Biopic Movies

Kinora's catalogue lists 77 films about biopic, spanning 1928–2024. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.

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• 2013

  12 Years a Slave

  New York City · New Orleans · Louisiana — 1800s
  Ruraldir. Steve McQueen
• 2012

  A Royal Affair

  Denmark — 1700s
  Urbandir. Nikolaj Arcel
• 2009

  Agora

  Alexandria — Ancient
  Urbandir. Alejandro Amenábar
• 1984

  Amadeus

  Vienna — 1700s
  Urbandir. Miloš Forman
• 2007

  American Gangster

  New York City · Newark · Thailand — 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Ridley Scott
• 2003

  American Splendor

  Cleveland — 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
  Urbandir. Robert Pulcini
• 1966

  Andrei Rublev

  Russia — Medieval
  Ruraldir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• 2002

  Antwone Fisher

  Cleveland — 2000s
  Urbandir. Denzel Washington
• 1987

  Au Revoir les Enfants

  France — 1940s
  Ruraldir. Louis Malle
• 1975

  Barry Lyndon

  Ireland · Germany — 1700s
  Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick
• 2018

  BlacKkKlansman

  Colorado Springs — 1970s
  Urbandir. Spike Lee
• 1995

  Braveheart

  Scotland · England — Medieval
  Ruraldir. Mel Gibson
• 2005

  Capote

  Kansas — 1950s · 1960s
  Ruraldir. Bennett Miller
• 2002

  Catch Me If You Can

  New York City · Miami · France — 1960s
  Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 1981

  Chariots of Fire

  England · Scotland · Paris — 1920s · 1910s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Hugh Hudson
• 2000

  Chopper

  Melbourne — 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Andrew Dominik
• 1941

  Citizen Kane

  New York City — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s
  Urbandir. Orson Welles
• 1980

  Coal Miner's Daughter

  Kentucky · Nashville · Los Angeles — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Ruraldir. Michael Apted
• 2013

  Dallas Buyers Club

  Dallas · Mexico — 1980s · 1990s
  Urbandir. Jean-Marc Vallée
• 2016

  Dangal

  Haryana · Patiala — 2000s · 2010s
  Ruraldir. Nitesh Tiwari
• 2004

  Downfall

  Berlin — 1940s
  Urban · Undergrounddir. Oliver Hirschbiegel
• 2018

  First Man

  Houston · Space — 1960s
  Suburban · Off Worlddir. Damien Chazelle
• 1994

  Forrest Gump

  Alabama · Vietnam · Washington, D.C. · New York City — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Zemeckis
• 2016

  Free State of Jones

  Mississippi — 1800s · 1940s
  Ruraldir. Gary Ross
• 1982

  Gandhi

  India · South Africa — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Richard Attenborough
• 2000

  Gladiator

  Rome — Ancient
  Urbandir. Ridley Scott
• 1990

  GoodFellas

  New York City · Tampa — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 2016

  Hidden Figures

  Virginia — 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Theodore Melfi
• 2007

  Into the Wild

  Alaska · California · South Dakota — 1990s
  Wilderness · Rural · Desertdir. Sean Penn
• 2008

  Ip Man

  Foshan — 1930s · 1940s
  Urbandir. Wilson Yip
• 2021

  Judas and the Black Messiah

  Chicago — 1960s
  Urbandir. Shaka King
• 2009

  Julie & Julia

  Paris · New York City — 1950s · 2000s
  Urbandir. Nora Ephron
• 1962

  Lawrence of Arabia

  Cairo · Jerusalem · Damascus — 1910s
  Desertdir. David Lean
• 2016

  Lion

  Calcutta · Hobart · Melbourne · Khandwa — 1980s · 2000s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Garth Davis
• 2016

  Loving

  Virginia · Washington, D.C. — 1950s · 1960s
  Ruraldir. Jeff Nichols
• 1992

  Malcolm X

  New York City · Boston · Mecca — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Spike Lee
• 2016

  Maudie

  Nova Scotia — 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Rural · Coastal Seadir. Aisling Walsh
• 2008

