Every biographical movie streaming on MUBI in the US right now — 11 films ranked by rating, checked against MUBI’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from MUBI US
Directed by Magnus von Horn
✦ MovieMuse AI takeReconstructs historical obscurity through intimate domestic spaces, letting moral ambiguity emerge from quotidian details rather than grand narrative.
Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.
Directed by Robin Campillo
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCaptures activist urgency through collective portraiture, prioritizing community bonds over individual heroism as the biographical subject itself.
Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.
Directed by Levan Akin
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTraces identity across borders through intergenerational witness, making the absent central figure the film's emotional and structural anchor.
Lia, a retired teacher from Georgia, learns from her young neighbor, Achi, that her long-lost transgender niece, Tekla, has crossed the border into Turkey. In search of Tekla, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi, where they explore the hidden depths of the city.
Directed by Carmen Emmi
✦ MovieMuse AI takeUses undercover performance as biographical method, collapsing the subject's public role and private self into irresolvable dramatic tension.
In 1990s New York, an undercover police officer receives an assignment to lure and arrest gay men. However, he's surprised to discover a scintillating connection with one of his targets. As their secret connection deepens and internal pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, he finds himself torn between duty and desire.
Directed by Lucía Puenzo
✦ MovieMuse AI takeResists psychological diagnosis, instead documenting identity as ongoing physical and social negotiation witnessed through a teenager's unresolved becoming.
Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final decision regarding her gender, she meets both hostility and compassion.
Directed by Richard Linklater
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEmploys unreliable narration and tonal whiplash to capture how communities construct mythologies around singular figures in real time.
In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBlurs artistic vision with biographical fact, using Benedetta's visions as both personal history and formal filmmaking challenge.
A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
Directed by Quentin Dupieux
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFrames biography as failed documentation, making the journalist's frustrated pursuit the actual subject rather than Dalí himself.
A young French journalist repeatedly meets iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí for a documentary project that never came to be.
Directed by Jonathan Millet
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEmbeds personal vengeance within political upheaval, refusing to separate individual survival from collective resistance as biographical stakes.
After being imprisoned by the Assad regime in Syria, Hamid now works undercover as part of a secret group pursuing their leaders, including the guard he suspects was responsible for his torture.
Directed by Terence Davies
✦ MovieMuse AI takePrivileges interiority over incident, constructing Dickinson's life through poetic language and visual abstraction rather than chronological event.
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
Directed by Brady Corbet
✦ MovieMuse AI takePresciently diagnoses historical pathology through childhood behavior, making biography prophetic rather than explanatory or redemptive.
The chilling story of a young American boy living in France in 1918 whose father is working for the US government on the creation of the Treaty of Versailles. What he witnesses helps to mold his beliefs – and we witness the birth of a terrifying ego.
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