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page 2Films based on biographies
Marie Antoinette
1938 American film
5 Fingers
1952 American spy film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Soul Surfer
2011 film directed by Sean McNamara
Viva Villa!
1934 film by Howard Hawks, John Waters, Jack Conway, William A. Wellman
What's Love Got to Do with It
1993 film by Brian Gibson
The Railway Man
2013 film directed by Jonathan Teplitzky
Fly Away Home
1996 film directed by Carroll Ballard
Nowhere Boy
2009 film by Sam Taylor-Johnson
The Infiltrator
2016 film directed by Brad Furman
Hilary and Jackie
1998 film directed by Anand Tucker
Kolberg
1945 film directed by Veit Harlan and Wolfgang Liebeneiner
The Runaways
2010 film directed by Floria Sigismondi
Genius
2016 film by Michael Grandage
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
2019 film directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor
Henry & June
1990 film by Philip Kaufman
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is a 2025 American biographical musical drama film starring Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen. Written and directed by Scott Cooper, and based on the 2023 book Deliver Me from Nowhere by Warren Zanes, as well as some elements from Springsteen's 2016 autobiography Born to Run, it chronicles Springsteen's personal and professional struggles during the conception of his 1982 album Nebraska. The film also stars Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham, and Odessa Young.
Yves Saint Laurent
2014 film directed by Jalil Lespert
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951 film by Henry Hathaway
For a Lost Soldier
1992 film by Roeland Kerbosch
The Spirit of St. Louis
1957 film by Billy Wilder
George Wallace
1997 television film directed by John Frankenheimer
Chopper
2000 film by Andrew Dominik
Dangerous Beauty
1998 film directed by Marshall Herskovitz
Creation
2009 film directed by Jon Amiel
The Happy Prince
2018 film by Rupert Everett
Private Parts
1997 film by Betty Thomas
The Catcher Was a Spy
2018 film directed by Ben Lewin
Triple Cross
1967 film by Terence Young
Kill the Messenger
2014 film by Michael Cuesta
Young Woman and the Sea
2024 film directed by Joachim Rønning
Regeneration
1915 film by Raoul Walsh
Aimée & Jaguar
1998 film by Max Färberböck
Trader Horn
1931 film by W. S. Van Dyke
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004 television film directed by Stephen Hopkins
Reagan
2024 film directed by Sean McNamara
Testament of Youth
2014 film directed by James Kent
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017 film directed by Paul McGuigan
Young Man with a Horn
1950 film by Michael Curtiz
Bhumika
1977 film by Shyam Benegal
The Story of Piera
1983 film by Marco Ferreri
The White Masai
2005 film by Hermine Huntgeburth
Gentleman Jim
1942 film by Raoul Walsh
The General
1998 film by John Boorman
Great Balls of Fire!
1989 film by Jim McBride
Surviving Picasso
1996 American film by James Ivory
Platoon Leader
1988 film directed by Aaron Norris
I Dreamed of Africa
2000 film by Hugh Hudson
90 Minutes in Heaven
2015 film directed by Michael Polish
One Foot in Heaven
1941 US film directed by Irving Rapper
Cheaper by the Dozen
1950 film by Walter Lang
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
2022 film directed by Robert Moresco
The Dance of Reality
2013 film by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Beloved Infidel
1959 American film by Henry King
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
television miniseries
The Joker Is Wild
1957 film directed by Charles Vidor
The Long Gray Line
1955 USA Army film by John Ford
Hideous Kinky
1998 film by Gillies MacKinnon
I Saw the Light
2015 film by Marc Abraham
Villa Rides
1968 film directed by Buzz Kulik
Castaway
1987 film by Nicolas Roeg