Best Biographies by Director
1874
192
2013
Jean-Marc Vallée
Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Denis O'Hare, Steve Zahn
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2730
444
2009
Jean-Marc Vallée
Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent
Drama / History / Romance / Biography
UK / USA
English
2742
452
2014
Jean-Marc Vallée
Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski, Keene McRae, Michiel Huisman
Biography / Drama / Adventure
USA
English
1736
172
1938
W.S. Van Dyke
Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise
Biography / Drama / Romance / History / Epic
USA
English
2612
399
1931
W.S. Van Dyke
Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Mutia Omoolu
Adventure / Action / Biography / Drama
USA
English
2595
393
2018
Felix van Groeningen
Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney, Amy Ryan
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2184
264
2003
Mario Van Peebles
Mario Van Peebles, Joy Bryant, Paul Rodriguez, Nia Long
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
812
55
2008
Gus Van Sant
Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco, Alison Pill
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2595
393
2025
Gus Van Sant
Dacre Montgomery, Bill Skarsgård, Al Pacino, Cary Elwes, Myha'la, Kelly Lynch
Biography / Crime / Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
2595
393
2018
Gus Van Sant
Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black, Tony Greenhand
Biography / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2730
444
2025
James Vanderbilt
Michael Shannon, Colin Hanks, Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Lydia Peckham
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller / War
USA / Hungary
English
2730
444
2015
James Vanderbilt
Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace, Dennis Quaid, Elisabeth Moss
Biography / Drama
Australia / USA
English
772
54
2000
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda, François Wertheimer, Bodan Litnanski
Documentary / Biography
France
French
2098
243
1991
Agnès Varda
Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Brigitte De Villepoix
Biography / Drama / Comedy
France
French
2630
404
2008
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier, Vincent Fournier
Documentary / Biography
France
French
2730
444
2015
various
Paul Howard, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Shemp Howard, Joe DeRita
Comedy / Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2652
412
1934
Georgi Vasilyev, Sergei Vasilyev
Boris Babochkin, Leonid Kmit, Varvara Myasnikova
Drama / War / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2730
444
2007
Peter Ventrella
Peter Bogdanovich, Bruce Dern
Documentary / Short / Biography
USA
English
2652
412
2021
Paul Verhoeven
Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphne Patakia, Lambert Wilson
Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Religion / Period Film
France / Belgium / Netherlands
French
2635
405
1934
Dziga Vertov
V.I. Lenin, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Stalin, Dolores Ibárruri
Documentary / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
1608
157
1955
Charles Vidor
Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith, Tom Tully
Biography / Drama / Musical / Romance / Gangster
USA
English
2447
338
1952
Charles Vidor
Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Zizi Jeanmaire, Joseph Walsh, Philip Tonge
Biography / Family / Musical / Drama / Fantasy
USA
English
2690
422
1960
Charles Vidor, George Cukor
Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page
Drama / Musical / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
2723
441
1945
Charles Vidor
Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Paul Muni, Nina Foch, George Coulouris
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
2635
405
1930
King Vidor
Johnny Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay Johnson, Karl Dane, Wyndham Standing
History / Western / Biography
USA
English
2730
444
2012
Jesse Vile
Jason Becker, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Ehren Becker, Gary Becker, Pat Becker
Documentary / Biography / Music
UK / USA
English
2787
464
1972
Luchino Visconti
Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Gert Fröbe
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film / Epic
France / Italy / West Germany
Italian
2730
444
2012
Stephen Vittoria
Mumia Abu-Jamal, Cornel West, Alice Walker, Dick Gregory, Angela Davis, Amy Goodman
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2741
451
2017
Tom Volf
Fanny Ardant, Joyce DiDonato, Maria Callas, Aristotle Onassis, Vittorio De Sica
Documentary / Biography / Music
France
English
2635
405
1927
Alexandre Volkoff
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti, Diana Karenne, Jenny Jugo, Rina De Liguoro
