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.
LBJ (2016)
6.4/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Bill Pullman, C Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richard Jenkins, Woody Harr...
LBJ centres on the political upheaval that Vice President Johnson faced when he was thrust into the presidency at the hands of an assassin's bullet in... Read more
Le Redoubtable (Godard Mon Amour) (2017)
6.7/10
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Louis Garrel, Berenice Bejo, Gregory Gadebois, Stacy Martin, Micha Lescot
During the making of one of his films, French film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 17-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and later marries he... Read more
Legend (2015)
7/10
Director: Brian Helgeland
Starring: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, David Thewlis, Duffy , Christopher Eccleston, Chazz P...
LEGEND takes us into the secret history of the 1960s and the extraordinary events that secured the infamy of the Kray twins. From Academy Award® winne... Read more
Legends of Comedy: Frankie Howerd, Rather You Than Me / The Curse of Steptoe / Hughie Green, Most Sincerely (2010)
Director: Daniel Percival, John Alexander, Michael Samuels
Starring: Jason Isaacs, Phil Davis, Trevor Eve, David Walliams, Rafe Spall
These three compelling dramas reveal the extraordinary and often turbulent off-camera lives of some of Britain's favourite comedians: Frankie Howerd,... Read more
Lenny (1974)
7.6/10
Director: Bob Fosse
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner
Dustin Hoffman is Lenny Bruce in this film about the controversial and now legendary Bruce. Hoffman's performance follows Lenny's rise to success as w... Read more
Life (2015)
6.1/10
Director: Anton Corbijn
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Joel Edgerton, Dane DeHaan, Ben Kingsley
Inspired by a true story, LIFE charts the friendship that developed between Magnum photographer Dennis Stock and actor James Dean when Stock was comm... Read more
Life (Blu-ray) (2015)
6.6/10
Director: Anton Corbijn
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Joel Edgerton, Dane DeHaan, Ben Kingsley
Inspired by a true story, LIFE charts the friendship that developed between Magnum photographer Dennis Stock and actor James Dean when Stock was comm... Read more
Life of a King (2013)
6.9/10
Director: Jake Goldberger
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr, Dennis Haysbert, LisaGay Hamilton, Paula Jai Parker, Richard T...
"Life of a King" is the true story of one man's inspiring mission to better the future of inner-city youth in Washington, D.C. After being incarcerate... Read more
Lincoln (2012)
7.4/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, David Strathairn, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, Joseph Gordon-Le...
This inspiring and revealing drama focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final four months in office. In early 1865, visionary leader Abraham Lin... Read more
Lincoln ( Blu-ray ) (2012)
7.4/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, David Strathairn, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, Joseph Gordon-Le...
This inspiring and revealing drama focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final four months in office. In early 1865, visionary leader Abraham Lin... Read more