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.
You Don't Know Jack (2011)
7.7/10
Director: Barry Levinson
Starring: Brenda Vaccaro, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Danny Huston
Al Pacino turns in a spectacular performance as the controversial Dr. Jack Kevorkian in this gripping HBO biopic directed by Barry Levinson. Dr. Kevor... Read more
Young Man With A Horn (1950)
7.2/10
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez
Based on the life of jazz trumpeter Bix Biederbecke and adapted from the novel by Dorothy Baker, Kirk Douglas is the Bix character, Rick Martin, one o... Read more
Young Mr Lincoln (1939)
7.6/10
Director: John Ford
Starring: Alice Brady, Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, Marjorie Weaver
Few historical figures are as revered as Abraham Lincoln, and few director-star pairings embody classic American cinema as perfectly as that of John F... Read more
Yuli (2018)
7.1/10
Director: Iciar Bollain
Starring: Carlos Acosta
Yuli is the nickname given to Carlos Acosta by his father, Pedro, who considers him the son of Ogun, an African god and a fighter. As a child Yuli avo... Read more
Yves Saint Laurent (2014)
6.2/10
Director: Jalil Lespert
Starring: Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon, Pierre Niney, Laura Smet, Marie de Villep...
A man who needs no introduction. And yet... Officially sanctioned by Pierre Bergé, Saint Laurents partner in love and business for almost fifty years... Read more