Best Biography movies of 1970s

Actors : Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Bernard McKenna, Stephen Archibald,
Directors : Bill Douglas,

Jamie and Tommy are separated by the death of their grandmother; Jamie with another relative and Tommy to a welfare home. Now Jamie is all alone and his life is not at all happy taken over by silence, rejection and violence.

Actors : Marie-Françoise Audollent, Frédéric Ladonne, Philippe Caubère, Odile Cointepas,
Directors : Ariane Mnouchkine,

Who was Moliere? He is known everywhere as one of the world's greatest playwrights. But who was he? Born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622, the son of a prosperous tapestry maker. His mother ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Philippe Noiret, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.

Actors : Nan Martin, Marilyn Hassett, Belinda Montgomery, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Young ski champion Jill Kinmont is left paralyzed after a tragic skiing accident. Her best friend suffers the same fate after contracting polio. Jill must slowly put her life back together again with the help of those close to her.

Actors : Lovelady Powell, Lynn Redgrave, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Tom Poston,
Directors : Nicholas Sgarro,

Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts liberally sampling the local male talent....

Actors : Hans Christian Blech, Mathieu Carrière, Renato Scarpa, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Giuliano Montaldo,

Flying from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, ...

Actors : Dragan Maksimovic, Terence Stamp, Mikica Dimitrijevic, Athol Fugard,
Directors : Peter Brook,

G.I. Gurdjieff is a spiritual teacher and mystic who, after a lifetime study, developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.

Actors : Miroljub Leso, Zarko Radic, Marko Nikolic, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Branko Bauer,

The movie is based on the true story about a group of children, barely teenagers, who joined Yugoslav Partizans after losing their families in WW2. At first, Partizans want to get rid of ...

Actors : Glenda Jackson, Trevor Howard, Alec McCowen, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : Robert Enders,

This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.

Actors : Rod Steiger, Franco Nero, Lisa Gastoni, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans are on their tail.

Actors : Ray Ashcroft, Stephen MacKenna, Rod Culbertson, John Altman,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

An account of The Beatles during the Hamburg years, their signing with Brian Epstein and their inevitable rise during the early sixties.

Actors : Rajinikanth, Jayalakshmi, Thengai Srinivasan, Cho Ramaswamy,
Directors : S.P. Muthuraman,

Aarilirunthu Aruvathu varai, Revolves around Santhanam(Rajnikanth) who solely runs his poor family of 2 brothers and a sister, after their parents death, by taking them to higher level in ...

Actors : Katia Dandoulaki, Angelos Antonopoulos, Dimitris Papamichael, Alekos Alexandrakis,
Directors : Erricos Andreou,

The life and work of the hero of 1821 Papaflessas that during the liberation struggle of the Greeks against the Turks, revolutionizing the elders and the world to declare war!!! Up to the ...

Actors : Kostas Kazakos, Angelos Antonopoulos, Vangelis Kazan, Alekos Alexandrakis,
Directors : Nikos Tzimas,

The story of Nikos Belogiannis member of the communist party and officer of Ellas that has come back to Greece only to get arrested, tried for espionage on behalf of Russia and executed. A ...

Actors : Toma Dimitriu, Violeta Andrei, Gheorghe Cozorici, Gheorghe Dinica,
Directors : Mircea Dragan,

In 1475 when Stephen the Great ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome.

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 : 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 : Frank Porretta, Christina Schollin, Florence Henderson, Toralv Maurstad,
Directors : Andrew L. Stone,

Based on the life of Norways greatest composer Edvard Grieg and film in Norway where he lived. The soundtrack is all Edvard Grieg's music with added lyrics.

Actors : Colin Blakely, Topol, Edward Fox, Georgia Brown,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

This bio-pic is about Galileo, the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of ...

Actors : José Ferrer, James Wainwright, Broderick Crawford, Michael Parks,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket-busting days through his reign under eight U.S. presidents.