Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3560 Films to Buy & Rent
- Flying High (Airplane!) (1978)
- Dir. David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Feat. Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges…
- Side–splittingly funny lampoon of the Airport / Disaster movie genre, voted the best comedy of all time in 1999 by EMPIRE magazine.
- Go Tell the Spartans (1978)
- Dir. Ted Post
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, David Clennon…
- Set in the early stages of the conflict in Vietnam, Lancaster plays a Major who, with a small band of untested soldiers, is ordered to hold a small…
- Grange Hill (TV Series) (1978-2008)
- Candid British kids series following the exploits of a group of school misfits dealing with the day–to–day struggles of life in a…
- Hazell (TV Series) (1978)
- Feat. Nicholas Ball
- Paying homage to classic film noir this ITV crime series centres around a charismatic private detective who tackles blackmail, missing persons cases,…
- Heidi (TV Series) (1978)
- Dir. Tony Faadt, Joachim Hesss
Feat. Katharina Balhm, Katia Polletin
- Thirteen episodes of the fondly remembered classic Heidi series.
- Holocaust (TV Mini-series) (1978)
- Dir. Marvin J. Chomsky
Feat. Meryl Streep, James Woods, Michael Moriaty…
- Captivating saga of a Jewish family shattered by the rise of the Nazis. One of the top–rating and best quality mini–series of the 1970s.
- Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1978)
- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Spike Milligan…
- Comedy spoof of the book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring a generous spread of British comedy talent. Peter Cook plays Sherlock Holmes, who is…
- House Calls (1978)
- Dir. Howard Zieff
Feat. Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Art Carney…
- Matthau plays a recent widower who attempts to make up for all the fidelity by womanizing he much as he can, before Glenda Jackson comes along and…
- International Velvet (1978)
- Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Tatum O'Neal, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Plummer…
- Belated and earnest sequel to classic NATIONAL VELVET has an adult Velvet Brown take in an orphaned niece from America, who, with the help of an…
- Irishman, The (1978)
- Dir. Donald Crombie
Feat. Michael Craig, Robyn Nevin, Simon Burke…
- Rousing tale of hard living Irish teamster Paddy Doolan whose refusal to acquiesce to fashionable new technology pushes his family close to ruin in…