Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 959 Films to Buy & Rent
- Waltons, The (TV Series) (1972-1981)
- Feat. Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned…
- One of the most iconic TV Series of all time depicted the life of an extended family in Depression–era Virginia. Claimed as a repository for…
- Carnal Knowledge (1971)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret…
- Classic from the early 70s 'zeitgeist', this funny yet sobering film chronicles the sex lives of two disparate men from high–school to…
- Family Life (Wednesday's Child) (1971)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Grace Cave
- Grating realist cinema from ‘kitchen sink’ original Ken Loach, about a troubled young girl whose domineering parents drive her to a nervous…
- Fat City (1971)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell
- One of dir. Huston's later accomplishments, this gritty, yet warmly toned drama inhabits a neighbourhood of boxing gyms, lowrent bars and amiable…
- Friends (1971)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Sean Bury, Anicee Alvina
- Sentimental, page–turning romance blossoms an enternal love between two idealistic French teens head over heels. Hit soundtrack by Elton John…
- Go-Between, The (1971)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Julie Christie, Alan Bates
- A young boy acts as a secret messenger for class–divided lovers Julie Christie and Alan Bates during a hot Norfolk summer in Edwardian England.…
- Home (1971)
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Dandy Nichols…
- Worthy TV adaptation of the stageplay by David Storey (THIS SPORTING LIFE), set amid the twilight psychodramas of residents at an old peoples' rest…
- Hospital, The (1971)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes…
- Gallows humour permeates this caustic comedy of medical ineptitude and indifference. Scott plays a suicidal surgeon contending with multiple patient…
- Long Day's Journey into Night (1971)
- Dir. Michael Blakemore
Feat. Laurence Olivier
- A made–for–television National Theatre production of Eugene O'Neill's classic play, which won Laurence Olivier an Emmy for best actor.
- Love Story (1971)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Ray Milland
- Romance on a New England campus between Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal. A huge hit. Oscar–winning theme–tune by Francis Lai.