Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 978 Films to Buy & Rent
- Model Shop (1969)
- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Anouk Aimee, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay
- A mesmerizing, shamefully neglected stateside film from French New Wave director Jacques Demy that follows an aimless, unemployed architect who ends…
- Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. John Rae, Corin Redgrave, Maurice Roeves…
- Powerful anti–war musical adapted from the play by Charles Chilton, which depicts the mass blunder of WWI through the experiences of the poor…
- Paul Temple (TV Series) (1969)
- Feat. Francis Matthews, Ros Drinkwater
- Forgotten 70s crime series follows the fortunes of a globetrotting novelist–cum–amateur sleuth and his dishy wife. Something of an…
- Slogan (1969)
- Dir. Pierre Grimblat
Feat. Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg
- Vivacious French romance about a reckless advertising director who throws caution to the wind and abandons his preggers wife to embark on a worldwide…
- Staircase (1969)
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Rex Harrison, Richard Burton, Cathleen Nesbitt
- Sitting somewhere between farce and melancholy, a pair of aging barbers bicker over the possibility of ending their loving but often volatile…
- Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
- Dir. Abraham Polonsky
Feat. Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake…
- This Western comeback from blacklisted director Polonsky (FORCE OF EVIL) focuses (rather ironically) on the manhunt of Robert Blake, who here plays…
- That Cold Day in the Park (1969)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Sandy Dennis
- Containing various embryonic Altman trademarks, this early work portrays a neurotic spinster (Sandy Dennis) who ensnares a young man in her…
- Virgin Soldiers, The (1969)
- Dir. Norman Cohen
Feat. Lynn Redgrave, Hywel Bennett, Nigel Davenport…
- Comdey–drama following a squad of naive young British soldiers in 1950's Singapore who fall for the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major.
- Vortex, The / Hay Fever (The Noel Coward Collection - Disc 1) (1969-1984)
- Dir. Philip Dudley
Feat. Margaret Leighton, Richard Warwick, Penelope Keith…
- –The Vortex (69') Dark and disturbing drama centred on a family torn apart by drug abuse and sordid affairs. This deeply shocking play, that…
- Winning (1969)
- Dir. James Goldstone
Feat. Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Wagner…
- Paul Newman challenges for Joanne Woodward on and off the track in this high–speed racing melodrama, shot spectacularly amongst the competitive…