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English-language biographical films

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Catch Me If You Can

2002 film by Steven Spielberg

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film)

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical dark comedy crime film co-produced and directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Terence Winter, and based on Jordan Belfort's 2007 memoir. It loosely recounts Belfort's career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, leading to his downfall. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort; Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend Donnie Azoff; Margot Robbie as his second wife, Naomi Lapaglia; Matthew McConaughey as his mentor and former boss Mark Hanna; and Kyle Chandler as FBI special agent Patrick Denham portraying Gregory Coleman. It is DiCaprio's fifth collaboration with Scorsese.

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.

1995 film directed by Martin Scorsese

American Gangster

2007 film by Ridley Scott

2019 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2015 film directed by Adam McKay

Midnight Express

1978 film directed by Alan Parker

2018 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

2023 film directed by Ridley Scott

1992 film by Richard Attenborough

2016 film directed by Oliver Stone

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

2002 film directed by George Clooney

2018 film directed by Adam McKay

Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World

1998 film directed by Tom Ellery and Bradley Raymond

1941 biographical film directed by Howard Hawks

2010 film by Wilson Yip

Florence Foster Jenkins

2016 film by Stephen Frears

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

2018 film directed by Marielle Heller

2016 film by Todd Phillips

2015 film by Brian Helgeland

1934 film by Cecil B. DeMille

The Divine Lady

1929 film by Frank Lloyd

Everything Is Illuminated

2005 film directed by Liev Schreiber

1961 film directed by Anthony Mann

The World's Fastest Indian

2005 film directed by Roger Donaldson

2000 film directed by Ed Harris

1965 film by Henry Levin

1944 film directed by Henry King

Lion of the Desert

1980 film by Moustapha Akkad

1939 film directed by Henry King

The Agony and the Ecstasy

1965 film by Carol Reed

The Story of Louis Pasteur

1936 film by William Dieterle

Eddie the Eagle

2016 film directed by Dexter Fletcher

2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh

Mrs Henderson Presents

2005 film by Stephen Frears

2018 film by Jon S. Baird

1979 film directed by Peter Sykes and John Krish

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

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

2018 film directed by Gus Van Sant

Ip Man 4: The Finale

2019 film directed by Wilson Yip

2008 film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

A Walk in the Woods

2015 film by Ken Kwapis

Kill the Irishman

2011 film directed by Jonathan Hensleigh

1972 film directed by Richard Attenborough

2008 film by Nikolai Müllerschön

The Salt of the Earth

2014 documentary film by Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

The Glenn Miller Story

1954 film by Anthony Mann

The Infiltrator

2016 film directed by Brad Furman

2012 film by Margarethe von Trotta

Hilary and Jackie

1998 film directed by Anand Tucker

The Great Waltz

1938 American film

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

1951 film by Henry Hathaway

1959 film by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Edgar George Ulmer

2000 film by Andrew Dominik

1975 film by Steve Carver

2002 American serial killer film directed by Matthew Bright

2016 film by Liza Johnson

Dolemite Is My Name

2019 film directed by Craig Brewer

The Jolson Story

1946 film by Alfred E. Green