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.
Teenager Nicolas Sheff seems to have it all with good grades and being an actor, artist, athlete, and editor of the school newspaper. When Nic's addic... Read more
Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole star in this grand historical drama adapted from the Jean Anouilh play about the tumultuous relationship of an archbi... Read more
A romantic historical drama that speculates on events from Jane Austen's life and suggests there was a man in her life that may have been an inspriati... Read more
Before Elvis, before Elton John, Madonna and Lady Gaga, there was Liberace: virtuoso pianist, outrageous entertainer and flamboyant star of stage and... Read more
The final decade in the flamboyant, albeit closeted, life of phenomenally popular entertainer Liberace (Michael Douglas) is recounted in this Emmy-win... Read more
Robert De Niro and Paul Dano star as an estranged father and son attempting to reconnect in this compelling drama based on writer Nick Flynn's memoir... Read more
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
Director Richard Linklater's darkly comic docudrama, based on a true story, details the unusual friendship between a likable Texas mortician and a wea... Read more
Kevin Spacey's unusual ode to crooner Bobby Darin is a stylised, though warts-and-all, portrayal of a man who simply wanted to be bigger than Sinatra.... Read more
From director Tim Burton, Big Eyes tells the outrageous true story of one of the most epic frauds in history. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, paint... Read more