Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5567 Films to Buy & Rent
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette
- James Garner again plays a con–man, this time mistaken for a notorious gunfighter. Good natured, entertaining satire.
They Call Me Trinity (1971)
- Dir. Enzo Barboni
Feat. Terence Hill, Bud Spencer
- The film that triggered the careers of B–movie icons Terence Hill and Bud Spencer is an engaging spaghetti–western spoof. Something of a…
They Might Be Giants (1971)
- Dir. Anthony Harvey
Feat. George C. Scott, Joanne Woodward, Jack Gilford…
- A delightfully goofy comic mystery starring George C. Scott as a psychiatric patient who is convinced he is Sherlock Holmes at a Manhattan hospital…
Trafic (Traffic) (1971)
- Dir. Jacques Tati
Feat. Jacques Tati
- Mr. Hulot's final clownish outing sees him invent a revolutionary motor car which proves to be problematic en route to Amsterdam.
Two Ronnies, The (TV Series) (1971)
- Feat. Ronnie Corbett, Ronnie Barker
- Classic, long–running BBC series from two of Britain’s all–time comedy greats in what is considered the perfect double–act. "Best…
Up Pompeii (1971)
- Dir. Bob Kellett
Feat. Frankie Howerd, Sir Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray…
- Frankie Howerd's bawdy comedy with a Roman slave inadvertently becoming the possessor of a scroll naming the proposed assassins of the Emperor Nero.
Woody Allen Collection, The (Annie Hall, Bananas, Interiors, Love and Death, Manhattan, Sleeper, Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex) (1971-1979)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen
- Seven Woody Allen classics all, bar one, from his earlier, funnier period – "Annie Hall", "Bananas", "Interiors", "Love and Death",…
Archie's Funhouse (TV Series) (1970)
- Animated 70's series based on the popular comic strip starring Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead and Reggie, the famous group of friends at Riverdale…
Bombay Talkie (1970)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Zia Mohyeddin
- Probably the most visually distinguished Merchant–Ivory film, this semi–satiric swirl through the 'Bollywood' film industry works as both…
Borsalino (1970)
- Dir. Jacques Deray
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Michel Bouquet
- Delightful seriocomic film of two likeable hoods who become gangland chieftains in 1930s Marseilles. Music by Claude Bolling.