Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
WKRP in Cincinatti (TV Series) (1978-1982)
- Feat. Gary Sandy, Howard Hesseman, Gordon Jump…
- American pop culture of the late 70's is captured in this easy–going ensemble sitcom that follows the misadventures of the staff of a…
Wuthering Heights (TV Mini-series) (1978)
- Dir. Peter Hammond
Feat. Ken Hutchison, Kay Adshead, Pat Heywood…
- Lengthy BBC adaptation of the classic story of doomed lovers Cathy (Adshead) and Heathcliff (Hutchinson) is also considered the most accurate,…
You Are Not Alone (Du er ikke alene) (1978)
- Dir. Ernst Johansen, Lasse Nielsen
Feat. Anders Agensø, Peter Bjerg
- Beautifully evocative Danish coming–of–age story set in an all–boys boarding school, which confronts themes of homosexuality and…
21 Up (1977)
- Dir. Michael Apted
- The third part of the extraordinary television documentary series that documents the attitudes, personalities and lives of 14 Britishers of different…
3 Women (Three Women) (1977)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Shelley Duvall, Janice Rule
- Inspired by a dream, dir. Robert Altman shapes a memorably ethereal drama around the idiosyncratic qualities of actresses Shelley Duvall and Sissy…
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…