Movies biographies about gangs

List of the best films biographies about gangs according to the audience: Straight Outta Compton, The Mauritanian, Tolkien, The King, Rocketman, Unbroken, I, Tonya, Moneyball, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Imitation Game.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, music, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

    In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    A detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that strengthens as they grow up, but the outbreak of World War I threatens to shatter it.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary, USA, Australia
    Duration01:59

    England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, musical, music, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
    Duration01:53

    The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, military, biography, history, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:17

      A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrecomedy, drama, biography, sport
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Qatar
      Duration02:00

      Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama, biography, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:06

        The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genredrama, music, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:09

        Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrethriller, drama, military, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:54

          Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA, Canada

            When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately…murder.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genredrama, western, crime, biography, history
            CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
            Duration02:40

            Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw and, when Robert and his brother sense an opportunity to kill James, their murderous action elevates their target to near mythical status.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genrethriller, drama, biography
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:28

              The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genredrama, biography
              CountryUSA, China

              An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genredrama, biography
              CountryUSA, Greece
              Duration02:38

              The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

              Markimdb: 8.2
              Genrecomedy, drama, biography
              CountryUSA, China
              Duration02:10

              Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

              Markimdb: 6.5
              Genredrama, music, biography
              CountryCanada, USA

              The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genredrama, biography
              CountryUSA

              1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genredrama, biography
              CountryUSA

              In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genredrama, music, biography
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:07

              In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for her guitarist, Chris Perez, who draws the ire of her father. Seeking mainstream stardom, Selena begins recording an English-language album which, tragically, she would never complete.

              Markimdb: 7.8
              Genredrama, music, biography
              CountryAustralia, USA

              The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

              Markimdb: 6.9
              Genredrama, western, music, biography
              CountryGermany, Canada, USA, France
              Duration02:15

              Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genrecomedy, drama, biography, sport
              CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
              Duration02:30

              Inspired by true events, Eddie the Eagle is a feel-good story about Michael "Eddie" Edwards (Taron Egerton), an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself - even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach (played by Hugh Jackman), Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.

              Markimdb: 6.9
              Genredrama, biography, sport
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:48

              A coming of age drama following the life of Matt Hamill, the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Wrestling Championship.

              Markimdb: 7.4
              Genredrama, crime, biography
              CountryUSA, Canada, China
              Duration02:08

              Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genredrama, biography, sport
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:27

              The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.

              Markimdb: 7.8
              Genredrama, biography, sport
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:53

              After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.

              Markimdb: 7.6
              Genredrama, crime, biography
              CountryUSA

              The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

              Markimdb: 7.7
              Genremelodrama, drama, biography
              CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
              Duration02:03

                The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

                Markimdb: 7
                Genreaction, drama, biography
                CountryHong Kong, China
                Duration01:15

                When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand.

                Markimdb: 8.1
                Genredrama, military, biography, history
                CountryAustralia, USA
                Duration02:29

                  WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

                  Markimdb: 8.1
                  Genreaction, drama, biography, sport
                  CountryUSA

                  American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.

                  Markimdb: 7.2
                  Genredrama, biography, sport
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:58

                  In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.

                  Markimdb: 7.9
                  Genredrama, biography
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:35

                  Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.

                  Markimdb: 6.3
                  Genredrama, biography
                  CountryUSA

                  In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.

                  Markimdb: 7.6
                  Genredrama, biography, sport
                  CountryUSA

                    The story of how Richard Williams served as a coach to his daughters Venus and Serena, who will soon become two of the most legendary tennis players in history.

                    Markimdb: 6.4
                    Genredrama, military, biography, history
                    CountryFrance, Czech Republic, USA
                    Duration02:40

                    In 1429 a teenage girl from a remote French village stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. Following her mission to reclaim god's dimished kingdom - through her amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.

                    Markimdb: 7.7
                    Genredrama, music, biography
                    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia, Japan, France
                    Duration02:02

                    Control is the biography of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, taking his story from schoolboy days of 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.

                    Markimdb: 7.3
                    Genredrama, crime, detective, biography
                    CountryUSA, China, Hong Kong
                    Duration02:30

                    Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.

                    Markimdb: 7.9
                    Genrecomedy, biography
                    CountryIndia
                    Duration02:30

                    Concerned about his wife Gayatri's menstrual hygiene, Lakshmikant Chauhan urges her to ditch the cloth and opt for sanitary napkins. Gayatri is reluctant to go for disposable pads as they are expensive. Lakshmi obsessing over a 'ladies problem' makes her cringe but he insists on bringing upon a change by addressing the taboo topic. Subjected to hostility for ruffling the religious and age-old beliefs of people around, can the man brave the resistance and get his point across?

                    Markimdb: 7.1
                    Genredrama, music, biography
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:41

                    Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.

                    Mark
                    Genredrama, military, biography, history
                    CountryRussia

                    The film tells about the passionate love of the son of Shamil Jamalutdin and Lisa Olenina against the backdrop of the dramatic events of the military history of Russia in the first half of the XIX century. Jamalutdin went down in history as a “great hostage,” and the film is an attempt to answer the question: hostage to big politics or big love. The historical context of the sunset of the Nikolaev era, against which the story of love and betrayal, honor and duty, serving the homeland and fidelity to this word unfolds, will be the key to the film.

                    Markimdb: 7.7
                    Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
                    CountryGermany, Italy
                    Duration02:16

                    Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, film tells the story of Kurt, a young art student who falls in love with fellow student, Ellie. Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband, a famous doctor, is dismayed at his daughter’s choice of boyfriend, and vows to destroy the relationship. What neither of them knows is that their lives are already connected through a terrible crime Seeband committed decades ago.

                    Markimdb: 7.2
                    Genredrama, music, biography
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:54

                    A film about the life and career of the early rock and roll star.

                    Markimdb: 8
                    Genredrama, adventure, biography
                    CountryIndia

                    A thief comes across a little girl who says that he's her father. When he learns the truth about his lookalike, who's an honest cop, he decides to turn a new leaf and help get rid of the local baddie.

                    Mark
                    Genredocumentary, biography
                    CountryRussia

                    A biographical film about the popular rap artist Detsl, whose real name is Kirill Tolmatskiy. The rap artist passed away at the age of 35 in 2019.

                    Markimdb: 5.3
                    Genredrama, biography
                    CountryIndia

                    A true story based on acid attack survivor Malti's (Laxmi Agarwal) grueling and glorious journey from her medical treatment, court proceedings leading to her emotional healing.

                    Markimdb: 7.5
                    Genredrama, biography, sport
                    CountryRussia
                    Duration02:14

                    Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death

                    Mark
                    Genredocumentary, biography
                    CountryRussia
                    Duration01:55

                    This is the story of the poet Osip Mandelstam, recreated at the intersection of the arts and genres: puppet theater, design, computer graphics, documentary. The rebellious spirit of Mandelstam's poetry sounded a challenge to the authorities, and their author was destroyed by a state machine - he died in a transit camp. Much of what he wrote could not have been preserved had it not been for her husband Nadezhda, who taught his works by heart, copied manually-in anticipation of times when they could be published.

                    Markimdb: 7.3
                    Genredrama, music, biography
                    CountryRussia
                    Duration02:20

                    Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LP’s by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoï. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.




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