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.
They Died With Their Boots On (1941)
7.3/10
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, Arthur Kennedy, Gene Lockhart, Anthony Quinn,...
Errol Flynn stars as the eccentric yet (in this version) heroic General George Armstrong Custer, beginning with his time at West Point and ending, nat... Read more
This Boy's Life (1993)
7.3/10
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio
A harrowing but utterly absorbing story (based on Tobias Wolff's autobiographical book) of a young boy and his footloose mother who wind up living in... Read more
Three Identical Strangers (2018)
7.7/10
In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they're triplets who were separated at birth. But their quest to f... Read more
Tina: What's Love Got To Do With It (1993)
3.5/10
Director: Brian Gibson
Starring: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Jenifer Lewis
Vivid true-life story of the stormy careers and personal relationship between Ike and Tina Turner is further boosted by two remarkable central perform... Read more
To Hell And Back (1955)
7.4/10
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Starring: Charles Drake, Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, David Janssen, Denver Pyle
The most decorated American soldier of World War II, Audie Murphy, stars as himself in this gritty, unflinching biography. Follow the exploits of a re... Read more
Toast (2010)
6.7/10
Director: SJ Clarkson
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Ken Stott, Victoria Hamilton, Freddie Highmore
"Toast" is the ultimate nostalgia trip through everything edible in 1960s Britain, based on the heart-wrenchingly bittersweet story of food writer Nig... Read more
Tommy's Honour (2016)
6.1/10
Director: Jason Connery
Starring: Sam Neill, Peter Mullan, Jack Lowden, Ophelia Lovibond
In every generation, a torch passes from father to son. And that timeless dynamic is the beating heart of Tommy's Honour - an intimate, powerfully mov... Read more
Total Eclipse (1995)
6.6/10
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer
Ambitious biopic tracing the stormy romance between poets Verlaine and Rimbaud. Critically disliked, but forgiving fans of the stars and those seeking... Read more
Tracks (2013)
7.2/10
Director: John Curran
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver
Mia Wasikowska stars as writer Robyn Davidson in this dramatic account of Davidson's arduous 2000-mile trek across the Australian desert. With only fo... Read more
Trumbo (2015)
7.5/10
Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Bryan Cranston, David Maldonado
In 1947, Dalton Trumbo (Academy Award Nominee Bryan Cranston) was Hollywood's top screenwriter until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted... Read more