Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3560 Films to Buy & Rent
- Boy in the Plastic Bubble, The (1976)
- Dir. Randal Kleiser
Feat. John Travolta, Glynnis O'Connor, Robert Reed
- A cult telemovie starring John Travolta as an immune–deficient youngster with potentially fatal allergies, who has to exist in a sealed…
- Break Of Day (1976)
- Dir. Ken Hannam
Feat. Andrew MacFarlane
- Quiet Australian drama focused on a young soldier's struggle to adjust to his previous life after returning home post–WW1, and his pursuit of…
- Caddie (1976)
- Dir. Donald Crombie
Feat. Helen Morse, Drew Forsythe, Jack Thompson…
- Key film of the Australian cinema renaissance with Helen Morse exceptional as a young solo mother struggling to get by in a male dominated…
- Captains and the Kings (TV Mini-Series) (1976)
- Feat. Patty Duke, Jane Seymour, Perry King…
- Rich inter–generational saga chronicling the life of an Irish immigrant who arrives penniless in America in the mid–19th century.…
- Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette) (1976)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira…
- Daunting Fassbinder drama concerning a cheating mother and father unwittingly convinced by their disabled daughter to each take their lovers on a…
- Deathcheaters (1976)
- Dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith
Feat. Grant Page, John Hargreaves, Chris Haywood
- Stunt–packed Aussie adventure involving a couple of spies attempting to infiltrate the stronghold of a criminal genius.
It's all just a…
- Duchess of Duke Street, The (TV Series) (1976)
- Feat. Gemma Jones, Christopher Cazenove
- A classic of BBC television, this easily equals UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS in its serio–comic depiction of domestic drama in Victorian–Edwardian…
- Eat My Dust! (1976)
- Dir. Charles B Griffith
Feat. Ron Howard, Warren Kemmerling
- Set around the racetrack world of stock–cars and demolition derbys, this Roger Corman–produced actioner has a young Ron Howard behind the…
- Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The (TV Series) (1976)
- Dir. John Howard Davies, Gareth Gwenlan
Feat. Leonard Rossiter, Pauline Yates
- The ultimate midlife–crisis sitcom, follows the adventures of Reginald as he wakes up to the absurdity of his middle–class existence and…
- George and Mildred (TV Series) (1976)
- Dir. Peter Frazer-Jones
Feat. Yootha Joyce, Brian Murphy
- The landlords of MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE bicker away to much amusement in this still–funny 70s sitcom.
Moving to an upmarket suburb proves an…