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page 1American biographical films

Catch Me If You Can
2002 film by Steven Spielberg
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Goodfellas
Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, the film narrates the rise and fall of Mafia associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.

Out of Africa
1985 film by Sydney Pollack

Captain Phillips
2013 film directed by Paul Greengrass

American Gangster
2007 film by Ridley Scott

Moneyball
2011 American film directed by Bennett Miller

The Big Short
2015 film directed by Adam McKay

The Favourite
2018 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

Midnight Express
1978 film directed by Alan Parker

The Greatest Showman
2017 film directed by Michael Gracey

Sully
2016 film directed by Clint Eastwood

Napoleon
2023 film directed by Ridley Scott

Capote
2005 film directed by Bennett Miller

The Walk
2015 film by Robert Zemeckis

Chaplin
1992 film by Richard Attenborough

The Perfect Storm
2000 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen

Snowden
2016 film directed by Oliver Stone

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002 film directed by George Clooney

Vice
2018 film directed by Adam McKay
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
1998 film directed by Tom Ellery and Bradley Raymond

Society of the Snow
2023 film directed by J. A. Bayona

Can You Ever Forgive Me?
2018 film directed by Marielle Heller

Sergeant York
1941 biographical film directed by Howard Hawks

War Dogs
2016 film by Todd Phillips

Domino
2005 film directed by Tony Scott

Queen of the Desert
2015 film directed by Werner Herzog

A River Runs Through It
1992 film by Robert Redford

Cleopatra
1934 film by Cecil B. DeMille

The Divine Lady
1929 film by Frank Lloyd

Everything Is Illuminated
2005 film directed by Liev Schreiber

Pollock
2000 film directed by Ed Harris

El Cid
1961 film directed by Anthony Mann

Deliver Us from Evil
2014 film by Scott Derrickson

Wilson
1944 film directed by Henry King

Bound for Glory
1976 film by Hal Ashby

Rules Don't Apply
2016 film directed by Warren Beatty

Jesse James
1939 film directed by Henry King

Summer of '42
1971 film by Robert Mulligan

Eddie the Eagle
2016 film directed by Dexter Fletcher

Man on Wire
2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh

The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936 film by William Dieterle

The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965 film by Carol Reed

Mrs Henderson Presents
2005 film by Stephen Frears

Soul Surfer
2011 film directed by Sean McNamara

Stan and Ollie
2018 film by Jon S. Baird

The Wind and the Lion
1975 film directed by John Milius

Tetris
2023 film directed by Jon S. Baird

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018 film directed by Gus Van Sant

Viva Villa!
1934 film by Howard Hawks, John Waters, Jack Conway, William A. Wellman

Jesus
1979 film directed by Peter Sykes and John Krish

Cadillac Records
2008 film directed by Darnell Martin

Get on Up
2014 film by Tate Taylor

Kill the Irishman
2011 film directed by Jonathan Hensleigh

The Glenn Miller Story
1954 film by Anthony Mann

A Walk in the Woods
2015 film by Ken Kwapis

Hamilton
2020 film of the 2015 Broadway musical of the same name

The Infiltrator
2016 film directed by Brad Furman

Love and Mercy
2014 film directed by Bill Pohlad

Funny Lady
1975 musical film directed by Herbert Ross

The Great Waltz
1938 American film