Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
- Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan…
- Historical epic the maps the power struggle between the last Catholic ruler of Scotland and her cousin, the Queen of England.
McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Warren Beatty, Julie Christie
- Repentant gunfighter Warren Beatty stakes out a claim for respectability by developing a two–bit mining camp into a town (chiefly by…
Music Lovers, The (1971)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson
- A wonderfully audacious film fantasia based on the life of Russian composer Tchaikovsky, the homosexual who married a nymphomaniac! Richard…
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman…
- The last Czars of Russia get an appropriately lavish send–off in this wagon–load of Hollywood corn. With Tom Baker (as Rasputin) and…
Panic in Needle Park, The (1971)
- Dir. Jerry Schatzberg
Feat. Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint…
- Grungy drug pic with Pacino in his breakthrough role as a charismatic junkie pulling Kitty Winn into his destructive orbit. Screenplay written by…
Persuasion (1971)
- Dir. Howard Baker
Feat. Ann Firbank, Richard Vernon, Bryan Marshall
- Circumspect heroine Anne Elliot has the opportunity to rekindle a long–abandoned love–affair, in this BBC adaption of Jane Austen's final…
Private Road (1971)
- Dir. Barney Platts-Mills
Feat. Susan Penhaligon, Bruce Robinson, Michael Feast…
- The other lost gem from British independent film–maker Barney Platts–Mills, who follows up “Bronco Bullfrog” (1970) with a…
Punishment Park (1971)
- Dir. Peter Watkins
- Extraordinary, 'fictionalised' docu–drama from the unique and largely unheralded talent of British director Peter Watkins, portraying the…
Secrets (1971)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Jacqueline Bisset, Per Oscarsson, Robert Powell
- British erotic drama taking place over a single day in the life of a housewife (Jacqueline Bisset) who is having an affair, while her husband (Robert…
Summer of '42 (1971)
- Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Gary Grimes, Jennifer O'Neill
- Well–observed period flavour lifts this Oscar–nominated nostalgia piece set on the American home–front during WWII. Gary Grimes…