Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 991 Films to Buy & Rent
Downhill Racer (1969)
- Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv
- A pre–HOOSIERS Gene Hackman dons the coach's whistle in this Winter Olympics drama, with Robert Redford providing the film’s clash of…
John and Mary (1969)
- Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow, Michael Tolan
- Archetypal late–sixties timepiece has Hoffman and Farrow wandering New York after a one–night stand. Yates's direction is equally…
Ma Nuit Chez Maud (My Night at Maud's / My Night with Maud) (1969)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Francoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
- Rohmer's fourth moral tale again presents the idea of a man's romantic dilemma with more than one woman in his life. The wordy philosophising is…
Marcus Welby MD (TV Series) (1969)
- Feat. Robert Young, James Brolin
- Long–running medical drama, with Robert Young as the beloved General Practioner whose unorthodox care of patients riled his much younger,…
Me, Natalie (1969)
- Dir. Fred Coe
Feat. Patty Duke, James Farentino, Salome Jens…
- Thoughtful, though occasionally mawkish coming–of–age tale with Patty Duke as a young woman struggling with low self esteem and fighting…
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…