Topic: Biography

Direction Bob Smeaton · Geoff Wonfor

Cast The Beatles · Paul McCartney · George Harrison · Ringo Starr

Plot This series is a documentary on the life and times of the Beatles. It features clips from many of their songs as well as in-depth descriptions of their songs, tours,...

Direction Alejo Moreno

Plot On December 23, 2015, Spain’s Ministry of Finance published its first ‘List of defaulters’. At number 1 there was a complete stranger: Agapito García Sánchez. This is his story ......

Direction Pierre-André Boutang · Michel Pamart

Cast Gilles Deleuze · Claire Parnet

Direction Carlos Echeverría

Cast Esteban Buch · Miguel Angel D'Agostino · Débora Herman · Horacio Herman

Direction Giuseppe Tornatore

Cast Ennio Morricone · Quentin Tarantino · Clint Eastwood · Oliver Stone

Plot Ennio is a well-rounded portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-time Oscar...

Direction Jason Hehir

Cast Michael Jordan · Phil Jackson · Scottie Pippen · Dennis Rodman

Plot TV Mini-Series (2020). 10 Episodes. ESPN Films and Netflix chronicle icon legend Michael Jordan and the 1990s Chicago Bulls dynasty.

Direction Jim Sheridan

Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Emma Thompson · Pete Postlethwaite · John Lynch

Plot Based on Gerry Conlon's autobiography, 'Proved Innocent', Jim Sheridan's 'In the Name of the Father' tells the story of a man wrongfully imprisoned in 1974 for the bombing of a...

Direction Paulo Rocha

Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Clara Joana · Zita Duarte · Jorge Silva Melo

Plot The film tells in a very poetic way the life of Wenceslau de Moraes, an officer of the Portuguese Marine Corps who traveled to Japan and fell in love of...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Adrien Brody · Thomas Kretschmann · Maureen Lipman · Ed Stoppard

Plot The film is adapted from the autobiography of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew who detailed his survival during World War II. A composer and a pianist, he played the last...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Nikolai Cherkasov · Serafima Birman · Ludmila Tselikovskaya · Mikhail Nazvanov

Plot Ivan returns to Moscow to discover that there are still conspiracies against him, even the Tsar's aunt wants to get rid of him. However, Ivan manages to foresee his enemies'...

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Robert De Niro · Cathy Moriarty · Joe Pesci · Frank Vincent

Plot It tells the story of middleweight boxer Jake La Motta (Robert De Niro). As La Motta rises through the ranks to earn his first shot at the middleweight crown, he...

Direction David Lynch

Cast Anthony Hopkins · John Hurt · Anne Bancroft · John Gielgud

Plot John Merrick (John Hurt) is a hideously deformed individual dubbed the Elephant Man during his years in a circus freak show in Victorian England. After suffering for years at the...

Direction Bruno Monsaingeon

Cast Sviatoslav Richter

Direction David Lean

Cast Peter O'Toole · Omar Sharif · Alec Guinness · Jack Hawkins

Plot While working on the staff of the British Intelligence in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is sent to a mission to establish contact with Prince Feisal (Alec Guinness), leader...

Direction Barbet Schroeder

Cast Charles Bukowski · Linda Lee Bukowski

Plot The Charles Bukowski Tapes are a collection of short-interviews with the American writer/poet Charles Bukowski, filmed and assembled by Barbet Schroeder and first published in 1987 in the USA. Today,...

Direction Ezra Edelman

Cast O.J. Simpson

Plot The five-part documentary chronicles O.J. Simpson's rise from the San Francisco housing projects to football fame in college and the NFL to his post-football career and infamy with the 1995...

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Anatoly Solonitsyn · Ivan Lapikov · Nikolai Sergeyev · Nikolai Grinko

Plot Divided in seven sections, 'Andrei Rublev' focuses on the life of the great Russian painter while taking a gaze at medieval Russia during the first quarter of the 15th century,...

Direction Jaime Chávarri

Cast Felicidad Blanc · Juan Luis Panero · Leopoldo María Panero · Michi Panero

Plot This film is a documentary about the poet 'Leopoldo Panero'. His widow and his sons talk about death in general and in this special case and also about their own...

Direction Miguel Ángel Hernández Arango · Vladimir Ráez

Direction Mel Gibson

Cast Mel Gibson · Sophie Marceau · Patrick McGoohan · Angus MacFadyen

Plot Based on the life of legendary 13th century Scottish hero William Wallace. Returning to his homeland following the death of an heirless king, Wallace (Mel Gibson) finds the political landscape...