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Top 10 best 'biography'-movies in 2014

Based on moviemeter ratings, these are the 10 best 'biography'-movies released in the year 2014.

This is a list of the best 10 'biography'-movies from 2014 and highly rated on MovieMeter. Click on a title of a movie to find more information about movie.

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The 140+ Best Biography Movies

Biographical films explore the fascinating lives of historical figures and cultural icons. The best biography movies offer viewers a captivating look into the lives of these people, skillfully recreating stories that have shaped history and left a lasting impact on the world. With unforgettable narratives to explore, you will find these films showcase exceptional storytelling, nuanced performances, and unparalleled cinematic vision. 

The best biography movies offer not just boring history, but gripping, groundbreaking, and original narratives. For instance, films like Catch Me If You Can follow the high-stakes exploits of a charming con artist, blending thrilling action with compelling character development. Schindler's List, on the other hand, tackles the harrowing subject of the Holocaust, masterfully capturing the heroic efforts of one man to save lives during a dark time in history. Then there's A Beautiful Mind, which delves into the complex life of renowned mathematician John Nash, showcasing the challenges and triumphs associated with his brilliance. These films are but a few examples of the best biographical movies that excellently capture the essence of their subjects and the genre. 

The lasting impact of these movies demonstrate how well they resonate with audiences, transcending time and cultural boundaries. Biographical movies not only accurately depict the lives of their subjects, but they also elevate the art of storytelling by blending truth with cinematic dramar. Through these exceptional films, viewers gain fresh perspectives on the world, history, and the individuals who have shaped it, marking these biographical movies as the very best in their field. 

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Einar Wegener is not exactly a household name, but if you happen upon The Danish Girl , the Eddie Redmayne-starring biopic based on Wegener’s life, you’ll come away knowing a little bit more about what it was like to be transgender in the early part of the 20th century. A thoughtful, well-considered biopic can do what your history textbook never could: make the past come alive and comment on our present moment. Here’s a batch of fresh-rated biopics of people famous — Jackie Robinson, Queen Elizabeth II — and not-quite-so. That’s the other secret power of films about real people: immortalizing nearly-forgotten institutionalized female artists and recovering drug addicts who go on very long hikes.

42 (2013) 81%

This underappreciated film should have made Chadwick Boseman a movie star. He’s that good as baseball legend Jackie Robinson. Of course, Get On Up also should have made Chadwick Boseman a movie star. He played James Brown in that one and nobody went to see it, either. But back to 42: Boseman all but resurrects the patient, determined, no-nonsense athlete who broke the color barrier in professional baseball way back in 1947 during his rookie season with the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was, as you might imagine, not an easy task. Hate from fans and his own teammates tested the man every time he took the field, but Robinson never gave anyone the satisfaction of clapping back. Director Brian Helgeland, along with his extremely talented lead, creates a sobering look back at the historical realties of American sports and American racism. As for Boseman, he’s about to enter the Marvel universe as Black Panther. Movie star achievement coming soon.

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Belle (2013) 85%

Maybe you thought this was just another period British costume drama, the kind that country creates with impeccable precision, all for your mom to enjoy. But Belle glides along in its own lane, taking on the ugliest truths about the English aristocracy, and inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw). She was the mixed race child of Admiral John Lindsay, raised by her great-uncle Lord Mansfield in a world of privilege, one punctured by the restrictions of her race. It was the time of slavery in England, after all, which meant Belle was unable to participate fully in the world in which she lived. Solution: fight the power and work as an abolitionist, of course. Amma Assante’s direction is clear-cut and modern, necessarily imposing today’s wisdom on historical horror, while Mbatha-Raw (who was also excellent in the same year’s underrated Beyond The Lights) moves slyly through a story that demands her character’s allegiance to strict codes and the disobedient nerve to break them.

