Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Chess Players, The (1977)
- Dir. Satyajit Ray
Feat. Richard Attenborough
- India's first internationally renowned film–maker draws upon the ancient game of chess as a metaphor for Anglo–Indian political relations…
Citizen Smith (1977-1980)
- Dir. Ray Butt
Feat. Robert Lindsay
- Mischievous TV comedy about self–styled 'urban guerilla' Wolfie Smith (Lindsay) who tries to spark a socialist revolution from the London…
Despair (1977)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
- Fassbinder's blackly comic adaptation of Nabakov's novel about delusion, depression and decline of the human spirit. Dirk Bogarde plays a Russian…
Diana Rigg at the BBC (Three Piece Suite, Little Eyolf, Unexplained Laughter, Genghis Cohn, Mrs. Bradley Mysteries) (1977-2000)
- Feat. Diana Rigg
- Celebratory collection of the former Avengers sexbomb's subsequent career at the BBC. Includes the rarely seen sketch show 'Three Piece Suite', the…
Duellists, The (1977)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Keith Carradine, Albert Finney…
- Napoleonic officers Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine have a lengthy, stylish series of face–offs in this esteemed Ridley Scott–directed…
Eight is Enough (TV Series) (1977)
- Feat. Dick Van Patten, Diana Hyland, Betty Buckley
- Comedy about a family of eight living in Sacramento California, where Dad is a columnist for the fictional local newspaper (based on real–life…
Equus (1977)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Peter Firth, Richard Burton, Joan Plowright…
- Straightforward adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s play concerning a disturbed stablehand (Peter Firth) with an equine fixation who has blinded some…
FJ Holden, The (1977)
- Dir. Michael Thornhill
Feat. Paul Couzens, Carl Stever, Sigrid Thornton
- Low–budget youth drama that follows the travails of two smalltime Holden–driving hoons in the West Sydney suburb of Bankstown.
Both…
Islands in the Stream (1977)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland…
- Solid, well–constructed adaptation of one of the more thoughtful Hemingway novels, with Scott as the sculptor who chooses to live in exile on a…
Jesus of Nazareth (Mini Series) (1977)
- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Robert Powell, Laurence Olivier, Anne Bancroft…
- Touched by the hand of Franco Zeffirelli and a who's–who of famous thesps, this is the most respectfully detailed and complete retelling of the…