Cinema
Biography films
Every film in the archive tagged Biography.
The Pianist
A Polish-Jewish pianist survives the Warsaw ghetto and the ruins that follow it.
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Goodfellas
Thirty years inside the New York mob, narrated by a man who always wanted to be a gangster.
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Amadeus
A court composer confesses his envy of a vulgar young genius he could not out-write.
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The Wolf of Wall Street
A stockbroker builds a fortune on fraud and narrates his own excess without apology.
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Casino
A mob-run Las Vegas casino is lost to greed, a marriage and an old friend.
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American Gangster
A Harlem heroin importer builds an empire while an outcast detective assembles a case.
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
A young admirer joins the James gang and circles the man he will eventually shoot.
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The Last King of Scotland
A young Scottish doctor becomes Idi Amin's personal physician and cannot get out.
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Cinderella Man
A ruined Depression-era boxer returns to the ring to feed his family.
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Lord of War
An arms dealer narrates his rise through every war that needed him.
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A Beautiful Mind
A brilliant mathematician's work and his schizophrenia become impossible to tell apart.
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Girl, Interrupted
A young woman signs herself into a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s and finds the ward hard to leave.
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The Basketball Diaries
A promising teenage athlete and writer slides into heroin addiction on the streets of New York.
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