Bright Star (2009) 83%

So it’s the early part of the 19th century and you are a passionately-in-love couple of young people. But you have to keep it secret. That’s the problem faced by English poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and headstrong, fashion-minded Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). They don’t even like each other much, at first, which is romantic-drama-speak for “gotta have it,” and no one approves, of course, which makes it that much hotter. But if you think you know how this all goes, then you should also know that it’s a film by Jane Campion (The Piano), one of the world’s great directors. Campion understands the clichés inherent in this kind of story and she navigates around them with skill and intensity, delivering instead a truthful film about living a real life in a time that required a crushing denial of that same reality.

Camille Claudel, 1915 (2013) 80%

If you’re here for demanding, difficult director Bruno Dumont, then you’ve already seen this one. But chances are you’re here because Juliette Binoche is one of best actors on the planet and you never even knew this film existed. Well, get ready to work, because Camille Claudel, 1915 is an exacting drama of the long-take school, featuring a deeply felt, and highly specific performance from Binoche as an artist whose life was marked by slow, inexorable tragedy. Claudel, once the mistress of sculptor Auguste Rodin, is committed to an asylum in southern France and left to waste away. Binoche, burrowing deeply into the emptiness, speaks very little, but says everything. A tough but rewarding feel-bad experience for people who don’t need happy endings.

Fruitvale Station (2013) 94%

At the moment, Michael B. Jordan is impressing audiences in Creed, but his promise was announced with this earlier film by Creed’s director Ryan Coogler. It’s a true story, one that could have been taken from any headline of the past few years, and stars Jordan as Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old black man in Oakland, California, who lost his life on New Year’s Day, 2009, when he was murdered by a police officer at an Oakland BART station. It begins with cellphone video of the real killing. But instead of delving into documentary-style drama about the event itself, Coogler shows you Grant moving through his last day, dealing with work and family and friends. This approach heightens the despair and sense of wasted life by forcing the audience to live with the everyday humanity of the crime’s victim, rather than a just-the-facts approach resulting in one more numbing statistic created by institutional racism.

Philomena (2013) 91%

This tear-jerker is based on the harrowing story of Philomena Lee (Judi Dench), an Irish woman whose youthful unplanned pregnancy resulted in her confinement to a cruel, prison-like convent, her child put up for adoption against her will. In her later years, she joins a journalist (Steve Coogan) in the hunt for her now-adult lost child, unprepared for what she’ll find. Now, when the deck is this stacked with tragedy, a strong center is required to avoid overselling the pain. That means you go get Judi Dench. Audiences have placed massive amounts of goodwill in her, and for good reason. She’s a walking empathy machine, gently and intelligently tugging at your heart when lesser actors would mercilessly wrestle it to the ground. Her soft-spoken, perhaps needlessly naïve and devout truth-seeker (compared to the real life woman, whose relationship with the Church that abused her involves no love lost) is all goodness, all forgiveness. This is how she earns your tears. And you will shed them.

The Queen (2006) 97%

Is this really how Queen Elizabeth II behaved behind closed doors in the aftermath of Princess Diana’s death? Did she have a genuine crisis of manners and standards? Was she forced to contend with the changes taking place outside the confines of royal life, where contemporary public expectations of figureheads shifted, altered by that public’s relationship with Diana herself? We’ll probably never really know for sure, but as portrayed by Helen Mirren, we now want to believe that the stoic monarch in the pastel-colored hats had a dormant heart that grew three sizes the moment Elton John re-recorded “Candle in The Wind.” Mirren carries the film like it all rests on her shoulders – it does, by the way – and she does so gracefully, balancing regulation and feeling like a proper queen. She won a well-deserved Oscar for it, too.

Selma (2014) 99%

One of the most critically acclaimed movies of 2014 was, strangely, ignored at the box office and by award-giving organizations. Perhaps it all felt like it might be the moviegoing equivalent of homework, but Ava DuVernay’s Selma is a huge achievement, both in re-examining the past through fresh eyes, as well as in sheer entertainment. This is not a saintly MLK. David Oyelowo portrays the legendary civil rights leader as a real, flawed, sometimes frightened, sometimes furious man, and you can’y take your eyes off him. Maybe people stayed away because the story of King’s campaign to secure the Voting Rights Act of 1965 might have felt too real in a moment when politicians are still trying to figure out ways to keep non-white Americans from voting. Whatever your reasons for avoiding it were, you were wrong. Go watch this one today.

