Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)
- Dir. Hall Bartlett
Feat. Philip Ahn, Richard Crenna
- Unique attempt at adapting the seagulls–POV bestselling book. Music by Neil Diamond.
Kojak (TV Series) (1973-1978)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Telly Savalas, Ned Beatty
- Popular 70s cop show that turned Telly Savalas's funky, lollipop sucking, glow–domed police lieutenant into a cultural icon. Highly quotable,…
Kojak Collection, The (The Marcus-Nelson Murders, The Belarus File, The Price of Justice) (1973-1987)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent, Robert Markowitz, Alan Metzger
Feat. Telly Savalas, Marjoe Gortner, Jose Ferrer…
- Telly Savalas stars as the tough but witty sleuth who became a small screen icon in the 1970's. This set features the three feature–length TV…
Lady Snowblood 1 (Shurayukihime) (1973)
- Dir. Toshiya Fujita
Feat. Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon…
- A classic samurai B–movie made in the heyday of 'Wu Xia' influence, with Kaji playing a bereaved young woman who seeks revenge on the gangsters…
Last American Hero, The (1973)
- Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald…
- Jeff Bridges' mix of redneck roughness and choirboy sweetness is just right for this 1973 true story of a country kid running moonshine and making…
Last Detail, The (1973)
- Dir. Hal Ashby
Feat. Jack Nicholson
- Cleverly observed male–bonding yarn in which Jack Nicholson helps transport a fellow sailor to prison for a petty crime. He has three days to…
Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series) (1973-2003)
- Feat. Bill Owen, Michael Bates, Peter Sallis
- The longest–running sitcom of all time concerns the incorrigible gallivanting of three senior citizens in the English countryside. A comic…
Laughing Policeman, The (1973)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Anthony Zerbe
- Police procedural loosely based on the Swedish novel of the same name, set in the aftermath of a horrific shootout on a public bus.
A detective…
Le Magnifique (1973)
- Dir. Philippe de Broca
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli
- Jean–Paul Belmondo stars in this slapstick spoof of B–movie espionage films and novels, playing a frustrated writer working in this genre…
Legend of Hell House, The (1973)
- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill…
- Hoary British haunted house yarn based on Richard Matheson’s novel has four ‘experts’ (a skeptical physicist and his wife, a medium…