Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Secret Policeman's Ball - The Anniversary Comedy! Edition (1979-1993)
- Comprehensive collection of Secret Policeman’s Ball moment, fronted by the usual suspects: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Peter Cook, Rowan Atkinson,…
Secret Policeman's Ball - The Music Collector's Edition (1979)
- Compilation of live moments from Amnesty International's series of fundraising concerts. Featured artists include John Cleese, Tom Jones, Eric…
Secret Policeman's Ball, The (1979)
- Feat. John Cleese, Michael Palin, Peter Cook…
- The third in the series of Amnesty International charity gigs and first 'Ball' featuring a series of Britain's finest comedians and musicians. Apart…
Shaolin Temple (1979)
- Dir. Cheung Hsin Yen
Feat. Jet Li
- Martial Arts superstar Jet Li’s debut film, as a Shaolin–trained fighter who exacts revenge upon an evil warlord, already displaying the…
Shape of Things to Come, The (1979)
- Dir. George McCowan
Feat. Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barry Morse…
- Loosely adapted from the H.G. Wells novel, this follows a mankind's post–nuclear colonisation of the Moon and series of crises that bedevil the…
Sisters or the Balance of Happiness (Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks) (1979)
- Dir. Margarethe von Trotta
- 1970s West German drama about two sisters whose unusually close relationship negatively impacts their individual personal lives.
Skin Deep (1979)
- Dir. Geoff Steven
Feat. Ken Blackburn, Alan Jervis, Deryn Cooper
- When an urban masseuse sets up at a legitimate health bar in a small South Island town she attracts as much demand for special services as…
Snapshot (One More Minute) (1979)
- Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Chantal Contouri, Sigrid Thornton, Robert Bruning
- Offbeat, low–budget thriller from Oz stars Sigrid Thornton as a 20–something lured into the sleazy world of topless modelling. While she…
Sons for the Return Home (1979)
- Dir. Paul Maunder
Feat. Uelese Pataia
- Compassionate screen adaptation of Albert Wendt's autobiographical novel, the first published by a Samoan. Uelese Pataia plays the shy young academic…
Stalker (1979)
- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Aleksandr Kajdanovsky, Alisa Frejndlikh, Anatoli Solonitsyn
- A stark, apocalyptic vision into a world where the Stalker guides those who wish to enter the forbidden Zone. Intimate, dilatory work conjures images…