Violette (2013) 86%

You’ve heard about the famous French writer Simone de Beauvoir. Well, this is not about her. Instead, it’s the story of Violette Leduc, a French author who was deeply involved with de Beauvoir for years. As played by Emmanuelle Devos, this lesser-known literary figure is a fascinatingly complex cauldron of conflicting feelings, a woman filled with unhappiness who was stoutly determined to get what she wanted, grasping for life and personal connection anywhere she could find it. She had an iron will and a prickly personality that you won’t like, but also won’t soon forget. Sometimes it’s the unlikeliest people who make the most interesting subjects.

Wild (2014) 88%

This is not Reese Witherspoon’s 127 Hours, her Incredible Journey, or anything else you think it is. It’s a much more subtle story about a woman’s determination to finish what she starts and heal herself along the way. Based on Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, Wild tells the story of the troubled author’s 1,100 mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail. She encounters danger and despair, but not the kind you expect. In fact, very little of this movie relies on the usual prestige picture story beats and cathartic uplifts, the kind that secure nominations and awards. Meanwhile, Witherspoon’s performance rivals her Oscar-winning turn as June Carter in Walk The Line. She’s that good, as is Laura Dern as her mother.

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The 11 Best Movies of 2014

This week, Vulture will be publishing our critics’ year-end lists.

1. Boyhood In this year, in which time weighs more and more heavily on our collective way of life — and our planet — Richard Linklater has created a film that makes time visible. He began with what sounds like just a gimmick: to shoot actor Ellar Coltrane in intervals over 12 years , beginning when Coltrane’s character is 6 and ending on the far side of puberty. But the result feels like no other film. We’re used to time in cinema being relative, easily manipulated. Here, as we scan Coltrane’s face and body for changes, we come to think of each moment as fleeting, irrecoverable, and so, infinitely precious. Along the way, Boyhood touches on fatherhood and motherhood, on men who indulge themselves, who are allowed to remain boys into adulthood, while women bear the ultimate responsibility for parenting — and so, in the end, feel as if time has wasted them. However much Linklater mapped out at the project’s inception, he clearly watched his actors (among them the extraordinary Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke as the boy’s parents) along with his own life and let many of the details find him. Boyhood breathes. Read the full review.

2. Selma Yes, we need it now. Ava DuVernay’s drama has sweep and intimacy — it turns on Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo, in the male performance of the year) and his attempt to penetrate the stubborn wall around Lyndon Johnson (Tom Wilkinson). The sad but stark truth is that King’s leadership puts the essential passivity of the current administration to shame.

3. The Babadook Jennifer Kent’s phenomenally expressive Aussie chiller (a first feature!) centers on a widowed mother (the amazingly vivid Essie Davis), her fragile 7-year-old son, and a demon out of a twisted bedtime story — literally, since it announces its presence in a rhyming, black-and-white pop-up book that appears on the boy’s shelf. But it doesn’t take long to realize that Kent isn’t terribly interested in the Babadook as anything but the manifestation of a mother’s psyche in crisis. Read the full review.

4. Whiplash The title is dead right. Damien Chazelle’s jazz drama is sizzling, smashing, gut-twisting — it gets in your bloodstream. The excellent Miles Teller is the drummer enrolled in a pressure-cooker NYC music school, J.K. Simmons the abusive, borderline-psychotic bandleader who behaves as if music school is the Marines. Does Chazelle mean to vindicate the methods of this teacher, as monstrous as he is? It’s not that simple. But we can argue about it forever. Read the full review.

5. Tales of the Grim Sleeper Nick Broomfield’s incendiary doc centers on a South Central Los Angeles serial killer who murdered as many as 100 women in three decades. It’s a portrait of a ravaged community in which some abetted the killer, some looked the other way, and some stood helplessly by. Driving around in the company of residents (some crack addicts, some ex-prostitutes, some homeless), Broomfield finds out more in days than the LAPD did in 25 years.

