Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7936 Films to Rent
Thieves Like Us (1973)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall
- One of dir. Altman's masterfully subversive genre–studies of the 70s, expands the 'gangster film' into a quirky, desperado version of…
Touki Bouki (1973)
- Dir. Djibril Diop Mambety
Feat. Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang
- A Senegalese drama, recently restored, about a cowherd and a university student try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past…
Way We Were, The (1973)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand
- A rich–kid aspiring novelist and a political activist go through the pleasure and pain of courtship and marriage through three decades.…
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (Une Belle Fille Comme Moi) (1972)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Bernadette Lafont, Andre Dussollier
- Twisted French black comedy of a licentious, manipulative murderess recounting her sordid past to a green criminology student. Dripping in silly…
Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski
- Stunningly shot on location in the Amazon, this spellbinding adventure details the decline and fall of a conquistador (Klaus Kinski) in his maniacal…
Bad Company (1972)
- Dir. Robert Benton
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, John Savage
- A crafted, deliberately unromantic western which follows a young Jeff Bridges’ flight to escape from army recruiters into an 1863 West…
Bernard Shaw Collection, The (The Millionairess; Mrs. Warren's Profession; The Apple Cart ; Pygmalion; Heartbreak House; You Never Can Tell; The Man of Destiny; Androcles and the Lion; The Devil's Disciple; Arms and the Man) (1972-1989)
- Dir. David Jones
Feat. Maggie Smith, John Gielgud, Patrick Stewart…
- Star–studded BBC adaptations of ten masterpieces of the stage by George Bernard Shaw. This set includes, over 8 discs the following…
Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, The (1972)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla
- Lurid, feverish masterpiece from the incredibly prolific Fassbinder, chronicles a doomed lesbian relationship from the claustrophobic confines of…
Cabaret (1972)
- Dir. Bob Fosse
Feat. Liza Minnelli, Michael York
- Scintillating musical with Liza Minnelli as the American showgirl caught up in the phony glitter of pre–war Berlin. Eight–time Oscar…
Candidate, The (1972)
- Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Robert Redford
- Incisive political satire sees idealist Robert Redford run for the Senate, but finds his good intentions usurped by the system and the needs of…