Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3560 Films to Buy & Rent
- Brass Target (1978)
- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughn…
- A classic 70's all–star cast feature in this post–World War II suspense film that suggests that the German automobile crash involving…
- Centennial (TV Mini-series) (1978)
- Feat. Raymond Burr, Barbara Carrera, Robert Conrad
- Western mini–series spanning the 200 year history of the town of Centennial, Colarado.
Well–researched in its depiction of the…
- Corvette Summer (1978)
- Dir. Matthew Robbins
Feat. Mark Hamill, Annie Potts, Eugene Roche…
- Benign comedy with Hamill heading to Vegas in pursuit of a Corvette Stingray stolen from his auto–shop class.
- Dallas - Season 1 and 2 (TV Series) (1978-1991)
- Feat. Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray…
- The high–powered soap opera that became a 1980s icon, this follows the fortunes and misfortunes of Texas oil magnate JR Ewing and his family,…
- Disraeli (TV Mini-series) (1978)
- Dir. Claude Whatham
Feat. Ian McShane, Rosemary Leach, Mary Peach…
- Detailed biopic of the remarkable life of the author turned British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Talky and visually limited this is more than a…
- End, The (1978)
- Dir. Burt Reynolds
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise
- Black comedy directed by and starring Burt Reynolds, who plays a real–estate agent who decides to kill himself when he is diagnosed with a…
- F.I.S.T. (Fist) (1978)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle…
- Earnest union drama with Stallone as a Jimmy Hoffa type union leader whose idealism is gradually corrupted. Curious misfire is worth a watch with a…
- Famous Five, The (TV Series) (Enid Blyton's The Famous Five) (1978-1979)
- Feat. Michele Gallagher, Marcus Harris, Gary Russell…
- The original and most beloved of The Famous Five TV serials, based on Enid Blyton's classic children's adventure novels.
Of Blyton's 21 stories,…
- Fantasy Island (TV series) (1978-1984)
- Feat. Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize
- Unique and often inventive television classic set around a mysterious island resort, where white–suited Montalban and his diminutive sidekick…
- Fedora (1978)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. William Holden, Marthe Keller, Jose Ferrer…
- Fascinating later work from dir. Wilder, in which an impoverished film producer travels to the Greek islands to track down an elusive European star…