# 🧍FILMS - BIOPICS, DOCUDRAMAS, & HISTORICAL DRAMAS
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Probably easiest genre to make an okay film, but the hardest one to make a masterpiece
a traditional biopic centered on one person's life
a historical drama film based on true events
- [ ] Social Network (2010) 120m 7.8 ⭐ ❗
- [ ] Serpico 1973 130m 7.7 ⭐ ❗
- [ ] Seven Angry Men (1955)
- [ ] The Imitation Game (2014) 114m 8.0
- [ ] The Favourite (2018) ⭐
- [ ] Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)
- [ ] Dark Waters (2019)
- [ ] American Animals (2018) ⭐
- [ ] Dolemite Is My Name
- [ ] Green Book (2018) ❗
- [ ] October Sky (1999) 108m
- [ ] Coal Miners Daughter (1980) 124m
- [ ] Fitzcarraldo (1982) ❗
- [ ] The Pianist (2002) 150m
- [ ] Andrei Rublev (1966) ❗
- [ ] The Greatest Showman (2017) 7.5 105m ❗
- [ ] # tick, tick… BOOM! (2021) 115m 7.5
- [ ] Mank (2020)
- [ ] The Founder (2016)
- [ ] Heavenly Creatures (1994) 99m 7.3 ❗
- [ ] Rocketman (2019) 7.3 121m
- [ ] Hidden Figures (2016)
- [ ] Chaplin (1992) 143m
- [ ] Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) ❗
- [ ] My Left Foot (1989) 103m ❗
- [ ] The Life of Emile Zola (1937) ❗
- [ ] The Great Ziegfeld (1934) ❗
- [ ] The Last Duel (2021)
- [ ] Auto Focus (2002)
- [ ] Lenny (1974) ❗
- [ ] At Eternity's Gate (2018)
- [ ] Foxcatcher (2014)
- [ ] The Apprentice (2024) 7.1 121m
- [ ] Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game (2022) 7.0
- [ ] Babylon (2022) ❗
- [ ] Loving Vincent (2017) ❗
- [ ] Society of the Snow (2023) 143m 7.8 ❗
- [ ] Rush (2013) 123m ❗
- [ ] Bound for Glory (1976)
- [ ] Mommie Dearest (1981)
- [ ] Mr. Turner 2014 150m 6.8
- [ ] Blonde (2022)
- [ ] Ip Man (2008)
- [ ] Edvard Munch (1974)
- [ ] Elvis (1979)
- [ ] Elvis (2022) 7.3 159m
- [ ] Flee (2021)
- [ ] What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993)
- [ ] Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
- [ ] Big Eyes (2014)
- [ ] Bound for Glory (1976)
- [ ] The Theory of Everything (2014) 123m
- [ ] 'Dallas Buyer Club' (2013)
- [ ] The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) 112m
- [ ] On the Basis of Sex (2018)
- [ ] Christine (2016)
- [ ] Control (2007)
- [ ] The Killing Fields (1984)
- [ ] Donnie Brasco (1997)
- [ ] Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
- [ ] Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
- [ ] Pollock (2000)
- [ ] Jackie
- [ ] Wild
- [ ] Selma
- [ ] Nixon (1995)
- [ ] Walker (1987)
- [ ] Fruitvale Station
- [ ] Capote (2005)
- [ ] One Night in Miami (2020)
- [ ] Foxcatcher (2014)
- [ ] Green Book (2018)
- [ ] Trumbo (2015)
- [ ] Hidden Figures (2016)
- [ ] 42 (2013)
- [ ] Valkyrie (2008)
- [ ] Tick tick Boom (2021)
- [ ] Van Gogh (1991)
- [ ] Vice (2018)
- [ ] Frida (2002)
- [ ] Edvard Munich (1974)
- [ ] 127 Hours (2010)
- [ ] The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
- [ ] Vengeance is Mine (1979)
- [ ] Hitchcock (2012)
- [ ] A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
- [ ] Mr. Turner (2014)
- [x] Ed Wood (1994) 127m
- [x] The Color of Pomegrantes (1969)
- [x] The Right Stuff (1983)
- [x] Amadeus (1984) 160m
- [x] Zodiac (2007)
- [x] Spartacus (1960) 197m
- [x] Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) 120m
- [x] Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) 100m
- [x] Dunkirk (2017)
- [x] Downfall (2004) 156m 8.2
- [x] The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 180m 8.2
- [x] Aviator (2004) 170m 7.5
- [x] The Irishman (2019) 209m 7.8
- [x] Oppenheimer (2023) 180m
- [x] Into the Wild (2007) 148m
- [x] The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
- [x] Marie Antoniette (2006)
- [x] Queen Christina (1933)
- [x] The Lion in Winter (1968)
- [x] Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- [x] Patton (1970)
- [x] Lincoln (2012)
- [x] Milk (2008)
- [x] Malcolm X (1992)
- [x] Kinsey (2004)
- [x] A Beautiful Mind (2001)
- [x] Knute Rockne, All-American (1940)
- [x] Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- [x] The Elephant Man (1980)
- [x] Raging Bull (1980)
- [x] Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
- [x] The King's Speech (2010)
- [x] BlackBerry (2023)
- [x] Walker (1987)
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