Best Biography movies of 1970s

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

The last day of Alfred Kordelin.

Actors : Mako Midori, Shingo Yamashiro, Mikijirô Hira, Shin Kishida,
Directors : Akio Jissôji,

Follows the life of the famous classical printmaker, Utamaro Kitagawa, set during the time when Utamaro is commissioned to produce pornographic woodblocks.

Actors : Vijayachander, Rajasulochana, Chandramohan,

A 160-minute version of the life of Jesus Christ filmed entirely with a cast and crew of Christian Indians in India.

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

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

Actors : Paavo Liski, Esko Salminen, Elina Salo, Katja Salminen,
Directors : Jaakko Pakkasvirta,

Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on his relationships with first wife Freya...

Actors : Piotr Garlicki, Piotr Fronczewski, Tadeusz Plucinski, Tadeusz Borowski,
Directors : Roman Wionczek,

Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage ...

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 : Pola Raksa, Bogusz Bilewski, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Roman Wilhelmi,
Directors : Filip Bajon,

Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony ...

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 : Luis Iriondo, Xabier Elorriaga, Marta Angelat, Montserrat Carulla,
Directors : Josep Maria Forn,

1939: The remains of the Spanish Republican Army crossed the French border. Among the exiles are Lluís Companys, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and also Aguirre, President of ...

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

About life of José Clemente Orosco in New York

Actors : August Schellenberg, Gabriel Arcand, Thomas Donohue, Yvon Dufour,
Directors : Jean-Claude Labrecque,

In 1953, in the Gaspé forest, there are three bodies half eaten by bears. Fearing repercussions on tourism and investment, Prime minister Maurice Duplessis decided to make an example accusing Wilbert Coffin.

Actors : Ulla Blomstrand, Willie Andréason, Maria Andersson, Marianne Aminoff,
Directors : Birgitta Svensson,

Mackan's real name is Margaret. She is 14 and move a lot because her father is employed at the Railroad Company. In a small town she meets Kenneth.He is 18 and the coolest guy in town. Their relationship is a major triumph for Mackan.

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 : Toma Dimitriu, Gabriel Marian Oseciuc, Octavian Cotescu, Radu Beligan,
Directors : Mircea Dragan,

Aurel Vlaicu is a young man born in Bintinti, Transylvania. His dream is to built a flying machine, so he studies engineering in Budapest and Munich, then comes back home. He first builds a...

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 : Christine Schorn, Ute Lubosch, Hilmar Eichhorn, Michael Gwisdek,
Directors : Lothar Warneke,

Last years in the Life of german Dramatican Georg Büchner

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.