Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Fear of Fear (Angst vor der Angst) (1975)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira
- Overlooked Fassbinder drama following an isolated young mother suffering from post–natal depression who turns to drugs to help her cope. A fine…
Fox and His Friends (1975)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Adrian Hoven
- Fassbinder himself stars in one of his best melodramas as a working class lottery–winner who is exploited by his middle–class lover. A…
Hiding Place, The (1975)
- Dir. James F. Collier
Feat. Julie Harris, Eileen Heckart
- A Dutch family are sent to a concentration camp after turning their home into a shelter for Jews. Based on the autobiographical book by Corrie Ten…
Inserts (1975)
- Dir. John Byrum
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Bob Hoskins…
- Talky, tawdry film–within–a–film about a washed–up director (Dreyfuss) who inserts SUSPIRIA's Jessica Harper as a body double…
Je tu il elle (I, You, He, She) (1975)
- Dir. Chantal Akerman
Feat. Chantal Akerman, Niels Arestrup, Claire Wauthion
- Dir. Chantal Akerman stars in her debut feature as a lonely drifter whose road trip to nowhere detours via encounters with a male truck driver and a…
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
- Dir. Chantal Akerman
Feat. Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte
- Delphine Seyrig plays a repressed housewife whose rigid domestic routine – with, secretly, the occasional trick turned on the side –…
Lost Honor of Katherina Blum, The (1975)
- Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Angela Winkler, Jurgen Prochnow
- Taken from the novel by Heinrich Boll, this reproach to the powers–that–be in mid–70s West Germany portrays the hardheaded…
Lucky Lady (1975)
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds…
- Shapeless caper with three rum–runners set during the prohibition whose lives are complicated by the personal relationships.
A notorious…
Mahogany (1975)
- Dir. Berry Gordy
Feat. Diana Ross, Anthony Perkins, Billy Dee Williams…
- Deliciously overripe melodrama with Diana Ross as an aspiring designer falling under the spell of jet–setting Anthony Perkins. Ross and…
Man Who Would Be King, The (1975)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Sean Connery, Michael Caine
- Conmen Sean Connery and Michael Caine have grand old–fashioned adventures in remote India.