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.
Mary Queen of Scots (Blu-Ray) (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
Mary Shelley (2017)
6.3/10
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
Starring: Stephen Dillane, Elle Fanning, Joanne Froggatt, Tom Sturridge, Maisie Williams,...
Mary Wollstonecraft's family disapproves when she and poet Percy Shelley announce their love for each other. The family is horrified when it finds tha... Read more
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
7.5/10
Director: Charles Jarrott
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Timothy Dalton, Patrick McGoohan, Nigel Davenp...
A resplendent historical tale of ambition and betrayal, capturing the intense rivalry between Queen Elizabeth I (Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson)... Read more
Mask (1985)
7.2/10
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Cher , Eric Stoltz, Sam Elliott
Based on a true story, Bogdanovich's account of a courageous teenager who suffers from a disease that enlarged his head, and who searches for love and... Read more
Maudie (2016)
7.7/10
Director: Aisling Walsh
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Gabrielle Rose, Zachary Bennett, Sally Hawkins
In 1930s Nova Scotia, arthritic but free-spirited Maud Dowley (Sally Hawkins) sought to escape her repressive family and took a job as housekeeper for... Read more
Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
7.3/10
Director: Espen Sandberg, Joachim Roenning
Starring: Aksel Hennie, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Christian Rubeck, Knut Joner, Agnes Kittelsen
Biographical war drama based on the life of Norwegian resistance fighter Max Manus. Aksel Hennie stars as Manus, who joins the resistance movement in... Read more
McVicar (1980)
6.8/10
Director: Tom Clegg
Starring: Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith
The Who Films present this portrayal of John McVicar (Roger Daltrey), whose real-life escape from the high-security wing of a British prison led to hi... Read more
Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (2008)
5.7/10
Director: Jean-Francois Richet
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Mathieu Amalric, Roy Dupuis, Vincent Cassel, Samuel Le Bihan,...
The incredible and brutal true story of France's most wanted man, Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel). Arch-fiend to some and folk hero to others, his cr... Read more
Michael Collins (1996)
7.1/10
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Alan Rickman, Julia Roberts, Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea
Liam Neeson stars as the charismatic fighter for Irish independence in the early 20th century in this striking historical bio-drama that traces Collin... Read more
Miles Ahead (2015)
6.4/10
Director: Don Cheadle
Starring: Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg, Keith Stanfield, Emayatzy Corinea...
MILES AHEAD is a wildly entertaining exploration of one of 20th century music's creative geniuses, Miles Davis, featuring a career defining performan... Read more