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Films with the genre "Biography", sorted by revenue
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Santha Shishunala Sharif (1990)
, 1h59Directed by T. S. Nagabharana
Genres Biography
Actors Shridhar, Girish Karnad, Suman Ranganathan, H. G. Dattatreya
Walt Before Mickey (2015)
, 2hOrigin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about films
Actors Thomas Ian Nicholas, Jon Heder, Jodie Sweetin, David Henrie, Armando Gutierrez, Sheena Colette
Walt Before Mickey is about Walt Disney (Thomas Ian Nicholas) and his early beginnings in Marceline, Missouri. The story follows his poor beginnings and eventual move to Kansas City, where he created his first animation studio Laugh-O-Gram Studio. There he hired Rudy Ising (David Henrie) and Ub Iwerks (Armando Gutierrez) to help start his business. Walt had various minor successes. Frank Newman (Arthur L. Bernstein) promoted Walt's animations as Newman Laugh-O-Grams, which were an instant success. However, due to Disney's lack of knowledge for making the animations at no profit he was forced to have Laugh-O-Gram file for bankruptcy. Iwerks then gives Walt his camera which he later sold to purchase a train ticket to Los Angeles.
, 2h12Directed by Richard Schickel
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Sydney Pollack, Woody Allen, Richard Attenborough, Claire Bloom, Geraldine Chaplin, Michael Chaplin
In chronological order explore the work of Charlie Chaplin and shed light on the controversies related to his personal life.
Caravaggio (2007)
, 3hDirected by Angelo Longoni
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Alessio Boni, Elena Sofia Ricci, Jordi Mollá, Claire Keim, Paolo Briguglia, Benjamin Sadler
Wild Romance (2006)
, 1h43Directed by Jean Van de Velde
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Musical
Actors Daniël Boissevain, Marcel Hensema, Andy Nyman, Karina Smulders, George Rossi
The film opens in 2001, Herman Brood, having written his suicide note, is on the roof of the Hilton Hotel, as he prepares to jump the film flashbacks thirty years to the period of his greatest success 1974-1979. In 1976 Brood is evicted from the band Cuby + Blizzards, the penniless and drug dependent Brood nonetheless manages to find gigs in the Groningen bar scene. When he plays his bar, Brood attracts the attention of Winschoten bar owner Koos van Dijk, who becomes his manager. Under the inspirational leadership of van Dijk, Brood puts together a band he calls Herman Brood & His Wild Romance. Playing venues at home and abroad Brood and his band eventually find success especially with their album Shpritsz, and the hit single Saturday Night. Daring to dream of global success they embark on a tour of the United States.
Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films
Actors Sushant Singh Rajput, Disha Patani, Anupam Kher, Alia Bhatt, Shreyas Talpade, Kiara Advani
Basé sur l'histoire de la vie de Mahendra Singh Dhoni et de son parcours pour devenir le capitaine de l'équipe indienne de cricket, vainqueur de la coupe du monde
Set Fire to the Stars (2014)
, 1h37Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Kelly Reilly, Elijah Wood, Steven Mackintosh, Shirley Henderson, Kevin Eldon, Steve Speirs
In 1950 New York, Harvard graduate and aspiring poet John M. Brinnin (Elijah Wood) embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hero, acclaimed Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Celyn Jones).
Paulo Coelho's Best Story (2014)
, 1h52Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Historical
Actors Nancho Novo, Fabíula Nascimento, Paz Vega
Tim Maia (2014)
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Alinne Moraes, Cauã Reymond, Babu Santana, Ephraim Benton, Denise Dumont, John Ventimiglia
, 2h17Genres Biography
Actors Nana Patekar, Sonali Kulkarni, Mohan Agashe, Tejashree Pradhan Ketkar
This movie showcases the life of Dr. Prakash Baba Amte, a man whose contribution to society is immeasurable. He was unaware of his destination but became an inspiration to the world by teaching the epitome of self-actualization.
, 2hOrigin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors David Ramsey, Charles Durning, Junie Hoang
The story of famed Houston Astros baseball Pitcher J.R. Richard, from his early life in Louisiana, to his beginnings as a major baseball player in 1969, leading up to the massive stroke he suffered in 1980, leaving his only true Resurrection to his close friends and fans back into baseball.
Noble (2014)
, 1h40Directed by Stephen Bradley
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Sarah Greene, Brendan Coyle, Mark Huberman, Ruth Negga, Liam Cunningham, Pauline McLynn
The film is set in Vietnam in 1989, fourteen years after the end of the war. Christina Noble flies into Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), a country "that she wouldn't be able to show you on a map". With a few dollars, her own hard-won courage, she is about embark on a life calling. The film explores her tough upbringing in Dublin and her early adult life in the UK. It is the inspirational true story of a woman who believes that it only takes one person to make a difference.
Keye Luke (2012)
, 12minutesDirected by Timothy Tau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Keye Luke, Feodor Chin, Kelvin Han Yee, Archie Kao, David Huynh, Mei Melançon
The short film is a documentary and narrative hybrid bio-pic focusing on the earlier life and work of Keye Luke during the 1920s-1940s, a pioneering Asian American actor and painter most known for his roles as the Number One Son, Lee Chan, in the popular Charlie Chan films of the 1930s, and as the very first Kato in the 1940s Green Hornet, decades before Bruce Lee. It is to be noted that Luke shares a hometown with Lee (Seattle, Washington) and has several other similarities with Lee as well. Luke also played Detective James Lee Wong in the Phantom of Chinatown (1940), taking over the yellowface role of "Mr. Wong" (played by Boris Karloff) and becoming the first leading Asian American detective character in U.S. cinematic history. This role is covered in the film, as well as Luke's work in films such as Secret Agent X-9. Feodor Chin plays Keye Luke, Archie Kao plays Edwin Luke, the brother of Keye Luke, and Kelvin Han Yee plays Lee Luke, Keye Luke's father. Other actors play various real-life historical figures that were Luke's colleagues or family members, such as Elizabeth Sandy playing Luke's caucasian wife, Ethel Davis Luke.