6. Only Lovers Left Alive Are vampires (Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston) — deadpan undead hipsters — the ultimate Jim Jarmusch characters? They’re in Detroit, a decaying city where the underground music scene thrives and they don’t look a bit out of place. Underneath the self-satire, Jarmusch is deadly serious. This is a culturally, economically, environmentally poisoned world.  So the movie is a kind of funeral service for outsider artists of his ilk. Read the full review.

7. Citizenfour An avant-garde, paranoid conspiracy thriller that’s real. You are there, in the room, as NSA contractor Edward Snowden turns over thousands of pages of classified documents to journalist Glenn Greenwald and filmmaker Laura Poitras . You might have issues with Poitras’s unquestioning acceptance of Snowden, but not with this portrait of a technological infrastructure unprecedented in its ability to monitor everyone in the world. Read the full review.

8. Mr. Turner Mike Leigh’s marvelously suggestive biography is J.M.W. Turner by way of Hogarth — it’s both lyrical and punchy. The compulsiveness is there — Turner troops around England, working to capture the ineffable quality of light and sea — and so is the ineffability of personality. The connection between the artist and the art is tantalizingly irreducible. As Turner, Timothy Spall is a grunter of genius .

9. Two Days, One Night The Dardennes brothers’ latest triumph, another sui generis drama in which a desperate woman (Marion Cotillard, looking like a nonactress in the best, Dardennesian sense) coming out of a prostrating depression trudges into the lives of 15 co-workers to pose a question: Will they forsake a bonus so that she can keep her job? That the workers are even placed in this position seems like capitalism’s ultimate betrayal, once more pitting worker against worker. But as usual, a spirit of compassion permeates all. It’s more in sorrow than in anger.

10. The Immigrant Marion Cotillard is now the best leading film actress in the world, and she’s close to her peak in James Gray’s moody drama about a young Polish woman who arrives at Ellis Island in 1921 alongside her sister, who’s promptly quarantined, and falls in with Joaquin Phoenix as an unscrupulous jack-of-all-sleazy-trades. The images are suitable for framing, but the feel of the movie is messy, modern, psychological; it’s thick with melancholy and moral ambivalence. Read the full review.

11. The Overnighters Jesse Moss’s sorrowful, penetrating doc proves that in this culture, no good Christian deed goes unpunished. Jay Reinke is the pastor who fights for housing for the itinerant workers who flood Williston, North Dakota. Some of them are indeed unsavory and potentially dangerous, but the shitstorm that follows will make you feel the milk of human kindness has dried up at the teat.

Tommy Lee Jones gets points for weirdness for the tonally chaotic and oddly moving The Homesman . Jon Stewart made an impressive directorial debut with Rosewater . The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 is the best of the blockbusters — a bleak war film and witty, self-mocking essay in how to promote a heroine.

Eddie Redmayne and Benedict Cumberbatch in two biopics, The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game . Alfred Molina and John Lithgow in the lovely Love Is Strange . John Hawkes as a junkie musician and father in the too-little-seen Low Down . Minnie Driver rocked Beyond the Lights as an abrasive showbiz mom. And I shock myself to say it, BEN AFFLECK.

*This is an extended version of an article that appears in the December 15, 2014 issue of New York Magazine.

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Cristin Milioti's Biography: Personal Life, Movies, TV Shows, Family, Net Worth

C ristin Milioti, a talented American actress and singer, has gained recognition for her performances on Broadway, including ‘That Face’, ‘Stunning’, and ‘Once’, which earned her a ‘Tony Award’. However, it was her role as ‘Tracy McConnell’ on the hit sitcom ‘How I Met Your Mother’ from 2013 to 2014 that truly made her a household name.

On August 16, 1985, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Cristin Milioti was born to Clark Vincent Milioti and Catherine Milioti.  Milioti is said to have developed a passion for acting at a young age, having been inspired by her time at Long Lake Camp for the Arts during her middle school years.

