1990s
| Year | Film | Subject(s) | Lead actor or actress |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | An Angel at My Table | Janet Frame | Karen Fergusson (child), Alexia Keogh (adolescent) and Kerry Fox (adult) |
| 1990 | Awakenings | Oliver Sacks | Robin Williams |
| 1990 | C.H. Spurgeon Tonight | Charles Spurgeon | Craig Skinner |
| 1990 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | Gérard Depardieu |
| 1990 | A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia | T. E. Lawrence | Ralph Fiennes |
| Faisal I of Iraq | Alexander Siddig | ||
| 1990 | The Dreamer of Oz | L. Frank Baum | John Ritter |
| 1990 | The Elegant Criminal | Pierre François Lacenaire | Daniel Auteuil |
| 1990 | Europa Europa | Solomon Perel | Marco Hofschneider |
| 1990 | A Family of Spies | John Anthony Walker | Powers Boothe |
| 1990 | Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg | Raoul Wallenberg | Stellan Skarsgård |
| 1990 | Goodfellas | Henry Hill | Ray Liotta |
| 1990 | Henry & June | Henry Miller | Fred Ward |
| June Miller | Uma Thurman | ||
| Anaïs Nin | Maria de Medeiros | ||
| 1990 | Iron & Silk | Mark Salzman | Mark Salzman |
| 1990 | The Krays | The Kray twins | Martin Kemp and Gary Kemp |
| 1990 | The Nasty Girl | Anna Rosmus | Lena Stolze |
| 1990 | Reversal of Fortune | Claus von Bülow and Sunny von Bülow | Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close |
| 1990 | Rock Hudson | Rock Hudson | Thomas Ian Griffith |
| 1990 | Schweitzer | Albert Schweitzer | Malcolm McDowell |
| 1990 | Vincent & Theo | Vincent van Gogh and Theo van Gogh | Tim Roth and Paul Rhys |
| 1990 | Young Guns II | Billy the Kid | Emilio Estevez |
| 1991 | Bugsy | Bugsy Siegel | Warren Beatty |
| 1991 | Cabeza de Vaca | Cabeza de Vaca | Juan Diego |
| 1991 | Dillinger | John Dillinger | Mark Harmon |
| 1991 | The Doors | Jim Morrison | Val Kilmer |
| 1991 | Impromptu | Frédéric Chopin and George Sand | Hugh Grant and Judy Davis |
| 1991 | JFK | Jim Garrison | Kevin Costner |
| 1991 | The Josephine Baker Story | Josephine Baker | Lynn Whitfield |
| 1991 | Lucy & Desi: Before The Laughter | Lucille Ball | Frances Fisher |
| Desi Arnaz | Maurice Benard | ||
| 1991 | Not Without My Daughter | Betty Mahmoody | Sally Field |
| 1991 | Once Upon a Time in China | Wong Fei-hung | Jet Li |
| 1991 | The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend | Pete Maravich | Adam Guier |
| 1991 | Prisoner of Honor | Georges Picquart | Richard Dreyfuss |
| 1991 | Tous les matins du monde (film) | Marin Marais | Gérard Depardieu |
| 1991 | Van Gogh | Vincent Van Gogh | Jacques Dutronc |
| 1991 | A Woman Named Jackie | Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis | Roma Downey |
| John F. Kennedy | Stephen Collins | ||
| 1991 | Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken | Sonora Webster Carver | Gabrielle Anwar |
| 1991 | A Woman Named Jackie | Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis | Roma Downey |
| John F. Kennedy | Stephen Collins | ||
| 1991 | Young Catherine | Catherine II of Russia | Julia Ormond |
| 1992 | Amy Fisher: My Story | Amy Fisher | Noelle Parker |
| 1992 | The Babe | Babe Ruth | John Goodman |
| 1992 | Bonnie & Clyde: The True Story | Bonnie Parker | Tracey Needham |
| Clyde Barrow | Dana Ashbrookt | ||
| 1992 | Center Stage | Ruan Lingyu | Maggie Cheung |
| 1992 | Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | Robert Downey, Jr. |
| 1992 | Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After | Charles, Prince of Wales | Christopher Baines |
| Diana, Princess of Wales | Catherine Oxenberg | ||
