Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The (1970)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Genevieve Page…
- Late period Billy Wilder (THE APARTMENT) applies his ironic sensibility, with less acid than usual, to the mind of Conan Doyle's detecting hero and…
Rabbit Run (1970)
- Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. James Caan, Carrie Snodgrass, Anjanette Comer…
- James Caan stars in this adaptation of John Updike's acclaimed 1960 novel about a has–been basketball star who impulsively abandones his life…
Ryan's Daughter (1970)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles
- The love triangle is given a sweeping, old–fashioned spin by David Lean, set on the rugged Irish coast during WW1.
Sin (The Beloved) (1970)
- Dir. George P. Cosmatos
Feat. Raquel Welch
- Raquel Welch looks like dynamite in this otherwise flacid low–key drama about illicit love on a beautiful Greek island in the Mediterranean.
Six Wives of Henry VIII, The (TV Mini-Series) (1970)
- Feat. Keith Michell, Rosalie Crutchley, Jane Seymour
- Accurate BAFTA–winning TV series chronicling the life of the notorious Henry VIII by way of six plays, featuring a notable cast and immaculate…
Sometimes a Great Notion (1970)
- Dir. Paul Newman
Feat. Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick…
- Sweaty account of a family of fiercely–independent Oregon loggers struggling to keep the family business alive amidst changing times. Based on…
Spider's Stratagem, The (1970)
- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli
- Investigating the death of his anti–fascist father, Giulio Brogi is enveloped in an atmosphere of mystery as he strolls the sleepy town where…
Spring and Port Wine (1970)
- Dir. Peter Hammond
Feat. James Mason, Diane Coupland, Susan George
- James Mason and Diana Coupland play a stern father and a lenient mother who are trying to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives…
Trash (1970)
- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn
- Only the inimitable Joe Dallesandro could play a drug–addicted loser with a sex problem and still come off cool. Holly Woodlawn and other…
Walkabout (1970)
- Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. David Gulpilil
- An English schoolgirl and her brother end up abandoned by their father in the Australian Outback, before meeting Aboriginal boy David Gulpilil. Dir.…