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.
Notre-Dame On Fire (2022)
6.5/10
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019. Read more
Hemingway (2021)
8.1/10
Director: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick examine the visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers Amer... Read more
Benedetta (2021)
6.7/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde...
A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two... Read more
Ted K (2021)
6/10
Director: Tony Stone
Starring: Sharlto Copley
Ted K lives a life of almost complete seclusion in a simple wooden cabin in the mountains of Montana. But then this former university professor, who d... Read more
The Crown: Season 4 (2020)
7.7/10
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Olivia Colman, Imelda Staunton, Josh O'Connor, Tobias Menz...
S.1: The royal family mourns the passing of Winston Churchill. The United Kingdom ushers in a new prime minister, the Labour Party's Harold Wilson who... Read more
Freeman (2020)
7.8/10
Director: Stephen Page
Starring: Cathy Freeman
Cathy Freeman's win at Sydney 2000 is one of the greatest collective experiences in Australian modern history. Twenty years later, FREEMAN explores th... Read more
The Glorias (2020)
5.5/10
Director: Julie Taymor
Starring: Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Gloria Steinem
The story of feminist icon Gloria Steinem's itinerant childhood and its influence on her life as a writer, activist and organizer for women's rights w... Read more
I Am Greta (2020)
6.1/10
Starring: Greta Thunberg
The documentary follows Greta Thunberg, a teenage climate activist from Sweden, on her international crusade to get people to listen to scientists abo... Read more
Shirley (2020)
6.2/10
Director: Josephine Decker
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple. Read more
Washington (2020)
8/10
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Nicholas Rowe
Washington tells the story of how a fatherless young soldier full of personal ambition becomes a leader of men willing to sacrifice all for the common... Read more