| 1992 | Citizen Cohn | Roy Marcus Cohn | James Woods |
| 1992 | 1492: Conquest of Paradise | Christopher Columbus | Gérard Depardieu |
| 1992 | Christopher Columbus: The Discovery | Christopher Columbus | Georges Corraface |
| 1992 | Daens | Adolf Daens | Jan Decleir |
| 1992 | Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story | Hank Gathers | Victor Love |
| 1992 | Hoffa | Jimmy Hoffa | Jack Nicholson |
| 1992 | The Jacksons: An American Dream | Jackson family | various casts |
| 1992 | The Last of His Tribe | Ishi | Graham Greene |
| 1992 | Lorenzo's Oil | Augusto and Michaela Odone | Nick Nolte & Susan Sarandon |
| 1992 | Malcolm X | Malcolm X | Denzel Washington |
| 1992 | A River Runs Through It | Norman Maclean | Craig Sheffer |
| 1992 | Ruby (film) | Jack Ruby | Danny Aiello |
| 1992 | Sinatra | Frank Sinatra | Philip Casnoff |
| 1992 | Stalin | Joseph Stalin | Robert Duvall |
| 1992 | Swoon | Nathan Leopold | Craig Chester |
| Richard Loeb | Daniel Schlachet | ||
| 1993 | The Amy Fisher Story | Amy Fisher | Drew Barrymore |
| 1993 | Benito | Benito Mussolini | Antonio Banderas |
| 1993 | This Boy's Life (film) | Tobias Wolff | Leonardo DiCaprio |
| 1993 | Cannibal! The Musical | Alferd Packer | Trey Parker |
| 1993 | Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story | Amy Fisher | Alyssa Milano |
| 1993 | Diana: Her True Story | Diana, Princess of Wales | Serena Scott Thomas |
| 1993 | Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story | Bruce Lee | Jason Scott Lee |
| 1993 | Fong Sai Yuk | Fong Sai Yuk | Jet Li |
| 1993 | Geronimo: An American Legend | Geronimo | Wes Studi |
| 1993 | Heaven & Earth | Le Ly Hayslip | Hiep Thi Le |
| 1993 | In The Name Of The Father | Guildford Four | Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite |
| 1993 | Jeffrey Dahmer: The Secret Life | Jeffrey Dahmer | Carl Crew |
| 1993 | JFK: Reckless Youth | John F. Kennedy | Patrick Dempsey |
| 1993 | Ludwig 1881 | Ludwig II of Bavaria | Helmut Berger |
| 1993 | M. Butterfly | Bernard Boursicot | Jeremy Irons |
| 1993 | Rudy | Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger | Sean Astin |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Oskar Schindler | Liam Neeson |
| 1993 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Joshua Waitzkin | Max Pomeranc |
| 1993 | Shadowlands | C. S. Lewis and Joy Gresham | Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger |
| 1993 | Shrinatha Kavi Sarvabhowma | Srinatha | Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao |
| 1993 | Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould | Glenn Gould | Colm Feore |
| 1993 | This Boy's Life | Tobias Wolff | Leonardo DiCaprio |
| 1993 | Tombstone | Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday | Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer |
| 1993 | Viva Castro! | Fidel Castro | Pavel Zharkov |
| 1993 | What's Love Got to Do with It | Tina Turner | Angela Bassett |
| Ike Turner | Laurence Fishburne | ||
| 1993 | Wittgenstein | Ludwig Wittgenstein | Karl Johnson |
| 1993 | Zohar | Zohar Argov | Shaul Mizrachi |
| 1994 | Abraham | Abraham | Richard Harris |
| 1994 | Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight | Amelia Earhart | Diane Keaton |
| 1994 | Backbeat | Stuart Sutcliffe and John Lennon | Stephen Dorff and Ian Hart |
| 1994 | Bandit Queen | Phoolan Devi | Seema Biswas |
| 1994 | A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story | Margaret Mitchell | Shannen Doherty |
| 1994 | Cobb | Ty Cobb | Tommy Lee Jones |
| 1994 | Ed Wood | Ed Wood | Johnny Depp |
