Subgenre Sampler
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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…
Abba - The Movie (1977)
- Dir. Lasse Hallstrom
- The Swedish quartet's 1976 tour of Australia is fashioned into an amusing mockumentary that interweaves a disc–jockey's hapless quest to…
Abigail's Party (1977)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Alison Steadman
- A cult classic of British TV, this is an outrageously funny send up–of social etiquette in the suburbs, with fashions to match. Squirm as buxom…
Airport '77 (1977)
- Dir. Jerry Jameson
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, James Stewart…
- This third installment in the Airport franchise has a jetliner plunging into the mid–Atlantic's Bermuda Triangle where a fresh celebrity…
All You Need is Love (TV Series) (1977)
- Dir. Tony Palmer
- Prolific arts filmmaker Tony Palmer oversaw this landmark, encyclopedic history of modern pop and rock – prescribed viewing for anyone who’s ever…
Alternative 3 (1977)
- Dir. Christopher Miles
Feat. Tim Brinton
- Public fear (or gullibility) was exposed with this hoax science report proposing three drastic alternatives to then–emerging hysteria around…
Amazing Howard Hughes, The (1977)
- Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, James Hampton…
- Produced for television, this biopic of the reclusive millionaire is suprisingly large–scale, but a little safe in its treatment of Hughes'…
An Enemy of the People (1977)
- Dir. George Shaefer
Feat. Steve McQueen, Charles Durning
- Seldom–seen version of the Henrik Ibsen play (adapted by Arthur Miller), was a labour of love for Steve McQueen, who plays a scientist…
Annie Hall (1977)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
- The 'hall'mark of Woody Allen's career – it won him an Oscar for Best Picture and made him a household name. It's a hilarious send–up of…
Another Bouquet (TV Mini-Series) (1977)
- Dir. John Frankau
Feat. Frank Finlay, James Aubrey, Deborah Grant…
- So–so follow up to Andrea Newman's painful chronicle of incestual desire is set six months later, and the repercussions are still being felt.