Best biopics - Charts
Best biopics
1. Schindler's List (1993)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley
2. Untouchable (2011)
France, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache
Cast: François Cluzet, Omar Sy
3. Le Mans '66 (2019)
USA / France, Drama / Biography
Directed by: James Mangold
Cast: Matt Damon, Christian Bale
4. Rush (2013)
USA / UK, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Ron Howard
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl
5. The Key for Determining Dwarfs or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver (2002)
Czech Republic, Documentary / Drama
Directed by: Martin Šulík
Cast: Marek Juráček, Edita Levá
6. Amadeus (1984)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Miloš Forman
Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce
7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
USA, Western / Drama
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford
8. Senna (2010)
UK / France, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Asif Kapadia
Cast: Ayrton Senna, Rubens Barrichello
9. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Ron Howard
Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly
10. The Pianist (2002)
France / Poland, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Roman Polański
Cast: Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox
11. Braveheart (1995)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau
12. Jan Werich: If Somebody Already Is (2021)
Czech Republic, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Martin Slunečko, Miloslav Šmídmajer
Cast: Miroslav Táborský, Pavel Rímský
13. Papillon (1973)
USA / France, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman
14. Goodfellas (1990)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta
15. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
UK / USA, Biography / Drama
Directed by: Bryan Singer, Dexter Fletcher
Cast: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton
16. Awakenings (1990)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Penny Marshall
Cast: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams
17. Catch Me If You Can (2002)
USA / Canada, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks
18. Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Biography
Directed by: Ladislav Smoljak
Cast: Zdeněk Svěrák, Valerie Kaplanová
19. American Gangster (2007)
USA / UK, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe
20. Green Book (2018)
USA, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Peter Farrelly
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali
21. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
UK / USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Terry George
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo
22. Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
Sweden / UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Malik Bendjelloul
Cast: Rodriguez, Malik Bendjelloul
23. The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (2002)
Czech Republic / Slovakia, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Matej Mináč
Cast: Nicholas Winton, Karel Reisz
24. The Elephant Man (1980)
USA / UK, Drama / Biography
Directed by: David Lynch
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt
25. Lemmy (2010)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Greg Olliver, Wes Orshoski
Cast: Lemmy, Alice Cooper
26. The King's Speech (2010)
UK / USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Tom Hooper
Cast: Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter
27. Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Davis Guggenheim
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Tracy Pollan
29. The Crash Reel (2013)
USA, Documentary / Sports
Directed by: Lucy Walker
Cast: Shaun White, Rory Bushfield
30. Jane (2017)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Brett Morgen
Cast: Jane Goodall, Hugo van Lawick
31. Cinderella Man (2005)
USA, Drama / Sports
Directed by: Ron Howard
Cast: Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger
32. Ip Man (2008)
Hong Kong / China, Action / Drama
Directed by: Wilson Yip
Cast: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam
33. Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In (2021)
UK, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Jason Ferguson
Cast: Alex Ferguson
34. Into the Wild (2007)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Sean Penn
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden
35. Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Jan Harlan
Cast: Stanley Kubrick, Tom Cruise
37. When You're Strange (2009)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Tom DiCillo
Cast: Johnny Depp, John Densmore
38. Ennio: The Maestro (2021)
Italy / Belgium, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast: Ennio Morricone, Quentin Tarantino
39. One Life (2023)
UK, Drama / Biography
Directed by: James Hawes
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn
40. 38 (2014)
Slovakia, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Lukáš Zednikovič, Dano Dangl
Cast: Pavol Demitra, Mária Demitrová
41. Imagine: John Lennon (1988)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Andrew Solt
Cast: John Lennon, David Bowie
42. Dangal (2016)
India, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Nitesh Tiwari
Cast: Aamir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar
43. Karel Zeman: Adventurer in Film (2015)
Czech Republic / Canada, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Tomáš Hodan
Cast: Karel Zeman, Ludmila Zemanová
44. Gandhi (1982)
UK / India, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen
46. Andrei Rublev (1966)
Soviet Union, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky
Cast: Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko
47. Persepolis (2007)
France / USA, Animation / Drama
Directed by: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
48. Raging Bull (1980)
USA, Drama / Sports
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty
49. Changeling (2008)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich
50. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
UK, Adventure / War