| Bela Lugosi | Martin Landau | ||
| 1994 | Farinelli (film) | Farinelli | Stefano Dionisi |
| 1994 | Frank & Jesse | Jesse James | Rob Lowe |
| Frank James | Bill Paxton | ||
| 1994 | Heavenly Creatures | Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme | Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet |
| 1994 | Immortal Beloved | Ludwig van Beethoven | Gary Oldman |
| 1994 | In the Name of the Father | Gerry Conlon | Daniel Day-Lewis |
| 1994 | La Reine Margot | Queen Margot | Isabelle Adjani |
| 1994 | Jacob | Jacob | Matthew Modine |
| 1994 | The Madness of King George | George III of the United Kingdom | Nigel Hawthorne |
| 1994 | Mesmer | Franz Anton Mesmer | Alan Rickman |
| 1994 | Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle | Dorothy Parker | Jennifer Jason Leigh |
| 1994 | Nostradamus | Nostradamus | Tchéky Karyo |
| 1994 | Quiz Show | Charles Van Doren | Ralph Fiennes |
| 1994 | 8 Seconds | Lane Frost | Luke Perry |
| 1994 | A Soul Haunted by Painting | Pan Yuliang | Gong Li |
| 1994 | Squanto: A Warrior's Tale | Squanto | Adam Beach |
| 1994 | Tom & Viv | T. S. Eliot | Willem Dafoe |
| Vivienne Haigh-Wood | Miranda Richardson | ||
| 1994 | The Vernon Johns Story | Vernon Johns | James Earl |
| 1994 | Wyatt Earp | Wyatt Earp | Kevin Costner |
| 1994 | Zorn | Anders Zorn | Gunnar Hellström |
| 1995 | The Basketball Diaries | Jim Carroll | Leonardo DiCaprio |
| 1995 | Braveheart | William Wallace | Mel Gibson |
| 1995 | Casino | Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal | Robert De Niro |
| 1995 | Catharine the Great | Catherine II of Russia | Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| 1995 | Carrington | Dora Carrington and Lytton Strachey | Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce |
| 1995 | Citizen X | Viktor Burakov | Stephen Rea |
| 1995 | Dangerous Minds | LouAnne Johnson | Michelle Pfeiffer |
| 1995 | Dead Man Walking | Sister Helen Prejean | Susan Sarandon |
| 1995 | Faustina | Mary Faustina Kowalska | Dorota Segda |
| 1995 | The Flor Contemplacion Story | Flor Contemplacion | Nora Aunor |
| 1995 | Jefferson in Paris | Thomas Jefferson | Nick Nolte |
| 1995 | Joseph | Joseph | Paul Mercurio |
| 1995 | Le Grand blanc de Lambaréné | Albert Schweitzer | André Wilms |
| 1995 | Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story | Elizabeth Taylor | Sherilyn Fenn |
| 1995 | Murder in the First | Henri Young | Kevin Bacon |
| 1995 | Nixon | Richard Nixon | Anthony Hopkins |
| 1995 | Panther | Bobby Seale | Courtney B. Vance |
| Huey P. Newton | Marcus Chong | ||
| 1995 | Restoration | Charles II of England | Sam Neill |
| 1995 | Rob Roy | Robert Roy MacGregor | Liam Neeson |
| 1995 | Sister My Sister | Christine and Lea Papin | Joely Richardson |
| Jodhi May | |||
| 1995 | To Die For | Pamela Smart | Nicole Kidman |
| 1995 | Total Eclipse | Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine | Leonardo DiCaprio and David Thewlis |
| 1995 | Truman | Harry S. Truman | Gary Sinise |
| 1995 | Wild Bill | Wild Bill Hickok | Jeff Bridges |
| Calamity Jane | Ellen Barkin | ||
| 1996 | Basquiat | Jean-Michel Basquiat | Jeffrey Wright |
| 1996 | The Crucible | John Proctor | Daniel Day-Lewis |
| Abigail Williams | Winona Ryder | ||
| 1996 | Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story | Dorothy Day | Moira Kelly |
| 1996 | Evita | Eva Perón | Madonna |
| 1996 | The Ghost and the Darkness | John Henry Patterson | Val Kilmer |
| 1996 | Ghosts of Mississippi | Byron De La Beckwith | James Woods |
| 1996 | A Girl Called Rosemary | Rosemarie Nitribitt | Nina Hoss |
