorder, corruption ...
Time:
1930s, year 2004, 1920s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, california, connecticut, new york, usa ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley ...
Style:
inspirational, clever, intellectual, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
world war two, mathematics, genius, inventor, inventions and discoveries, code, prodigy, code breaking, invention, mathematician, gay interest, computer ...
Time:
1940s, year 2014, 20th century, 1950s, year 1939 ...
Place:
england, london, britain, idaho, los angeles ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.
Style:
period piece, road movie, compassionate, talky, sentimental ...
Plot:
music, biopic, great depression, character study, friendship, depression, artists and showbiz, musician's life, couple relations, love and romance, musician, labor union ...
Time:
1930s, year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place:
texas, california, oklahoma, usa, los angeles ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
writers, writer's life, biopic, female artist, book, family relations, snobbism, painting, fall in love, art, happy ending, artist ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, san francisco
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141K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.
Style:
inspirational, suspense, emotional, breathtaking, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
life philosophy, world trade center manhattan new york city, happy ending, tightrope walker, biopic, skyscraper, mentor, obsession, transformation, escapades, artists and showbiz, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 2015, year 1973, 2010s ...
Place:
new york, paris france, manhattan new york city, america, usa ...
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406K
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The Fighter, is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being ...
Style:
inspirational, realistic, sincere, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
boxing, boxer, addiction, underdog, biopic, athlete's life, drug abuse, drug addiction, change of luck, white trash, fight, working class ...
Time:
year 2010, 20th century, 2000s, 90s, 80s ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts, america, new jersey, usa ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
Style:
erotic, cult classic, costume drama, sexual, serious ...
Plot:
gay, poet, lgbt, homosexuality, male nudity, violence, melancholy, homosexual, writer's life, homoeroticism, teenage boy, gay teenager ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, victorian era, turn of the century, 1870s
Place:
paris france, europe, africa, france, holland ...
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114K
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side ...
Style:
dramatic, realistic, epic, historical drama, aesthetic ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
world war two, world war, u.s. army, biopic, business, wartime, tank, military, u.s. military, allies, battle of the bulge, ego ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1970, year 1942 ...
Place:
london, italy, africa, north africa, america ...
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