Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 988 Films to Buy & Rent
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)…
Raffles (TV Series) (1975-1977)
- Feat. Anthony Valentine, Christopher Strauli
- Known by day as A.J. Raffles, gentleman of leisure and top–rate cricketer, at night Raffles becomes "the amateur Cracksman", an expert jewel…
Winstanley (1975)
- Dir. Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
Feat. Miles Halliwell, Jerome Willis, Terry Higgins
- The dramatized history of a Reformation–era religious sect called the Diggers. A nonviolent aggregation, the Diggers are devoted to tilling the…
Affairs of the Heart (TV Series) (1974)
- Dir. Derek Bennett, Michael Ferguson
Feat. Diana Rigg, Ian Ogilvy, Anna Calder-Marshall…
- Seven tales from the fiction of Henry James are adapted to television with varying degrees of success and a wide range of actors. Plenty of…
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The (1974)
- Dir. John Korty
Feat. Cicely Tyson, Richard Dysart, Michael Murphy
- Notable classic tele–drama based on the novel of the same name by Ernest J. Gaines, set in the early 1960's, where a woman born into slavery in…
Between Wars (1974)
- Dir. Michael Thornhill
Feat. Corin Redgrave, Judy Morris, Arthur Dignam…
- Insightful portrait traces the career of famed Australian psychiatrist Dr Edward Trenbow, as he embarks on his groundbreaking research of…
Brief Encounter (1974)
- Dir. Alan Bridges
Feat. Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Jack Hedley…
- The BBC revisit David Lean's classic unrequited romance, with Richard Burton and Sophia Loren excellent as would–be lovers who meet on a train…
California Split (1974)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. George Segal, Elliott Gould, Gwen Welles
- A terrific gambling lark–come–cautionary tale from director Robert Altman, starring George Segal as a casual gambler who befriends a…
Daisy Miller (1974)
- Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Mildred Natwick…
- A thoughtful if slightly 'out of tune' version of Henry James' early novel, in which the titular American tours Europe in the late 1800s. Nicely…