Biopic

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows biopic

poster Bumping Into Broadway
Bumping Into Broadway
25mn - Comedy
A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just bef…
poster Bulldog Courage
Bulldog Courage
60mn - Western
When miner Slim Braddock is swindled out of his valuable mine by corrupt banker Williams, he becomes "The Phantom," a Robin Hood-like outlaw who robs stagecoaches carrying Williams' ill-gotten gains. Afte…
poster The Massacre
The Massacre
30mn - Action, War, Western
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
poster Stakeout
Stakeout
90mn - Crime, Drama
A young private investigator on the gritty streets of Los Angeles faces an impossible choice when he falls for the woman he's supposed to be surveilling for insurance fraud. With his sick mother's medical…
poster Someone Somewhere
Someone Somewhere
(3/5)
82mn - Drama
In the shadows of Hollywood's glittering facade, five dreamers chase stardom in a city that promises everything but delivers heartbreak. When the only spotlight is a broken streetlight and rejection becom…
poster Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid
Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid
(2.8/5)
5mn - Animation, Comedy
Original short that introduced Bosko, never released. Producer-directors Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising showed it to various studio executives as a pilot for the Bosko character.
poster Ali Barbouyou and Ali Bouf, In Oil
Ali Barbouyou and Ali Bouf, In Oil
(2.7/5)
5mn -
The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then picks up as the painter goes haywire and sends the assi…
poster A Lover in Pawn
A Lover in Pawn
116mn - Drama
About loaner Master Samuel, based on a writings by Hjalmar Bergman
poster The Whirl of Life
The Whirl of Life
(3.8/5)
60mn - Comedy
The plot is a loose autobiographical interpretation of the life of Vernon and Irene Castle, interspersed among a typical melodrama of the period
poster The Woodsman
The Woodsman
0mn -
Detective Alex Whiting protects an amnesiac girl who witnessed a series of ritualistic murders, but finds himself drawn into a dark world where ancient superstitions and modern evil collide in the shadows…
poster Running a Cinema
Running a Cinema
(2.6/5)
7mn - Comedy, Animation
A comical satire of a cinema program and operation.
poster Buried Alive
Buried Alive
62mn - Crime, Drama, Romance
A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed fo…
poster An Electric Sleep
An Electric Sleep
76mn - Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A terminally ill teenager must extract a cure from the scientists who created her deadly disease, racing against time as surveillance operatives close in to eliminate all witnesses.
poster Os Lobos
Os Lobos
(3.3/5)
84mn - Drama
Cabreira Hill. A village dominated by patriarchal tradition: the woman takes care of the household or picks up wood; the man takes care of the cattle or chops down trees to produce coal. After doing time …
poster Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
2mn - Comedy, Drama
Considered the first motion picture to employ both color and sound, the only film record ever made of the original star of Rostand's famous play performing a scene from his most famous role. It is accompa…
poster Racquet
Racquet
87mn - Comedy
Centred around a former tennis champ who swings with the girls and volleying straight sets with the rich and famous while set on owning his own tennis court.
poster Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
14mn - Drama
Adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel.
poster Kismet
Kismet
85mn -
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
poster A Bucket of Blood
A Bucket of Blood
(3.4/5)
66mn - Comedy, Horror
Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness r…
poster King Lear
King Lear
(2.7/5)
63mn - Drama
Silent adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear
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