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.
Amelia (Blu-ray) (2009)
5.8/10
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Richard Gere, Hilary Swank, Joe Anderson
Her exploits made her a hero; her disappearance made her a legend. Hilary Swank stars as pioneering American aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who defied the s... Read more
American Made (2017)
7.2/10
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jesse Plemons, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright
Barry Seal, a TWA pilot, is recruited by the CIA to provide reconnaissance on the burgeoning communist threat in Central America and soon finds himsel... Read more
American Made (Blu-Ray) (2017)
7.2/10
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jesse Plemons, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright
Barry Seal, a TWA pilot, is recruited by the CIA to provide reconnaissance on the burgeoning communist threat in Central America and soon finds himsel... Read more
American Sniper (2014)
7.3/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller
Clint Eastwood directs this controversial biography about the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) is se... Read more
American Sniper ( Blu-ray ) (2014)
7.3/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller
Clint Eastwood directs this controversial biography about the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) is se... Read more
American Splendor (2003)
7.5/10
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, James Urbaniak, Judah Friedlander, Harvey Pekar
"From off the streets of Cleveland" comes the acclaimed filming of Ohio file clerk/jazz buff/crank Harvey Pekar's underground comic book chronicle of... Read more
An Angel At My Table (1990)
7.6/10
Director: Jane Campion
Starring: Kerry Fox, Karen Fergusson, Alexia Keogh, Iris Churn
Jane Campion's remarkable award-winning film based on the autobiographical writing of Janet Frame is a portrait of a sweet-natured, imaginative, painf... Read more
An Englishman in New York (2009)
7.2/10
Director: Richard Laxton
Starring: John Hurt, Swoosie Kurtz, Jonathan Tucker, Denis O'Hare, Cynthia Nixon
John Hurt reprises his acclaimed performance from 1975's 'The Naked Civil Servant', in which he portrayed "one of the stately homos of England" Britis... Read more
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2006)
8.1/10
Starring: Catherine McCormack, Geraldine James, James Wilby, Peter Firth, Sean Pertwee, Ja...
The definitive history of the world's first superpower, this compelling dramatised documentary series combines CGI with spectacular live action battle... Read more
And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself (2003)
6.6/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey, Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent, Matt Day, Michael McKe...
Antonio Banderas stars in this incredible true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, alterin... Read more