Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
A Special Day (1977)
- Dir. Ettore Scola
Feat. Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon
- Quietly subversive drama set entirely in a working–class apartment building in Rome, on the fateful day in 1938 that Mussolini welcomed Hitler…
Amazing Howard Hughes, The (1977)
- Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, James Hampton…
- Produced for television, this biopic of the reclusive millionaire is suprisingly large–scale, but a little safe in its treatment of Hughes'…
An Enemy of the People (1977)
- Dir. George Shaefer
Feat. Steve McQueen, Charles Durning
- Seldom–seen version of the Henrik Ibsen play (adapted by Arthur Miller), was a labour of love for Steve McQueen, who plays a scientist…
Annie Hall (1977)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
- The 'hall'mark of Woody Allen's career – it won him an Oscar for Best Picture and made him a household name. It's a hilarious send–up of…
Another Bouquet (TV Mini-Series) (1977)
- Dir. John Frankau
Feat. Frank Finlay, James Aubrey, Deborah Grant…
- So–so follow up to Andrea Newman's painful chronicle of incestual desire is set six months later, and the repercussions are still being felt.
Ascent, The (Voskhozhdeniye) (1977)
- Dir. Larisa Shepitko
Feat. Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoli Solonitsyn
- A Soviet WWII classic shot in appalling winter conditions in which two partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the…
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…
Bilitis (1977)
- Dir. David Hamilton
Feat. Patti D'Arbanville
- Tissue–thin sex drama from famed 1970s photographer Hamilton (he of those misty images of nude or lace–clad women), going into dreamy…
Blue Collar (1977)
- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Richard Pryor
- As one might expect from the writer of TAXI DRIVER, dir. Schrader's debut is a gritty, tough–minded drama of macho ethics, set in the grinding…
Bobby Deerfield (1977)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Al Pacino, Marthe Keller, Anny Duperey…
- Solid, if overlong and overly sincere, drama about an American racing car driver (Pacino) who falls in love with a dying heiress. Not exactly…