Biographical Drama

These films keep returning to the gap between a public legend and the private cost of living it, whether that's Hawking's cosmos-spanning mind alongside a failing body, Bettie Page's iconic image next to institutional persecution, or a ski jumper's glory curdling into addiction. Several are drawn straight from memoir or first-person testimony, giving even the more polished, inspirational entries a rawness around trauma, mental illness, and family wounds. The tone swings from tender and whimsical to unflinching and dark, but nearly all of them frame a real life as an argument about what it costs to become who you were.

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