Best Biography movies of 1970s

Actors : Nikos Apergis, Lakis Komninos, Ketty Papanika, Giannis Argyris,
Directors : Filippos Fylaktos,

The military action of a Greek officer, Pavlos Melas, for the liberation of Macedonia from the Turks and Bulgarians. A story stick to the facts for the heroism and sacrifice of the Greeks. ...

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 : 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 : Hannu Kahakorpi, Mikko Majanlahti, Reino Kalliolahti, Eero Kosteikko,
Directors : Jotaarkka Pennanen,

The last day of Alfred Kordelin.

Actors : Astrida Kairisha, Leonhard Merzin, Juris Strenga, Olgert Kroders,
Directors : Leonid Menaker,

A powerful German industrialist is trying to make a nuclear weapon.

Actors : Massimo Foschi, Simonetta Stefanelli, Anna Orso, Ettore Manni,
Directors : Luciano Ercoli,

Simonetta Stefanelli stars as Lucrezia Borgia in Luciano Ercoli's version of the early life of this fascinating historical persona. If the accuracy of the historical facts may be drawn into...

Actors : Brigitte Ariel, Pierre Vernier, Pascale Christophe, Guy Tréjan,
Directors : Guy Casaril,

Édith Giovanna Gassion is born in 1915. As a young girl she sings on the streets of Paris until a nightclub owner, Louis Leplée, discovers her. When he is murdered the composer Raymond Asso...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, David Drach, Marie-José Nat, Gabrielle Doulcet,
Directors : Michel Drach,

For many years, filmmaker Michel Drach wanted to tell the story of his childhood during WWII and his family's escape from the occupying Nazis. The film explores his bittersweet memories, ...

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 : Helmut Käutner, Käthe Gold, Attila Hörbiger, Kristina Söderbaum,
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 : Jaime Fernández, Flor Silvestre, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Antonio Aguilar,
Directors : Mario Hernández,

The role of the legendary Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. Beginning at the end of the Revolution, Villa is at an outside dance party in Parral, when reporter Llergo and the ...

Actors : Ignacio López Tarso, Irán Eory, Andrea Palma, Carlos López Moctezuma,
Directors : Julio Bracho,

About life of José Clemente Orosco in New York

Actors : Václav Kotva, Regimantas Adomaitis, Günter Wolf, Heidemarie Wenzel,
Directors : Günter Reisch,

An imprisoned anarchist oversees an operation that robs from the rich to feed the poor and enters a dialogue with a committed communist.

Actors : Renato Pozzetto, Maurizio Arena, Stanley Baker, Marisa Allasio,
Directors : Mario Morra,

Anthological movie with some of the most famous movie sequences in Italian cinema produced by glorious Titanus Film from 1947 to 1962.

Actors : Heera Chawan, Lata Karnataki, Saroj Sukhtankar, Sarla Yeolekar,
Directors : Datta Dharmadhikari,

Bhakta Pundalik was released in 1975. Produced by Ram Devtale & Ram Karve and directed by Dutta Dharmadhikari. Movie is a sentimental biopic of one of the most revered & respected saints of Maharashtra whose devotion knew no fathoms.

Actors : María Vaner, Duilio Marzio, Marilina Ross, Jorge Martínez,
Directors : Lautaro Murúa,

True-life story of a girl of the streets of Buenos Aires who passed for a boy.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali,

Ali the Fighter was made in 1975, when the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight was still fresh in everyone's minds. Filmmaker William Greaves frames Ali's rise to glory, beginning with his "Cassius Clay" days back in Louisville.

Actors : Janne Carlsson, Mona Seilitz, Eddie Axberg, Hans Klinga,
Directors : Christer Abrahamsen,

The true story behind the movie takes it start in 1874 with two misfits - Gustaf Adolf Eriksson (Hjert) and Conrad Pettersson Lundqvist (Tector) - that meet in the big prison of Långholmen ...

Actors : Vandana Pandit, Rajani Chavan, Mohan Agashe, Om Puri,

This was the first movie made by this group (see Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978), a collective effort in direction and cinematography. The story tells the tale of Nanasaheb Phadnavis, ...