Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
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.…
In a Year of 13 Moons (1978)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John…
- Volker Spengler plays a hopelessly insecure trans–sexual cast adrift amid imposing cityscapes of modern Berlin. Fassbinder trawls out the…
Interiors (1978)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Diane Keaton
- Three daughters are shaken when their father leaves his refined, unstable wife for a lively but vulgar divorcee. Allen's first serious film.
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…