List of Biography Movies

A biopic about Gore Vidal, whose had a love affair with Italy, spending large periods of time in Rome in the early 1960s and later between the Italian capital city and a grand villa called La Rondinaia in the Amalfi Coast village of Ravello. There, he entertained a huge networ...

The film covers Vince McMahon's ascension in the wrestling business, and having WWE Studios involved indicates the project has the blessing of the grappling magnate. He is third generation - the business was started by his grandfather Jess and taken over by his father Vincent...

Based on "Tupperware Unsealed", the non-fiction book written by Bob Kealing. It tells the tale of Brownie Wise, the woman behind the real-life tupperware brand.

A biopic about author J.R.R. Tolkien, based on six years of interviews and archival research. It will chart the tumultuous events that inspired him to pen Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogies: when war broke out in 1914, disrupting his Oxford life with his wife Edith Bratt,...

A biopic of Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis at the age of 39, copyrighted his speeches, books and famous works during his lifetime.

A movie about The Ramones, the legendary punk band. Based on the 2009 memoir by Ramone's brother Mickey Leigh, the story revolves around the birth of the punk movement. With debut album Ramones in 1976, Ramone became the poster boy of disaffected youth in the 1970s and '80s, i...

An adaptation of the Hampton Sides non fiction bestseller about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr by James Earl Ray. Set against the larger backdrop of the Civil Rights movement, the film will chronicle the terrifying collision of these two figures and the subsequent...

An adaptation of Shane White's biography 'Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire'. It's a story of Hamilton, who was mentioned in an obituary for Cornelius Vanderbilt as the tycoon's true rival.

White's book d...

"McQueen" will be based on the late actor's life, which story he wrote on his own before his death at the age of 50 in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico from a heart attack following cancer surgery. It, moreover, will be partly based on the 2010 biography "Steve McQueen: The Life And Lege...

A feature film about former Boston Bruins player Derek "Turk" Sanderson, the talented but troubled member of the Stanley Cup-winning Bruins in the 1970s. Booze and drugs sent Sanderson's life into a downward spiral, and the film will chronicle that fall and how his superstar t...