Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 978 Films to Buy & Rent
- Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
- Dir. Robert Bolt
Feat. Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain…
- Playwright Robert Bolt (A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS) debuts as dir. with this intelligent account of the titular Englishwoman. Managing to rock early 19th…
- MASH (TV Series) (M*A*S*H) (1972-1983)
- Feat. Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, Loretta Swit
- Long running and much loved TV Series loosely based on Robert Altman’s 1969 film set in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean…
- Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page…
- Bittersweet character story of a smarmy rogue and an aging virgin who get married despite fundamental differences which remain unaltered nine years…
- Tout Va Bien (Everything’s All Right) (1972)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
Feat. Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Anita Caprioli
- Radical political drama from Nouvelle Vague luminary Jean Luc–Godard and frequent collaborator Jean–Pierre Gorin, set during a wildcat…
- Visitors, The (1972)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Patrick McVey, Patricia Joyce, James Woods…
- Tense chamber piece has Woods as a returned Vietnam Vet holidaying with his wife and son when two fellow ex–soldiers turn up unannounced.…
- 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…