Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Sebastiane (1976)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Barney James, Neil Kennedy, Leonardo Treviglio
- A Roman soldier is banished to an outpost because of his Christian sympathies where he is eventually immortalised as a martyred saint. Jarman doesn't…
Seven Percent Solution, The (1976)
- Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall…
- Intriguing re–imagining of the Sherlock Holmes legend has the master sleuth fighting his own drug addiction under the guidance of Sigmund…
Small Change (L'argent de Poche) (1976)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Nicole Felix, Chantal Mercier
- Childhood in a small French village is portrayed as a series of witty poetic moments in a comedy that’s sunny, tender and finally serious in…
Stay Hungry (1976)
- Dir. Bob Rafelson
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jeff Bridges, Sally Field…
- This boasts the first dramatic role for Arnold Schwarzenegger but it serves as more than a curiosity, it's an intriguing portrait of a social…
Stroszek (1976)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruno S., Eva Mattes
- Powerful tragi–comedy follows a simple–minded Bruno S to America with a prostitute trying to escape her unsavoury past. The film's…
Sullivans, The (TV Series) (1976-1983)
- Feat. Mel Gibson
- Long–running Australian series set during WW2 Melbourne that became an iconic, antipodean version of THE WALTONS, eventually running to 1114…
Sybil (1976)
- Dir. Daniel Petrie
Feat. Sally Field
- Sally Field gives a tour–de–force performance in this profoundly disturbing dramatisation of the life of a woman who developed 17…
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…