Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Taxi Driver (1976)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks…
- Robert De Niro stalks the decaying streets of the Big Apple to Bernard Herrmann's haunting score before flipping his lid and enacting brutal revenge…
Terence Davies Trilogy, The (Children, Madonna and the Child, Death and Transfiguration) (1976-1983)
- Dir. Terence Davies
Feat. Wilfred Brambell
- A striking – if not, overtly autobiographical – early trilogy of shorts from dir. Terence Davies, spanning the life of one man’s struggle with…
The Marquise of O (Die Marquise von O) (1976)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz
- An Eric Rohmer period drama set in 1799 telling the story of the Marquise von O, a virtuous widow, who finds herself pregnant who protests her…
Victory at Entebbe (1976)
- Dir. Marvin J. Chomsky
Feat. Helmut Berger, Linda Blair, Burt Lancaster…
- A made–for–television film first broadcast on ABC, depicting the raid on Entebbe Airport in Uganda and the freeing of Israeli hostages…
Welcome to L.A. (1976)
- Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Keith Carradine
- A discouraged rock composer finds solace in a number of one–night stands. An arresting, provocative tale of life at the mercy of the…
When The Boat Comes In (TV Series) (1976)
- Feat. James Bolam, James Garbutt, Jean Heywood
- 'Northern' drama series set in a post–WW1 Britain, where Ex–Sergeant Jack Ford (Bolam) and his family must deal with the aftermath…
Woman at Her Window, A (Une femme à sa fenêtre) (1976)
- Dir. Pierre Granier-Deferre
Feat. Romy Schneider, Philippe Noiret
- Romy Schneider plays a lovelorn aristocrat torn between a nobleman and a political activist in 1936 Greece.
Woyzeck (1976)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski
- A version of Georg Buchner's play, matching Herzog to another gloomy Germanic visionary, with Klaus Kinski as the soldier tormented by visions and…
Young Doctors, The (TV Series) (1976-1983)
- Feat. Rebecca Gilling
- One of Australia's most popular soap operas – and across the ditch too! – followed the appealing medical dramas and behind–scenes…
92 In the Shade (1975)
- Dir. Thomas McGuane
Feat. Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Margot Kidder…
- Drama based on director's novel of the same name, about a young man who opens a charter fishing business in the swampy rot of Key West, Florida,…