Biography
Where can you meet famous inventors, notorious criminals, great dictators, selfless heroes, charismatic eccentrics and all manner of real life fascinating folk? Right here in Alice's Biography section.
Pictured: Kerry Fox is a knock-out playing celebrated kiwi author Janet Frame in Jane Campion's luminous 'An Angel At My Table', based on Frame's autobiographical trilogy.
Control (2007)
7.7/10
Director: Anton Corbijn
Starring: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara, Joe Anderson, Toby Kebbell
Globally renowned photographer and image-maker to superstar bands like Depeche Mode and U2, Anton Corbijn brings us his first feature film. It tells t... Read more
Conversations With God (2006)
6.6/10
Director: Stephen Simon
Starring: Henry Czerny, Vilma Silva, Bruce Page, Abdul Salaam El-Razzac
Based on the extraordinarily popular books by Neale Donald Walsch, telling the true story of the unfortunate events in his life and the emotional jour... Read more
Copying Beethoven (2006)
6.8/10
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Starring: Diane Kruger, Ed Harris, Matthew Goode, Joe Anderson, Bill Stewart, Phyllida Law...
Ed Harris plays Ludwig van in this bio-pic that begins on his death-bed, then flashes back to a meeting with the fictitious character of Anna Holtz, a... Read more
Crazy (2007)
7.1/10
Director: Rick Bieber
Starring: Waylon Payne, Ali Larter, Lane Garrison, Scott Michael Campbell, David Conrad, J...
The true story of one of Nashville's most innovative instrumentalists comes to the screen in this bio-pic based on the life of Hank Garland. A gifted... Read more
Creation (2009)
6.7/10
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Bill Paterson, Jennifer Connelly, Jeremy Northam, Jim Carter, Paul Bettany, Bene...
A psychological, heart-wrenching love story starring Paul Bettany as Charles Darwin, the film is based on "Annie's Box", a biography penned by Darwin'... Read more
Cromwell (1970)
6.9/10
Director: Ken Hughes
Starring: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley
Richard Harris plays the fiery Oliver Cromwell in this Hollywood story of the 17th century Englishman determined to rid England of tyrannical rule. Al... Read more
Crumb (1995)
8/10
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Starring: Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb
Robert Crumb, the multi-talented underground comic book artist, is profiled in this unique, in-depth documentary portrait. Emerging from a dysfunction... Read more
Cry Freedom (1987)
7.5/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton, Denzel Washington
Stirring epic drama by Richard Attenborough ("Gandhi") that follows the friendship between white South African journalist Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) a... Read more
Cry Freedom (Blu-Ray) (1987)
7.5/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton, Denzel Washington
Donald Woods is chief editor at the liberal newspaper `Daily Dispatch' in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Ste... Read more
D H Lawrence Collection ( Sons and Lovers / Priest of Love / Kangaroo ) (1981)
Director: Christopher Miles, Jack Cardiff, Tim Burstall
Starring: Dean Stockwell, Trevor Howard, Wendy Hiller, Janet Suzman, Ava Gardner, Penelope...
A literary master of the 20th century, D.H. Lawrence's infamous and groundbreaking novels, from "Lady Chatterley's Lover" to "Women in Love" and "The... Read more