Best Biographical Movies

Compiled 2026-10-28. The main table copies the biographical list marked 2026-08-28, 250 films in all. No. 1 is Schindler's List (1993). No. 250 is Il Divo (2008). The date printed on the page, the publish date, the update date, and the compile date stay separate. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows of this table.

The 250 films

All 250 rows follow the list. Years are copied from the page.

How this ranking was built

Compiled 2026-10-28. The page says as of 2026-08-28. The list was published 2026-03-10 and updated 2026-08-27. Sam curated it, drawing films from the films-by-rating page. The main table is every rank on pages 1 through 3. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows.

This was read from the live page on 2026-10-28. The order is biographical narrative features by average member rating. A film needs at least 5,000 ratings, a runtime over 40 minutes, and a festival premiere, theatrical release, or professional streaming release. It has to depict real people and real events. The latest update brought Tony in at No. 133 and took Gods out of No. 250. No. 21 and No. 86 both display as The Message (1976), and the list keeps both rows.

Chinese and Russian titles are Wikidata labels. Chinese labels are simplified.

25 films have no Chinese Wikidata label, so the Chinese cell keeps the English title: No. 16 Edvard Munch, No. 17 I Swear, No. 40 Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, No. 43 Forever a Woman, No. 54 Latin Blood – The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso, No. 56 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, No. 57 Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot, No. 65 Sardar Udham, No. 71 Hachiko, No. 82 An Adventure in Space and Time, No. 97 Ivan the Terrible, Part I, No. 99 Mahanati, No. 118 Superboys of Malegaon, No. 133 Tony, No. 159 Madame Satã, No. 177 Aimée & Jaguar, No. 181 Leto, No. 185 Stuart: A Life Backwards, No. 186 Temple Grandin, No. 192 Milk, No. 213 Simone: Woman of the Century, No. 230 Muganga, No. 237 Mesrine: Public Enemy #1, No. 239 The American Dream, No. 243 The Goldman Case. 40 films keep the English title in the Russian cell.

The picture

Rows S through D are ranks 1 through 150, 30 a row. Ranks 151 through 250 are in the table below. The drag-and-drop pool is all 250.