Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Drama: 728 Films to Buy & Rent
Backroads (1977)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Bill Hunter
- This short road–movie was a moody debut for dir. Noyce, laying out the tale of two drifters (one black, one white) who steal a car for an…
Murder Most English (TV Series) (The Flaxborough Chronicles) (1977)
- Feat. Anton Rodgers, Christopher Timothy
- Based on the Colin Watson mysteries, this Ever–so–English detective series follows two English detectives as they solve particularly…
Summerfield (1977)
- Dir. Ken Hannam
Feat. John Waters, Charles Tingwell, Nick Tate
- A low–key but atmospheric mystery from the Australian New Wave of the 1970s, in which a well–meaning replacement teacher (Tate) arrives…
All the President's Men (1976)
- Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford
- Chilling account of events that led to the publicising of the Watergate scandal, as uncovered by two reporters. A key film of the 1970s.
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Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, The (1976)
- Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Martin Balsam, Cliff DeYoung…
- A TV film dramatising the events of the Lindbergh kidnapping, in which the son of aviators Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was abducted…
Mikey and Nicky (1976)
- Dir. Elaine May
Feat. Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty…
- Loosely improvised drama, with a wild–eyed John Cassavetes calling on old pal Peter Falk to help escape the Mob. Turns out he may not be such a…
Rocky Boxset (Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, Rocky Balboa) (1976-2006)
- Feat. Sylvester Stallone
- The complete Rocky legacy in one box–set, including Stallone's final recent swansong in the career–defining role.
Lost Honor of Katherina Blum, The (1975)
- Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Angela Winkler, Jurgen Prochnow
- Taken from the novel by Heinrich Boll, this reproach to the powers–that–be in mid–70s West Germany portrays the hardheaded…
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse…
- Simply one of the best Australian films ever, this elegant mystery, based on the novel by Joan Lindsay, centres around the disappearance of several…
Stepford Wives, The (1975)
- Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson…
- Beautifully understated, bizarre satire on suburbia and the feminist movement in which the inhabitants of a small town seem curiously contented. …