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Best Biopics/Biographical Movies

Ranking of the best Biographical (Fiction) Productions of all time

- 1
- The Pianist (2002)
  
  Roman Polanski
  
  Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Maureen Lipman, Ed Stoppard, Emilia Fox, Frank Finlay, Julia Rayner, Jessica Kate Meyer. Cameo: Morgane Polanski
- 8.2
  
  152,080
- 2
- In the Name of the Father (1993)
  
  Jim Sheridan
  
  Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite, John Lynch, Beatie Edney, Mark Sheppard, Don Baker, Frank Harper ...
- 8.2
  
  78,842
- 3
- Raging Bull (1980)
  
  Martin Scorsese
  
  Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana, Mario Gallo, John Turturro ...
- 8.1
  
  53,433
- 4
- The Elephant Man (1980)
  
  David Lynch
  
  Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Freddie Jones, Dexter Fletcher
- 8.1
  
  42,340
- 5
- Ivan the Terrible. Part II (1958)
  
  Sergei M. Eisenstein
  
  Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Ludmila Tselikovskaya, Mikhail Nazvanov, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov, Mikhail Kuznetsov
- 8.0
  
  3,002
- 6
- Andrei Rublev (1966)
  
  Andrei Tarkovsky
  
  Anatoly Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Sergeyev, Nikolai Grinko, Irma Rausch, Nikolay Burlyaev, Mikhail Kononov, Rolan Bykov ...
- 8.0
  
  5,721
- 7
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  
  David Lean
  
  Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy ...
- 8.0
  
  47,053
- 8
- Napoleon (1927)
  
  Abel Gance
  
  Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès, Edmond Van Daële, Antonin Artaud, Alexandre Koubitsky, Acho Chakatouny, Marguerite Gance, Annabella, Abel Gance
- 8.0
  
  2,756
- 9
- Spartacus (1960)
  
  Stanley Kubrick
  
  Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov, Charles Laughton, Jean Simmons, John Gavin, Nina Foch ...
- 8.0
  
  68,720
- 10
- Braveheart (1995)
  
  Mel Gibson
  
  Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus MacFadyen, Catherine McCormack, Brendan Gleeson, David O'Hara, Tommy Flanagan ...
- 8.0
  
  153,194
- 11
- Corleone (TV Miniseries) (2007)
  
  Alexis Cahill, Enzo Monteleone
  
  Claudio Gioè, Salvatore Lazzaro, Alessio Manno, Pier Luigi Misasi, Vincent Riotta, Giovan Battista Torregrossa, Andrea Tidona, Gaetano Aronica ...
- 7.9
  
  2,754
- 12
- The Eternal Breasts (1955)
  
  Kinuyo Tanaka
  
  Yumeji Tsukioka, Ryoji Hayama, Junkichi Orimoto, Hiroko Kawasaki, Shirô Ôsaka, Choko Iida, Masayuki Mori, Yôko Sugi ...
- 7.9
  
  319
- 13
- Narcos (TV Series) (2015)
  
  Chris Brancato (Creator), Carlo Bernard (Creator), Doug Miro (Creator)
  
  Wagner Moura, Pedro Pascal, Boyd Holbrook, Damián Alcázar, Paulina Gaitan, Paulina García, Raúl Méndez, Alberto Ammann ...
- 7.9
  
  40,714
- 14
- Ivan The Terrible. Part I (1944)
  
  Sergei M. Eisenstein
  
  Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Ludmila Tselikovskaya, Mikhail Nazvanov, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Vsevolod Pudovkin
- 7.9
  
  3,731
- 15
- Persepolis (2007)
  
  Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
  
  Animation
- 7.8
  
  43,748
- 16
- Edvard Munch (TV) (1974)
  
  Peter Watkins
  
  Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, Ragnvald Caspari, Inger-Berit Oland, Amund Berge, Kerstii Allum, Eric Allum, Susan Troldmyr ...
- 7.8
  
  412
- 17
- Feud: Bette and Joan (TV Miniseries) (2017)
  
  Ryan Murphy (Creator), Ryan Murphy, Gwyneth Horder-Payton
  
  Jessica Lange, Susan Sarandon, Alfred Molina, Judy Davis, Stanley Tucci, Jackie Hoffman, Alison Wright, Catherine Zeta-Jones ...
- 7.8
  
  4,081
- 18
- The Crown (TV Series) (2016)
  
  Peter Morgan (Creator), Stephen Daldry, Philip Martin
  
  Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Imelda Staunton, Matt Smith, John Lithgow, Vanessa Kirby, Tobias Menzies, Josh O'Connor ...
- 7.7
  
  12,823
- 19
- Amadeus (1984)
  
  Milos Forman
  
  Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay ...
- 7.7
  
  76,707
- 20
- Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
  
  Robert Wise
  
  Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, Sal Mineo, Joseph Buloff, Sammy White, Robert Lieb ...
- 7.6
  
  4,237
- 21
- The Miracle Worker (1962)
  
  Arthur Penn
  
  Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Andrew Prine, Inga Swenson, Victor Jory, Grant Code, Jack Hollander, Beah Richards ...
- 7.6
  
  5,612
- 22
- American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson (TV Miniseries) (2016)
  
  Scott Alexander (Creator), Larry Karaszewski (Creator), Ryan Murphy
  
  Cuba Gooding Jr., John Travolta, Sarah Paulson, Courtney B. Vance, David Schwimmer, Bruce Greenwood, Connie Britton, Jordana Brewster ...
- 7.6
  
  10,675
- 23
- Gentleman Jim (1942)
  
  Raoul Walsh
  
  Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, John Loder, William Frawley, Minor Watson, Ward Bond ...
- 7.6
  
  1,595
- 24
- Julius Caesar (1953)
  
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  
  Marlon Brando, Louis Calhern, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Greer Garson, John Gielgud, Edmond O'Brien, George Macready ...
- 7.6
  
  6,165
- 25
- A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
  
  Mikio Naruse
  
  Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Daisuke Kato, Keiju Kobayashi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Kusabue, Noboru Nakaya, Yûnosuke Itô ...
- 7.6
  
  135
- 26
- Pablo Escobar, the Drug Lord (TV Series) (2012)
  
  Carlos Moreno, Laura Mora Ortega
  
  Andrés Parra, Angie Cepeda, Nicolás Montero, Chichila Navia, Marcela Vargas, Anderson Ballesteros, Christian Tappán, Germán Quintero ...
- 7.6
  
  2,051
- 27
- Veneno (TV Miniseries) (2020)
  
  Los Javis (Creator), Javier Ambrossi (Creator), Javier Calvo (Creator)
  
  Isabel Torres, Daniela Santiago, Jedet, Lola Rodríguez, Paca la Piraña, Elvira Mínguez, Goya Toledo, Lola Dueñas ...
- 7.6
  
  8,070
- 28
- Queen Christina (1933)
  
  Rouben Mamoulian
  
  Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, Elizabeth Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, Georges Renavent ...
- 7.6
  
  2,595
- 29
- The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
  
  Martin Scorsese
  
  Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Kyle Chandler, Cristin Milioti, Rob Reiner, Matthew McConaughey, P.J. Byrne ...
- 7.6
  
  102,025
- 30
- My Left Foot (1989)
  
  Jim Sheridan
  
  Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Ray McAnally, Fiona Shaw, Ruth McCabe, Alison Whelan, Cyril Cusack, Adrian Dunbar, Hugh O'Conor
- 7.6
  
  15,326

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