Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
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…
Fingers (1978)
- Dir. James Toback
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Jim Brown…
- Harvey Keitel conjures up the required intensity for this portrait of a frustrated concert pianist with a violent temper. The nerve–shredding…
FM (1978)
- Dir. John A Alonzo
Feat. Michael Brandon
- No static at all, and no commercials either (well, not too many) if the liberal, music–dedicated broadcasters get their way over the interests…
Four Feathers, The (1978)
- Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Jane Seymour, Beau Bridges, Robert Powell
- Fine costume drama, based on A E W Mason's classic tale of a British officer charged with cowardice, who regains his honour and his love, during an…
George Eliot Boxset (The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Adam Bede, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda) (1978-2002)
- Five BBC classics from the pen of George Eliot.
Collection includes: The Mill on the Floss (1978), Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1985),…
Hitler - A Film From Germany (1978)
- Dir. Hans-Jurgen Syberberg
- An epic and highly original exploration of the sources of German fascism, in which experimentalist dir. Syberberg weaves a tapestry of surreal…
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.
Hullabaloo over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Peggy Ashcroft, Saeed Jaffrey, Victor Banerjee
- Television film from Merchant Ivory productions, about an attempted theft of valuable paintings from an Indian palace. The thieves include a museum…
Ice Castles (1978)
- Dir. Donald Wrye
Feat. Lynn-Holly Johnson, Tom Skerritt
- 'Affliction' drama that charts the rise of an Iowa farm–girl to Olympic success as a free–skater, but befalls a crippling accident.…