Best biopics 1991 – 2000 - Charts
Best biopics 1991 – 2000
1. Schindler's List (1993)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley
2. Braveheart (1995)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau
5. Hilary and Jackie (1998)
UK, Drama / Music
Directed by: Anand Tucker
Cast: Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths
6. The Straight Story (1999)
USA / UK, Biography / Drama
Directed by: David Lynch
Cast: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek
7. Shine (1996)
Australia, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Scott Hicks
Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Sonia Todd
9. Chaplin (1992)
USA / Japan, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd
10. Almost Famous (2000)
USA, Music / Drama
Directed by: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand
12. My Best Fiend (1999)
Germany / UK, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Cast: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski
14. Ventura dit... Lino (1997)
France, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Clélia Ventura, Babeth Si Ramdane
Cast: Lino Ventura, Claude Pinoteau
15. Man on the Moon (1999)
USA / UK, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Miloš Forman
Cast: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito
16. The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Miloš Forman
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love
17. Gods and Monsters (1998)
UK / USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Bill Condon
Cast: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser
18. This Boy's Life (1993)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin
19. October Sky (1999)
USA, Drama / Family
Directed by: Joe Johnston
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper
20. Michael Collins (1996)
UK / Ireland, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Cast: Ian Hart, Julia Roberts
21. What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
USA, Drama / Music
Directed by: Brian Gibson
Cast: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne
22. The Basketball Diaries (1995)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Scott Kalvert
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco
23. Erin Brockovich (2000)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney
24. Angels of the Universe (2000)
Iceland / Norway, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
25. Girl, Interrupted (1999)
USA / Germany, Drama / Biography
Directed by: James Mangold
Cast: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie
26. Heaven & Earth (1993)
USA / France, Drama / War
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Cast: Hiep Thi Le, Tommy Lee Jones
27. Shadowlands (1993)
UK, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger
28. Dangerous Beauty (1998)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Marshall Herskovitz
Cast: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell
29. Zdravý nemocný Vlastimilený Brodský (1999)
Czech Republic, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Ondřej Havelka
Cast: Vlastimil Brodský, Ondřej Havelka
31. The Insider (1999)
USA, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: Michael Mann
Cast: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe
32. Basquiat (1996)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Julian Schnabel
Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott
33. Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis
35. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
France / Germany, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Cast: Werner Herzog, Dieter Dengler
36. Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen (1998)
UK, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Shekhar Kapur
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush
37. Private Parts (1997)
USA, Comedy / Biography
Directed by: Betty Thomas
Cast: Howard Stern, Mary McCormack
39. Jaromír Jágr (1997)
Czech Republic, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Tomáš Tintěra
Cast: Jaromír Jágr, Slavomír Lener
40. Savage Nights (1992)
France / Italy, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Cyril Collard
Cast: Cyril Collard, Romane Bohringer
41. Quiz Show (1994)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Robert Redford
Cast: John Turturro, Rob Morrow
42. Queen Margot (1994)
France / Germany, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Patrice Chéreau
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil
43. Total Eclipse (1995)
UK / France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Agnieszka Holland
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis
45. The General (1998)
UK / Ireland, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: John Boorman
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar
46. Directors: James Cameron (1997)
USA, Documentary / Biography
47. 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
France / Spain, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante
48. A Brief History of Time (1991)
UK / Japan, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Errol Morris
Cast: Stephen Hawking, Isobel Hawking
49. Without Limits (1998)
USA, Drama / Sports
Directed by: Robert Towne
Cast: Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland
50. Farinelli (1994)
France / Belgium, Drama / Music
Directed by: Gérard Corbiau
Cast: Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso
52. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
Canada / Finland, Drama / Music
