Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Last Tycoon, The (1976)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Tony Curtis…
- Star–studded attempt to adapt F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished last novel, itself based on the life of early Hollywood mogul Irving Thalberg.…
Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, The (1976)
- Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Martin Balsam, Cliff DeYoung…
- A TV film dramatising the events of the Lindbergh kidnapping, in which the son of aviators Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was abducted…
Maitresse (1976)
- Dir. Barbet Schroeder
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Bulle Ogier
- An eye–watering, willfully transgressive tale of a petty crook (Depardieu) who enters into a seemingly conventional romance with a…
Man of Marble (1976)
- Dir. Andrzej Wajda
- One of dir. Wadja's later masterpieces is a strong attack on the tactics and hypocrisy of the Communist government of the day.
A film student…
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (TV Series) (1976-1977)
- Feat. Louise Lasser, Greg Mullavey
- Adventurous satirical soap opera from the 70's following a small–town housewife who encounters various complex and compounding…
Mikey and Nicky (1976)
- Dir. Elaine May
Feat. Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty…
- Loosely improvised drama, with a wild–eyed John Cassavetes calling on old pal Peter Falk to help escape the Mob. Turns out he may not be such a…
Moneychangers, The (TV Series) (1976)
- Feat. Kirk Douglas, Christopher Plummer, Anne Baxter…
- Kirk Douglas and Christopher Plummer play executives battling to claim the presidency of one of America's largest banks in this meaty financial…
Mr. Klein (1976)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau
- A dark, dread–inducing moral tale, with Delon fleecing vulnerable Jews under German–occupied–France, only to be mistaken by…
Network (1976)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway…
- Explosive drama about an ailing TV station desperate to improve their ratings. Peter Finch won the Best Actor Oscar post–humously as the…
News From Home (La Chambre, Hotel Monterey) (1976)
- Dir. Chantal Akerman
Feat. Chantal Akerman
- A beautifully composed tableaux of New York in the seventies, cut to a reading of letters from dir. Akerman's mother.
Also includes the…