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.
Malcolm X (1992)
7.7/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall
Spike Lee's three-hour epic tale of the life and times of the small-time crook from Harlem turned revolutionary civil rights activist has Denzel Washi... Read more
Man in the Mirror - The Michael Jackson Story (2004)
3.4/10
Director: Allan Moyle
Starring: Flex Alexander
This revealing biodrama provides an objective look at the controversial pop star's life, from his unprecedented rise to the top of the music world wit... Read more
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
7.3/10
Director: Joseph Pevney
Starring: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer
The career and stormy private life of silent film legend Lon Chaney is effectively (if not always accurately) brought to the screen in this biodrama.... Read more
Man on the Moon (1999)
7.4/10
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Courtney Love, Paul Giamatti
In an acclaimed performance that borders on channelling, Jim Carrey plays kamikaze comic genius Andy Kaufman, who delighted in tricking, perplexing, a... Read more
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
7.1/10
Director: Justin Chadwick
Starring: Naomie Harris, Terry Pheto, Idris Elba
A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected pre... Read more
Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
7.3/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Joan Chen, Kyle MacLachlan, Amanda Schull, Wang Shuangbao, Chi...
Based on the extraordinary true story and best-selling autobiography of Li Cunxin, who, amidst the chaos of Mao's Cultural Revolution, was chosen at a... Read more
Mao's Last Dancer ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
7.3/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Joan Chen, Kyle MacLachlan, Amanda Schull, Wang Shuangbao, Chi...
Based on the extraordinary true story and best-selling autobiography of Li Cunxin, who, amidst the chaos of Mao's Cultural Revolution, was chosen at a... Read more
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley (2008)
7.1/10
Director: Niall MacCormick
Starring: Geoffrey Palmer, Samuel West, Oliver Ford Davies, Rory Kinnear, Andrea Riseborou...
Margaret Thatcher is one of the world's most well-known public figures. But how much do we really know about her as a person? In this witty, humorous... Read more
Marie Antoinette (2006)
6.4/10
Director: Sofia Coppola
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Kirsten Dunst, Rip Torn, Steve Coogan, Shirley He...
Kirsten Dunst stars as the ill-fated French queen in Sofia Coppola's lavish take on the bloated 18th century monarchy. Betrothed to young Louis XVI (... Read more
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
6.3/10
Director: Josie Rourke
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Guy Pearce, David Tennant, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn,...
Queen of France at 16 and widowed at 18, Mary Stuart defies pressure to remarry. Instead, she returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful t... Read more