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.
Joan of Arc (Jovovich) (1999)
6.7/10
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Faye Dunaway, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich
Aka "The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc". French filmmaker Luc Besson's ("The Big Blue") lavish historical biodrama about the visionary French pe... Read more
Joan of Arc (Sobieski) (1999)
6.7/10
Director: Christian Duguay
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Peter O'Toole, Shirley MacLaine, Peter Strauss, Jacqueline Biss...
She was a visionary, a warrior, a heroine and a martyr, all before the age of 20. Leelee Sobieski stars as the French peasant girl whose devine vision... Read more
Jobs (2013)
5.9/10
Director: Joshua Michael Stern
Starring: Dermot Mulroney, James Woods, John Getz, Lesley Ann Warren, Lukas Haas, Matthew...
Ashton Kutcher is Steve Jobs, the iconic Apple innovator and groundbreaking entrepreneur. This inspiring and entertaining film chronicles Jobs' early... Read more
John Adams (2008)
8.6/10
Director: Tom Hooper
Starring: David Morse, Laura Linney, Sarah Polley, Stephen Dillane, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Gi...
'John Adams' chronicles the life of this remarkable historical figure, a man whose fiercely independent spirit, reverence for the rule of law and comm... Read more
Joy (2015)
6.6/10
Director: David O Russell
Starring: Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini, Robert De Niro, Virginia Madsen, Edgar Ramirez,...
"Joy" is the wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a mat... Read more
Julie and Julia (2009)
Director: Nora Ephron
Starring: Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, Linda Emond, Amy Adams, Chris Messina
A culinary legend provides a frustrated office worker with a new recipe for life in the true stories of how Julia Child's (Meryl Streep) life and cook... Read more
Julie and Julia ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
Director: Nora Ephron
Starring: Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, Linda Emond, Amy Adams, Chris Messina
A culinary legend provides a frustrated office worker with a new recipe for life in the true stories of how Julia Child's (Meryl Streep) life and cook... Read more
Jump (2007)
5.4/10
Director: Joshua Sinclair
Starring: Ben Silverstone, Patrick Swayze, Martine McCutcheon, Heinz Hoenig, Sybil Danning...
Phillippe Halsman was one of the most famous celebrity photographers of the 1950s, well-known for making his subjects literally jump for the camera; b... Read more
Jungle (2017)
6.7/10
Director: Greg McLean
Starring: Thomas Kretschmann, Daniel Radcliffe, Alex Russell, Yasmin Kassim
A group of friends join a guide for a trek into the Bolivian jungle, searching for an Indian village. The men soon realize that the jungle is a diffic... Read more
Just Mercy (2019)
7.5/10
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Michael B Jordan, Brie Larson
A powerful and thought-provoking true-story, "Just Mercy" follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Jordan) and his history-making battle for justice. Aft... Read more