Barry Lyndon (1975)
Life of Brian (1979)
Zelig (1983)
Goodfellas (1990)
Nixon (1995)
The Straight Story (1999)
Before Night Falls (2000)
Chopper (2000)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
American Splendor (2003)
Yes, that'd be a good idea. Poll don't usually get alot of votes anyway and there are too many choices. If you make it a list you could distinguish the fake ones.
Separate the fake ones from the rest? Good idea, but hard to do. There have already been suggested enough movies I don't even know! But, Ok, lets try...
Here are some to add... Jack London (1940), Buffalo Bill (1944), The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Jim Thorpe - All American (1951), Jeanne Eagels (1957), Beau James (1957), The Great White Hope (1970), Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976), The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980), Bill (1981), Frances (1982), Blaze (1989), My Name Is Bill W. (1989)
How about Napoleon (1927), Alexander Nevsky (1938), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)- if it counts as bio not legend-, Henry V (1944), Ivan the Terrible (1944-6), Calamity Jane (1953), Lola Montes (1955), Yang Kwei Fei (1955), Birdman of Alcatraz (1961), The Gospel according to St Matthew (1964), Andrei Rublev (1966/9), The Lion in Winter (1968), The Colour of Pomegranates (1969), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Ten Rillington Place (1970), Mirror (1974- auto), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1975), Ai no Corrida (1976), Mishima (1985), Bird (1988), Henry V (1989), Hedd Wyn (1993), Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould (1993), The Madness of King George (1995), Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Rembrandt (1936)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
Viva Zapata (1952)
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)
Cromwell (1970)
Dillinger (1973)
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Danton (1982)
Camille Claudel (1988)
My Left Foot (1989)
Born on the 4th July (1989)
Korczak (1990)
The Krays (1990)
An Angel at my Table (1990)
Vincent and Theo (1990-Altman)
Van Gogh (1991- Pialat)
Chihwaeson (2002)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Life of Brian (1979)
Zelig (1983)
Goodfellas (1990)
Nixon (1995)
The Straight Story (1999)
Before Night Falls (2000)
Chopper (2000)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
American Splendor (2003)
Dang... Barry Lyndon!
Thanks. I'm already thinking of making out of this a list instead of a poll. What do you think?
Yes, that'd be a good idea. Poll don't usually get alot of votes anyway and there are too many choices. If you make it a list you could distinguish the fake ones.
Separate the fake ones from the rest? Good idea, but hard to do. There have already been suggested enough movies I don't even know! But, Ok, lets try...
HERE WE GO!
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Are you including fake biopics?
Thx! Yes, I include fake.
Thanks very much to all of you. The poll is getting tougher and tougher!
P.S.: Weird, the counter shows 6 votes, while there are only 5...
Here are some to add... Jack London (1940), Buffalo Bill (1944), The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Jim Thorpe - All American (1951), Jeanne Eagels (1957), Beau James (1957), The Great White Hope (1970), Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976), The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980), Bill (1981), Frances (1982), Blaze (1989), My Name Is Bill W. (1989)
Basquiat (Schabel, 1996)
Gia (Christofer, 1998)
Michael Collins (Jordan, 1996)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Rudolph, 1994)
How about Napoleon (1927), Alexander Nevsky (1938), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)- if it counts as bio not legend-, Henry V (1944), Ivan the Terrible (1944-6), Calamity Jane (1953), Lola Montes (1955), Yang Kwei Fei (1955), Birdman of Alcatraz (1961), The Gospel according to St Matthew (1964), Andrei Rublev (1966/9), The Lion in Winter (1968), The Colour of Pomegranates (1969), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Ten Rillington Place (1970), Mirror (1974- auto), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1975), Ai no Corrida (1976), Mishima (1985), Bird (1988), Henry V (1989), Hedd Wyn (1993), Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould (1993), The Madness of King George (1995), Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
But i'm not sorry about Braveheart's absence.
oh, and...
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Rembrandt (1936)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
Viva Zapata (1952)
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)
Cromwell (1970)
Dillinger (1973)
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Danton (1982)
Camille Claudel (1988)
My Left Foot (1989)
Born on the 4th July (1989)
Korczak (1990)
The Krays (1990)
An Angel at my Table (1990)
Vincent and Theo (1990-Altman)
Van Gogh (1991- Pialat)
Chihwaeson (2002)
Sorry, Born on 4th July, My Left Foot and Coal Miner's daughter are on already