Top 10 Movie Biopics

The ubiquitous “Biopic” genre has provided us with some of the greatest movies ever made, a tricky film style to get right as directors try to balance historical accuracy with dramatic content while somehow not putting across a predictable story arc.

We give you our picks for the Top 10 biographical films based on the whole or part of a real person’s life.

#10:

‘Born on the Fourth of July’ (1989)

Tom Cruise stars as suburban All-American kid Ron Kovic turned global anti-war activist after serving in and being paralyzed during the Vietnam War, based on Kovic’s book and bringing director Oliver Stone his second “best director” Oscar for this graphic and dramatic indictment of the “American Dream”.

Directed by Oliver Stone and starring Tom Cruise, Kyra Sedgwick and Willem Dafoe among others.

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