Subgenre Sampler
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Sullivans, The (TV Series) (1976-1983)
- Feat. Mel Gibson
- Long–running Australian series set during WW2 Melbourne that became an iconic, antipodean version of THE WALTONS, eventually running to 1114…
Sunday in Hell, A (1976)
- Dir. Jorgen Leth
- Classic sports documentary from dir. Jorgen Leth (THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS) accounting for the physically grueling, emotionally testing, and always…
Swashbuckler (1976)
- Dir. James Goldstone
Feat. Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle…
- Refreshingly unselfconscious pirate yarn with Robert Shaw crossing swords with a fey Peter Boyle against Caribbean backdrops.
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Sweeney, The (TV Series) (1976)
- Dir. David Wickes, Tom Clegg
Feat. John Thaw, Dennis Waterman
- Before THE PROFESSIONALS and MINDER came the ground–breaking Brit cop show starring John Thaw and Dennis Waterman. A highly influential action…
Sybil (1976)
- Dir. Daniel Petrie
Feat. Sally Field
- Sally Field gives a tour–de–force performance in this profoundly disturbing dramatisation of the life of a woman who developed 17…
Taming of the Shrew, The (1976)
- Dir. Kirk Browning
Feat. Marc Singer
- A big campy production of Shakespeare's comedy by the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.
Taxi Driver (1976)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks…
- Robert De Niro stalks the decaying streets of the Big Apple to Bernard Herrmann's haunting score before flipping his lid and enacting brutal revenge…
Tenant, The (1976)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Shelley Winters
- Polanski himself plays an introverted office clerk who undergos a psycho–sexual mutation while residing in a seedy high–rise apartment.…
The Marquise of O (Die Marquise von O) (1976)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz
- An Eric Rohmer period drama set in 1799 telling the story of the Marquise von O, a virtuous widow, who finds herself pregnant who protests her…
To the Devil...a Daughter (1976)
- Dir. Peter Sykes
Feat. Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Nastassja Kinski
- A kinky occult thriller, produced in Hammer's twilight years, in which Kinski is prepared as a Satanic vessel.