Hidden Gems
Underrated Biography Movies
Biography films our TML Score rates highly that never found a big audience: critically strong, commercially overlooked. Ranked by our TML Score, a transparent blend of IMDb and Metascore, and filtered to titles with modest box office.
30 Underrated Biography Films
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
Carl Theodor Dreyer·1928·BiographyTML 92★ 8.1$22K box officeMaria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain +2
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Close-Up
Abbas Kiarostami·1990·BiographyTML 90★ 8.2$3K box officeHossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf +2
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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra·2013·BiographyTML 86★ 8.2$1.6M box officeFarhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor +2
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La passion de Jeanne d'Arc
Carl Theodor Dreyer·1928·BiographyTML 85★ 8.1$22K box officeMaria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain +2
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Andrei Rublev
Andrei Tarkovsky·1966·BiographyTML 85★ 8.1$102K box officeAnatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov +2
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Zerkalo
Andrei Tarkovsky·1975·BiographyTML 85★ 8.1$177K box officeMargarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy +2
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Mirror
Andrei Tarkovsky·1975·BiographyTML 84★ 7.9$22K box officeMargarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy +2
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Paul Schrader·1985·BiographyTML 84★ 7.9$438K box officeKen Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya +2
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Embrace of the Serpent
Ciro Guerra·2015·AdventureTML 84★ 7.8$1.3M box officeNilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet +2
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Gangubai Kathiawadi
Sanjay Leela Bhansali·2022·BiographyTML 82★ 7.8$592K box officeAlia Bhatt, Shantanu Maheshwari +2
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M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story
Neeraj Pandey·2016·BiographyTML 82★ 7.8$1.8M box officeSushant Singh Rajput, Kiara Advani +2
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The Sea Inside
Alejandro Amenábar·2004·BiographyTML 82★ 8.0$2.1M box officeJavier Bardem, Belén Rueda +2
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Heavenly Creatures
Peter Jackson·1994·BiographyTML 82★ 7.3$3.0M box officeMelanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet +2
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Before Night Falls
Julian Schnabel·2000·BiographyTML 81★ 7.1$4.2M box officeJavier Bardem, Johnny Depp +2
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
Marc Rothemund·2005·BiographyTML 80★ 7.6$680K box officeJulia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs +2
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A Hidden Life
Terrence Malick·2019·BiographyTML 80★ 7.4$1.7M box officeAugust Diehl, Valerie Pachner +2
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The End of the Tour
James Ponsoldt·2015·BiographyTML 80★ 7.2$3.0M box officeJason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg +2
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
Uli Edel·2008·ActionTML 78★ 7.3$476K box officeMartina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu +2