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.
Mongol (Blu-ray) (2007)
7.2/10
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Sun Honglei, Khulan Chuluun
Exploring the rise of one of the world's most feared and fearless warriors, the story of Genghis Khan is still a controversial one. In the West his na... Read more
Mother Teresa (2003)
7.1/10
Director: Fabrizio Costa
Starring: Olivia Hussey, Laura Morante, Michael Mendl, Sebastiano Somma
AKA 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta'. The Albanian-born missionary is accorded a sensitively-mounted screen biography in this Italian production starring O... Read more
Mr Jones (2019)
6.8/10
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Starring: James Norton, Peter Sarsgaard
Based on real events, the dramatic thriller "Gareth Jones" chronicles a British investigative journalist as he travels deep into the Soviet Union to u... Read more
Mr Nice (2011)
Director: Bernard Rose
Starring: Chloe Sevigny, Crispin Glover, David Thewlis, Rhys Ifans, Omar Djalili, Elsa Pat...
Adapted from the autobiography by the real-life Howard Marks this intriguing comedy/drama details the life of Howard Marks (Rhys Ifans), an Oxford sch... Read more
Mr Turner (2014)
6.8/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Lesley Manville, Ma...
A look at the last quarter century of the great British painter J. M. W. Turner. Profoundly affected by the death of his esteemed father, loved by his... Read more
Mr Turner ( Blu-ray ) (2014)
6.8/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Lesley Manville, Ma...
A look at the last quarter century of the great British painter J. M. W. Turner. Profoundly affected by the death of his esteemed father, loved by his... Read more
Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
6.4/10
Director: Alan Rudolph
Starring: Andrew McCarthy, Campbell Scott, Gwyneth Paltrow, Heather Graham, James LeGros,...
Director/co-writer Alan Rudolph's acclaimed look at the life of writer Dorothy Parker and her colorful Algonquin Round Table colleagues stars Jennifer... Read more
Music of the Heart (1999)
6.8/10
Director: Wes Craven
Starring: Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Angela Bassett, Kieran Culkin, Cloris Leachman, Glori...
This sensitive, true-life drama stars Meryl Streep as Roberta Guaspari, a single mother of two asked by a friend to teach music at an impoverished Eas... Read more
Mussolini And I (1985)
6.3/10
Director: Alberto Negrin
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Anthony Hopkins, Susan Sarandon
A compelling critically acclaimed drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days as a terrorist to his alliance wi... Read more
My Father's Glory (1990)
7.6/10
Director: Yves Robert
Starring: Philippe Caubere, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain
Author Marcel Pagnol's childhood reminiscences about life in the South of France at the turn of the century make up this bittersweet look at the joys... Read more