Top 50: Biopics

By: Matt Dix

• 01
  Lawrence of Arabia
  David Lean
• 02
  Schindler's List
  Steven Spielberg
• 03
  Raging Bull
  Martin Scorsese
• 04
  Amadeus
  Miloš Forman
• 05
  Goodfellas
  Martin Scorsese
• 06
  Andrei Rublev
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 07
  Edvard Munch
  Peter Watkins
• 08
  The Elephant Man
  David Lynch
• 09
  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 10
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  Julian Schnabel
• 11
  Dog Day Afternoon
  Sidney Lumet
• 12
  La vie en rose
  Olivier Dahan
• 13
  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  George Roy Hill
• 14
  My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
  Jim Sheridan
• 15
  Downfall
  Oliver Hirschbiegel
• 16
  Casino
  Martin Scorsese
• 17
  Malcolm X
  Spike Lee
• 18
  Gandhi
  Richard Attenborough
• 19
  Milk
  Gus Van Sant
• 20
  Patton
  Franklin J. Schaffner
• 21
  The Pianist
  Roman Polanski
• 22
  Frost/Nixon
  Ron Howard
• 23
  The Aviator
  Martin Scorsese
• 24
  Into the Wild
  Sean Penn
• 25
  Sid & Nancy
  Alex Cox
• 26
  Before Night Falls
  Julian Schnabel
• 27
  I'm Not There.
  Todd Haynes
• 28
  Good Night, and Good Luck.
  George Clooney
• 29
  The Insider
  Michael Mann
• 30
  Walk the Line
  James Mangold
• 31
  Touching the Void
  Kevin Macdonald
• 32
  Waltz with Bashir
  Ari Folman
• 33
  Hunger
  Steve McQueen
• 34
  The Last King of Scotland
  Kevin Macdonald
• 35
  In Cold Blood
  Richard Brooks
• 36
  The Last Emperor
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 37
  Spartacus
  Stanley Kubrick
• 38
  Chaplin
  Richard Attenborough
• 39
  Serpico
  Sidney Lumet
• 40
  Control
  Anton Corbijn
• 41
  Kundun
  Martin Scorsese
• 42
  American Splendor
  Shari Springer Berman
• 43
  All the President's Men
  Alan J. Pakula
• 44
  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  Andrew Dominik
• 45
  Hotel Rwanda
  Terry George
• 46
  Ed Wood
  Tim Burton
• 47
  Reds
  Warren Beatty
• 48
  Capote
  Bennett Miller
• 49
  Braveheart
  Mel Gibson
• 50
  A Beautiful Mind
  Ron Howard