The silver screen is always faithful to good biographical movies and the genre always finds its way to the Academy Awards. So many biographical movies have won awards in categories like the Best Picture and Best Actor Awards to portray real-life individuals who have made their name in the world. Biopics are the true style of movie-making and it is not wrong to say that it is very difficult to follow the same style of those distinguished individuals.
Many people successfully ace the roles while others don’t even make it closer to the role and its requirements. For instance, you can’t expect Bruce Willis to play the role of Elvis Presley or Hellen Mirren to play Maddona. This means that casting for biopics is a very stressful task as you are supposed to look at each and every aspect of the cast while shortlisting actors for a biopic.
You can have a look at the different biopics like Goodfellas (Henry Hill), Lawrence of Arabia (Lawrence of Arabia), Schindler’s List (Oskar Schindler), Malcolm X (Malcolm X), Ali (Muhammad Ali), and so on. These are some outstanding biopics of all times. You can watch many super cool biopics of all times using WOW Plans and bundles that are very affordable and offer the best movie channels for the entire family.
Without further delay, let’s have a look at the different biopics that you can enjoy every time they air on Cable TV or whenever you watch them.
Chaplin
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, John Thaw, Paul Rhys, Moira Kelly, Anthony Hopkins, Dan Aykroyd, Marisa Tomei, Hugh Downer, Penelope Ann Miller, Kevin Kline, Maria Pitillo, Nancy Travis, Deborah Moore, Milla Jovovich, Kevin Dunn, James Woods and others.
The movie follows the story of an elderly Charlie Chaplin having a conversation with a fictionalized editor who is writing his autobiography and remembers that he escaped his childhood when he was poor and had to take the place of his mother who suffered a nervous breakdown while she was performing. Then after some time he moves to America and gets employed by producer Mack Sennett. Moving forward, he remembers all the events of his personal life, rivals, honors, and performances on TV and on stage. The movie is one of RDJ’s amazing hits and his amazing acting as Charlie Chaplin.
IMDb Rating: 7.5
The Social Network
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Dustin Fitzsimons, Toby Meuli, Andrew Garfield, Bryan Barter, Alecia Svensen, Rooney Mara, Patrick Mapel, Justin Timberlake, Joseph Mazzello, Scotty Crowe, Jami Owen, Marcella Lentz-Pope, Trevor Wright, Robert Dastoli, James Dastoli, Jayk Gallagher, Barry Livingston, and others.
The movie shows the biography of Mark Zuckerberg and all the controversies and risks he took in his life to make Facebook a success. Jesse Eisenberg plays the best Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. The movie is set in the year 2003 when a young Harvard University student gets dumped by Erica who was his girlfriend and Mark writes an insulting post about her on his LiveJournal blog.
He hacks into the college database, stole photos of different female students, and allows the website visitors to rate how attractive they are. He gets 6-month probation because of creating Facemash but the website becomes immensely popular and catches the attention of Cameron and Tyler who were twins, and their business partner Divya Narendra. The movie is about how Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook and became one of the youngest billionaires in the world.
IMDb Rating: 7.8
Bohemian Rhapsody
Cast: Rami Malek, Max Bennett, Lucy Boynton, Allen Leech, Gwilym Lee, Aidan Gillen, Ben Hardy,
Dermot Murphy, Priya Blackburn, Joseph Mazzello, Jack Roth, Tom Hollander, Meneka Das, Mike Myers, Ace Bhatti, Aaron McCusker, Dickie Beau, Tim Plester, and others.
The movie is set in the year 1985 when Queen is set to perform live at the Live at in the Wembley Stadium. In the beginning when Farrokh Bulsara is seen working at the Heathrow Airport as a baggage handler and lives with his parents and sister. He gets to a pub and sees a band called the Smile perform. He founds love with Mary Austine who works at a boutique called Biba.
Soon he finds that Smile’s lead singer, drummer, and guitarist has joined another band creating an opportunity for Farrokh to take the opportunity of the situation and impresses them with his ability as a vocalist. Soon Mary and Farrokh get together as a couple as well. He also changes the name of the band to Queen and his name to Freddie Mercury. Freddie continues to get success and finally dies at the 45 due to AIDS-related pneumonia.
IMDb Rating: 7.9
The Theory of Everything
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Emily Watson, Paul Longley, Felicity Jones, Lucy Chappell, Abigail Cruttenden, Finlay Wright-Stephens, Michael Marcus, Tom Prior, Thomas Morrison, Sophie Perry, Charlotte Hope, Harry Lloyd, David Thewlis, Alice Orr-Ewing, Gruffudd Glyn, Guy Oliver-Watts, Simon McBurney and others.
The movie is about the life of the life and career of Stephen Hawking who has been a student of astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. He finds love with Jane Wilde who was a student of literature. Though he was intelligent, his professors and friends were concerned about his ability to get down with thesis topics. He attends a lecture about Black holes with his professor, Stephen speculates that Black holes might be one of the reasons behind the creation of the universe.
When he starts his thesis on them, Stephen finds that his muscles are starting to fall and he loses coordination with his body. This was the moment when he realizes that he has motor neuron disease and he will lose movement of his body soon. The movie shows how he struggled with his relationships and the disease that made him a disabled person as his condition worsens. He still continues to achieve more in life and went on with his research on the universe with no plan of retiring any time sooner.
IMDb Rating: 7.7
Snowden
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zachary Quinto, Parker Sawyers, Nicolas Cage, Shailene Woodley, Jaymes Butler, Ken Thomas, Rhys Ifans, Rachel Handshaw, Robert Firth, Christian Contreras, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Benz, Timothy Olyphant, Joely Richardson, Nicholas Rowe, Demetri Goritsas and others.
The movie revolves around one of the most iconic figures of American and Global politics Edward Snowden. Heis known to have revealed classified information about the NSA, the American Government agencies, and their surveillance activities in America and other parts of the world. The movie is set in the year 2013 when Snowden arranges a meeting in Hong Kong with Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald who is a journalist. The meeting included a discussion about the classified information regarding illegal mass surveillance by NSA.
The meeting was titled Citizenfour by Laura. The movie discussed Snowden’s training in the year 2004 when he was undergoing basic training by the U.S when he wanted to matriculate to the Special Forces. Snowden’s tibia gets fractured and he received an administrative discharge. He got to serve his country by working for the CIA where he was sent to “The Hill”. There he was educated and tested on cyberwarfare. The movie has some breathtaking and thrilling moments that you can enjoy in the amazing biopic that you would love to watch almost anytime.
IMDb Rating: 7.3
Conclusion
In the end, one can say that there are so many biopics that you can enjoy with your family if you want to get in touch with the life of your favorite celebrities. Many of these movies air on different movie channels as well.
