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.
Frankie and Alice (2010)
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Starring: Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgard, Chandra Wilson, Phylicia Rashad
A psychological drama inspired by a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder in early 1970s Los Angeles. Frankie & Alice is inspired by the... Read more
Free State of Jones (2016)
6.9/10
Director: Gary Ross
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Keri Russell, Mahershala Ali, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Based on an incredible true-story during the Civil War, Free State of Jones tells the story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, and his extraordi... Read more
Freeheld (2015)
6.5/10
Director: Peter Sollett
Starring: Julianne Moore, Michael Shannon, Steve Carell, Ellen Page
The true love story of Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree and their fight for justice. A decorated New Jersey police detective, Laurel is diagnosed with... Read more
Freeman (2020)
7.8/10
Director: Stephen Page
Starring: Cathy Freeman
Cathy Freeman's win at Sydney 2000 is one of the greatest collective experiences in Australian modern history. Twenty years later, FREEMAN explores th... Read more
Freud (1962)
7.3/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Larry Parks, Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Susan Kohner
John Huston's 1962 film is a fictional biopic starring Montgomery Clift, depicting 5 years in the life of the hugely-influential Viennese psychoanalys... Read more
Frida (2002)
7.4/10
Director: Julie Taymor
Starring: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas, Edward Norton, Geoffr...
The tumultuous life of legendary Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is vividly brought to the screen by director Julie Taymor ("Titus") and producer/star Sal... Read more
Funny Girl / Funny Lady (1968)
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Kay Medford, Omar Sharif, Barbra Streisand, Anne Francis, James Caan, Roddy McDo...
'Funny GIrl' - Ziegfeld Follies' star Fanny Brice was the inspiration for this superb stage musical. Barbara Streisand recreated her Broadway triumph... Read more
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
6.5/10
Director: Steven Shainberg
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr, Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin, Jane Alexander, Emmy...
The life of visionary photographer Diane Arbus is explored through a fictional romance, inspired by Patricia Bosworth's biography. Nicole Kidman play... Read more
Gagarin: First in Space (2013)
7.1/10
Director: Pavel Parkhomenko
Starring: Yaroslav Zhalnin
On April 12 1961, Soviet fighter pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted off into space not knowing what fate awaited him. He was one of the legendar... Read more
Gandhi (1982)
8.1/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mill...
Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning epic follows the extraordinary life of Mahatma Gandhi (played by Ben Kingsley), from his beginnings as a... Read more