Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Hellfighters (1968)
- Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Bruce Cabot…
- A John Wayne–led action melodrama about a group of Houston–based oil well firefighters who are sent down to Venezuela to deal with a…
Hour Of The Wolf (Vargtimmen) (1968)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann
- One of dir. Bergman's most troubled visions, this concerns the descent of an unstable artist (von Sydow) and his sensitive wife (Ullmann) into a…
If.... (1968)
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Malcolm McDowell, Richard Warwick, Mona Washbourne…
- An angry yet sublimely poetic counter–cultural work in which events both real and imagined culminate in a violent revolt at a repressive public…
Immortal Story, The (1968)
- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau
- Orson Welles directs and stars in this little–seen French TV production, playing a European merchant who lures a sailor into seducing his fake…
Isadora (1968)
- Dir. Karel Reisz
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, John Fraser, James Fox…
- Vanessa Redgrave is memorable as Isadora Duncan in this watchable biopic of the iconic free–style dancer's flamboyant youth and radical…
Killing of Sister George (1968)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Beryl Reid
- While lesbian soap–opera actress Beryl Reid attempts to stop her character being 'killed–off', a tangled game of sexual politics is…
L'Enfance-Nue (Naked Childhood) (1968)
- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Michel Terrazon
- Astonishingly sober coming–of–age tale represents Pialat at his most profoundly unsentimental. The director brilliantly blends naturalism…
La Chamade (Heartbeat) (1968)
- Dir. Alain Cavalier
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli
- Catherine Deneuve flitters between youthful passion and the comfort of an older, wealthy lover in this elegant menage a trios, lessened only by an…
Lion in Winter, The (1968)
- Dir. Anthony Harvey
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn
- An acting feast for Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn (who won an Oscar) as tempestuous King Henry II and his estranged wife who fiercely…
Mandabi (The Money Order) (1968)
- Dir. Ousmane Sembene
- The first significant film to be made in an African language (Wolof), directed by the 'father of African cinema', Ousmane Sembène.
The title…