Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7962 Films to Rent
Winstanley (1975)
- Dir. Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
Feat. Miles Halliwell, Jerome Willis, Terry Higgins
- The dramatized history of a Reformation–era religious sect called the Diggers. A nonviolent aggregation, the Diggers are devoted to tilling the…
Wrong Move (1975)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Rudiger Vogler, Nastassja Kinski
- A young writer works through his artistic angst and laments the decline of German society in Wenders disquieting road movie. Downbeat, but compelling…
Xala (Impotence) (1975)
- Dir. Ousmane Sembene
- When a government official (Thierno Leye) in newly–independent Senegal marries a third wife he finds himself struck down with impotence, in…
Affairs of the Heart (TV Series) (1974)
- Dir. Derek Bennett, Michael Ferguson
Feat. Diana Rigg, Ian Ogilvy, Anna Calder-Marshall…
- Seven tales from the fiction of Henry James are adapted to television with varying degrees of success and a wide range of actors. Plenty of…
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Harvey Keitel…
- Resonant account of a young widow trying to secure self–assurance and financial stability for herself and her pre–teen son. Scorsese's…
Alice in the Cities (1974)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Rudiger Vogler, Yella Rottlander, Lisa Kreuzer
- A German journalist's homeward trek is diverted through various cities when he helps a young companion re–locate her family. Wenders'…
Amarcord (1974)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armendo Brancia
- Fellini's last bonafide masterpiece – an inspired recreation of his memories of growing up in small–town Italy during the Fascist 1930s…
American Film Theatre - Lost in the Stars (1974)
- Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. Brock Peters, Melba Moore, Raymond St. Jacques…
- The innovative 1930s musical collaboration between Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill was ambitiously adapted in this American Film Theatre…
American Film Theatre - Rhinoceros (1974)
- Dir. Tom O'Horgan
Feat. Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Karen Black…
- Possibly the least appreciated of the American Film Theatre adaptations, this version of Eugene Ionesco's fable of totalitarianism is in fact perhaps…
American Film Theatre - The Maids (1974)
- Dir. Christopher Miles
Feat. Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant…
- Atmospheric, though slightly muted version of Jean Genet's notorious play, itself based on a notorious French murder case, where two maids immersed…