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.
Temple Grandin (2010)
8.3/10
Director: Mick Jackson
Starring: Catherine O'Hara, Claire Danes, David Strathairn, Julia Ormond
Claire Danes gives a powerful, Emmy-winning performance in the role of Temple Grandin, the young, high-functioning autistic woman who faces misunderst... Read more
Testimony (1987)
7.1/10
Director: Tony Palmer
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Terence Rigby, Ronald Pickup
The enthralling study of the life and times, the artistry and the anguish of the Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich - a Russian who fell from grace... Read more
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
7.3/10
Director: Alexander Korda
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray
AKA 'Lady Hamilton'. An excellent film about Nelson's lifelong relationship with Emma Hamilton that is somewhat glamorised and stiff but generally ex... Read more
The Aviator (2004)
7.5/10
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C Reilly, Alec Baldwin,...
One of the 20th century's most compelling figures, Howard Hughes was a wily industrialist, glamorous movie producer and unstoppable American innovator... Read more
The Babe (1991)
5.9/10
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Trini Alvarado, John Goodman, Kelly McGillis, Bruce Boxleitner
John Goodman puts on the pinstripes to play baseball legend Babe Ruth in this exciting account of "The Sultan of Swat's" colorful life. The film follo... Read more
The Blind Side (2009)
7.7/10
Director: John Lee Hancock
Starring: Kathy Bates, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron
The real-life story of American football star Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) is told in this stirring drama. The homeless son of a crack addict, the ove... Read more
The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
7.3/10
Director: Steve Rash
Starring: Gary Busey, Charles Martin Smith, Don Stroud
Gary Busey's outstanding, Oscar-nominated (for Best Actor) performance as Buddy Holly makes this one of the great Rock 'N' Roll movies of all time. Ba... Read more
The Bunker (1981)
7/10
Director: George Schaefer
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan, Piper Laurie, Cliff Gorman
In 1945, The Third Reich is in its death throes with the Allies relentlessly attacking the capital city of Berlin. Adolf Hitler retreats into his fort... Read more
The Butler (2013)
5.9/10
Director: Lee Daniels
Starring: Alan Rickman, Clarence Williams III, Cuba Gooding Jr, Forest Whitaker, Jane Fond...
"The Butler" tells the story of a White House butler who served seven American presidents over three decades. The film traces the dramatic changes tha... Read more
The Butler ( Blu-ray ) (2013)
5.9/10
Director: Lee Daniels
Starring: Alan Rickman, Clarence Williams III, Cuba Gooding Jr, Forest Whitaker, Jane Fond...
"The Butler" tells the story of a White House butler who served seven American presidents over three decades. The film traces the dramatic changes tha... Read more