Best Biography movies of 1970s

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 : Budong Wen, Daolin Sun, Tiecheng Wang, Qi Feng,
Directors : Zifeng Ling,

The biography of famous Chinese geologist Li Siguang.

Actors : Mario Almada, David Alejandro, Antonio Aguilar, Armando Acosta,
Directors : Felipe Cazals,

Emiliano Zapata was a peasant who understood the ideals of the working class. He became a figurehead of the revolutionary uprising in Mexico and his life as a leader, his wife and the ...

Actors : Yongshou Zhang, Songmao Zheng, Peixin Cong, Yuling Tao,
Directors : Jizhou Yan,

Biography of famous blind Chinese musician and Erhu player Yanjun Hua (aka. Ah Bing).

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Pier Paolo Capponi, Florinda Bolkan, Terence Stamp,
Directors : Nelo Risi,

About the last months Arthur Rimbaud spent in Africa before his untimely death (he was only 37), trafficking in arms and maybe in slaves. With a frequent use of flashback earlier moments of Rimbaud's life are explored.

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 : Aruna Irani, Rekha Sabnis, Om Shivpuri, Arun Khopkar,
Directors : Mani Kaul,

Aashad Ka Ek Din is an adaptation of the play that is based on Kalidasa's life in three acts. Kalidasa is renowned as one of the greatest writers, poets and dramatists in the history of Sanskrit language.

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 : 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 : 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 : Ronald Haines, Jim Dratfield, Patrick Dray, Bob Damon,
Directors : James W. Roberson,

Based on a true story of Colorado's only convicted killer/cannibal Alfred Packer.

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 : Carmen Roldán, Carles Velat, Amparo Soler Leal, Manuel Galiana,
Directors : Fernando Fernán Gómez,

Based in the novel Aurora de Sangre (Eduardo de Guzman) and in the real events happened during the II Spanish Republic. Aurora Rodriguez goes to police to assume the death of her daughter ...

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 : Vladimir Anisko, L. Armengol, O. Banke Paulu, András Kozák,
Directors : Manos Zacharias,

The last months of life of Hungarian writer Máté Zalka who joined the International Brigades and fought in the Spanish Civil War.

Actors : Esko Salminen, Paavo Liski, 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 : Christine Schorn, Ute Lubosch, Hilmar Eichhorn, Michael Gwisdek,
Directors : Lothar Warneke,

Last years in the Life of german Dramatican Georg Büchner

Actors : Regis Cordic, Sándor Naszódy, Marvin Miller, Rod Colbin,
Directors : Michael Economou,

A faithful recounting of the ministry, trial and martyrdom of the fifteenth century Bohemian priest John Hus, who built on the reforms of John Wycliffe, taught the Bible in the vernacular and who influenced Martin Luther a century later.

Actors : Rea Mauranen, Ari Suonsuu, Asko Sarkola, Kari Franck,

The life of early 20th century author, journalist, and revolutionary Algot Untola (also known as Maiju Lassila, Irmari Rantamala and under several more pseudonyms), one of the most ...

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.