Biopics Set in Cities

Kinora's catalogue lists 29 films about a real person's life and set in cities, 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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• 1984

  Amadeus

  Vienna — 1700s
  Urbandir. Miloš Forman
• 2018

  BlacKkKlansman

  Colorado Springs — 1970s
  Urbandir. Spike Lee
• 2002

  Catch Me If You Can

  New York City · Miami · France — 1960s
  Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 1941

  Citizen Kane

  New York City — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s
  Urbandir. Orson Welles
• 1994

  Forrest Gump

  Alabama · Vietnam · Washington, D.C. · New York City — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Zemeckis
• 2000

  Gladiator

  Rome — Ancient
  Urbandir. Ridley Scott
• 1990

  GoodFellas

  New York City · Tampa — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 2021

  Judas and the Black Messiah

  Chicago — 1960s
  Urbandir. Shaka King
• 2016

  Lion

  Calcutta · Hobart · Melbourne · Khandwa — 1980s · 2000s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Garth Davis
• 1992

  Malcolm X

  New York City · Boston · Mecca — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Spike Lee
• 2011

  Moneyball

  Oakland — 2000s
  Urbandir. Bennett Miller
• 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
• 2007

  Persepolis

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

  Raging Bull

  New York City · Miami — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 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
• 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
• 2010

  The Fighter

  Lowell · Atlantic City · London — 2000s
  Urbandir. David O. Russell
• 2019

  The Irishman

  Philadelphia · Detroit — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 1928

  The Passion of Joan of Arc

  Rouen — Medieval
  Urbandir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 2002

  The Pianist

  Warsaw — 1940s
  Urbandir. Roman Polanski
• 2010

  The Social Network

  Boston — 2000s
  Urbandir. David Fincher
• 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