Subgenre Sampler
Cult: 1365 Films to Buy & Rent
Walkabout (1970)
- Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. David Gulpilil
- An English schoolgirl and her brother end up abandoned by their father in the Australian Outback, before meeting Aboriginal boy David Gulpilil. Dir.…
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…
Where's Poppa? (Going Ape) (1970)
- Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman…
- George Segal becomes determined to hurry along the demise of his ultra–demanding, super–senile 87 year–old mom (Ruth Gordon). Few…
Wizard of Gore, The (1970)
- Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Ray Sager
- One of gore–merchant Lewis’ (BLOOD FEAST) best, involving a bogus stage magician, whose act carves murderous carnage through his…
Zabriskie Point (1970)
- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Rod Taylor, Paul Fix, G.D. Spradlin…
- Antonioni explores the psyche of young radicals who try to find the meaning of life after fleeing from riotous protests. Engaging hippie fare.
Zachariah (1970)
- Dir. George Englund
Feat. John Rubenstein, Don Johnson
- Counter–culture oddity, a surreal 'rock western' worked up by the avant–garde improvisational troupe, The Firesign Theatre, so as to…
99 Women (1969)
- Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Maria Rohm, Herbert Lom, Mercedes McCambridge
- Fiery, if comparatively contained first–time outing for cult dir. Jess Franco in the ‘women in prison’ genre: a rowdy sexploitation romp…
Alice's Restaurant (1969)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick…
- Loosely built around the adventures of hippie troubadour Arlo Guthrie (son of Woody and star of WOODSTOCK), as he wanders rural America asking…
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…
Bullet for Sandoval (Vengeance is Mine) (1969)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Ernest Borgnine, George Hilton
- Reasonable foray into the Spaghetti Western genre for splatter king Fulci and as always with Fulci narrative is secondary to violent…