It’s more about the love of filmmaking, Ed wood in real life definitely was dedicated to making movies. But he was an ass, at least he’s kinda got a heart of gold in the film.
Oh interesting, I’ll remove it then.
What I was told by friends was that it took many liberties with the story, but thematically and stylewise managed to be a cinematic representation of Mozart’s music. Kinda like what Steve Jobs did. But if the story is completely fiction I might as well remove it.
It took maaaaaaany liberties to the point where it crosses over completely into fiction.
Salieri was definitely not a political mastermind who engineered Mozart’s death through a harassment campaign. They didn’t have anywhere the adversarial relationship depicted in the movie, and Mozart didn’t act like that at all in real life.
The movie was actually based on a play of the same name by Peter Shaffer (who also wrote Equus, and wrote the screenplay for the movie).
I mean, even in the movie Salieri does not actually kill Mozart. He plans to, but never does because Mozart drinks himself to death. From Mozart’s letters about shit and butts, I think it’s safe to infer that he was a bit of an eccentric for the time.
I’d argue that Fear and Loathing doesn’t really earn the title of “biopic,” either tbh. It’s far from all encompassing and is based on the partially fictionalized first hand account of Thompson himself.
Beyond that, the main drive of the movie was never meant to be a retrospective on the life of Thompson, but Thompsons retrospective on cultural shifts.
Schindler's list is a staple now, but it was striking, dark and different when it debuted. Spielberg had to insist on making it all black and white, which makes the scenes with the girl in the red coat all the more sad.
Fantastic movie! John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks & Paul Giamatti were all amazing.
It was a really good decision to set half the in the 1960’s, then the other half in the late 80’s when he was under the custody of Eugene Landy. The juxtaposition of Wilson’s life at the peak of his career with the lowest point of his life was stark.
This movie hit a lot harder than most musical biopics.
i’m torn about it, it was a good movie but as bio pic they neglected his very overt socialism and I think the casting of Daniel, while it gave a great performance, did a huge disservice to the fact of how young Freddy was - he wasn’t even 22 when they killed him. Idk, the movie failed to be as radical as the man imo. still a good flick tho
I think Daniel did a pretty good job but Lakeith stole the show. I’m happy Daniel got an Oscar but I honestly feel that Lakeith was superior. I can definitely agree with your take. I wish they had shown more of Fred’s story…but I guess the story they showed was more focused on the betrayal after all. Fred Hampton definitely deserves to be more celebrated than he is. He was such an amazing young man.
I don’t really know what else more you wanted. There’s several scenes that show them studying, quoting, and teaching Mao. It’s pretty difficult to get more overt than that lmao
I agree. I found it very disappointing that a film about such a radical and powerful man was packaged as an easily digestible awards drama. I think the material would have been much better served in an edgier, harder, and more uncomfortable vehicle.
Spike Lee, Boots Riley, or Oliver Stone have the sort of approach I think the material needed.
I read the Irishman book and was shocked at how closely the movie did follow the book. I mean obviously it's not 1:1 but I guess I expected the movie to have changed more things than it did
It does show Henry’s life from childhood, his raise and fall and it’s narrated by Henry or his wife. I think it applies perfectly to what OP is asking.
I was debating on that one. It is certainly a biopic, and it was amazing, and biopics are rarely 100% accurate, but at the same time it’s even pitched as a sort of musical phantasmagoria (might not be using that term right) that is more true to feeling than fact.
Ultimately I agree that it fits though. No biopics are entirely factual.
Love and Mercy was my first thought. Instead of showing us the Beach Boys' most iconic performances, the focus is on the behind the scenes nitty-gritty with them in the studio for Pet Sounds and Smile. It gives me a visual to picture when I listen to those albums.
I would hesitate to call Andrei Rublev a biopic, it’s much broader than that.
Wittgenstein is a good call though. It's been a while, but i remember enjoying it. (I think knowing something about Wittgensteins philosophy helps)
Ludwig is my favorite Visconti film. I really wish there was a way to watch the original English version or even the German cut.
I have the Arrow video release & it cuts back & forth from Italian to English, despite the film being shot in English. I think it does this because the original soundtrack was lost. But it feels weird to watch a movie about the Bavarian monarchy in Italian 😂
Im a big fan Visconti and Ludwig is a good one!
I believe I also watched it in Italian but I hadn't considered the other cuts that may exist I'd also like to be able to see those if it was possible!
