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.
Paganini (1989)
5.1/10
Director: Klaus Kinski
Starring: Klaus Kinski
A biography of Italian violinist Niccolò Paganini. Read more
Pandaemonium (2000)
6.6/10
Director: Julien Temple
Starring: Linus Roache, John Hannah, Emma Fielding
Linus Roache plays Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Hannah is William Wordsworth in this period drama that focuses on the friendship and intense rival... Read more
Papillon (1973)
8/10
Director: Franklin J Schaffner
Starring: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe
Based on a true story, petty criminal Henri Charriere, a.k.a. Papillon (Steve McQueen), is framed for murder and transported for life to the penal col... Read more
Papillon (2017)
7.1/10
Director: Michael Noer
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Yorick van Wageningen, Roland Moller, Tommy Flanagan...
The epic story of Henri "Papillon" Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld who is framed for murder and condemned to life in the notorio... Read more
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Bob Dylan, James Coburn, Jason Robards, Katy Jurado, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Co...
Romantic, mythic version of the changing West, James Coburn stars as Pat Garrett, the former outlaw who has put on a badge to work for the cattlemen a... Read more
Patton (1970)
8/10
Director: Franklin J Schaffner
Starring: George C Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Strong
A critically acclaimed film and a true milestone in screen biographies, "Patton" is a riveting portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest military... Read more
Patton ( Blu-ray ) (1970)
8/10
Director: Franklin J Schaffner
Starring: George C Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Strong
A critically acclaimed film and a true milestone in screen biographies, "Patton" is a riveting portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest military... Read more
Patty Hearst (1988)
6.3/10
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames
The dramatization of the newspaper heiress's kidnapping and subsequent brainwashing by the Symbionese Liberation army. Natasha Richardson stars. Read more
Pawn Sacrifice (2014)
7/10
Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard, Robin Weigert
In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when... Read more
Peaceful Warrior (2005)
7.3/10
Director: Victor Salva
Starring: Scott Mechlowicz, Nick Nolte, Amy Smart
Based on his best-selling autobiographical novel, this is the inspirational story of successful gymnast Dan Millman (Scott Melchowiz). When his Olympi... Read more