Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Break Of Day (1976)
- Dir. Ken Hannam
Feat. Andrew MacFarlane
- Quiet Australian drama focused on a young soldier's struggle to adjust to his previous life after returning home post–WW1, and his pursuit of…
Brute, The (1976)
- Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Sarah Douglas, Julian Glover, Bruce Robinson
- A strange combination of social realism and luridity turns this tale of a battered wife into a strange horror film indeed.
Caddie (1976)
- Dir. Donald Crombie
Feat. Helen Morse, Drew Forsythe, Jack Thompson…
- Key film of the Australian cinema renaissance with Helen Morse exceptional as a young solo mother struggling to get by in a male dominated…
Captains and the Kings (TV Mini-Series) (1976)
- Feat. Patty Duke, Jane Seymour, Perry King…
- Rich inter–generational saga chronicling the life of an Irish immigrant who arrives penniless in America in the mid–19th century.…
Cria Cuervos (1976)
- Dir. Carlos Saura
Feat. Ana Torrent, Geraldine Chaplin
- The remarkable Ana Torrent (SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE) turns in another mesmerizing performance as the middle child of recently deceased parents. A…
Desert of the Tartars, The (1976)
- Dir. Valerio Zurlini
Feat. Vittorio Gassman, Jacques Perrin, Helmut Griem…
- Italian drama set in a hostile East Asian desert, where a isolated Lieutenant defends an old, unmaintained border fortress while awaiting an attack…
Devil's Playground, The (1976)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Simon Burke, Nick Tate, Arthur Dignam…
- The film that put Australian director Fred Schepisi on the silver screen radar, tells the semi–autobiographical story of a young teenager…
Dickens of London (TV Series) (1976)
- Dir. Michael Ferguson, Marc Miller
Feat. Roy Dotrice, Diane Coupland, Simon Bell
- Dramatic biography of Charles Dickens and his rise from obscure origins to blacking factory worker to political reporter and author.
Face to Face (1976)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Liv Ullmann
- A harrowing insight into a nervous breakdown suffered by a woman psychiatrist. Bleak yet compulsive through stylised photography and Liv Ullmanns…
Fellini's Casanova (1976)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Donald Sutherland
- Fellini indulges himself just short of self–parody for a gorgeously stylised, absurdist revision of the life of the 18th Century lover. Donald…