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.
White Lightnin' (2009)
7.1/10
Director: Dominic Murphy
Starring: Carrie Fisher, Muse Watson, Edward Hogg
Dominic Murphy's feature debut is a semi-fantasised biography of the 'dancing outlaw': legendary Appalachian mountain dancer Jesco White (Edward Hogg)... Read more
Wild (2014)
7.1/10
Director: Jean-Marc Vallee
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern
In "Wild", director Jean-Marc Vallee ("Dallas Buyers Club"), Reese Witherspoon and screenwriter Nick Hornby ("An Education") bring bestselling author... Read more
Wild Bill (1995)
5.9/10
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Ellen Barkin, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Diane Lane, Marjoe Gortner, David Arquett...
Jeff Bridges stars in this look at the life of Western legend Wild Bill Hickok. In the town of Deadwood, South Dakota, Wild Bill (Bridges) must face h... Read more
Wilde (1997)
6.9/10
Director: Brian Gilbert
Starring: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle, Tom Wilkinson
This biographical tale of Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright and genius, chronicles his fascinating life during the years 1882 until 1897. The self-realisa... Read more
Without Limits (1998)
7.2/10
Director: Robert Towne
Starring: Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter
Follows the life of famous 1970's runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to Oregon University where he worked with the legendary coach... Read more
Witness To The Mob (2000)
6.8/10
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Starring: Tom Sizemore, Nicholas Turturro, Debi Mazar, Abe Vigoda
This hard hitting offering tells the story of Mafia underboss, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano and the flamboyant head of the Gambino crime family, exposing... Read more
Wittgenstein (1993)
6.9/10
Director: Derek Jarman
Starring: Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton
Derek Jarman immaculately lenses a series of dazzling, colourful pictures to illustrate the tortured life of Austrian-born philosopher Ludwig Wittgens... Read more
Woman in Gold (2015)
7.3/10
Director: Simon Curtis
Starring: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Bruhl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Max Ir...
Academy Award winner Helen Mirren stars in the incredible true story of Maria Altmann, a Jewish refugee who is forced to flee Vienna during World War... Read more
Wonderland (2003)
6.6/10
Director: James Cox
Starring: Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Lisa Kudrow, Josh Lucas, Tim Blake Nelson, Dylan McDe...
Val Kilmer turns in a stunning performance as porn legend John Holmes in this gritty drama that offers two versions of the controversial events of Jul... Read more
Worried About the Boy (2010)
7.1/10
Director: Julian Jarrold
Starring: Freddie Fox, Mark Gatiss, Marc Warren, Douglas Booth, Mathew Horne
Inspired by the 1986 newspaper headline, which broke during boy george's heavily reported drug problem, worried about the boy is a compassionate biogr... Read more