Best Biography movies of 1979

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Clint Eastwood, Jack Thibeau, Patrick McGoohan,
Directors : Don Siegel,

Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possible successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.

Actors : Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Robert Grubb, Wendy Hughes,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

Sybylla Melvyn is an independent young woman who soon after arriving to live with her Grandmother Bossier and aunt Helen announces that she will never marry and plans on having a career ...

Actors : Brian Deacon, Rivka Neuman, Niko Nitai, Alexander Scourby,

Jesus of Nazareth,the son of God raised by a Jewish carpenter. Based on the gospel of Luke in the New Testament,here is the life of Jesus from the miraculous virgin birth to the calling of ...

Actors : Dragan Maksimovic, Terence Stamp, Mikica Dimitrijevic, Athol Fugard,
Directors : Peter Brook,

G.I. Gurdjieff is a spiritual teacher and mystic who, after a lifetime study, developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.

Actors : Pascal Greggory, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : André Téchiné,

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.

Actors : Ray Ashcroft, Stephen MacKenna, John Altman, Rod Culbertson,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

An account of The Beatles during the Hamburg years, their signing with Brian Epstein and their inevitable rise during the early sixties.

Actors : Rajinikanth, Jayalakshmi, Cho Ramaswamy, Thengai Srinivasan,
Directors : S.P. Muthuraman,

Aarilirunthu Aruvathu varai, Revolves around Santhanam(Rajnikanth) who solely runs his poor family of 2 brothers and a sister, after their parents death, by taking them to higher level in ...

Actors : Joni Eareckson Tada, Bert Remsen, Katherine De Hetre, Cooper Huckabee,
Directors : James F. Collier,

Based on Joni Eareckson's autobiography. She becomes paralyzed after breaking her neck in a swimming accident at age 17. Trying to cope with her new life, she learns to paint using her mouth and finds strength in her new Christian faith.

Actors : Anne Jackson, Marilyn Hassett, Jameson Parker, Julie Harris,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

As the horrors beneath the idealized 1950's come about, a successful young woman finds herself having a serious mental breakdown when she returns to New England.

Actors : Christine Schorn, Ute Lubosch, Hilmar Eichhorn, Michael Gwisdek,
Directors : Lothar Warneke,

Last years in the Life of german Dramatican Georg Büchner

Actors : Budong Wen, Daolin Sun, Tiecheng Wang, Qi Feng,
Directors : Zifeng Ling,

The biography of famous Chinese geologist Li Siguang.

Actors : Bronwyn Mackay-Payne, Ron Haddrick, Bunney Brooke, Tom Richards,
Directors : Ken Hannam,

Biopic of Australian 3 Time Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer Dawn Fraser.

Actors : Juraj Kukura, Bozidara Turzonovová, Gabriela Benacková, Jirí Adamíra,
Directors : Jirí Krejcík,

The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová (Bozidara Turzonovová) is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return home to Bohemia. As an ...

Actors : Piotr Garlicki, Piotr Fronczewski, Tadeusz Plucinski, Tadeusz Borowski,
Directors : Roman Wionczek,

Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage ...

Actors : Pola Raksa, Bogusz Bilewski, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Roman Wilhelmi,
Directors : Filip Bajon,

Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony ...

Actors : Yongshou Zhang, Songmao Zheng, Peixin Cong, Yuling Tao,
Directors : Jizhou Yan,

Biography of famous blind Chinese musician and Erhu player Yanjun Hua (aka. Ah Bing).

Actors : Luis Iriondo, Xabier Elorriaga, Marta Angelat, Montserrat Carulla,
Directors : Josep Maria Forn,

1939: The remains of the Spanish Republican Army crossed the French border. Among the exiles are Lluís Companys, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and also Aguirre, President of ...

Actors : Fiona Fullerton, Alan Dobie, Harry Andrews, Annette Crosbie,
Directors : Colin Nears,

The last days of famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy which are paralleled with one of his last stories - The Death of Ivan Ilyich - about a man who is happy with his life until he finds out he's sick and is about to die.