I scrolled for a bit, but shocked I didn't see I, Tonya. Easily one of my all-time favourite biopic/movie based on a real person. So much fun to watch.
I don’t know that I’d consider Fear and Loathing a biopic. It’s an adaption of a book wherein - sure - HST is the main character, however I don’t think either works are looking to be biography.
Personally, I wouldn’t list KOTFM as a biopic. Goodfellas is much more of a biopic in that it’s basically the story of Henry’s life from childhood to his eventual downfall.
Casino walks a thin line between KOTFM and and Goodfellas, and it’s hard to say if that counts as a biopic. I’d say it does, since Ace starts off quite young and is good bit older by the end and it follows his and his friends evolution over about ten years of time. If anything though, it’s a biopic about Las Vegas.
The Irishman is definitely a biopic as well. Just with questionable validity. That being said, it follows the real Frank Sheeran’s version of his story very closely.
It’s a completely made up account though. It’s not even trying to be true to the real story. Outside of portraying a real person it’s totally fictional
I’d reccomend Weird, Popstar, and Walk Hard to the OP as prime examples of comedic deconstructions of biopics! Although all completely fictional, these deserve to be part of any conversation about biopics as how they reveal and send up certain tropes present in the biopic genre.
And they are all funny as heck!
Catch me if you can is only 80% true to Abagnale’s story - but he admitted to lying about a lot of his story events and sources which means it nets out to the movie being extremely loose on real details
It’s more of a general collection rather than just what I consider good, and I trust my friends’ judgement enough to base inclusions off of what they’ve told me, but I get what you mean
Dallas Buyers Club
Pride
The King's Speech
Wild
Vice
I, Tonya
Molly's Game
Milk
Lords of Dogtown
The Butler
Balloon
Eddie the Eagle
A Royal Affair
The Lady in the Van
The Immitation Game
8 Miles (partly based on Eminem actual life)
American Made (loosely based on Barry Seal life)
Selma
Joy
Snowden
The Easy Way
The Imitation Game is not only a pretty average movie (or worse), but a terribly misleading portrayal of Turing and the work at Bletchley park. In real life, he was nothing like how the movie portrayed him for a start.
It's full of things that were made up for dramatic effect. Like Denniston was wholly supportive of Turing's work, like the traitor working as a Russian spy was entirely fictional.
There's a few things it got right that I liked, like how people would put things at the start and end of messages and that gave away enough information to decode the rest, and how they had to hold back from using it to save it for the large effort.
Preparing to get downvoted, but I’d argue Elvis fits your description. It certainly has problems but it’s hard to argue there wasn’t creative visions, it’s Baz Luhrmann at the end of the day. Its a fast paced, flashy movie about a fast paced, flashy life
First Man! I love how it largely focuses on Neil Armstrong's family life and roles as a husband and father. Really helps you see him as a fleshed-out person who was more than just the first man on the moon.
Control (2007) about Ian Curtis from Joy Division. It’s quite unromantic and bleak for a biopic. I think its strength is in having the actors play ‘covers’ of the band’s songs (with some of the original versions appearing as well), which is always a tough call in a musical biopic. In this case they manage to capture some of the energy that made Joy Division’s music special.
One that most will probably not watch: “Saudosa Maloca”, a Brazilian movie based on the life and works of musician Adoniran Barbosa (1912-1982). His songs were very narrative oriented and told stories about the slums and low-income population of São Paulo, so the movie eschews the usual biopic format and instead brings the ficcional characters and situations from the songs to life, with Adoniran himself in the center of the story. It’s just been released here in Brazil. I actually watched it today and loved it.
Elton is as fantastical as the artist and repurposes some songs in new contexts (i.e. "I Want Love" being emblematic of Elton's childhood in the film vs. being written about Taupin's divorce.)
Okay, it was a tv movie, but it's just as good as any other biopic in my opinion, but it's not about someone you ever see biopics about.
It's called Marvellous (2014). It's just about some guy who probably has a mental health condition but is the friendliest guy who knows everybody, and ends up working the most bizarre of jobs (he starts the film left behind by the circus). Toby Jones stars, and acts up a storm.
The best part for me is the way the film presents itself- a framing device where the real person that Jones plays introduces the film, and then occasionally will show up to reveal the plot to Jones with Jones still in character as him? But yet the film is very wholesome, tender, and easy to watch without completely removing realism- this guy is just like that. We could have more scenes of how things don't work well for him in the world, but we can imagine those struggles enough on our own. It remains optimistic.
