Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8118 Films to Buy & Rent
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 Ă sa fenĂȘtre) (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,…
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…