Best Biography movies of 1970s

Actors : Su-Chen Chen, Caryn White, Yunzhong Li, Bruce Li,
Directors : Hsing-Lai Wang,

A highly fictionalized biography of the famous Bruce Lee, this movie traces his college life, his marriage to Linda Lee, his relationship with his master, and his untimely death.

Actors : Larisa Luzhina, Oleg Orlov, Svetlana Ponomaryova, Georgiy Burkov,
Directors : Boris Grigorev,

Biopic of Yuri Gagarin, the first man who flew around the Earth, from his birth to his dream of flying since he saw combat airplanes over his small village, during the German occupation in WWII.

Actors : Stanislav Fiser, Miroslav Dolezal, Petr Kostka, Eduard Cupák,
Directors : Josef Mach,

Josef Mánes (Petr Kostka) gets into a conflict with the director of the Academy of Fine Art, and is immediately thrown out of the school. But Josef is not downcast. He is young and believes...

Actors : Regis Cordic, Sándor Naszódy, Marvin Miller, Rod Colbin,
Directors : Michael Economou,

A faithful recounting of the ministry, trial and martyrdom of the fifteenth century Bohemian priest John Hus, who built on the reforms of John Wycliffe, taught the Bible in the vernacular and who influenced Martin Luther a century later.

Actors : John Mason, James Arrington, Maurice Grandmaison, Richard Moll,
Directors : Tom McGowan,

The life of Brigham Young, the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the better part of the 1800s, founder of Salt Lake City and the first governor of the Utah Territory.

Actors : Victor Holchak, Lindsay Bloom, Charles Aidikoff, David McLean,
Directors : Larry Buchanan,

When maverick first-time director Howard Hughes has to recast the female lead in his aerial war picture Hell's Angels (1930), he chooses a fiery, unknown movie extra named Jean Harlow, launching both of their Hollywood careers in the process.

Actors : Ulla Blomstrand, Willie Andréason, Maria Andersson, Marianne Aminoff,
Directors : Birgitta Svensson,

Mackan's real name is Margaret. She is 14 and move a lot because her father is employed at the Railroad Company. In a small town she meets Kenneth.He is 18 and the coolest guy in town. Their relationship is a major triumph for Mackan.

Actors : Mako Midori, Shingo Yamashiro, Mikijirô Hira, Shin Kishida,
Directors : Akio Jissôji,

Follows the life of the famous classical printmaker, Utamaro Kitagawa, set during the time when Utamaro is commissioned to produce pornographic woodblocks.

Actors : Toma Dimitriu, Gabriel Marian Oseciuc, Octavian Cotescu, Radu Beligan,
Directors : Mircea Dragan,

Aurel Vlaicu is a young man born in Bintinti, Transylvania. His dream is to built a flying machine, so he studies engineering in Budapest and Munich, then comes back home. He first builds a...

Actors : Carmen Roldán, Carles Velat, Amparo Soler Leal, Manuel Galiana,
Directors : Fernando Fernán Gómez,

Based in the novel Aurora de Sangre (Eduardo de Guzman) and in the real events happened during the II Spanish Republic. Aurora Rodriguez goes to police to assume the death of her daughter ...

Actors : Vladimir Anisko, L. Armengol, O. Banke Paulu, András Kozák,
Directors : Manos Zacharias,

The last months of life of Hungarian writer Máté Zalka who joined the International Brigades and fought in the Spanish Civil War.

Actors : Dean Jones, Jay Robinson, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews,
Directors : Irving Rapper,

Charles Colson was involved in the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the administration of former President Richard Nixon. Colson was sentenced to prison for the crimes he ...

Actors : Vijayachander, Rajasulochana, Chandramohan,

A 160-minute version of the life of Jesus Christ filmed entirely with a cast and crew of Christian Indians in India.

Actors : Paavo Liski, Esko Salminen, Elina Salo, Katja Salminen,
Directors : Jaakko Pakkasvirta,

Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on his relationships with first wife Freya...

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 : 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.

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 : 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 ...