Subgenre Sampler
Rental > : 898 Films to Rent
- Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder
- Classic Mel Brooks spoof–Western that almost killed the genre off!
- Chinatown (1974)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Roman Polanski, John Huston…
- Classic detective thriller in the Hammett–Chandler tradition, with Jack Nicholson as P.I. Jake Gittes, whose simple case leads to murder and…
- Gambler, The (1974)
- Dir. Karel Reisz
Feat. James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton…
- A typically gritty 70s crime drama, adapted from a story by Dostoevsky, that boasts a fine performance by James Caan as a well–respected…
- Godfather Part 2, The (1974)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton…
- The Corleone saga continues with the same passion and exacting standards, it both broadens the scope and bolsters the stature of the original. Hailed…
- Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974)
- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland
- Moore's second film as Bond finds him in Southeast Asia battling for possession of a deadly weapon. There's a price on his head and the world's…
- Friends of Eddie Coyle, The (1973)
- Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan…
- A superlative, cold–hearted, downright unforgiving crime classic of the 70s, with Robert Mitchum (never better) as an aging Boston gunrunner…
- Live and Let Die (1973)
- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Roger Moore, Jane Seymour, Yaphet Kotto
- Roger Moore succeeds Sean Connery in the role of 007, with exotic elements "borrowed" from the blaxploitation craze of the time.
The superagent…
- Westworld (1973)
- Dir. Michael Crichton
Feat. Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin
- A theme–park where one experiences violent fantasies in perfect safety gradually goes haywire. Inspired idea would strike the big time for…
- Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter (1972)
- Dir. Brian Clemens
Feat. Horst Janson, Caroline Munro, John Carson
- British cult TV writer Brian Clemens (THE AVENGERS) assumes directing duties on this spirited historical vampire romp he wrote for Hammer Studios,…
- Deliverance (1972)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty
- Four businessmen encounter the dark side of both human and mother nature on their weekend canoe trip in the deep South. Aided by that unmistakable…