Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
House (Hausu) (1977)
- Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
Feat. Kimiko Ikegami
- Words don't do justice to this one–of–a–kind Japanese horror romp about a gaggle of teen girls caught in a haunted house whose…
Island of Dr Moreau, The (1977)
- Dir. Don Taylor
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Michael York
- Burt Lancaster plays mad scientist Moreau in the second adaptation of H.G Wells chilling novel. Benefits greatly from the make up talents of the team…
Islands in the Stream (1977)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland…
- Solid, well–constructed adaptation of one of the more thoughtful Hemingway novels, with Scott as the sculptor who chooses to live in exile on a…
Jabberwocky (1977)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Michael Palin
- Monty Python's Lewis Carroll–inspired medieval farce with Michael Palin in the lead.
Jesus of Nazareth (Mini Series) (1977)
- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Robert Powell, Laurence Olivier, Anne Bancroft…
- Touched by the hand of Franco Zeffirelli and a who's–who of famous thesps, this is the most respectfully detailed and complete retelling of the…
Joseph Andrews (1977)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Beryl Reid…
- Bawdy picaresque revolves around the romantic misadventures of switched–at–birth servant. Chief amongst his concerns are the unwelcome…
Journey Among Women (1977)
- Dir. Tom Cowan
Feat. June Pritchard, Martin Phelan
- Ten female convicts, on the lam from an outback prison, set up utopian bush camp in this heady feminist treatise, where men are scum and women frolic…
Julia (1977)
- Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards Jr.…
- Dramatising the 1930s memories of playwright Lillian Hellman (THE LITTLE FOXES), this Oscar–winning classic centres on the relationship between…
Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. Barry Dennen, George Lazenby, Henry Gibson…
- A product of the Kentucky Fried Theatre (Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker of FLYING HIGH fame), this collection of skits, gags and spoofs comes across as a…
Killer of Sheep (1977)
- Dir. Charles Burnett
Feat. Henry Sanders
- A recently exhumed landmark of African–American cinema, dir. Burnett’s long–lost thesis film observes the daily hardships of an…