Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 991 Films to Buy & Rent
Bound for Glory (1976)
- Dir. Hal Ashby
Feat. David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon…
- Superbly made biopic of folksinger Woody Guthrie, set during the tail–end of the Great Depression as Guthrie makes his way across dustbowl…
Bouquet of Barbed Wire (TV Mini-Series) (1976)
- Dir. Tony Wharmby
Feat. Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon, James Aubrey…
- Quease–inducing drama of a middle–class family being torn apart by a father's obsessive love for his manipulative daughter. Shocking for…
Boy in the Plastic Bubble, The (1976)
- Dir. Randal Kleiser
Feat. John Travolta, Glynnis O'Connor, Robert Reed
- A cult telemovie starring John Travolta as an immune–deficient youngster with potentially fatal allergies, who has to exist in a sealed…
Break Of Day (1976)
- Dir. Ken Hannam
Feat. Andrew MacFarlane
- Quiet Australian drama focused on a young soldier's struggle to adjust to his previous life after returning home post–WW1, and his pursuit of…
Caddie (1976)
- Dir. Donald Crombie
Feat. Helen Morse, Drew Forsythe, Jack Thompson…
- Key film of the Australian cinema renaissance with Helen Morse exceptional as a young solo mother struggling to get by in a male dominated…
Captains and the Kings (TV Mini-Series) (1976)
- Feat. Patty Duke, Jane Seymour, Perry King…
- Rich inter–generational saga chronicling the life of an Irish immigrant who arrives penniless in America in the mid–19th century.…
Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, The (1976)
- Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Martin Balsam, Cliff DeYoung…
- A TV film dramatising the events of the Lindbergh kidnapping, in which the son of aviators Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was abducted…
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (TV Series) (1976-1977)
- Feat. Louise Lasser, Greg Mullavey
- Adventurous satirical soap opera from the 70's following a small–town housewife who encounters various complex and compounding…
Moneychangers, The (TV Series) (1976)
- Feat. Kirk Douglas, Christopher Plummer, Anne Baxter…
- Kirk Douglas and Christopher Plummer play executives battling to claim the presidency of one of America's largest banks in this meaty financial…
Rich Man, Poor Man (Mini-series) (1976)
- Feat. Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, Susan Blakely…
- Popular TV Mini–Series with a superb ensemble cast based on the best–selling Irwin Shaw novel following the fate of two immigrant…