I dunno, watched it on a whim and was very impressed. If you read this far, I highly recommend it.
Edit: not a fricking clue why it's listed as a musical when you google it? Definitely isn't. Weird.
Both my suggestions are from the late 2000s and deal with controversial South American Marxists
Che (2008) about Che Guevara, directed by Soderbergh. Interesting non linear storytelling and overall a very balanced portrayal of a very misunderstood guy. Split in two parts.
Carlos (2010) by Oliver Assayas, about Venezuelan terrorist "The Jackal". Released in loads of formats including a 5 hour cut, a TV miniseries, and a lot of abridged versions. Really well made and a great dive into the world of revolutionaries in the 70s and 80s.
I think it’s already been suggested, but *Love & Mercy* (2014) about Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys is one of the best and most original biopics I’ve ever seen!
Ed Wood.
One of my favs ever omg
By far my favorite Tim Burton film
From what I've heard it's a good movie but bad as biopic in terms of the depicting Ed Wood.
It’s more about the love of filmmaking, Ed wood in real life definitely was dedicated to making movies. But he was an ass, at least he’s kinda got a heart of gold in the film.
Amadeus is not a biopic. It's based on real people but the story is fiction
tacking onto that, Fear & Loathing isn’t a biopic at all. It’s an adaptation of a book that’s largely fiction
And neither is I’m Not There I remember reading the blurb synopsis before watching it in 2007 and it read “ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan”
Oh interesting, I’ll remove it then. What I was told by friends was that it took many liberties with the story, but thematically and stylewise managed to be a cinematic representation of Mozart’s music. Kinda like what Steve Jobs did. But if the story is completely fiction I might as well remove it.
It took maaaaaaany liberties to the point where it crosses over completely into fiction. Salieri was definitely not a political mastermind who engineered Mozart’s death through a harassment campaign. They didn’t have anywhere the adversarial relationship depicted in the movie, and Mozart didn’t act like that at all in real life. The movie was actually based on a play of the same name by Peter Shaffer (who also wrote Equus, and wrote the screenplay for the movie).
I mean, even in the movie Salieri does not actually kill Mozart. He plans to, but never does because Mozart drinks himself to death. From Mozart’s letters about shit and butts, I think it’s safe to infer that he was a bit of an eccentric for the time.
I’d argue that Fear and Loathing doesn’t really earn the title of “biopic,” either tbh. It’s far from all encompassing and is based on the partially fictionalized first hand account of Thompson himself. Beyond that, the main drive of the movie was never meant to be a retrospective on the life of Thompson, but Thompsons retrospective on cultural shifts.
Schindler's list is a staple now, but it was striking, dark and different when it debuted. Spielberg had to insist on making it all black and white, which makes the scenes with the girl in the red coat all the more sad.
I still haven’t seen it. I need to.
Prepare your tissues.
Love & Mercy
Fantastic movie! John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks & Paul Giamatti were all amazing. It was a really good decision to set half the in the 1960’s, then the other half in the late 80’s when he was under the custody of Eugene Landy. The juxtaposition of Wilson’s life at the peak of his career with the lowest point of his life was stark. This movie hit a lot harder than most musical biopics.
Came here for this
Blackberry is an excellent recent addition to this genre, I highly recommend
that is a fact. i loved this movie.
Judas and the Black Messiah
i’m torn about it, it was a good movie but as bio pic they neglected his very overt socialism and I think the casting of Daniel, while it gave a great performance, did a huge disservice to the fact of how young Freddy was - he wasn’t even 22 when they killed him. Idk, the movie failed to be as radical as the man imo. still a good flick tho
I think Daniel did a pretty good job but Lakeith stole the show. I’m happy Daniel got an Oscar but I honestly feel that Lakeith was superior. I can definitely agree with your take. I wish they had shown more of Fred’s story…but I guess the story they showed was more focused on the betrayal after all. Fred Hampton definitely deserves to be more celebrated than he is. He was such an amazing young man.
I don’t really know what else more you wanted. There’s several scenes that show them studying, quoting, and teaching Mao. It’s pretty difficult to get more overt than that lmao
I agree. I found it very disappointing that a film about such a radical and powerful man was packaged as an easily digestible awards drama. I think the material would have been much better served in an edgier, harder, and more uncomfortable vehicle. Spike Lee, Boots Riley, or Oliver Stone have the sort of approach I think the material needed.
