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.
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
8/10
Director: Jean-Marc Vallee
Starring: Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner
Matthew McConaughey gives an Oscar-winning (Best Actor) performance in this uplifting and powerful film inspired by true events. Texas cowboy Ron Wood... Read more
Dallas Buyers Club ( Blu-ray ) (2013)
8/10
Director: Jean-Marc Vallee
Starring: Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner
Matthew McConaughey gives an Oscar-winning (Best Actor) performance in this uplifting and powerful film inspired by true events. Texas cowboy Ron Wood... Read more
Darrow (1991)
6.4/10
Director: John David Coles
Starring: Kevin Spacey
Some people called him 'Lawyer for the Damned'... but Clarence Darrow (Kevin Spacey) was simply a man who, in time of justice, had the courage to stan... Read more
Desert Flower (2009)
7.4/10
Director: Sherry Hormann
Starring: Juliet Stevenson, Timothy Spall, Anthony Mackie, Sally Hawkins, Liya Kebede
The true story of Somalian supermodel Waris Dirie is told in this adaptation of her autobiography of the same name. A victim of female circumcision at... Read more
Destiny of a Man ( Fate of a Man ) (1959)
8.1/10
Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Starring: Sergei Bondarchuk, Pavel Boriskin, Zinaida Kirienko, Pavel Volkov
The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. Sergei Bondarchuk directs and acts in this screen adaptation o... Read more
Diana (2013)
5.5/10
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Starring: Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews
"Diana" takes audiences into the private realm of one of the world's most iconic and inescapably public women - the Princess of Wales, Diana (Naomi Wa... Read more
Diana Ross Double: Mahogany / Lady Sings the Blues (1)
Director: Berry Gordy
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Billy Dee Williams, Diana Ross, Jean-Pierre Aumont
In MAHOGANY Diana Ross is radiant as a department store secretary who rises out of a Chicago ghetto to become a world-famous fashion model and designe... Read more
Domino (2005)
6/10
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo, Mo'Nique , Christop...
The bizarre based-on-fact story of Domino Harvey (daughter of actor Laurence Harvey, played by Keira Knightley) a Hollywood socialite turned bounty hu... Read more
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
7/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Udo Kier, Jack Black, Mark Webber, Jonah Hill, Kim Gordon, Roon...
After nearly dying in a car accident, the last thing Oregon slacker John Callahan intends to do is give up alcohol. Encouraged by his girlfriend and a... Read more
Doomsday Gun (1994)
6.1/10
Director: Robert Young
Starring: Frank Langella, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, James Fox
The intriguing story of ballistics genius Gerald Bull who built the mammoth 'Super Gun' for Saddam Hussein - funded by the American taxpayers! Frank L... Read more