Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon Tate…
- Trashy adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's novel about three young women in the show biz fast lane.
Who's That Knocking At My Door? (1967)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Zina Bethune
- Martin Scorsese's debut feature spins an affecting yarn of youth around the relationship between a street–smart Catholic, Keitel (also…
Woman Times Seven (1967)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio Gassman…
- Shirley MacLaine inhabits seven different women in seven fanciful, star–studded mini–stories of adultery for Italian dir. Vittorio De…
Wuthering Heights (1967)
- Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Ian McShane, Angela Scoular
- This BBC adaptation of Emily Bronte's gothic romance was one of only a handful that were able to cover the entire novel by virtue of the miniseries…
Young Girls of Rochefort, The (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort) (1967)
- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Francois Dorleac, Gene Kelly
- The carrot of love is dangled in Jacques Demy's positively radiant follow–up to UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG: an unbridled, colour–saturated…
10:30 PM Summer (1966)
- Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Melina Mercouri, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch
- Tawdry, heavy–handed curiosity adapts Marguerite Duras’s New Wave novel into a sordid, albeit beautifully locationed spectacle. With a…
A Man Called Adam (1966)
- Dir. Leo Penn
Feat. Sammy Jr. Davis, Louis Armstrong, Cicely Tyson…
- Sammy Davis Jr stars as a caustically charismatic jazz musician who questions his self–destructive lifestyle upon falling in love with a civil…
Andrei Rublev (1966)
- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko
- Enthralling historical drama vividly portrays the 15th Century Russian painter who was encumbered by the political turbulence of the time.
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Anne Wiazemsky, Francois Lafarge, Philippe Asselin
- Robert Bresson's immediately recognisable minimalist style is here lent to one of the few films whose central character is a donkey.
Before the Revolution (1966)
- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Adriana Asti, Francisco Barilli
- Bertolucci's second film – made at the age of 22! – demonstrates his bravura visual style fully formed around this coming of age in the…