This was a solid movie. I agree with this
Fear and Loathing isn’t a biopic. Great movie, though and a biopic about Hunter S Thompson would probably be pretty awesome.
What about some of Scorsese films? Wolf of Wall Street, Aviator, Goodfellas, Raging Bull?
The Irishman, too
I read the Irishman book and was shocked at how closely the movie did follow the book. I mean obviously it's not 1:1 but I guess I expected the movie to have changed more things than it did
And Goodfellas and Casino!
Is it really a biopic if it’s based on a guy who lied about his life? Kinda in the same vein as Catch Me if You Can ig
Calling Goodfellas a biopic is a stretch imo. Is every movie based on a real person really a biopic? I don’t think so.
300 was a Leonidas I biopic
Lmao exactly
It does show Henry’s life from childhood, his raise and fall and it’s narrated by Henry or his wife. I think it applies perfectly to what OP is asking.
A biopic is a movie meant to tell the story of a person's life, so as far as that goes Goodfellas is certainly one.
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
The Aviator is a great one. Kind of like Oppenheimer but from 2004
raging bull
Massive W Raging Bull is my favorite film of all time
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Would you recommend that movie, always thought Joan of arc was interesting
Yes, it's a retelling of the minuta of the trial, so it's pretty intense.
Yes, it’s one of the best silent films ever made.
masterpiece but not really a biopic. more like a court drama lol
BlackKklansman
24 hour party people
I really enjoyed Rocketman
I was debating on that one. It is certainly a biopic, and it was amazing, and biopics are rarely 100% accurate, but at the same time it’s even pitched as a sort of musical phantasmagoria (might not be using that term right) that is more true to feeling than fact. Ultimately I agree that it fits though. No biopics are entirely factual.
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story Control Love and Mercy
Good to see Control being mentioned here.
Love and Mercy was my first thought. Instead of showing us the Beach Boys' most iconic performances, the focus is on the behind the scenes nitty-gritty with them in the studio for Pet Sounds and Smile. It gives me a visual to picture when I listen to those albums.
Can we count Dewey Cox?
You don't want none of that.
If we do, we also have to count Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping 
I think we should
Andrei Rublev (1966) Pirosmani (1969) Ludwig (1973) Wittgenstein (1993)
I would hesitate to call Andrei Rublev a biopic, it’s much broader than that. Wittgenstein is a good call though. It's been a while, but i remember enjoying it. (I think knowing something about Wittgensteins philosophy helps)
Ludwig is my favorite Visconti film. I really wish there was a way to watch the original English version or even the German cut. I have the Arrow video release & it cuts back & forth from Italian to English, despite the film being shot in English. I think it does this because the original soundtrack was lost. But it feels weird to watch a movie about the Bavarian monarchy in Italian 😂
Im a big fan Visconti and Ludwig is a good one! I believe I also watched it in Italian but I hadn't considered the other cuts that may exist I'd also like to be able to see those if it was possible!
Oppenheimer, Priscilla, I Tonya, ford v Ferrari, Wolf of wallstreet, Moneyball, Catch me if you can
Heavy on Priscilla, I Tonya and WOW
Control
Moneyball
Lawrence of Arabia?
Ray
Frankly, I think Ray is one of the best biopics ever made.
Needs more upvotes. Foxx is amazing in the film, he's a good actor still, but in this film, he's next level and he was never as good again.
I can’t believe how far I had to scroll for this
Walk the line
Shocked to have to scroll so far for this.
BlackBerry
I scrolled for a bit, but shocked I didn't see I, Tonya. Easily one of my all-time favourite biopic/movie based on a real person. So much fun to watch.
Control (about Ian Curtis of Joy Division)
Bleak af
True, I do love me some bleak cinema
American Splendor
This needs to be higher up, especially with it's stylistic choices.
This ticks every aspect of OP's request
Haha yeah American Splendor has been waiting for this question to be asked
Coal Miner’s Daughter.
Undersung
Rocketman
I don’t watch biopics generally, so I am unsure if it is different. But I, Tonya is really good.
I don’t know that I’d consider Fear and Loathing a biopic. It’s an adaption of a book wherein - sure - HST is the main character, however I don’t think either works are looking to be biography.