Biography / Drama / Period Film
France
French (Silent)
857
64
1934
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2596
394
1986
Margarethe von Trotta
Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Otto Sander, Adelheid Arndt, Jürgen Holtz
Biography / Drama
Czechoslovakia / West Germany
German
2730
444
2017
Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Cecil Beaton, Rupert Everett, Julie Andrews, Truman Capote, David Hockney
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1173
93
1983
Andrzej Wajda
Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France / Poland / West Germany
French
2415
326
2007
Andrzej Wajda
Joachim Paul Assböck, Waldemar Barwinski, Stanislawa Celinska, Andrzej Chyra
Drama / History / War / Biography
Poland
Polish
2429
332
2010
Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim
Vik Muniz, Fabio Ghivelder, Sebastiao Carlos Dos Santos
Documentary / Biography
Brazil / UK
Portuguese
2739
450
2007
Stephen Walker
Bob Cilman, Stan Goldman, Jeanne Hatch, Patricia Linderme, Steve Martin
Documentary / Drama / Music / Biography
UK
English
1580
152
1942
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale
Drama / Biography / Sports
USA
English
2635
405
1941
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Romance / War / Western / History / Epic
USA
English
2534
360
2002
Bing Wang
Documentary / Biography
China / Netherlands
Mandarin
2733
447
2018
Tim Wardle
Edward Galland, David Kellman, Robert Shafran
Documentary / Biography / Drama / Mystery
UK
English
2089
240
2007
Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett, Denzel Whitaker
Drama / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2369
311
2002
Denzel Washington
Derek Luke, Malcolm David Kelley, Cory Hodges, Denzel Washington, Joy Bryant
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2555
372
1974
Peter Watkins
Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, Eric Allum, Amund Berge, Kerstii Allum
Biography / Drama
Sweden / Norway
Norwegian
2367
310
2003
Peter Webber
Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt, Cillian Murphy
Biography / Drama
USA / UK / Luxembourg
English
2763
457
2000
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Experimental / Documentary / Biography
Thailand
Thai
2730
444
2011
Robert B. Weide
Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Diane Keaton, Letty Aronson, Scarlett Johansson
Documentary / Biography / History / Music / Romance
USA
English
2730
444
2015
Eric Weinrib
Roseanne Barr, Michael Moore, Rosie O'Donnell, Sandra Bernhard, Tom Smothers
Documentary / Biography / Comedy
USA
English
2723
441
1990
Ellen Weissbrod
Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
1660
160
1974
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten
Documentary / Experimental / Biography
France / Iran / West Germany
English
1708
167
1999
Wim Wenders
Lázaro Villa, Manuel 'Puntillita' Licea, Alberto 'Virgilio' Valdés
Documentary / Music / Biography
Germany / USA / UK / France / Cuba
English
2257
278
2011
Wim Wenders
Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo, Ruth Amarante, Jorge Puerta Armenta
Documentary / Music / Biography
Germany / France / UK
German
2510
356
1982
Wim Wenders
Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear
Mystery / Crime / Post-Noir / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
1772
177
1934
Alfred L. Werker
George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young
Drama / Romance / Biography
USA
English
2714
436
2018
Wash Westmoreland
Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West, Robert Pugh, Sloan Thompson
Biography / Drama / History
UK / USA
English
2586
390
2004
Mark Wexler
Peter Bart, Verna Bloom, Billy Crystal, Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda, Milos Forman
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2730
444
1946
Richard Whorf, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney
June Allyson, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Van Heflin
Biography / Musical
USA
English
NR
-
1980
William Wiard
Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush, Slim Pickens
Western / Biography
USA
English
2688
421
1971
Bo Widerberg
Thommy Berggren, Anja Schmidt, Kelvin Malave, Evert Anderson
Drama / Biography
Sweden / USA
Swedish
2780
462
1995
Krzysztof Wierzbicki
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Documentary / Biography
Denmark / Poland
Polish
2442
337
1937
Herbert Wilcox
Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilla, H.B. Warner, Mary Morris
Drama / History / Romance / Biography
UK
English
2140
252
1957
Billy Wilder
James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson
Drama / Adventure / History / Biography
USA
English
2595
393
2016
Roger Ross Williams
Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert Gottfried, Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind
