Biography

Alexander McQueen's rags-to-riches story is a modern-day fairy tale, laced with the gothic. Mirroring the savage beauty, boldness and vivacity of his ...

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island.

BIG EYES tells the scandalous true story of one of the greatest frauds in the history of art.

A chronicle of the life of an 18th-century aristocrat who was denigrated for her extravagant political and personal life.

A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.

The friendship between Mogens Glistrup and Simon Spies keeps Spies Travels thriving, until a tax scandal threatens everything

A man embarks on a political struggle to have the right to euthanasia recognized in Belgium.

The true story of Rocco Granata, an Italian coal miner's son who followed his passion for music against his father's wishes and social barriers.

In 1970s Paris, a photographer portrays her ten-year-old daughter Violetta as a seductive Lolita.

A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.

Punky biopic about the underground music scene in Leningrad just before perestroika, based on the early years of pop icon Viktor Tsoi and his band.

Control is the biography of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, taking his story from schoolboy days of 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first ...

During the Pinochet dictatorship, Jorge Lübbert became an instrument for the Chilean secret services, who forced him to work for them in an extremely violent ...

The story of King George VI, his ascension to the throne in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the insecure monarch overcome his stutter.

The last year of Velvet Unserground singer Nico's life, as she tours and grapples with addiction and personal demons.

Emmanuelle Bonmariage directs a portrait of her father Manu, a real-world filmmaker and the spiritual father of "Strip Tease."

The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in ...

While her husband served a life sentence, paradoxically kept safe and morally uncontaminated, Winnie Mandela rode the raw violence of apartheid, fighting ...

A genius mathematician is charged by the British government with unlocking the secret of the famous German Enigma encryption machine.

A poetic portrait of Giorgi Shakhsuvarian, an Armenian boxing coach from Tbilisi. Living and working in Belgium, he prepares a young boxer to become a ...

Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) is one of the world’s most read authors from the Netherlands. This diplomat, Sinologist and scholar is mainly known for his ...

Cinema manager Jacques Mulleman tells about the glory days of Cinéma Palace in Kortrijk and its evolution from a dance hall to the sex cinema of the neighbourhood. In ...

The history of the clown Chocolate, the first black circus artist in France, which has a great success in the late 19th century.

Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive ...

In 1952, Irish teenager Philomena (Judi Dench) became pregnant out of wedlock and was sent to a convent. When her baby, Anthony, was a toddler, the nuns ...

Sir Laurence Olivier is making a movie in London. Young Colin Clark, an eager film student, wants to be involved and he navigates himself a job on the ...

L'histoire de Linda Lovelace, qui est utilisée et abusée par l'industrie pornographique sur ordre de son mari coercitif avant de prendre le contrôle de ...

During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, ...

A documentary on Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona, regarded by many as the world's greatest modern player.

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous ...

The three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life.

In this dramatization, mentally disturbed Mark David Chapman (Jared Leto) arrives in 1980 New York City to stalk his idol, John Lennon (Mark Lindsay Chapman). ...

The story of the eventful life of George W. Bush—his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith—and the critical days leading up ...