Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Welcome Back, Kotter (TV Series) (1975)
- Feat. Gabe Kaplan, John Travolta
- This classic American sitcom still holds up in its rowdy but progressive view of high school delinquency and remedial education. A young John…
Welcome to My Nightmare (1975)
- Feat. Alice Cooper
- Alice Cooper gleefully flaunts his garish and excessive stage show to the tune of many of his hits, including 'School's Out' and 'Only Women Bleed'.
Wilby Conspiracy, The (1975)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson…
- Activists Poitier and Caine are stalked by a sadistic policeman in this Apartheid–era suspenser, in which thrills take precedence over politics.
Wind and the Lion, The (1975)
- Dir. John Milius
Feat. Sean Connery, Candice Bergen
- Connery plays a Moroccan sheik who kidnaps American Bergin, angering the US government. Old fashioned epic based loosely on fact.
Winstanley (1975)
- Dir. Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
Feat. Miles Halliwell, Jerome Willis, Terry Higgins
- The dramatized history of a Reformation–era religious sect called the Diggers. A nonviolent aggregation, the Diggers are devoted to tilling the…
Wrong Move (1975)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Rudiger Vogler, Nastassja Kinski
- A young writer works through his artistic angst and laments the decline of German society in Wenders disquieting road movie. Downbeat, but compelling…
Xala (Impotence) (1975)
- Dir. Ousmane Sembene
- When a government official (Thierno Leye) in newly–independent Senegal marries a third wife he finds himself struck down with impotence, in…
Yakuza, The (1975)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura
- Mitchum challenges the sword and secrets of the Japanese Mafia in this accomplished actioner written by Paul Schrader and Robert Towne.
5 Films About Christo and Jeanne-Claude (Christo's Valley Curtain, Running Fence, Islands, Christo in Paris, Umbrellas) (1974-1995)
- Dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles
- The complete set of filmic documentations by the Maysles brothers (and various other directors) on the French concept–sculptors Christo and his…
A Knife for the Ladies (1974)
- Dir. Larry G. Spangler
Feat. Jack Elam, Jeff Cooper
- Brutal Western murder mystery taking inspiration from slasher films of the 1970's, in which a sheriff and a detective track down a vicious killer who…