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.
Silkwood (1983)
7.2/10
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher , Craig T Nelson
Meryl Streep plays Karen Silkwood in this true account of the mysterious circumstances under which Silkwood died while exposing the dangers of Plutoni... Read more
Skin (2008)
6.9/10
Director: Anthony Fabian
Starring: Alice Krige, Sam Neill, Sophie Okonedo, Ella Ramangwane, Tony Kgoroge
'Skin' is one of the most bizarre and moving true stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa: Sandra Laing was a black child born in the 1950s to t... Read more
Snowden (2016)
7.3/10
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Melissa Leo, Nicolas Cage, Rhys Ifans, Tom Wilkinson, Timo...
A leak, in a study of civics, is defined as a discreet passage of classified information to the public that cannot be traced, and can be denied if it... Read more
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days (2005)
7.6/10
Director: Marc Rothemund
Starring: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Gerald Alexander Held, Johanna Gastdorf, Andre H...
Julia Jentsch puts in a masterful performance as one of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi resistance heroes. Arrested by the gestapo in 1943 for her pa... Read more
Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story (2005)
6.2/10
Director: Stefan Scaini
Starring: Ed Begley Jr, Graham Greene, Mark Rendall, Katie Stuart
Simon Jackson is an awkward 15-year-old who lives his life light years away from the "in" crowd - until a life changing moment. Attacked in the Britis... Read more
Stander (2003)
7.2/10
Director: Bronwen Hughes
Starring: Dexter Fletcher, Thomas Jane, David O'Hara, Deborah Kara Unger
An incredible true story of one of the most audacious criminals of our time. Andre Stander (Thomas Jane), was an ambitious second-generation policema... Read more
Star 80 (1983)
6.7/10
Director: Bob Fosse
Starring: Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson
The story of Playmate of the Year, Dorothy Stratten (Mariel Hemingway) and her tragic murder is brought to the screen in a mesmerizing, no holds barre... Read more
Steve Jobs (2015)
7.2/10
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Kate Winslet, Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen, Michael Stuhlbarg, K...
Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution, to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter. The story unfolds backstage at three... Read more
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
7.9/10
Director: F Gary Gray
Starring: Corey Hawkins, O'Shea Jackson Jr, Jason Mitchell, Paul Giamatti
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in Am... Read more
Stronger (2017)
7/10
Director: David Gordon Green
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Miranda Richardson, Tatiana Maslany, Richard Lane Jr., Nate Ric...
Stronger is the inspiring real life story of Jeff Bauman, an ordinary man who captured the hearts of his city and the world to become a symbol of hope... Read more