Best Biography movies of 1970s

Actors : Anjanette Comer, Warren Berlinger, Michael Callan, Tony Curtis,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter is head of Murder Inc., the syndicate that spattered the headlines of the day with blood.

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 : Neda Arneric, Darko Damevski, Slobodan Dimitrijevic, Dime Ilijev,
Directors : Aleksandar Djurcinov,

A Macedonian girl is trying to swim the British Channel. During the ordeal, she remembers her troubled past.

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 : Kôjirô Hongô, Shin'ichi Chiba, Masaru Shiga, Hideo Murota,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in Japan.

Actors : Andrey Myagkov, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Larisa Malevannaya, Lyudmila Kasatkina,
Directors : Sergey Mikaelyan,

Chess Grandmaster Sergei Khlebnikov is a highly talented and unusual person, living in the 1970s Soviet Union. His is obsessed with making a beautiful game. But his emotional and irrational...

Actors : Nan Martin, Timothy Bottoms, Marilyn Hassett, Belinda Montgomery,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Several years after the deaths of Dick Buek and her father, Jill Kinmont and her mother leave Los Angeles to spend their summer in their hometown of Bishop, California. They rent a summer ...

Actors : Nikos Kapios, Vasilis Kolovos, Antigoni Amanitou, Zaharias Rohas,
Directors : Nikos Koundouros,

Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the Asia Minor Disaster and the agonizing ...

Actors : Richard Harrison, Szu Shih, Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Four friends learn kung fu to avenge the death of their friend against the manchus.

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

The biography of famous Chinese geologist Li Siguang.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.

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 : 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 : 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...