Best Biography movies of 1960s

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Raf Vallone, Red Buttons, Carroll Baker,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

A screen adaption of the blistering best-seller which examines the story of the platinum blonde bombshell (Baker) who rose to fame in the reckless Hollywood of the 1930's.

Actors : Aleksey Eybozhenko, Jaecki Schwarz, Vasiliy Livanov, Dieter Mann,
Directors : Konrad Wolf,

April 1945: Gregor Hecker, 19 years of age, reaches the outskirts of Berlin as part of the Red Army's scouting team. Having fled Germany with his family when he was eight, he is confronted ...

Actors : Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux, Juliette Mayniel, Hildegard Knef,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Follows a family-man who meets women through lonely hearts ads.

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Nigel Patrick, James Mason, Peter Finch,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

At the height of his fame (his plays being much celebrated in London in the 1890's), Oscar Wilde angers the Marquis of Queensberry by having what is whispered and gossiped as a romantic ...

Actors : Héctor Noguera, Marcelo Romo, Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román,
Directors : Miguel Littin,

In 1960, José del Carmen Valenzuela Torres, from the small town of Nahueltoro in Chile, brutally murdered Rosa Rivas Acuña and her five children. This classic film of the Latin American ...

Actors : Cecil Kellaway, Dolores Hart, Bradford Dillman, Stuart Whitman,
Directors : Michael Curtiz,

Francis Bernardone (Bradford Dillman) is the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, who gives up all his worldly goods to dedicate himself to God. Clare (Dolores Hart) is a young ...

Actors : Maria Schell, Christopher Lee, Hans Hass Jr., Leo Genn,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Christopher Lee plays the Lord Chief Justice of 17th century England who condemns women as witches to further his political and sexual needs.

Actors : Spartak Bagashvili, Dodo Abashidze, Avtandil Varazi, Givi Aleksandria,
Directors : Giorgi Shengelaia,

The story of self-taught Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani.

Actors : Stefan Ciubotarasu, Emanoil Petrut, Ion Bocancea, Corina Constantinescu,
Directors : Elisabeta Bostan,

Based on Ion Creanga's book, the story of a child from his childhood to his manhood.

Actors : Frank Porretta, Christina Schollin, Florence Henderson, Toralv Maurstad,
Directors : Andrew L. Stone,

Based on the life of Norways greatest composer Edvard Grieg and film in Norway where he lived. The soundtrack is all Edvard Grieg's music with added lyrics.

Actors : Carlos Romero, Larry Domasin, Ann Daniel, Celia Milius,
Directors : James B. Clark,

The story of a Native American girl, abandoned on a tiny island, who is protected by a wild dog.

Actors : Horst Buchholz, Elsa Martinelli, Anthony Quinn, Akim Tamiroff,

Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.

Actors : John Neville, Robert Morley, Ralph Richardson, Phyllis Calvert,
Directors : Gregory Ratoff,

Oscar Wilde's homosexuality is exposed when he tries to defend himself against his lover's father.

Actors : Adrienne Larussa, Georges Wilson, Mavie, Tomas Milian,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

A young Italian noblewoman plots with her lover and her family to murder her abusive father leading to an uproar in the community and the Roman Catholic church set in 16th Century Italy.

Actors : Diana Dors, Dianne Foster, David Janssen, Jack Carson,
Directors : Joseph M. Newman,

The story of flamboyant Prohibition-era gangster, gambler and bootlegger Arnold Rothstein.

Actors : Florinda Chico, Julio Iglesias, Jean Harrington, Charo López,
Directors : Eugenio Martín,

Actors : Horst Buchholz, José Ferrer, Louis Jourdan, Gina Lollobrigida,
Directors : Vincent Sherman,

A highly fictionalized filming of the early life of Miguel de Cervantes, author of "Don Quixote".

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Rik Battaglia, Dominique Wilms, Ivica Pajer,
Directors : Tanio Boccia,

Julius Caesar leads the Roman army to battle against rebels in Gaul.

Actors : Vincent Price, Stuart Whitman, Ben Gazzara, Ray Walston,
Directors : Millard Kaufman,

A semi-fictionalized version of John Resko's incarceration is presented. John is on death row at Sing Sing for murder. In December 1930, he killed a toy store shopkeeper over a teddy bear ...

Actors : Bob Mathias, Trax Colton, Nico Minardos, Jayne Mansfield,
Directors : Andrew Marton,

In 1896 it is announced that the Olympic Games will be revived in Athens. A young shepherd, Spiridon Loues, decides to enter the 26-mile marathon. Once in Athens, he meets Christina Gratsos...