Best Biography movies of 1970s

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Nigel Patrick, Horst Buchholz, Mary Costa,
Directors : Andrew L. Stone,

Composer Johann Strauss becomes the "Waltz-King" and woos a baron's mistress in 19th-century Austria.

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 : Stacy Keach, Robert Stephens, Hugh Griffith, Patrick Magee,
Directors : Guy Green,

A man's views cause a rift between peasants and the church.

Actors : Jun Fujimaki, Shin'ichi Chiba, Eiji Gô, Masashi Ishibashi,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in Japan.

Actors : Rasim Balayev, Kamal Xudaverdiyev, Ismayil Osmanli, Khalida Kasumova,
Directors : Hasan Seyidbayli,

Imadaddin Nasimi, well-known throughout the East for his school of philosophy and thought, poems and promotion of moral values in a feudal society.

Actors : Richard Harrison, Szu Shih, Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Four friends learn kung fu to avenge the death of their friend against the manchus.

Actors : Hans Korte, Elisabeth Schwarz, Götz George, Kurt Hübner,
Directors : Theodor Kotulla,

The disturbing biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.

Actors : Igor Dmitriev, Ariadna Shengelaia, Imre Sinkovits, Sándor Pécsi,
Directors : Márton Keleti,

Pianist and composer Liszt was giving performances all over Europe and made his famous concert tour to St. Petersburg, Russia. Liszt's brilliant piano playing impressed the Russian royalty ...

Actors : Betty Ting Pei, Danny Lee, Chin-Ku Lu, Sha Wang,
Directors : Mar Lo,

A movie on the life of the renowned Bruce Lee, especially his relationship with his mistress (played by Betty Ting Pei, who was Lee's mistress in real life and in whose apartment he died).

Actors : Ingrid Caven, Hanna Köhler, Harry Baer, Ursula Strätz,
Directors : Hans-Jürgen Syberberg,

The story of the legendary King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886), his opera interest and friendship with theatre personalities such as Richard Wagner and Joseph Kainz, and at the same time a reflection of the German 1800s.

Actors : Joni Eareckson Tada, Katherine De Hetre, Bert Remsen, 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 : Nan Martin, Timothy Bottoms, Marilyn Hassett, Belinda Montgomery,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Several years after the deaths of Dick Buek and her father, Jill Kinmont and her mother leave Los Angeles to spend their summer in their hometown of Bishop, California. They rent a summer ...

Actors : Claudio Obregón, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Eduardo López Rojas, Juan Ángel Martínez,
Directors : Paul Leduc,

A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.

Actors : Eleni Erimou, Petros Fyssoun, Alkis Yannakas, Jenny Karezi,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

Manto Mavrogenous, several years after the revolution and active action, remembers her life. Despite the objections of her mother, gave her dowry to financially support the revolution. ...

Actors : Viera Strnisková, Július Vasek, Václav Helsus, Magda Vásáryová,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

Towards the end of 1942 a young prisoner Maruska (Magda Vásáryová) awaits in her cell in prison in Breslau (after war Polish Wroclaw) her execution. After death sentence it was ninety nine ...

Actors : Emanoil Petrut, Ion Dichiseanu, Alexandru Repan, George Constantin,
Directors : Gheorghe Vitanidis,

The life of Dacian war-leader Burebista who ruled between 80-44 B.C.and founded a strong Dacian Kingdom despite considerable pressure from the neighboring Celtic warlords and the Greek cities of the Black Sea coast.

Actors : Paul Rogers, Liv Ullmann, Cyril Cusack, Peter Finch,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church. Today, she is mostly known for the rumors that she was lesbian.

Actors : Kirill Lavrov, Ada Rogovtseva, Andrei Popov, Igor Gorbachyov,
Directors : Daniil Khrabrovitsky,

About Russian space program and missile industry, and it's founder Sergei P. Korolev, from the 1920s to the first man in space in 1961.

Actors : Irma Martinkauppi, Titta Karakorpi, Pertti Ylermi Lindgren, Elina Salo,
Directors : Peter von Bagh,

Sleazy impostor, then dance band singer Pertti Ylermi Lindgren merrily re-enacts some of his real-life engagements to 76 different women in the late 1960s. After posing as an aristocrat, ...

Actors : Jirô Yabuki, Shin'ichi Chiba, Kenji Imai, Masashi Ishibashi,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in Japan.