Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7936 Films to Rent
Brian's Song (1970)
- Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. James Caan
- Football player James Caan is diagnosed with cancer, deeply affecting the entire team. Multi–award winner was considered a milestone for…
Catch 22 (1970)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Alan Arkin, Jon Voight, Orson Welles
- An acerbic anti–war statement based on the much–hailed novel about a WW2 fighter pilot's reluctance to fight, in order to preserve his…
Claire's Knee (1970)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Jean-Claude Brialy
- The director's fifth moral tale gained him major international recognition. A curiously droll tale of a middle–aged man's obsession with the…
Decameron, The (1970)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic
- The first part of dir. Pasolini’s ‘medieval trilogy’, this adapts ten of Boccaccio’s famously ribald tales of the Italian Middle Ages. With…
Deep End (1970)
- Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
Feat. Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Diana Dors
- Remarkable, darkly comic story of 15–year–old Mike who takes a job at the local swimming baths and becomes obsessed with a beautiful…
Domicile Conjugal (Bed and Board) (1970)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud
- Serio–comic misadventures of Truffaut's alter–ego, Antoine Doinel, an immature father–to–be who is unsettled in matrimonial…
Ear, The (Ucho) (1970)
- Dir. Karel Kachyna
Feat. Jirina Bohdalova, Radoslav Brzobohaty, Jiri Cisler
- Set over the course of an evening this is a searing look at life under an oppressive totalitarian system and an equally harsh examination of a…
Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970)
- Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews, Peter McEnery
- Acclaimed version of British stage–farce delivers playright Joe Orton's bisexual innuendos with a rather heavy hand. Story concerns a fetching…
Fellini Satyricon (1970)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born…
- Freely adapted from the Roman author Petronious, this follows the adventures of two bisexual youths through the decadent, fragmented age of Rome's…
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
- Dir. Bob Rafelson
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Karen Black
- A fascinating, complex character study of a talented drifter (Jack Nicholson) who returns to his affluent but dysfunctional family. Karen Black is…