Best Biography movies of 1972

Actors : Helena Rojo, Ruy Guerra, Klaus Kinski, Del Negro,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.

Actors : Kenneth Cranham, Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

This is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.

Actors : Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James T. Callahan,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Actors : Robert Shaw, Ronald Hines, Simon Ward, Peter Cellier,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

This historical drama is an account of the early life of the future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood, his time as a war correspondent in South ...

Actors : Isabel Jewell, Jeff Briggs, Edie Sedgwick, Wesley Hayes,

CIAO! MANHATTAN parallels Andy Warhol Factory star Edie Sedgwick's glory days in the late 1960s through her inevitable downfall and the tragic addiction that would take her life only weeks after filming wrapped in 1971.

Actors : Richard Burton, Valentina Cortese, Romy Schneider, Alain Delon,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with politics, promoting socialism to the world. Stalin has sent out an ...

Actors : Renato Romano, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

Enrico Mattei helped change Italy's future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ...

Actors : Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Stephen Archibald, Karl Fieseler,
Directors : Bill Douglas,

The second part (My ain folk) of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the ...

Actors : Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Lindsay Kemp, Helen Mirren,
Directors : Ken Russell,

Biographical film of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

Actors : Telly Savalas, Anne Francis, Clint Walker, Chuck Connors,
Directors : Eugenio Martín,

A double-cross in an arms deal prompts Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to raid a US Army weapons depot in Columbus, New Mexico.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Bozidarka Frajt, Zlatica Dubravcic, Ruza Rosoci, Vesna Veselic,
Directors : Tomislav Radic,

An unemployed actress remembers her war-torn childhood while she unsuccessfully tries to find a job.

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 »