Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7936 Films to Rent
Girl Most Likely To, The (1973)
- Dir. Lee Philips
Feat. Stockard Channing, Edward Asner, Jim Backus
- An 'ugly duckling' high–school student is transformed by plastic surgery and decides to wreak homicidal vengeance on former boyfriends and…
Glass Menagerie, The (1973)
- Dir. Anthony Harvey
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Sam Waterston, Joanna Miles…
- Katharine Hepburn grows old and dominates her children in this fine stage version of the Tennessee Williams play. From the Broadway Theatre Archive…
Hard Labour (1973)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Liz Smith, Clifford Kershaw, Polly Hemingway
- Mike Leigh's first film for the BBC (beginning a series of televised stage plays) introduces some familiar preoccupations: unhappy families,…
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson
- A screen adaptation of Lloyd–Webber's stage musical which retains the original score but adds an extra sheen of kitsch to the much maligned…
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)
- Dir. Hall Bartlett
Feat. Philip Ahn, Richard Crenna
- Unique attempt at adapting the seagulls–POV bestselling book. Music by Neil Diamond.
Last American Hero, The (1973)
- Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald…
- Jeff Bridges' mix of redneck roughness and choirboy sweetness is just right for this 1973 true story of a country kid running moonshine and making…
Last Detail, The (1973)
- Dir. Hal Ashby
Feat. Jack Nicholson
- Cleverly observed male–bonding yarn in which Jack Nicholson helps transport a fellow sailor to prison for a petty crime. He has three days to…
Libido (1973)
- Dir. Tim Burstall, Fred Schepisi, David Baker
Feat. Jack Thompson, Robyn Nevin, Judy Morris
- A straight–faced portmanteau film, with each of four tales centring around themes of eroticism and emotional betrayal.
Scripted by four…
Long Goodbye, The (1973)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt
- Elliot Gould portrays a '70s Philip Marlowe, a wildly unkempt version of Chandler's legendary detective. Altman's film noir pastiche is equally…
Lost Hearts (1973)
- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Simon Gipps-Kent
- A powerful drama based on the ghost story by M. R. James about an elderly and excitable black magician who preys sinisterly upon children.