Best Unconventional Biopics, Ranked by MovieWeb

"The biopic, one of Hollywood's go-to film genres, can be labeled generic, cliché, and boring. Taking the arc of icons in American culture, like Ray Charles, Freddie Mercury or Abraham Lincoln (to name a few), can produce a long line of lackluster films. Often forgettable as they follow in the same footsteps of plot beats, but also leave behind great fits of imitation, biopics can be a tired film genre. Especially when you consider these directors have to cram an entire life into a neat 120-minute, commercially viable package. All too often in biopics, the minute details get lost and the reverence of an iconic persona gets failed by the director to match. The results are like nails across a chalkboard. Attempting to defy the banality of the biopic most audiences have come to know, these directors had the luxury of being different. In that spirit, these are ten biopics that defy those same conventions." - movieweb.com