Documentary / Animation / Family / Biography
France / USA
English
2730
444
2022
Stephen Williams
Kelvin Harrison Jr., Samara Weaving, Lucy Boynton, Ronke Adekoluejo, Marton Csokas
Biography / Drama / History / Music / Epic
USA
English
2703
426
1985
Sandy Wilson
Margaret Langrick, John Wildman, Richard Donat, Jane Mortifee, T.J. Scott
Biography / Drama / Comedy / Period Film
Canada
English
2730
444
1920
Lawrence C. Windom
Babe Ruth, Ruth Taylor, William Sheer, Margaret Seddon, Frances Victory
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2730
444
2019
Dan Wingate
Kaye Ballard, Carol Burnett, Joy Behar, Carol Channing, Doris Day
Biography / Documentary
USA
English
2723
441
2004
Irwin Winkler
Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally, Sandra Nelson
Biography / Drama / Musical
USA / UK
English
1965
209
2002
Michael Winterbottom
Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Nigel Pivaro, Lennie James, Shirley Henderson
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Music / Period Film
UK / France / Netherlands
English
1160
90
1958
Robert Wise
Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel
Crime / Drama / Biography
USA
English
1774
178
1956
Robert Wise
Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart
Drama / Sports / Biography
USA
English
2635
405
1968
Robert Wise
Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig, Daniel Massey, Robert Reed
Biography / Musical / Drama
USA
English
1207
98
1979
Ira Wohl
Zero Mostel, Christine O'Connor, Frances Reiss, Philip Wohl
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2741
451
2023
George C. Wolfe
Colman Domingo, Aml Ameen, Glynn Turman, Chris Rock, Gus Halper
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2730
444
2009
Bruno Wollheim
David Hockney
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2652
412
2013
Kar Wai Wong
Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Benshan Zhao
Action / Biography / Drama
Hong Kong / China
Mandarin
2767
458
2011
Andrés Wood
Francisca Gavilán, Thomas Durand, Luis Machín, Gabriela Aguilera
Biography / Music / Drama
Chile / Argentina / Brazil
Spanish
1073
79
1942
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright
Drama / Family / Biography / Sports / History
USA
English
2397
322
1949
Sam Wood
James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead, Bill Williams
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2730
444
2014
Chuck Workman
Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1764
176
2017
Joe Wright
Lily James, Gary Oldman, Ben Mendelsohn, Kristin Scott Thomas, Stephen Dillane
Biography / Drama / History / War
UK
English
976
70
1968
William Wyler
Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif
Drama / Romance / Musical / Comedy / Biography
USA
English
2767
458
1993
Andrew Young, Susan Todd, Michael Roemer, Robert M. Young
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA
English
2709
432
1968
Terence Young
Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography / History
France / UK
English
2730
444
2016
Ben Younger
Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart, Katey Sagal, Ciarán Hinds, Ted Levine
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2635
405
1972
Franco Zeffirelli
Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson, Kenneth Cranham, Lee Montague
Drama / Biography / Religion / Period Film
Italy / UK
English
2730
444
2012
Leslie Zemeckis
Violet Hilton, Daisy Hilton, Nancy Allen, Blake Boyd, Tim Stack, Lea Thompson
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2730
444
2015
Robert Zemeckis
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Guillaume Baillargeon, Émilie Leclerc, Mark Trafford
Adventure / Biography / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2723
441
2008
Marina Zenovich
Roman Polanski, Samantha Geimer, Douglas Dalton, Roger Gunson, Mia Farrow
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA / UK
English
1727
170
2025
Chloé Zhao
Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Zac Wishart, James Lintern, Joe Alwyn
Biography / Drama / History / Romance
UK
English
2730
444
2004
Yaron Zilberman
Judith Haspel, Trude Hirschler, Anni Lampl, Hanni Lux, Ann Marie Pisker
Documentary / History / Sports / Biography
France / Israel / USA
English
832
59
1977
Fred Zinnemann
Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2489
351
1988
Charlotte Zwerin
Jimmy Cleveland, Harry Colomby, John Coltrane, Ray Copeland
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
567
35
1994
Terry Zwigoff
Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb, Maxon Crumb, Robert Hughes
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2723
441
1986
Terry Zwigoff
Howard Armstrong, Ted Bogan, Cab Calloway, Les Blank, Alan Governar
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
