Best Biography movies of 1976

Actors : Martin Balsam, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

Actors : Michael Ansara, Johnny Sekka, Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas,
Directors : Moustapha Akkad,

In the 7th century, Mohammed, Peace Be Upon Him, is visited by Angel Gabriel who urges him to lead the people of Mecca and worship God. But they're exiled in Medina before returning to ...

Actors : Yasuko Matsui, Tatsuya Fuji, Aoi Nakajima, Eiko Matsuda,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to a sexual obsession which then came to a violent end.

Actors : Ronny Cox, David Carradine, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.

Actors : Cicely Browne, Tina Aumont, Carmen Scarpitta, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person ? Is he really alive ?

Actors : Abdallah Gheith, Mouna Wasef, Hamdy Gheith, Ali Achmed Taram,
Directors : Moustapha Akkad,

The story of prophet "Muhammad" and the delivery of the message of God "Allah."

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Douglas Wilmer, Daniel Massey, Glenda Jackson,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

The life of the great actress, Sarah Bernhardt.

Actors : Jill Clayburgh, Red Buttons, James Brolin, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

A biography about the love affair between 1930s Hollywood superstars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.

Actors : Roger E. Mosley, Alan Manson, Paul Benjamin, Madge Sinclair,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the...

Actors : Jack Cassidy, Rod Steiger, John Marley, Valerie Perrine,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

W.C. Fields is an American original, the curmudgeonly master of wit and good, mean fun.

Actors : David Chow, Kuei Chang, Little Unicorn, Chi-Min Chin,
Directors : See-Yuen Ng,

Fighting sequences and drama of the famed martial arts icon grace this biopic as he goes from Hong Kong, to studying at the University of Washington in Seattle, to California, and the ...

Actors : Preston Hanson, Terence Locke, Patch Mackenzie, Misty Rowe,
Directors : Larry Buchanan,

Aspiring actress Norma Jean Baker lives in squalor in the early '40s as she works at the munitions plant and dreams of being a movie star. Abused as a child and an adult, she lacks ...

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 : 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, ...

Actors : Su-Chen Chen, Caryn White, Yunzhong Li, Bruce Li,
Directors : Hsing-Lai Wang,

A highly fictionalized biography of the famous Bruce Lee, this movie traces his college life, his marriage to Linda Lee, his relationship with his master, and his untimely death.

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 : Stanislav Fiser, Miroslav Dolezal, Petr Kostka, Eduard Cupák,
Directors : Josef Mach,

Josef Mánes (Petr Kostka) gets into a conflict with the director of the Academy of Fine Art, and is immediately thrown out of the school. But Josef is not downcast. He is young and believes...

Actors : Larisa Luzhina, Oleg Orlov, Svetlana Ponomaryova, Georgiy Burkov,
Directors : Boris Grigorev,

Biopic of Yuri Gagarin, the first man who flew around the Earth, from his birth to his dream of flying since he saw combat airplanes over his small village, during the German occupation in WWII.