Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 978 Films to Buy & Rent
- When The Boat Comes In (TV Series) (1976)
- Feat. James Bolam, James Garbutt, Jean Heywood
- 'Northern' drama series set in a post–WW1 Britain, where Ex–Sergeant Jack Ford (Bolam) and his family must deal with the aftermath…
- American Film Theatre - Galileo (1975)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Topol, John Gielgud, Patrick Magee…
- A generally satisfactory version of Bertolt Brecht's stageplay concerning the ethical dilemmas of the scientist Galileo, who among other things…
- American Film Theatre - In Celebration (1975)
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Alan Bates, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Daye…
- A tightly framed screen adaptation of David Storey's autobiographical play set around the reunion of a Nottinghamshire mining family, in which cast…
- American Film Theatre - Philadelphia, Here I Come (1975)
- Dir. John Quested
Feat. Donal McCann, Des Cave, Siobhan McKenna
- A young Irishman agonises over whether to leave his stifling Irish existence and join relatives in America, in one of the more subdued American Film…
- Autobiography of a Princess (1975)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Madhur Jaffrey, James Mason
- Merchant Ivory production about an Indian princess (Madhur Jaffrey) who has left her homeland and lives in contemporary London. On the anniversary of…
- Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
- Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard
- Well–made, though somewhat old–fashioned version of Barry England's play about misbehaviour among the British Army in India. The stars…
- Edward VII (TV Series) (1975)
- Dir. John Gorrie
Feat. Timothy West, John Gielgud, Robert Hardy…
- Superb period drama covers the complicated 'Royal' Edward VII, who was almost an old man by the time he finally became King of England in the early…
- Lucky Lady (1975)
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds…
- Shapeless caper with three rum–runners set during the prohibition whose lives are complicated by the personal relationships.
A notorious…
- Mahogany (1975)
- Dir. Berry Gordy
Feat. Diana Ross, Anthony Perkins, Billy Dee Williams…
- Deliciously overripe melodrama with Diana Ross as an aspiring designer falling under the spell of jet–setting Anthony Perkins. Ross and…
- Poldark (TV Series) (1975)
- Dir. Philip Dudley
Feat. Ralph Bates, Robin Ellis, Jill Townsend
- Highly successful British TV series based on the series of novels by Winston Graham about the life of an 18th–century Cornish nobleman (Ellis)…