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.
Nowhere Boy (2009)
7.2/10
Director: Sam Taylor-Wood
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, David Morrissey, Anne-Marie Duff, David Threlfall, Aaron J...
Artist-turned-director Sam Taylor-Wood makes her feature debut with this biopic of John Lennon's troubled childhood and difficult relationship with hi... Read more
On the Basis of Sex (2018)
6.7/10
Director: Mimi Leder
Starring: Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Kathy Bates, Sam Waterston, Cailee...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a struggling attorney and new mother who faces adversity and numerous obstacles in her fight for equal rights. When Ruth takes... Read more
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band (2019)
7.2/10
Starring: Martin Scorsese, Marilyn Monroe, Levon Helm
A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertson's young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the... Read more
One Chance (2013)
6.8/10
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Colm Meaney, Julie Walters, Mackenzie Crook, James Corden, Alexandra Roach, Vale...
A rags-to-riches biopic starring James Corden as 'Britain's Got Talent' winner Paul Potts. "One Chance" charts Potts' rise to fame, from his humble be... Read more
Oppenheimer (1980)
8.4/10
Director: Barry Davis
Starring: Sam Waterston, Philip O'Brien, David Suchet, Liza Ross
This terrific BAFTA-winning 7-part mini series stars Sam Waterston as 'the father of the atomic bomb', J Robert Oppenheimer. A gripping dramatization... Read more
Oranges and Sunshine (2011)
7.1/10
Director: Jim Loach
Starring: David Wenham, Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, Tara Morice
The true story of Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson), a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in rece... Read more
Out of Africa (1985)
7.2/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer
The story of Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) and her life on a coffee plantation in Kenya around 1914. Based on the autobiography of Isak Dinesen (under t... Read more
Out of Africa ( Blu-ray ) (1985)
7.2/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford
The story of Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) and her life on a coffee plantation in Kenya around 1914. Based on the autobiography of Isak Dinesen (under t... Read more
Out Of The Ashes (2003)
6.9/10
Director: Joseph Sargent
Starring: Christine Lahti, Richard Crenna, Beau Bridges, Bruce Davison
Based on a true story, this powerful drama stars Christine Lahti as Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor interned at Auschwitz in 1944. Surviving a... Read more
Owning Mahowny (2003)
7.1/10
Director: Richard Kwietniowski
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, John Hurt, Maury Chaykin
Dan Mahowny (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an unassuming bank manager with an obsessive gambling habit and a job that gives him access to a $20 million acc... Read more