The best 2022 biopics entertain you while also giving you a better sense of who a celebrity or historical person was in real life. My Best Friend Anne Frank is a Netflix Original movie that offers a little bit of insight into Anne Frank's life through the perspective of her best friend. Against the Ice is a biographical film that shows a historical figure going far and surviving against the odds find evidence to contradict the U.S.'s claim to Greenland. These are just a few of the great biographical films that are coming out in 2022 and there are bound to be a few Oscar contenders on the list below.
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We can't help but fall in love with Baz Luhrmann and his glitzy musical biopic of the iconic Elvis Presley. Austin Bulter plays the King of rock 'n' roll from his early days starting out on the carnival circuit to his nights in Las Vegas. The always fabulous Tom Hanks costars as his hustler manager Colonel Tom Parker while some of music's greatest help out with the soundtrack and step in some of the supporting roles, such as Yola and Jack White.
From his rise to fame to his unprecedented superstardom, rock 'n' roll icon Elvis Presley maintains a complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker, over the course of 20 years. Central to Presley's journey and happiness is one of the most influential people in his life -- Priscilla.
Actors: Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh
Based on the real-life relationship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to their harrowing reunion in a concentration camp.
The Phantom of the Open is a 2022 British comedy sports film directed by Craig Roberts, based on the biography 'The Phantom of the Open: Maurice Flitcroft, The World's Worst Golfer' by Simon Farnaby and Scott Murray. Set in Britain in 1976, Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, manages to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship and subsequently shoots the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.
In 1943, the Allies are determined to launch an all-out assault on Fortress Europe, but they face an impossible challenge: to protect a massive invasion force from entrenched German firepower and avert a potential massacre.
Actors: Colin Firth, Matthew McFadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilton, Jason Isaacs
The true story of Mamie Till-Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who was brutally lynched in 1955 while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.
Exploring Greenland's vast landscape for a lost map, two men must fight to survive. Based on the true story of Denmark's 1909 polar expedition.
