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Poll: The "Best Bio-Pics Ever Made"

A poll by rubyfruit76
According to Richard Brody, a movie critic for the New Yorker magazine, bio-pics "present very particular artistic challenges" so he wrote an article that explores the ones that "transcend them." Those movies are listed below. Some are very well known and widely seen (three are even on IMDb's Top 250), while others are little known and a few even hard to find. Which is your favorite or which one would you most like to see?

Please feel free to discuss here.

Note: Movies are listed in chronological order, as they are in the New Yorker article, which can be read here.

Results of 213 votes:

  1. 1.

    Raging Bull (1980)

     
  2. 2.

    The Elephant Man (1980)

     
  3. 3.

    The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

     
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