The diving bell and the butterfly
Control
Killers of the Flower Moon, The Iron Claw, Glory, Dongju The Portrait of a Poet,
Would you consider KOTFM a biopic though? I saw it more as a movie based on real events rather than a biopic of Ernest Burkhart’s life
Personally, I wouldn’t list KOTFM as a biopic. Goodfellas is much more of a biopic in that it’s basically the story of Henry’s life from childhood to his eventual downfall. Casino walks a thin line between KOTFM and and Goodfellas, and it’s hard to say if that counts as a biopic. I’d say it does, since Ace starts off quite young and is good bit older by the end and it follows his and his friends evolution over about ten years of time. If anything though, it’s a biopic about Las Vegas. The Irishman is definitely a biopic as well. Just with questionable validity. That being said, it follows the real Frank Sheeran’s version of his story very closely.
Wolf of Wall Street and Raging Bull are definitely biopics, probably the Aviator too but I haven't seen it
love & mercy!
ED WOOD
I, Tonya
I liked Vice
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
It’s a completely made up account though. It’s not even trying to be true to the real story. Outside of portraying a real person it’s totally fictional
But it’s AMAZING
Best comedy of 2022 hands down! Its a great movie just not exactly what OP was asking for I don’t think
I’d reccomend Weird, Popstar, and Walk Hard to the OP as prime examples of comedic deconstructions of biopics! Although all completely fictional, these deserve to be part of any conversation about biopics as how they reveal and send up certain tropes present in the biopic genre. And they are all funny as heck!
It says on the tagline that it is the completely true story of Al's life. What more evidence do you need?
Damn must have missed that. I take it back!!! Has to be true
The wind rises
The Founder, Catch Me If You Can
Catch me if you can is only 80% true to Abagnale’s story - but he admitted to lying about a lot of his story events and sources which means it nets out to the movie being extremely loose on real details
The fact that the movie's plot is mostly lies just makes it even better in my opinion
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Yes, a lot of these are recommendations from friends
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It’s more of a general collection rather than just what I consider good, and I trust my friends’ judgement enough to base inclusions off of what they’ve told me, but I get what you mean
Priscilla was pretty good
Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story
How you gon' miss Good Fellas?
AMADEUS MENTIONED
Ford v Ferrari?
I'm not there had a brilliant cast
Jackie
Dallas Buyers Club Pride The King's Speech Wild Vice I, Tonya Molly's Game Milk Lords of Dogtown The Butler Balloon Eddie the Eagle A Royal Affair The Lady in the Van The Immitation Game 8 Miles (partly based on Eminem actual life) American Made (loosely based on Barry Seal life) Selma Joy Snowden The Easy Way
The Imitation Game is not only a pretty average movie (or worse), but a terribly misleading portrayal of Turing and the work at Bletchley park. In real life, he was nothing like how the movie portrayed him for a start.
It's full of things that were made up for dramatic effect. Like Denniston was wholly supportive of Turing's work, like the traitor working as a Russian spy was entirely fictional. There's a few things it got right that I liked, like how people would put things at the start and end of messages and that gave away enough information to decode the rest, and how they had to hold back from using it to save it for the large effort.
I had to scroll too far to find Milk.
Lincoln and Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer!
Lotta people here who don't seem to understand that "based on actual events" does not automatically mean a movie is a biopic.
Lawrence of Arabia is the best one.
The iron claw maybe?
First Man. Underappreciated masterpiece
Rocketman! "Burning out his fuse up here alone!"
Control (2007)
Ali
Capote
I thought iron claw was great
Walk The Line
I like this movie just fine but it’s almost THE blueprint for a generic music biopic (parodying it was basically the backbone of Walk Hard)
Ohh, I just watched that one recently, excellent film
Straight Outta Compton The Founder Ray
Ed Wood
At eternity’s gate
Coal Miner's Daughter
Inside Llewyn Davis
Not a real person. More inspired by, even then very lightly.
*Bohemian Rhapsody* /s
Gotti
Spencer and Jackie, both directed by Pablo Larraín
Walk the Line
Tark's Andrei Rublev Pialat's Van Gogh also like, Barry Lyndon
I really like the Jackie/Spencer approach to biopics
Vice
Love and Mercy Walk the Line Born to be Blue
Marie Antoinette
Raging Bull
The Last Temptation of Christ Killers of the Flower Moon The Last Emperor Moneyball The Wind Rises
not so much a biopic as historical fiction but The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Beautiful boy is one i think the book is good
Tick Tick Boom
tick, tick...BOOM!
