Best Biography movies of 1970s

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

The disturbing biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.

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 : 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.

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 : 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 : Patricia Aspíllaga, Carlos Bracho, Yolanda Ciani, Ana Luisa Peluffo,
Directors : Rubén Broido,

The movie is about the story of mexican poet Ramon Lopez Velarde, who born in the city of Jerez in the state of Zacatecas... See full synopsis »

Actors : Iurie Darie, Irina Gardescu, Alexandru Repan, Ioana Bulca,
Directors : Gheorghe Vitanidis,

After 20 years in Ottoman Constantinople, Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir completes the written history of the Ottoman Empire and is crowned King of Moldavia in 1710 but his valuable manuscript is stolen by foreign agents.

Actors : Valeria Sabel, Luigi Vannucchi, Rita Calderoni, Dominique Darel,
Directors : Roberto Rossellini,

The story of Christian Democrat leader De Gasperi and his struggle to lead Italy in the years after the end of World War Two.

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 : Yeong-gyun Shin, Am Park, Myeong-jin Kim, Ji-mee Kim,
Directors : In-hyeon Choi,

General Wang-gun marches on the capitol and overthrows the usurper Ku-jin who had slain the last king of the Shilla Dynasty. Wang-gun becomes king and begins a new era in Korean History--the Koryo Dynasty.

Actors : Helmut Käutner, Käthe Gold, Kristina Söderbaum, Attila Hörbiger,
Directors : Hans-Jürgen Syberberg,

This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's "German Trilogy" on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich.

Actors : Arthur Kennedy, June Dayton, Robert Vaughn, Martha Scott,
Directors : Jack Smight,

Story of Harry S. Truman as he begins his political career in 1929.

Actors : Kostas Karagiorgis, Ketty Papanika, Faidon Georgitsis, Thanasis Mylonas,
Directors : Giannis Hristodoulou,

It is telling the story of abduction of a German officer , General Heinrich Kreipe by British commandos and Greek resistance fighters in Crete during the Second World War. It was one of the greatest achievement in the second world war.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz, Shashi Kapoor, Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

This is a BBC documentary made on Rajesh Khanna, who had become a phenomenon of Indian cinema and his immense popularity had earned him the title of Superstar.

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 : Victor Holchak, Charles Aidikoff, Lindsay Bloom, 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.