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.
Romulus, My Father (2007)
6.7/10
Director: Richard Roxburgh
Starring: Eric Bana, Franka Potente, Marton Csokas, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Russell Dykstra, Jac...
Eric Bana and Franka Potente star in this adaptation of Raimond Gaita's childhood memoir, relating the experience of his immigrant family's struggle f... Read more
Roots (1977)
8.4/10
Director: David Greene, Gilbert Moses, John Erman, Marvin Chomsky
Starring: John Amos, Maya Angelou, Edward Asner, Lloyd Bridges, Georg Stanford Brown, LeVa...
His name was Kunta Kinte. Kidnapped from Africa and enslaved in America in 1767, he refused to accept his slave name of Toby. Heirs kept his heroic de... Read more
Rosewater (2014)
6.6/10
Director: Jon Stewart
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Haluk Bilginer, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Golshifteh F...
Jon Stewart ("The Daily Show") makes his screenwriting and directorial debut in this riveting tale of hope and survival, based on a true story. A Tehr... Read more
Ruby (1992)
5.5/10
Director: John MacKenzie
Starring: Danny Aiello, Sherilyn Fenn, Arliss Howard
The action-packed final chapter to the murder that changed history. Danny Aiello is Jack Ruby, the Dallas strip club owner who killed J.F.K.'s assassi... Read more
Rudy - The Rudy Giuliani Story (2003)
5.5/10
Director: Robert Dornhelm
Starring: James Woods, Penelope Ann Miller
James Woods plays New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, charting his days as a brash young attorney in Ronald Reagan's Justice Department through his ascen... Read more
Running with Scissors (2006)
6.2/10
Director: Ryan Murphy
Starring: Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jill...
Based on the memoir of Augusten Burroughs, this dysfunctional '70s family comedy/drama has an outstanding ensemble cast with Annette Bening as the del... Read more
Rush (2013)
8.1/10
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Daniel Bruhl, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alexandra Maria Lara, Olivia Wilde, Chris He...
Director Ron Howard's fact-based biodrama chronicles a legendary rivalry that rocked the racing world. During the 1970s, the golden age of Formula 1 r... Read more
Rush ( Blu-ray ) (2013)
8.1/10
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Daniel Bruhl, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alexandra Maria Lara, Olivia Wilde, Chris He...
Director Ron Howard's fact-based biodrama chronicles a legendary rivalry that rocked the racing world. During the 1970s, the golden age of Formula 1 r... Read more
Saint Laurent (2014)
6.1/10
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Starring: Dominique Sanda, Gaspard Ulliel, Lea Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Amira Casar
The second lavish film biography of Yves Saint Laurent in a single year, this 'unauthorised' version is the more sensuous affair, less concerned wit... Read more
Saving Mr Banks (2013)
7.5/10
Director: John Lee Hancock
Starring: Bradley Whitford, Emma Thompson, Jason Schwartzman, Tom Hanks, Paul Giamatti, Co...
Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks star in "Saving Mr. Banks", inspired by the extraordinary, untold backstory of how Disney's classic "Mary Poppins" made it... Read more