Best movies — biographie on Prime Video : our Top 20

1927 · Cecil B. DeMille

Using one of Hollywood’s largest budgets of the late 1920s, Cecil B. DeMille staged a sweeping silent-era portrayal of Jesus’ life and Passion that plays out like a monumental religious pageant. Anchored by intertitles drawn from Scripture, populated by thousands of extras and staged with the director’s trademark flair for massive sets and theatrical visuals, the film fuses strict devotional intent with show-stopping cinematic spectacle. Simultaneously solemn and breathtaking, it aims to move the heart as much as to awe the eye.

With H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, James Neill, Joseph Striker and Robert Edeson

1985 · Peter Bogdanovich

A brilliant teenage boy with pronounced physical deformities and his mother, who belongs to a motorcycle gang, struggle to preserve a semblance of normal life amid social stigma, danger, and the constraints of their circumstances.

With Cher, Sam Elliott, Eric Stoltz, Estelle Getty, Richard Dysart, Laura Dern and Micole Mercurio

1990 · Martin Scorsese

Based on the real-life rise of Henry Hill, a Brooklyn youth of Irish and Sicilian parentage who is taken under the wing of local mobsters and, mentored by Jimmy Conway, climbs the hierarchy of a Mafia crew.

With Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, Frank Sivero and Tony Darrow

1992 ·

Seen through the eyes of his friend Bobby Ciaro, the film follows union leader James R. Hoffa as he rises to prominence and confronts a series of fierce clashes with the RTA and President Roosevelt. It traces the personal and political toll of his struggles, revealing the costs of power and loyalty.

With Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Armand Assante, J.T. Walsh, John C. Reilly, Natalija Nogulich and Kevin Crowley

2015 ·

An intense, true-story thriller centered on Dr. Bennet Omalu, an immigrant forensic neuropathologist whose pioneering identification of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in a professional football player forces him to confront powerful interests. Driven by a moral urgency to reveal the medical truth, Omalu’s quest for justice puts his career, reputation and safety on the line as he clashes with an institution determined to protect itself at any cost.

With Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Morse, Arliss Howard and Mike O'Malley

2002 ·

A gifted pianist fights to survive in Warsaw as German forces confine the city's Jewish population to a ghetto. He secures work playing in a café, but when his family is deported in 1942 he narrowly avoids the same fate, spending time as a laborer before going into hiding among the devastated, bombed-out streets of the city to escape capture.

With Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard and Julia Rayner

2002 · Costa-Gavras

Kurt Gerstein, a scientist working at the Waffen-SS Institute for Hygiene, is horrified to learn that a toxic gas he helped develop is being used to annihilate Jewish people. Tormented by conscience, he allies with Riccardo Fontana, a young Jesuit priest, and together they embark on a desperate campaign to alert the outside world. Despite their warnings and pleas, their efforts are ignored—even by officials within the Vatican.

With Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy, Marcel Iureș, Ion Caramitru and Friedrich von Thun

1995 · Mel Gibson

After his childhood sweetheart and new wife Murron is brutally killed, Scottish warrior William Wallace retaliates by ambushing and killing a detachment of the local English lord’s soldiers — an act that sparks a village uprising which soon grows into a nationwide rebellion against English rule.

With Mel Gibson, Catherine McCormack, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen, Brendan Gleeson and James Robinson

2018 · Peter Farrelly

In 1962, Tony Lip, a streetwise bouncer, is hired to chauffeur celebrated pianist Don Shirley on a concert tour through the segregated Deep South. As they travel under the shadow of Jim Crow and rely on the Negro Motorist Green Book to find safe lodging and services, the two men confront prejudice, danger, and their own assumptions, forging an unexpected bond.

With Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dimiter D. Marinov, Mike Hatton and P.J. Byrne

2004 · Oliver Hirschbiegel

the Third Reich is unraveling as Soviet armies pour in from the east and Allied forces advance from the west. Inside a besieged Berlin, Hitler insists on fighting to the bitter end, ordering his commanders into a hopeless defense. After his suicide, the surviving military leaders must confront the reality of defeat, find a way to stop the slaughter engulfing the city and bring their forces to surrender.

With Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler, Heino Ferch and Christian Berkel

2013 · Martin Scorsese

A New York stockbroker, caught in the crosshairs of a sprawling securities fraud probe, refuses to turn state's evidence, drawing him deeper into a tangled web of Wall Street corruption, corporate banking collusion, and organized crime influence. Adapted from the autobiography of Jordan Belfort.

With Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner and Jon Bernthal

1984 · Miloš Forman

Antonio Salieri, a strict and highly disciplined Italian composer, is overtaken by envy and bitterness toward the hedonistic, astonishingly gifted young Salzburg-born composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

With F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice, Simon Callow, Christine Ebersole and Jeffrey Jones

2001 · Ron Howard

A gifted but socially awkward mathematician rises rapidly after a groundbreaking theoretical breakthrough, poised for worldwide recognition. Recruited into covert cryptographic work, he is pulled into a web of secrecy and conspiracy that blurs the boundaries between truth and paranoia. As his brilliant mind unravels, he must endure a harrowing personal descent and a painful struggle to reclaim his identity and make sense of the life he once thought he controlled.

With Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany, Christopher Plummer, Josh Lucas and Adam Goldberg

2022 · Javier Ruiz Caldera

Inspired by the life of Lucio Urtubia, the film follows a daring anarchist who becomes a modern-day Robin Hood in Paris, running a cunning forgery operation to produce counterfeit travelers’ checks. He funnels the stolen funds into radical causes he believes in, but his success provokes the wrath of America’s largest bank and the international forces determined to bring him down. As the stakes escalate, alliances shift and moral lines blur in a tense, high-stakes chase between conscience and the law.

With Juan José Ballesta, Miki Esparbé, Luis Callejo, Liah O'Prey, Alexandre Blazy, Josean Bengoetxea and Philip Schurer

2013 · Steve McQueen

On the eve of the American Civil War, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted, stripped of his liberty, and sold into slavery. Enduring harsh cruelty and occasional acts of compassion, he fights to survive while holding fast to his dignity. After twelve years of captivity, a chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist sets in motion the possibility of his return to freedom.

With Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Sarah Paulson and Adepero Oduye

1980 · Martin Scorsese

A gifted fighter reaches the top of his sport through relentless aggression and a volatile temper, only to have that same rage unravel his relationships and destroy his life outside the ring.

With Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto, Mario Gallo and Bernie Allen

2015 · Tom McCarthy

Based on true events, Boston Globe reporters expose a widespread pattern of child sexual abuse and systematic concealment by leaders of the local Catholic archdiocese, igniting a scandal that reverberates throughout the global Church.

With Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci and Brian d'Arcy James

2002 · Steven Spielberg

Before his nineteenth birthday, Frank Abagnale Jr. assumes a string of high-profile identities—posing as a Pan Am pilot, a doctor and a lawyer—to cash millions in fraudulent checks. A relentless FBI agent makes it his mission to catch him, but Frank stays several moves ahead, thriving on the thrill of the chase and his ability to slip away.

With Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams and James Brolin

2019 · James Mangold

In 1966, American car designer Carroll Shelby teams up with British-born driver Ken Miles to fight corporate politics, the limits of engineering, and their own inner conflicts as they build a groundbreaking race car for Ford and challenge Enzo Ferrari’s dominance at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France.

With Christian Bale, Matt Damon, Jon Bernthal, Caitríona Balfe, Josh Lucas, Noah Jupe and Tracy Letts

2007 · Ridley Scott

More than thirty years after his rise as a Jewish mobster during Prohibition, a man returns to Manhattan’s Lower East Side and must face the lingering ghosts and regrets of the life he left behind.

With Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding Jr., Josh Brolin, Ted Levine and Armand Assante