Directed by: David Lean
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness
51. The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
New Zealand / USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
52. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
France, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain
53. The Sound of Music (1965)
USA, Musical / Family
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
54. Dersu Uzala (1975)
Soviet Union / Japan, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: 黒澤明
Cast: Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin
55. My Left Foot (1989)
Ireland / UK, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker
56. Out of Africa (1985)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford
57. Captain Phillips (2013)
USA, Biography / Thriller
Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener
58. Rivers and Tides (2001)
Germany / Finland, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Cast: Andy Goldsworthy, Anna Goldsworthy
59. Life Feels Good (2013)
Poland, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Maciej Pieprzyca
Cast: Dawid Ogrodnik, Arkadiusz Jakubik
60. The Promised Land (2023)
Denmark / Sweden, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Nikolaj Arcel
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin
61. Maurice Richard (2005)
Canada, Drama / Sports
Directed by: Charles Binamé
Cast: Roy Dupuis, Julie LeBreton
62. Serpico (1973)
USA / Italy, Biography / Crime
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Al Pacino, John Randolph
63. Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017)
UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Lili Fini Zanuck
Cast: Eric Clapton, John Mayall
64. Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
USA, Drama / Sports
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli
66. Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Israel / France, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Ari Folman
Cast: Ari Folman, אורי סיון
67. Be Here Now (2015)
USA / Australia, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Lilibet Foster
Cast: Andy Whitfield
68. Control (2007)
UK / USA, Drama / Music
Directed by: Anton Corbijn
Cast: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton
69. Walk the Line (2005)
USA / Germany, Drama / Music
Directed by: James Mangold
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon
70. Loving Vincent (2017)
UK / Poland, Animation / Biography
Directed by: DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman
Cast: Douglas Booth, Holly Earl
71. Finding Neverland (2004)
USA / UK, Drama / Family
Directed by: Marc Forster
Cast: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet
72. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Australia / USA, Biography / War
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn
73. Hitler, a Career (1977)
West Germany, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Joachim Fest, Christian Herrendoerfer
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring
74. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
USA, Biography / Comedy
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill
75. Oppenheimer (2023)
USA / UK, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon
76. The Miracle Worker (1962)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Arthur Penn
Cast: Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory
77. Hilary and Jackie (1998)
UK, Drama / Music
Directed by: Anand Tucker
Cast: Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths
78. George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Cast: George Harrison, John Lennon
79. Marathon (2005)
South Korea, Drama / Sports
Directed by: Yoon-cheol Jeong
Cast: Seung-woo Jo, Mi-sook Kim
80. Nightwish: End of Innocence (2003)
Finland, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Arto Halonen, Timo Halonen
Cast: Tarja Turunen, Tuomas Holopainen
81. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
France, Biography / Historical
Directed by: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet
82. Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off (2022)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Sam Jones
Cast: Tony Hawk, Stacy Peralta
83. My Mother's Castle (1990)
France, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Yves Robert
Cast: Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel
84. The Straight Story (1999)
USA / UK, Biography / Drama
Directed by: David Lynch
Cast: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek
85. Marley (2012)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff
86. Daddy (2004)
Czech Republic, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Jan Svěrák, Martin Dostál
Cast: Zdeněk Svěrák, Jan Svěrák
87. Sully: Miracle on the Hudson (2016)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart
89. The Salt of the Earth (2014)
France / Italy, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
90. Ip Man 2 (2010)
Hong Kong / China, Action / Drama
Directed by: Wilson Yip
Cast: Donnie Yen, Xiaoming Huang
91. Jako bychom dnes zemřít měli (2016)
Czech Republic, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Roman Vávra
Cast: Josef Toufar, Ondřej Vetchý
92. Shine (1996)
Australia, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Scott Hicks
Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Sonia Todd
94. Chaplin (1992)
USA / Japan, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd
95. Mesrine Part 2: Public Enemy Number 1 (2008)
France / Canada, Action / Drama
Directed by: Jean-François Richet
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier
97. Milos Forman: What Doesn't Kill You... (2009)
Czech Republic, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Miloslav Šmídmajer
Cast: Miloš Forman, Petr Forman
98. Almost Famous (2000)
USA, Music / Drama
Directed by: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand
99. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
France / USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Julian Schnabel
100. My Best Fiend (1999)
Germany / UK, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Cast: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski