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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.

Attila the Hun (2000)

Director: Richard Lowry
Starring: Powers Boothe, Gerard Butler, Tim Curry, Simmone Jade MacKinnon

The most feared man to ever exist, Attila was king of the Huns in the fifth century and during his reign he united the various tribes of barbarians to... Read more

Author: The JT Leroy Story (2016)

7.2/10
Director: Jeff Feuerzeig

A look inside the mysterious case of 16-year-old literary sensation JT LeRoy-a creature so perfect for his time that if he didn't exist, someone would... Read more

Auto Focus (2002)

6.6/10
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson, Maria Bello, Ron Leibman

Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe star in a provocative drama about the colourful life and mysterious death of legendary television actor Bob Crane. Bob C... Read more

Baadasssss! (2003)

7.4/10
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Starring: Joy Bryant, Ossie Davis, David Alan Grier, Nia Long, Paul Rodriguez, Saul Rubine...

Based on a true story, this is actor/writer/director Mario Van Peebles' candid portrait of his father Melvin's struggle as a young, black director dur... Read more

Bandit Queen (1994)

7.6/10
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Manoj Bajpai

Based on the true-life of Phoolan Devi, a lower-class woman who was sold at age 11 by her family as a child bride but later escaped. Challenging her c... Read more

Bartali (2006)

7.5/10
Director: Alberto Negrin

Based on a true-story, this made-for-television feature follows the career of Italian cycling star Gino Bartali known as the Iron Man. When his brothe... Read more

Basquiat (1996)

6.9/10
Director: Julian Schnabel
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Claire Forlani, Willem...

Jeffrey Wright is mesmerising in this true story as Jean-Michel Basquiat, a poor Haitian-American graffiti artist who rapidly ascends New York's raref... Read more

Bathory (2008)

5.9/10
Director: Juraj Jakubisko
Starring: Anna Friel, Franco Nero, Karel Roden

The infamous Countess Erzsebet Bathory, who is said to have maintained youth and beauty into her old age by bathing in the blood of virgins, has her l... Read more

Battle of the Sexes (2017)

6.7/10
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Starring: Alan Cumming, Bill Pullman, Elisabeth Shue, Eric Christian Olsen, Sarah Silverma...

The 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs became the most watched televised sports event of all time. Trapped in the media glare,... Read more

Beautiful Boxer (2003)

7.1/10
Director: Ekachai Uekrongtham
Starring: Asanee Suwan, Sorapong Chatri, Orn-anong Panyawong, Kyoko Inoue, Sitiporn Niyom

A stylish, powerful and poignant blend of testosterone and oestragen telling the true story of Nang Toom, a delicate boy who felt out of place in his... Read more