Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Absence of Malice (1975)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Sally Field, Paul Newman
- Reporter Sally Feild smears innocent Paul Newman in this solid examination of ethics, power and corruption in the US media.
American Film Theatre - Galileo (1975)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Topol, John Gielgud, Patrick Magee…
- A generally satisfactory version of Bertolt Brecht's stageplay concerning the ethical dilemmas of the scientist Galileo, who among other things…
American Film Theatre - In Celebration (1975)
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Alan Bates, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Daye…
- A tightly framed screen adaptation of David Storey's autobiographical play set around the reunion of a Nottinghamshire mining family, in which cast…
American Film Theatre - Philadelphia, Here I Come (1975)
- Dir. John Quested
Feat. Donal McCann, Des Cave, Siobhan McKenna
- A young Irishman agonises over whether to leave his stifling Irish existence and join relatives in America, in one of the more subdued American Film…
American Film Theatre - The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman…
- Another intense, performance based entrant in the American Film Theatre series, with Schell playing a wealthy Jewish industrialist who survived the…
Anne Of Avonlea (1975)
- Feat. Kim Braden, Barbara Hamilton, Nicholas Lyndhurst
- Continues the story of Anne Shirley (the heroine of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES) as she begins her job as a schoolteacher and faces a whole new set of…
Ash Tree, The (1975)
- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Edward Petherbridge, Preston Lockwood
- Short film adaptation of the ghost story by M R James. A man of leisure inherits the family estate after his uncle dies, and finds himself…
Autobiography of a Princess (1975)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Madhur Jaffrey, James Mason
- Merchant Ivory production about an Indian princess (Madhur Jaffrey) who has left her homeland and lives in contemporary London. On the anniversary of…
Barry Lyndon (1975)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Ryan O'Neal, Patrick Magee, Marisa Berenson
- Taking William Thackery's ironical novel as a starting point, dir. Kubrick's immaculate period piece sprawls across 18th century Europe and remains…
Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
- Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard
- Well–made, though somewhat old–fashioned version of Barry England's play about misbehaviour among the British Army in India. The stars…