Best Biography movies of 1970s

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 : Miroljub Leso, Zarko Radic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Marko Nikolic,
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 : 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 : Robert Powell, Virna Lisi, Dominique Sanda, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

The life and ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A love triangle unfolds as Nietzsche and his best friend decides to live with a Jewish woman. According to Nietzsche's ...

Actors : Yasuo Miyake, Rentarô Mikuni, Akiko Kurano, Tadahiko Sugano,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

Actors : Miles Halliwell, Phil Oliver, Jerome Willis, Terry Higgins,
Directors : Kevin Brownlow,

Winstanley explores the attempt by Gerrard Winstanley who formed 'The Diggers' and with a group of followers attempted to form a small farming community in one of the first proto-Communist attempts at collective agriculture.

Actors : Jürgen Arndt, Eva Mattes, Norbert Wartha, Wolf Euba,
Directors : Percy Adlon,

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered...

Actors : Kirill Lavrov, Antonina Shuranova, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy,
Directors : Igor Talankin,

The life and work of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky is shown through his relationship with aristocratic art connoisseur Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck.

Actors : Spike Milligan, Julia Foster, John Bluthal, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Joseph McGrath,

William Topaz McGonagall, the world's greateset poet. Unfortunately the whole of the rest of the world disagreed. His talent made him a sort of Victorian Chris Evans but without the cash.

Actors : José Luis Manzano, Jaime Garza, Verónica Castro, Isela Vega,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

José Manuel Gómez Perales alias "El Jaro" lives with his band, also teenagers and their girlfriends. One day he meets Mercedes, a prostitute who want him away from the bad way. Then appears Toñi, a drug addict from which he falls .

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Husein Cokic, Ljuba Tadic, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Midhat Mutapdzic,

The story begins in 1941 and shows one of the people who which were actually, very brave and proudly fought against the Ustasha, Germans and other butchers, not related to that ideology was...

Actors : Mita Ungaro, Carlos de Carvalho, Pier Maria Rossi, Fausto Di Bella,
Directors : Roberto Rossellini,

The story of the life of Jesus Christ.

Actors : David Cole, Neil Cunningham, Anthony Steel, Fiona Richmond,
Directors : James Kenelm Clarke,

Heavily fictionalised 'autobiography' of 70s sex superstar Fiona Richmond.

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 : Nikolay Eryomenko, Natalya Bondarchuk, Dmitriy Zolotukhin, Tamara Makarova,
Directors : Sergey Gerasimov,

Part one of a pair of historical films about the life of Peter the Great.

Actors : Quinn K. Redeker, John Himes, John Hansen, Joan Tompkins,
Directors : Irving Rapper,

A sex-change operation that changed "George" into "Christine" in 1950s Denmark.

Actors : Victor Rebengiuc, Toma Caragiu, Stefan Sileanu, Vasile Nitulescu,
Directors : Constantin Vaeni,

At the end of the 16th century, Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave dreams of uniting the kingdoms of Wallachia,Transylvania and Moldavia into a single country known as The United Principalities.

Actors : Donna Mills, Robyn Millan, Robert Conrad, Don Stroud,
Directors : Marvin J. Chomsky,

Based on a true story, details the daring 1964 theft of the J.P. Morgan jewel collection from New York's American Museum of Natural History. Called the "Greatest Jewel Heist of the 20th ...

Actors : Manoj Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Hema Malini, Sudhir Dalvi,
Directors : Ashok V. Bhushan,

Pooja lives with her doctor husband and a young son. Her son becomes seriously ill and does not respond to any medication, her husband wants him to be moved to a hospital for further ...

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 ...