Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7955 Films to Rent
Young Winston (1972)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Simon Ward…
- The early life of Britain's greatest political leader, through his time in India, Sudan and the Boer War to his ascendancy at the House of Commons.
Bleak Moments (1971)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan
- Mike Leigh's first feature is a despairing slice–of–life drama about a young woman left at home with her retarded sister in suburban…
Carnal Knowledge (1971)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret…
- Classic from the early 70s 'zeitgeist', this funny yet sobering film chronicles the sex lives of two disparate men from high–school to…
Casanova (1971)
- Dir. Mark Cullingham, John Glenister
Feat. Frank Finlay, Norman Rossington
- Adventurous Dennis Potter biopic of libertine Casanova, concerned chiefly with his imprisonment and escape from Venice, though not forgetting to shed…
Death in Venice (1971)
- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
- Dirk Bogarde plays a gay composer whose unspoken obssesion with a young boy detains him in Venice during a cholera epidemic. This soft–focus,…
Elizabeth R (TV Series) (1971)
- Dir. Claude Whatham, Herbert Wise, Various.
Feat. Glenda Jackson, Robert Hardy, Robert Ellis
- Glenda Jackson makes a banquet of English history, as Elizabeth I, one of Auld England's most influential monarchs. This BBC series is exceptional in…
Evel Knievel (1971)
- Dir. Marvin J. Chomsky
Feat. George Hamilton, Sue Lyon
- Low–budget drive–in movie version of the famed motorcycle stuntman’s life, growing up in Montana to be comes the world’s most famous…
Family Life (Wednesday's Child) (1971)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Grace Cave
- Grating realist cinema from ‘kitchen sink’ original Ken Loach, about a troubled young girl whose domineering parents drive her to a nervous…
Fat City (1971)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell
- One of dir. Huston's later accomplishments, this gritty, yet warmly toned drama inhabits a neighbourhood of boxing gyms, lowrent bars and amiable…
Friends (1971)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Sean Bury, Anicee Alvina
- Sentimental, page–turning romance blossoms an enternal love between two idealistic French teens head over heels. Hit soundtrack by Elton John…