| 1996 | Gotti | John Gotti | Armand Assante |
| 1996 | Infinity | Richard Feynman | Matthew Broderick |
| 1996 | In Love and War | Ernest Hemingway | Chris O'Donnell |
| 1996 | I Shot Andy Warhol | Valerie Solanas | Lili Taylor |
| 1996 | Killer: A Journal of Murder | Carl Panzram | James Woods |
| 1996 | Michael Collins | Michael Collins | Liam Neeson |
| 1996 | Moses | Moses | Ben Kingsley |
| 1996 | Nasser 56 | Gamal Abdel Nasser | Ahmed Zaki |
| 1996 | Norma Jean & Marilyn | Marilyn Monroe | Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino |
| 1996 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Larry Flynt | Woody Harrelson |
| 1996 | Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny | Grigori Rasputin | Alan Rickman |
| 1996 | Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault | Earl Manigault | Don Cheadle |
| 1996 | Samson and Delilah | Samson and Delilah | Dennis Hopper and Elizabeth Hurley |
| 1996 | Shine | David Helfgott | Geoffrey Rush and Noah Taylor |
| 1996 | Surviving Picasso | Pablo Picasso | Anthony Hopkins |
| 1996 | The Whole Wide World | Robert E. Howard | Vincent D'Onofrio |
| Novalyne Price Ellis | Renée Zellweger | ||
| 1997 | Artemisia | Artemisia Gentileschi | Valentina Cervi |
| 1997 | Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story | Greg Louganis | Mario Lopez |
| 1997 | David | King David | Nathaniel Parker |
| 1997 | The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca | Federico García Lorca | Andy García |
| 1997 | Donnie Brasco | Donnie Brasco | Johnny Depp |
| 1997 | Elvis Meets Nixon | Elvis Presley | Rick Peters |
| Richard Nixon | Bob Gunton | ||
| 1997 | Four Days in September | Fernando Gabeira | Pedro Cardoso |
| Charles Burke Elbrick | Alan Arkin | ||
| 1997 | The Gambler | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Michael Gambon |
| 1997 | Kundun | Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama | Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, others |
| 1997 | The Last Time I Committed Suicide | Neal Cassady | Thomas Jane |
| 1997 | Mrs. Brown | Queen Victoria | Judi Dench |
| John Brown | Billy Connolly | ||
| 1997 | Prefontaine | Steve Prefontaine | Jared Leto |
| 1997 | Private Parts | Howard Stern | Howard Stern |
| 1997 | Rizal sa Dapitan | Jose Rizal | Albert Martinez |
| 1997 | Rough Riders | Theodore Roosevelt | Tom Berenger |
| 1997 | Saint-Ex | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Bruno Ganz |
| 1997 | Selena | Selena | Jennifer Lopez |
| 1997 | Seven Years in Tibet | Heinrich Harrer | Brad Pitt |
| 1997 | Solomon | King Solomon | Ben Cross |
| 1997 | The Sarah Balabagan Story | Sarah Balabagan | Vina Morales |
| 1997 | Wilde | Oscar Wilde | Stephen Fry |
| 1998 | A Bright Shining Lie (film) | John Paul Vann | Bill Paxton |
| 1998 | Dangerous Beauty | Veronica Franco | Catherine McCormack |
| 1998 | Diana: A Tribute to the People's Princess | Diana, Princess of Wales | Amy Seccombe |
| 1998 | Elizabeth | Elizabeth I | Cate Blanchett |
| 1998 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson | Johnny Depp |
| 1998 | Fifteen and Pregnant | Tina Spangler | Kirsten Dunst |
| 1998 | The General | Martin Cahill | Brendan Gleeson |
| 1998 | Gia | Gia Marie Carangi | Angelina Jolie |
| 1998 | Gods and Monsters | James Whale | Ian McKellen |
| 1998 | Grey Owl (film) | Grey Owl | Pierce Brosnan |
| 1998 | Hilary and Jackie | Hilary and Jacqueline du Pré | Rachel Griffiths and Emily Watson |
| 1998 | Jeremiah | Jeremiah | Patrick Dempsey |
