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.
A Dangerous Method (2011)
6.4/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel, Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, Sarah Gado...
Experimenting with a bold new method of treating mental illness, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) engages madhouse patient Sabina Spi... Read more
A Dangerous Method (Blu-ray) (2011)
6.4/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel, Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, Sarah Gado...
Experimenting with a bold new method of treating mental illness, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) engages madhouse patient Sabina Spi... Read more
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
7/10
Director: Dito Montiel
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Rosario Dawson, Shia LaBeouf, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest,...
Writer/director Dito Montiel unflinchingly lays bare the story of his life, and in particular his youth, in the rough New York suburb of Astoria. Rob... Read more
A Huey P Newton Story (2001)
7.1/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Roger Guenveur Smith
An intimate portrait of Huey P. Newton, the late co-founder of the Black Panther Party. Director Spike Lee and Roger Guenveur Smith bring Newton's tho... Read more
A Man Called Peter (1955)
7.2/10
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Jill Esmond, Robert Burton
Richard Todd stars in the true story of Peter Marshall, the Scottish-born minister who became Chaplain of the U.S. Senate. After completing his religi... Read more
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
7.9/10
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Wendy Hiller, John Hurt, Leo McKern, Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles, S...
Adapted by Robert Bolt and Constance Willis from Bolt's hit stage play, this is a literate, penetrating treatment of the conflict between Thomas More... Read more
A Man for All Seasons ( Blu-ray ) (1966)
7.9/10
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Corin Redgrave, John Hurt, Leo McKern, Nigel Davenport, Orson Welles, Paul Scofi...
Adapted by Robert Bolt and Constance Willis from Bolt's hit stage play, A Man for All Seasons stars Paul Scofield, triumphantly repeating his stage ro... Read more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1979)
6.4/10
Director: Joseph Strick
Starring: Bosco Hogan, T P McKenna, John Gielgud
This beautiful adaptation of James Joyce's autobiographical novel is a faithful portrait of the young author and his coming of age. Stephen Dedalus is... Read more
A Woman Called Golda (1982)
7.9/10
Director: Alan Gibson
Starring: Anne Jackson, Ingrid Bergman, Jack Thompson, Judy Davis, Leonard Nimoy, Ned Beat...
Originally conceived as a mini-series, this film is the story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister i... Read more
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Abraham Lincoln (1930)
5.8/10
Director: D W Griffith
Starring: Kay Hammond, Walter Huston
Abraham Lincoln was voted number two of the ten best films of 1930, heralding the comeback to movie-making by one of the world's leading pioneers - D.... Read more