Directed by: François Girard
Cast: Colm Feore, Don McKellar
53. The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
Belgium / France, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Ray Müller
Cast: Ray Müller, Leni Riefenstahl
54. Korene budúcnosti (1995)
Slovakia / Italy, Documentary / Biography
Cast: Vladimír Štefuca, Alexander Dubček
55. Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Steven Zaillian
Cast: Max Pomeranc, Joe Mantegna
58. Quills (2000)
UK / Germany, Romance / Drama
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet
59. To Walk with Lions (1999)
Canada / UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Carl Schultz
Cast: Richard Harris, John Michie
60. Wilde (1997)
UK / Germany, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Brian Gilbert
Cast: Stephen Fry, Jude Law
61. Comedian Harmonists (1997)
Germany / Austria, Drama / Music
Directed by: Joseph Vilsmaier
Cast: Ben Becker, Heino Ferch
62. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Jonas Mekas
Cast: Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage
63. The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin (1997)
Canada / Germany, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Larry Weinstein
64. Tombstone (1993)
USA, Western / Drama
Directed by: George P. Cosmatos
Cast: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer
65. Restoration (1995)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Michael Hoffman
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Sam Neill
66. The Lover (1992)
France / UK, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Jane March, Tony Leung
67. Il postino (1994)
France / Italy, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Michael Radford
Cast: Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi
68. The Sea That Thinks (2000)
Netherlands, Fantasy / Drama
Directed by: Gert de Graaff
Cast: Bart Klever, Devika Strooker
69. Maia Plissetskaia (2000)
France, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Dominique Delouche
Cast: Maja Plisetskaya, Jorge Donn
70. Wyatt Earp (1994)
USA, Western / Biography
Directed by: Lawrence Kasdan
Cast: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid
71. Dangerous Minds (1995)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: John N. Smith
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza
73. The Madness of King George (1994)
UK, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren
74. Heavenly Creatures (1994)
New Zealand / Germany, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet
76. Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
UK / France, Drama / Biography
Directed by: John Maybury
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig
77. Before Night Falls (2000)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Julian Schnabel
Cast: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez
78. Velikij polkovoděc Georgij Žukov (1995)
Russia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Yuriy Ozerov
Cast: Fritz Diez, Mikhail Ulyanov
79. Dear Master (1996)
Czech Republic, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Pavel Koutecký
Cast: Petr Pelzer, Táňa Fischerová
80. Lautrec (1998)
Spain / France, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Roger Planchon
Cast: Régis Royer, Elsa Zylberstein
81. Evgueni Khaldei: Photographer Under Stalin (1997)
Belgium, Documentary / Biography
82. Portrait of Leonardo: Kid Who Took Hollywood (1998)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep
83. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Rob Cohen
Cast: Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly
84. Bandit Queen (1994)
India / UK, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Shekhar Kapur
Cast: Seema Biswas, Raghuvir Yadav
85. The Best Intentions (1992)
Sweden / Denmark, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Bille August
Cast: Samuel Fröler, Pernilla August
86. Immortal Beloved (1994)
UK / USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Bernard Rose
Cast: Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé
89. Van Gogh (1991)
France, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Maurice Pialat
Cast: Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London
90. A Home of Our Own (1993)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Tony Bill
Cast: Kathy Bates, Edward Furlong
91. Backbeat (1994)
UK / Germany, Drama / Music
Directed by: Iain Softley
Cast: Stephen Dorff, Sheryl Lee
92. Falco - Hoch wie nie (1998)
Canada / UK, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Rudi Dolezal, Hannes Rossacher
Cast: Falco, Rudi Dolezal
93. Malcolm X (1992)
USA / Japan, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Spike Lee
Cast: Denzel Washington, Albert Hall
94. The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann (1994)
Israel, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Dan Setton
Cast: Gregory Peck
95. Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart (1998)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Cast: Lou Reed, David Bowie
96. The Whole Wide World (1996)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Dan Ireland
Cast: Vincent D'Onofrio, Renée Zellweger
98. Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999)
Belgium / Netherlands, Biography / Drama
Directed by: Paul Cox
Cast: David Wenham, Kris Kristofferson
99. The Case of Bronek Pekosinski (1993)
Poland, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Grzegorz Królikiewicz
100. Mrs. Brown (1997)
UK / Ireland, Drama / Romance
Directed by: John Madden
Cast: Judi Dench, Billy Connolly