| 1998 | Jinnah | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Christopher Lee |
| 1998 | José Rizal (film) | José Rizal | Cesar Montano |
| 1998 | Lautrec | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | Régis Royer |
| 1998 | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | Francis Bacon | Derek Jacobi |
| 1998 | Patch Adams | Hunter "Patch" Adams | Robin Williams |
| 1998 | Permanent Midnight | Jerry Stahl | Ben Stiller |
| 1998 | The Prince of Egypt | Moses and Ramesses II | Val Kilmer and Ralph Fiennes (voices) |
| 1998 | The Rat Pack | Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. | Ray Liotta, Joe Mantegna, Don Cheadle |
| 1998 | The Temptations | The Temptations | Leon, Terron Brooks, D. B. Woodside |
| 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | William Shakespeare | Joseph Fiennes |
| 1998 | Winchell | Walter Winchell | Stanley Tucci |
| 1998 | Without Limits | Steve Prefontaine | Billy Crudup |
| 1998 | Why Do Fools Fall in Love (film) | Frankie Lymon | Larenz Tate |
| 1998 | Without Limits | Steve Prefontaine | Billy Crudup |
| Bill Bowerman | Donald Sutherland | ||
| 1999 | And The Beat Goes On: The Sonny And Cher Story | Sonny Bono | Jay Underwood |
| Cher | Renee Faia | ||
| 1999 | Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt | Joe Breen young, Ciaran Owens (middle) and Michael Legge (older) |
| 1999 | Anna and the King | Anna Leonowens | Jodie Foster |
| 1999 | Balzac: A Life of Passion | Honoré de Balzac | Gérard Depardieu |
| 1999 | Boys Don't Cry | Brandon Teena | Hilary Swank |
| 1999 | Children of the Century | George Sand and Alfred de Musset | Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel |
| 1999 | Come On, Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story | Danny Bonaduce | Shawn Pyfrom |
| David Cassidy | Rodney Scott | ||
| 1999 | Esther | Esther | Louise Lombard |
| 1999 | Girl, Interrupted | Susanna Kaysen | Winona Ryder |
| 1999 | Goya in Bordeaux | Francisco de Goya | José Coronado as (Goya young) |
| Francisco Rabal as (Goya old) | |||
| 1999 | Hefner: Unauthorized | Hugh Hefner | Randall Batinkoff |
| 1999 | The Hurricane | Rubin Carter | Denzel Washington |
| 1999 | The Insider | Jeffrey Wigand | Russell Crowe |
| 1999 | Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | Dorothy Dandridge | Halle Berry |
| 1999 | Jesus | Jesus | Jeremy Sisto |
| 1999 | Joan of Arc | Joan of Arc | Leelee Sobieski |
| 1999 | Man on the Moon | Andy Kaufman | Jim Carrey |
| 1999 | Mary, Mother of Jesus | Mary of Nazareth | Pernilla August |
| Young Mary | Melinda Kinnaman | ||
| 1999 | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Joan of Arc | Milla Jovovich |
| 1999 | Moloch | Adolf Hitler | Leonid Mozgovoy |
| 1999 | Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Father Damien | David Wenham |
| 1999 | Music of the Heart | Roberta Guaspari | Meryl Streep |
| 1999 | October Sky | Homer Hickam | Jake Gyllenhaal |
| 1999 | The Passion of Ayn Rand | Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden | Helen Mirren and Eric Stoltz |
| 1999 | Passion: The Story of Percy Grainger | Percy Grainger | Richard Roxburgh |
| 1999 | Pirates of Silicon Valley | Steve Jobs | Noah Wyle |
| Bill Gates | Anthony Michael Hall | ||
| 1999 | Rocky Marciano | Rocky Marciano | Jon Favreau |
| 1999 | The Straight Story | Alvin Straight | Richard Farnsworth |
| 1999 | To Walk with Lions | George Adamson | Richard Harris |
| Tony Fitzjohn | John Michie | ||
| 1999 | Topsy-Turvy | W. S. Gilbert | Jim Broadbent |
| Arthur Sullivan | Allan Corduner |
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