Best biopics 1961 – 1970 - Charts
Best biopics 1961 – 1970
1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
USA, Western / Drama
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford
2. Andrei Rublev (1966)
Soviet Union, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky
Cast: Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko
3. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
UK, Adventure / War
Directed by: David Lean
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness
4. The Sound of Music (1965)
USA, Musical / Family
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
5. The Miracle Worker (1962)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Arthur Penn
Cast: Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory
6. Cleopatra (1963)
UK / USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
7. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Arthur Penn
Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway
8. El Cid (1961)
Italy / USA, Romance / War
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Cast: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren
10. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden
11. Patton (1970)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: George C. Scott, Karl Malden
12. Becket (1964)
UK, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Peter Glenville
Cast: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole
13. Funny Girl (1968)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif
14. The Gospel According to Matthew (1964)
Italy / France, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Pier Paolo Pasolini
15. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
UK, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller
16. Freud (1962)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: John Huston
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Susannah York
17. Cromwell (1970)
UK, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Ken Hughes
Cast: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness
18. The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
Soviet Union, Drama / Poetic
Directed by: Sergei Parajanov
Cast: Sofiko Chiaurel, Melkon Alekyan
19. Barabbas (1961)
Italy / USA, Adventure / Biography
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano
20. King of Kings (1961)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Hurd Hatfield
21. Life of Adolf Hitler (1961)
West Germany, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Paul Rotha
Cast: Leo Genn, Adolf Hitler
22. Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn
23. Star! (1968)
USA, Musical / Biography
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna
24. Here Is Your Life (1966)
Sweden, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Jan Troell
Cast: Eddie Axberg, Gudrun Brost
25. Custer of the West (1967)
USA, Western / Biography
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Robert Shaw, Mary Ure
26. The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: George Stevens, David Lean
27. Young Cassidy (1965)
UK, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Jack Cardiff, John Ford
Cast: Rod Taylor, Flora Robson
28. Black Jesus (1968)
Italy, Biography / Drama
Directed by: Valerio Zurlini
Cast: Woody Strode, Jean Servais
29. Bloody Che Contra (1968)
Italy, Biography / Drama
Directed by: Paolo Heusch
Cast: Francisco Rabal, John Ireland
30. Francis of Assisi (1966)
Italy, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Liliana Cavani
Cast: Lou Castel, Marco Bellocchio
31. Age of Consent (1969)
Australia, Biography / Comedy
Directed by: Michael Powell
Cast: James Mason, Helen Mirren
32. Hitler (1962)
USA, Biography / War
Directed by: Stuart Heisler
Cast: Richard Basehart, Cordula Trantow
33. The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)
West Germany / Italy, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Cast: Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang
34. Horoucí srdce (1962)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Otakar Vávra
Cast: Jiřina Švorcová, Radovan Lukavský
36. Ned Kelly (1970)
UK, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Cast: Mick Jagger, Clarissa Kaye-Mason
37. The Conqueror Worm (1968)
UK, Historical / Biography
Directed by: Michael Reeves
Cast: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy
38. Marco Polo (1961)
Italy / France, Adventure / Biography
Directed by: Piero Pierotti, Hugo Fregonese
Cast: Rory Calhoun, Yoko Tani
39. The Conspiracy of Torture (1969)
Italy, Biography / Drama
Directed by: Lucio Fulci
Cast: Tomas Milian, Adrienne Larussa