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.
Suffragette (2015)
6.9/10
Director: Sarah Gavron
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whisha...
With an all-star cast including Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw and Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankh... Read more
Sully (2016)
7.5/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney
On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed the Miracle on the Hudson when Captain Sully Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) glided his disabled plane onto the... Read more
Sully ( Blu-ray ) (2016)
7.5/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Tom Hanks
On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed the Miracle on the Hudson when Captain Sully Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) glided his disabled plane onto the... Read more
Suskind (2012)
6.9/10
Director: Rudolf van den Berg
Starring: Karl Markovics, Jeroen Spitzenberger, Nyncke Beekhuyzen, Katja Herbers, Nasrdin...
Rudolf van den Berg directs this remarkable true story from the Netherlands. Amsterdam, Summer 1942. Walter Süskind (Jeroen Spitzenberger) can count h... Read more
Sweet Dreams (1985)
7.1/10
Director: Karel Reisz
Starring: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth
The true story of Patsy Cline, the gifted, fun-loving queen of Nashville sound, charting the most dramatic years of her efforts to become a top countr... Read more
Sylvia (1985)
6.6/10
Director: Michael Firth
Starring: Eleanor David, Mary Regan, Nigel Terry, Tom Wilkinson
Absorbing story of author-educator Sylvia Ashton-Warner, who brought new educational techniques to the teaching of the Maori students in 1940's New Ze... Read more
Sylvia (2003)
6.3/10
Director: Christine Jeffs
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, Amira Casar, Blythe Danner, Michael...
Powerful true-life drama chronicles the troubled relationship between mentally unstable American writer Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow) and her husband... Read more
Talk to Me (2007)
7.4/10
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Starring: Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cedric The Entertainer, Taraji P Henson, Mike Epp...
Don Cheadle stars in this funky bio-pic of Petey Greene, an ex-con who became an iconic radio DJ and outspoken social activist in the turbulent 1960s.... Read more
Ted Bundy (2002)
7.2/10
Director: Matthew Bright
Starring: Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Ann Bliss, Steffani Brass
Stylish and disturbing, this dramatisation provides insight into the complex and profoundly disturbed life of the notorious serial killer. From his pr... Read more
Ted K (2021)
6/10
Director: Tony Stone
Starring: Sharlto Copley
Ted K lives a life of almost complete seclusion in a simple wooden cabin in the mountains of Montana. But then this former university professor, who d... Read more