She pursued this passion throughout her time at Cherry Hill High School, participating in various plays until her graduation in 2003. Following her graduation from high school, Milioti applied to New York University with the intention of studying acting.

However, she ultimately decided to leave the program after less than a year in order to focus on pursuing her passion for acting and honing her craft.

Despite her initial aspirations, the aspiring actress faced disappointment in her career, only securing roles in commercials such as the national marketing campaign for Ford Edge.

However, her luck turned around in 2006 when she was given the opportunity to play Mairead in the Lyceum Theater’s production of “Inishmore” and later landed the role of Catherine Sacrimoni on “The Sopranos” (2006-2007).

Cristin Milioti’s Career

Cristin Milioti is a highly acclaimed figure in the world of Broadway. Her numerous stage appearances have captivated audiences and earned her widespread recognition.

In 2007, she made her Broadway debut as ‘Alice Ashbrook’ in the renowned adaptation of Jamila Gavin’s novel, ‘Coram Boy,’ written by Helen Edmundson.

In 2009, Cristin Milioti portrayed the role of ‘Lily’ in ‘Stunning’ at the Lincoln Center Theater. The following year, she starred in ‘That Face’ at the ‘Manhattan Theatre Club’ and received a nomination for the ‘Lucille Lortel Award’ in the ‘Outstanding Lead Actress’ category.

She achieved her greatest success in ‘Once’ during her stage career, appearing in the production from 2011 to 2013.

She shared the stage with lead soloist Steve Kazee and together they won the 2013 Grammy Award for ‘Best Musical Theater Album.’ Additionally, she was nominated for a Tony Award in 2012 for her outstanding performance as the ‘Best Actress in a Musical.’

Cristin Milioti made her television debut in advertisements, and in 2006, she made a guest appearance on the CBS medical drama “3 lbs.” and started a three-episode run as Catherine Sacrimoni on the HBO show “The Sopranos.”

In 1997, she first appeared on screen in “Greetings from the Shore” and later went on to star in “Year of the Carnivore” in 2009. She also made guest appearances on “The Unusuals” (2009), “The Good Wife” (2010), “30 Rock” (2011), and “Nurse Jackie” (2011).

In 2012, she was featured in “I Am Ben” and “The Brass Teapot,” as well as portraying Janet Pandamiglio in “Sleepwalk with Me,” a film written and directed by her co-star Mike Birbiglia.

In 2013, she appeared in the comedy “Bert and Arnie’s Guide to Friendship” and acted alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, and Matthew McConaughey in “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

Between 2013 and 2014, Milioti portrayed Tracy McConnell / The Mother in “How I Met Your Mother,” debuting in the season eight finale. She took on the role of Zelda Vasco in NBC’s “A to Z” for one season (2014-2015), and also appeared in the films “The Occupants” (2014) and “It Had to Be You” (2015).

In 2018, Cristin Milioti was a main cast member on the CBS All Access comedic series “No Activity,” and in 2019 she made a guest appearance on “Modern Love” on Amazon Prime Video.

The following year, she played the role of Sarah Wilder in the science fiction romantic comedy “Palm Springs” alongside Andy Samberg, and also made a guest appearance on the Apple TV+ show “Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet.”

In 2021, Cristin took on the lead role of Hazel Green in “Made for Love,” and she provided the voice for Barb in the “A Serious Flanders” episode of “The Simpsons.”

Personal Life

There is no confirmed evidence that Cristin Milioti is married. She was previously in a relationship with furniture maker-turned-actor Jesse Hooker and the two shared an apartment in Brooklyn, but it is uncertain if they are still together since there have been reports of a breakup several years ago.

Cristin Milioti, an American actress and singer, has a net worth of $4 million. She is known for her role as the mother in the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” (2013-2014), as well as her performances in HBO’s “Made for Love” (2021-present) and the highly acclaimed film “Palm Springs” (2020), which earned a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes and was sold for a record-breaking $17.5 million at the Sundance Film Festival.

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