Best Biography movies of 1970s

Actors : Rod Steiger, Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Moustapha Akkad,

In the Fascist Italy Pre-World War II of Benito Mussolini, the cruel General Rodolfo Graziani is directly assigned by Il Duce to fight in the colonial war in Libya to vanquish the Arab ...

Actors : Yasuko Matsui, Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to a sexual obsession which then came to a violent end.

Actors : David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Orson Welles, Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Sergey Bondarchuk,

Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.

Actors : John Hurt, Judy Geeson, Pat Heywood, Richard Attenborough,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

Based on the real-life case of the British serial killer John Christie, and what happened to his neighbors Tim and Beryl Evans.

Actors : Willy Semmelrogge, Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Bruno S.,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

Herzog's film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.

Actors : Christopher George, Ben Johnson, Forrest Tucker, John Wayne,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.

Actors : Kenneth Cranham, Graham Faulkner, Leigh Lawson, Judi Bowker,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

This is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, James Caan,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.

Actors : Cicely Browne, Tina Aumont, Carmen Scarpitta, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person ? Is he really alive ?

Actors : Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James T. Callahan,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Actors : Judy Davis, Robert Grubb, Sam Neill, 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 : Randy Jones, Ray Simpson, David Hodo, Felipe Rose,
Directors : Nancy Walker,

This is a pseudo autobiography of disco's The Village People.

Actors : LeVar Burton, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold,
Directors : Buzz Kulik,

The story of professional bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson.

Actors : Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Berger,
Directors : Luchino Visconti,

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin ...

Actors : Ed Flanders, Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ivan Bonar,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

Biopic of General Douglas MacArthur covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War.

Actors : Richard Harris, Dorothy Tutin, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

Oliver Cromwell can no longer tolerate King Charles' policies, and the self-interest of the ruling class, and leads a civil war to install Parliament as the ultimate ruler of England.

Actors : Bruce Robinson, Joseph Blatchley, Isabelle Adjani, Sylvia Marriott,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.

Actors : Christopher Gable, Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson, Max Adrian,
Directors : Ken Russell,

Piano teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexuality by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a nymphomaniac whom he cannot satisfy.

Actors : Olga Tudorache, Irina Gardescu, Amza Pellea, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

At the end of the 16th century Wallachian ruler Prince Michael the Brave overcame the adversity of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires to unite Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania into one country.