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.
The Queen (2006)
7.3/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Sylvia Syms, Alex Jennings
Helen Mirren is a dead ringer for Queen Elizabeth II in Stephen Frear's multiple award-winning film that centres on the aftermath of Princess Diana's... Read more
The Queen ( Blu-ray ) (2006)
7.3/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Helen Mirren, James Cromwell, Sylvia Syms, Alex Jennings, Michael Sheen
Helen Mirren is a dead ringer for Queen Elizabeth II in Stephen Frear's multiple award-winning film that centres on the aftermath of Princess Diana's... Read more
The Railway Man (2013)
7.1/10
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Starring: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgard, Hiroyuki Sanada, Jeremy Irvine, S...
While serving in the Second World War, British Army officer Eric Lomax (Jeremy Irvine) is captured and held prisoner by the Japanese. He is brutally t... Read more
The Railway Man ( Blu-ray ) (2013)
7.1/10
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Starring: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgard, Hiroyuki Sanada, Jeremy Irvine, S...
While serving in the Second World War, British Army officer Eric Lomax (Jeremy Irvine) is captured and held prisoner by the Japanese. He is brutally t... Read more
The Red Baron (2008)
6.4/10
Director: Nikolai Mullerschon
Starring: Matthias Schweighofer, Lena Headey, Til Schweiger, Joseph Fiennes
Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Matthias Schweighofer) is the most feared and celebrated pilot of the German air force during World War I, eventually ra... Read more
The Red Baron (Blu-ray) (2008)
6.4/10
Director: Nikolai Mullerschon
Starring: Matthias Schweighofer, Lena Headey, Til Schweiger, Joseph Fiennes
Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Matthias Schweighofer) is the most feared and celebrated pilot of the German air force during World War I, eventually ra... Read more
The Runaways (2010)
6.6/10
Director: Floria Sigismondi
Starring: Michael Shannon, Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart
The story of the 1970s all-girl rock band The Runaways is told in this energetic biopic based on vocalist Cherie Currie's memoirs. After guitarist and... Read more
The Sessions (2012)
7.2/10
Director: Ben Lewin
Starring: Adam Arkin, Helen Hunt, William H Macy, John Hawkes, Rhea Perlman, Moon Bloodgoo...
Candid and sensitive drama about the sexual awakening of a life-long polio sufferer. John Hawkes stars as Mark O'Brien, a writer in his late thirties... Read more
The Sessions (Blu-ray) (2012)
7.2/10
Director: Ben Lewin
Starring: Adam Arkin, Helen Hunt, William H Macy, John Hawkes, Rhea Perlman, Moon Bloodgoo...
Candid and sensitive drama about the sexual awakening of a life-long polio sufferer. John Hawkes stars as Mark O'Brien, a writer in his late thirties... Read more
The Sissi Collection (1990)
Director: Ernst Marischka
Starring: Romy Schneider
The beautiful Romy Schneider stars in three captivating films (plus a prequel) based on the tumultuous life of the beloved Austrian Empress, Sissi. Th... Read more