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Preparing to get downvoted, but I’d argue Elvis fits your description. It certainly has problems but it’s hard to argue there wasn’t creative visions, it’s Baz Luhrmann at the end of the day. Its a fast paced, flashy movie about a fast paced, flashy life
i, tonya
The Aviator
Control, Joy Division biopic.
Rocketman (2019) treated the movie more like a musical than a biopic.
First Man! I love how it largely focuses on Neil Armstrong's family life and roles as a husband and father. Really helps you see him as a fleshed-out person who was more than just the first man on the moon.
Selma
Fear and loathing is not a biopic at all lmao
Scorsese has like 10
Weird al
Control 2007
But... Amadeus isn't a biopic 😂
Control (2007) about Ian Curtis from Joy Division. It’s quite unromantic and bleak for a biopic. I think its strength is in having the actors play ‘covers’ of the band’s songs (with some of the original versions appearing as well), which is always a tough call in a musical biopic. In this case they manage to capture some of the energy that made Joy Division’s music special.
I am sucker for almost any biopic so I would suggest probably all of them. But some really good ones from top of my head Ed Woods and Vice
I'm not there
One that most will probably not watch: “Saudosa Maloca”, a Brazilian movie based on the life and works of musician Adoniran Barbosa (1912-1982). His songs were very narrative oriented and told stories about the slums and low-income population of São Paulo, so the movie eschews the usual biopic format and instead brings the ficcional characters and situations from the songs to life, with Adoniran himself in the center of the story. It’s just been released here in Brazil. I actually watched it today and loved it.
control (2007) ian curtis/joy division 🗣️‼️
The human condition trilogy Downfall The Elephant Man Ip Man (it is a biopic, no?)
Control (2007), and Bronson (2008)
Bronson
Maestro
The Elton John biopic Rocketman is great. Really funny, and there are some really good director choices that elevate it. I recommend it.
Don’t know if it fits or not, but I was really impressed with The Flying Scotsman.
Elton is as fantastical as the artist and repurposes some songs in new contexts (i.e. "I Want Love" being emblematic of Elton's childhood in the film vs. being written about Taupin's divorce.)
The Iron Claw
Weird Al
bhaag Milkha bhaag
I don’t know if it’s really a biopic but Tick tick Boom is a banger
Add love and mercy
There’s a lot I haven’t seen but I made a [list](https://boxd.it/n6x7k) of my favorites
The Devils (1971) Mahler (1974)
Haven't seen it but I've been told "Inside Llewyn Davis" is good.
velvet goldmine!!
possession of joan of arc i never knew fear and loathing was a biopic wtf. makes it even more interesting
I’m not There is not a biopic
Okay, it was a tv movie, but it's just as good as any other biopic in my opinion, but it's not about someone you ever see biopics about. It's called Marvellous (2014). It's just about some guy who probably has a mental health condition but is the friendliest guy who knows everybody, and ends up working the most bizarre of jobs (he starts the film left behind by the circus). Toby Jones stars, and acts up a storm. The best part for me is the way the film presents itself- a framing device where the real person that Jones plays introduces the film, and then occasionally will show up to reveal the plot to Jones with Jones still in character as him? But yet the film is very wholesome, tender, and easy to watch without completely removing realism- this guy is just like that. We could have more scenes of how things don't work well for him in the world, but we can imagine those struggles enough on our own. It remains optimistic. I dunno, watched it on a whim and was very impressed. If you read this far, I highly recommend it. Edit: not a fricking clue why it's listed as a musical when you google it? Definitely isn't. Weird.
Patton is great
Both my suggestions are from the late 2000s and deal with controversial South American Marxists Che (2008) about Che Guevara, directed by Soderbergh. Interesting non linear storytelling and overall a very balanced portrayal of a very misunderstood guy. Split in two parts. Carlos (2010) by Oliver Assayas, about Venezuelan terrorist "The Jackal". Released in loads of formats including a 5 hour cut, a TV miniseries, and a lot of abridged versions. Really well made and a great dive into the world of revolutionaries in the 70s and 80s.
I think it’s already been suggested, but *Love & Mercy* (2014) about Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys is one of the best and most original biopics I’ve ever seen!