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IMDB - Top 50 - Biography Movies

The Top 50 "Biography" movies as voted by the users of the Internet Movie Database.

Updated: October 27, 2009.

(found at: http://www.imdb.com/chart/biography)
1. Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
by Steven Spielberg
  
2. Goodfellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Martin Scorsese
  
3. Lawrence of Arabia (Limited Edition)  
4. The Pianist  
5.
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 Mihai Viteazul
by Sergiu Nicolaescu
  
6. Raging Bull (Special Edition)  
7.
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 Der Untergang (Downfall)
by Oliver Hirschbiegel
  
8. The Elephant Man  
9. Braveheart  
10.
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 Into the Wild
by Sean Penn
  
11. Gandhi (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Richard Attenborough
  
12. Becket
by Peter Glenville
  
13. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly  
14. A Man for All Seasons (Special Edition)
by Fred Zinnemann
  
15. Bonnie and Clyde
by Arthur Penn
  
16. Ip Man (First Print Edition) DVD
by Wilson Yip
  
17.
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 La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  
18. Patton
by Franklin J. Schaffner
  
19.
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 Mar adentro
by Alejandro Amenábar
  
20. Ed Wood (Special Edition)
by Tim Burton
  
21. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
by Werner Herzog
  
22. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
by Werner Herzog
  
23. The Legend of Bhagat Singh
by Rajkumar Santoshi
  
24. Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
25. Spartacus
by Stanley Kubrick
  
26. The Miracle Worker
by Arthur Penn
  
27.
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 Persepolis [2007]
by Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi
  
28. Papillon
by Franklin J. Schaffner
  
29.
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 Waltz with Bashir
by Ari Folman
  
30. JFK - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Oliver Stone
  
31. In the Name of the Father
by Jim Sheridan
  
32.
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 Sergeant York
by Howard Hawks
  
33. Cinderella Man (Widescreen Edition)
by Ron Howard
  
34. The Straight Story
by David Lynch
  
35. The Insider  
36. Message (30th Anniversary Edition)
by Moustapha Akkad
  
37. IL Vangelo Secondo Matteo (1964 Italian)
by Pier Paolo Pasolini
  
38. The World's Fastest Indian
by Roger Donaldson
  
39. A Beautiful Mind  
40. Birdman of Alcatraz
by John Frankenheimer
  
41. Finding Neverland (Widescreen Edition)  
42. The Rocket / Maurice Richard (Original French Version with English Subtitles)
by Charles Binamé
  
43. Samurai III - Duel at Ganryu Island - Criterion Collection
by Hiroshi Inagaki
  
44. Walk the Line (Widescreen Edition)
by James Mangold
  
45. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters - Criterion Collection
by Paul Schrader
  
46. Queen Christina
by Rouben Mamoulian
  
47.
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 Milk
by Gus Van Sant
  
48. The Mirror
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
49.
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 Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage
by Marc Rothemund
  
50. The Last Emperor - Director's Cut
by Bernardo Bertolucci
  
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Created by Melissa B. on Aug 23, 2007.