  Milk

  San Francisco — 1970s
  Urbandir. Gus Van Sant
• 1975

  Mirror

  Russia — 1930s · 1940s · 1960s
  Ruraldir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• 2011

  Moneyball

  Oakland — 2000s
  Urbandir. Bennett Miller
• 2003

  Monster

  Florida — 1980s · 1990s
  Urbandir. Patty Jenkins
• 1999

  October Sky

  West Virginia — 1950s
  Rural · Undergrounddir. Joe Johnston
• 2019

  Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

  Los Angeles — 1960s
  Urbandir. Quentin Tarantino
• 2023

  Oppenheimer

  Los Alamos · Princeton — 1930s · 1940s · 1950s
  Desert · Urbandir. Christopher Nolan
• 1973

  Papillon

  French Guiana — 1930s · 1940s
  Island · Wildernessdir. Franklin J. Schaffner
• 2007

  Persepolis

  Tehran · Paris · Vienna — 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Vincent Paronnaud
• 1980

  Raging Bull

  New York City · Miami — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 1993

  Rudy

  Illinois · Indiana — 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. David Anspaugh
• 1993

  Schindler's List

  Kraków · Auschwitz — 1940s
  Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 2012

  Searching for Sugar Man

  Cape Town · Detroit — 1970s · 1990s
  Urbandir. Malik Bendjelloul
• 2014

  Selma

  Selma · Alabama — 1960s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Ava DuVernay
• 1973

  Serpico

  New York City — 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Sidney Lumet
• 1996

  Shine

  Adelaide · London — 1950s · 1960s
  Suburban · Urbandir. Scott Hicks
• 1983

  Silkwood

  Oklahoma — 1970s
  Ruraldir. Mike Nichols
• 1960

  Spartacus

  Rome — Ancient
  Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick
• 2021

  Spencer

  Norfolk — 1990s
  Ruraldir. Pablo Larraín
• 2007

  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

  Missouri — 1800s
  Ruraldir. Andrew Dominik
• 2009

  The Blind Side

  Memphis — 2000s
  Suburban · Urbandir. John Lee Hancock
• 2024

  The Brutalist

  Philadelphia · New York City · Venice — 1940s · 1950s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Brady Corbet
• 2017

  The Death of Stalin

  Moscow — 1950s
  Urbandir. Armando Iannucci
• 2007

  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

  France
  Coastal Seadir. Julian Schnabel
• 1980

  The Elephant Man

  London — 1800s
  Urbandir. David Lynch
• 2010

  The Fighter

  Lowell · Atlantic City · London — 2000s
  Urbandir. David O. Russell
• 2016

  The Founder

  Illinois · California — 1950s · 1960s
  Suburbandir. John Lee Hancock
• 2019

  The Irishman

  Philadelphia · Detroit — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 2004

  The Motorcycle Diaries

  Buenos Aires · Chile · Peru — 1950s
  Mountain · Desert · Ruraldir. Walter Salles
• 1928

  The Passion of Joan of Arc

  Rouen — Medieval
  Urbandir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 2002

  The Pianist

  Warsaw — 1940s
  Urbandir. Roman Polanski
• 1983

  The Right Stuff

  California · Space — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Desert · Off Worlddir. Philip Kaufman
• 2004

  The Sea Inside

  Spain — 1990s
  Rural · Coastal Seadir. Alejandro Amenábar
• 2010

  The Social Network

  Boston — 2000s
  Urbandir. David Fincher
• 2013

  The Wind Rises

  Japan · Germany — 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki
• 2013

  The Wolf of Wall Street

  New York City — 1980s · 1990s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 2005

  The World's Fastest Indian

  Invercargill · Los Angeles · Utah — 1960s
  Rural · Desert · Urbandir. Roger Donaldson
• 2023

  The Zone of Interest

  Auschwitz — 1940s
  Urbandir. Jonathan Glazer
• 1993

  Tombstone

  Arizona — 1800s
  Desert · Ruraldir. George P. Cosmatos
• 2005

  Walk the Line

  Arkansas · Memphis · Nashville — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Rural · Urbandir. James Mangold