Category
page 4Films based on biographies
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
2001 television film directed by Robert Allan Ackerman

Olga
2004 film by Jayme Monjardim

Al sur de Granada
2003 film by Fernando Colomo

Steal This Movie!
2000 film directed by Robert Greenwald

In Like Flynn
2018 film by Russell Mulcahy

All Our Desires
2011 film by Philippe Lioret

Macadam Stories
2015 film by Samuel Benchetrit

My Six Convicts
1952 film by Hugo Fregonese

Nambugun
Nambugun: North Korean Partisan in South Korea () is a 1990 South Korean war drama film directed by Chung Ji-young. It is based upon the experiences of Lee Tae, a war correspondent and pro-North Korean Partisan during the Korean War.

Ali's Wedding
2016 film by Jeffrey Walker

Gie
Gie is a 2005 Indonesian biopic film directed by Riri Riza. The film tells the story of Soe Hok Gie, a graduate from University of Indonesia who is known as an activist and nature lover. The film is based on the diary Catatan Seorang Demonstran written by Soe himself. The plot of this film is an interpretation of the filmmakers, and scenes portraying Soe's private life may be partly fictionalised for dramatisation.

Memoirs of Prison
1984 film by Nelson Pereira dos Santos

The Phantom of the Open
2021 film directed by Craig Roberts

Fidel
2002 television film directed by David Attwood

Crazy
2000 film directed by Hans-Christian Schmid

Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B
2014 made for television biographical film directed by Bradley Walsh

The Passion of Ayn Rand
1999 film by Christopher Menaul

Wild Life
2014 film directed by Cédric Kahn

The Kid
2010 film by Nick Moran

Fear Strikes Out
1957 film by Robert Mulligan
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1987 film directed by Charles Jarrott

Chico Xavier
2010 film by Daniel Filho

The Last Descent
2016 film

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
1968 film by Michael O'Herlihy

Gypsy
1993 film directed by Emile Ardolino

Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979 film by Peter Brook

Odd Little Man
2000 Norwegian film directed by Stein Leikanger

God Is My Co-Pilot
1945 film by Robert Florey

The Three Stooges
ABC TV docudrama

Vera
1986 film by Sérgio Toledo

The Great Moment
1944 film by Preston Sturges

Blue Like Jazz
2012 film by Steve Taylor

Roughly Speaking
1945 film by Michael Curtiz

Cazuza – O Tempo Não Pára
2004 film directed by Sandra Werneck and Walter Carvalho

Little Richard
2000 biographical mini-series

Ich bin dann mal weg
2015 film by Julia Heinz

Bicho de Sete Cabeças
2000 film by Laís Bodanzky

Rainbow
1978 television film about Judy Garland directed by Jackie Cooper

Rhodes of Africa
1936 film by Berthold Viertel

VIPs
2010 film

Queen of the Ring
2024 film directed by Ash Avildsen

Spy for Germany
1956 film by Werner Klingler

Heart Beat
1980 film by John Byrum

Diamond Jim
1935 film by A. Edward Sutherland

Daphne
2007 television film

Lucio Flavio
1977 film by Héctor Babenco

Follow the Sun
1951 film by Sidney Lanfield