Subgenre Sampler
Rental > : 924 Films to Rent
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
- Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy…
- Accomplished and intelligent remake has a weird clinical atmosphere and provides a few more creepy twists to the pod invasion theme.
Midnight Express (1978)
- Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Brad Davis, Randy Quaid
- Brad Davis stars in this riveting fact–based story as a young American facing a 30–year sentence in a brutal Turkish prison for a minor…
A Special Day (1977)
- Dir. Ettore Scola
Feat. Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon
- Quietly subversive drama set entirely in a working–class apartment building in Rome, on the fateful day in 1938 that Mussolini welcomed Hitler…
Black Sunday (1977)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller…
- A suspenseful, violent terrorist thriller based on Thomas Harris' fictional novel about the pro–Palestinian "Black September" group who…
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Special Edition (1977)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut
- Richard Dreyfuss embodies a working class lineman who is chosen by a higher power for some great purpose. With a head full of ambiguous images and…
Damnation Alley (1977)
- Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, Dominique Sanda…
- Post–apocalyptic thriller that follows a group of WWIII survivors at a military installation who drive across the desolate wasteland to find…
Grease (1977)
- Dir. Randal Kleiser
Feat. John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing…
- Musical sensation set in a 1950s high–school was a box–office phenomenon, now an enduring classic. John Travolta, Olivia…
Sleeping Dogs (1977)
- Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Sam Neill, Warren Oates
- Roger Donaldson's nihilistic action–thriller in which Sam Neill finds himself alone between two opposing extremist groups. A trail–blazer…
Sorcerer (1977)
- Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal
- Second film adaptation of the French novel WAGES OF FEAR, following the fates of four outcasts who take on a job transporting a cargo of unstable…
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
- Dir. George Lucas
Feat. Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford…
- George Lucas' epic trilogy of space adventure begins "long ago and far far away", with the life of Luke Skywalker being disturbed by the galactic war…