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.
Permanent Midnight (1998)
6.3/10
Director: David Veloz
Starring: Ben Stiller, Elizabeth Hurley, Maria Bello, Owen Wilson, Cheryl Ladd, Peter Gree...
Based on the autobiography of tv writer Jerry Stahl, who, by day writes clever, cutting edge scripts and maintains professional productivity. By night... Read more
Philadelphia (1993)
7.7/10
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance as a hotshot gay lawyer fired from his firm for having AIDS. Denzel Washington is the legal ace hired to def... Read more
Philomena (2013)
7.6/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Judi Dench, Steve Coogan
Falling pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena was sent to the convent of Roscrea to be looked after as a "fallen woman". When her baby... Read more
Pierrepoint (2005)
7.5/10
Director: Adrian Shergold
Starring: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan, James Corden, Christopher Fulford...
A compelling biopic about England's most prolific hangman, the unassuming Albert Pierrpoint, captured here perfectly by Timothy Spall. Beginning when... Read more
Pinero (2001)
6.4/10
Director: Leon Ichaso
Starring: Benjamin Bratt, Giancarlo Esposito, Talisa Soto, Nelson Vasquez, Michael Wright,...
After doing hard time in prison for drug-dealing and petty theft, Miguel Pinero turned his prison experiences into the '70s Tony Award-winning play "S... Read more
Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
7.3/10
Director: Martyn Burke
Starring: Noah Wyle, Anthony Michael Hall, Joey Slotnick
The dawn of the computer revolution is deftly dramatized in this look at the true saga of America's most famous cybernerds. Focusing on Steve Jobs (No... Read more
Pollock (2000)
7/10
Director: Ed Harris
Starring: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Bower, Jennifer Connelly, Bud Cort, John Heard...
Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock (Ed Harris) and Lee Krasner (Marcia Gay Harden) are at the centre of New York's 1940s art scene, but as Kras... Read more
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
7.1/10
Director: Angela Robinson
Starring: Oliver Platt, Connie Britton, Bella Heathcote, Rebecca Hall, Luke Evans
If behind every great man is a great woman, then Harvard psychologist and inventor Dr. William Moulton Marston has the good fortune of having two -- h... Read more
Queen Christina (1933)
7.8/10
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Starring: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, C Aubrey Smith, Elizabeth You...
One of Garbo's finest performances is as the 17th century Swedish queen, fiercely devoted to her country and prepared to wear men's clothing if it mea... Read more
Queen of Katwe (2016)
7.4/10
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong'o, Madina Nalwanga
Living in the slum of Katwe in Kampala, Uganda, is a constant struggle for 10-year-old Phiona (Madina Nalwanga) and her family. Her world changes one... Read more