Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Wanda (1970)
- Dir. Barbara Loden
Feat. Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins
- The sole writing/directing credit of Barbara Loden, whose command of verite storytelling is matched by her own astonishing performance as a feckless…
Wuthering Heights (1970)
- Dir. Robert Fuest
Feat. Anna Calder-Marshall, Timothy Dalton, Harry Andrews…
- Well–regarded version of the Bronte Classic, produced, incongruously enough, by exploitation studio AIP. Calder–Marshall and Dalton play…
All the Right Noises (1969)
- Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Olivia Hussey, Tom Bell, John Standing…
- The story of a young married man who has an affair with a teenage girl, this forms part of a peculiarly 1960s British wave of films exploring such…
An Ideal Husband / Lady Windermere's Fan (1969-1985)
- Dir. Rudolph Cartier
Feat. Margaret Leighton, Keith Michell, Jeremy Brett…
- Two well–mounted BBC television productions from the pen of Oscar Wilde, done with fidelity, grace, cunning and wit: An Ideal Husband (1969) &…
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
- Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold, Irene Papas…
- Opulent recounting of the doomed romance between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn with a gallery of fine performances and stunning costume design.
Arrangement, The (1969)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway
- Advertising exec Kirk Douglas follows a mid–life suicide attempt with some desperate hi–jinks and a cry of rage at his hollow life.…
Bronco Bullfrog (1969)
- Dir. Barney Platts-Mills
Feat. Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Shepherd
- Del and his friends agree to take part in a robbery with a boy fresh from the borstal. When Del falls in love with Irene they decide to run away from…
Change of Habit (1969)
- Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara McNair…
- Elvis Presley's final acting role was this musical drama in which he plays a doctor who falls in love with Mary Tyler Moore, playing one of three…
Clint Eastwood Collector's Boxset (1969-2009)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood
- The grand daddy of legacy boxsets, housing 35 films either starring or directed by Clint Eastwood.
Double Suicide (Shinjû: Ten no amijima) (1969)
- Dir. Masahiro Shinoda
Feat. Kichiemon Nakamura, Shiwa Iwashita, Hosie Komatsu
- A landmark of avant–garde Japanese cinema aims to replicate the startling aesthetic of traditional 'bunraku' puppetry in its enactment of an…