Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Please Sir! (TV Series) (1968-1972)
- Feat. John Alderton
- A window into the British education system of old, this award–winning comedy series sees John Alderton (Upstairs Downstairs) as an optimistic…
Pretty Poison (1968)
- Dir. Noel Black
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld
- A fan of PSYCHO? Then check out Anthony Perkins in this chilling tale of a couple of psychos in love. Tuesday Weld glitters as a teenage bad seed.
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The (1968)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin…
- Schoolteacher at a private girls school, Maggie Smith grooms and instructs her pupils with a passionate sense of vocation, unfortunately making more…
Randall and Hopkirk Deceased (TV Series) (1968)
- Dir. Various
Feat. Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope, Annette Andre
- Cult 60s British comedy–thriller in which Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope play investigators, one of whom happens to be dead.
Complete series…
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Olivia Hussey, Leonard Whiting, Milo O'Shea…
- Definitive screen version has the lovelorn couple played by teenagers, the costume designer working overtime and a youthful, fashionable feel to it.…
Secret Ceremony (1968)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, Robert Mitchum…
- Farrow resembles Taylor's dead daughter, Taylor resembles Farrow's dead mother, and their meeting has strange results. Originally an excellent…
Sergeant, The (1968)
- Dir. John Flynn
Feat. Rod Steiger, John Phillip Law
- Rod Steiger plays a decorated war veteran who turns to drinking after he experiences an attraction to one of the soldiers under his command.
Shalako (1968)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Sean Connery, Stephen Boyd…
- Silver screen vamp Brigitte Bardot teams up with Sean Connery in this "damsel in distress" western, where a hunting party who've wandered onto the…
Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) (A Study In Scarlet, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign of Four, The Blue Carbuncle) (1968)
- Feat. Peter Cushing, Nigel Stock
- One of the best to ever play Sherlock Holmes (formerly, in Hammer's HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES), Peter Cushing steps back into the shoes of the famed…
Shoes of the Fisherman, The (1968)
- Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud…
- Anthony Quinn plays a Russian bishop who is elected Pope after twenty years in political asylum. Beautifully adorned best–seller adaptation.