Subgenre Sampler
: 25144 Films to Buy & Rent
Prime Cut (1972)
- Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek…
- Gritty underworld thriller set in the fields and meat–packhouses of Kansas, where mob enforcer Marvin is sent to collect money from local…
Protectors, The (TV Series) (1972-1973)
- Feat. Robert Vaughn, Ngaire Dawn Porter, Tony Anholt
- A suave, jet–setting suspense series that was Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's (THUNDERBIRDS) second foray into live–action, depicting the…
Pulp (1972)
- Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander…
- After completing the phenomenal GET CARTER Caine and dir. Hodges reteamed for this lightweight, yet highly watchable comedy thriller.
Caine plays…
Python Pack, The (Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, And Now For Something Completely Different) (1972-1979)
- Includes three classic Monty Python features.
Railway Children, The (1972)
- Dir. Lionel Jeffries
Feat. Jenny Agutter
- When their father is jailed for espionage, Jenny Agutter and her siblings are relocated to rural Yorkshire. Local adventures slowly turn into an…
Rainbow (TV Series) (1972-1992)
- Cult kids show both educational and slightly surreal, and responsible for introducing generations to Bungle, George, Zippy and horrendously colored…
Rainbow Bridge (1972)
- Dir. Chuck Wein
Feat. Jimi Hendrix
- A thinly–contrived hippy fable, notable though for featuring footage of the last–ever concert by Jimi Hendrix.
Rentadick (1972)
- Feat. Richard Briers, James Booth, Richard Beckinsale…
- From a screenplay by John Cleese and Graham Chapman, Rentadick, a band of private detectives, are hired to protect a rich scientist's business as…
Revengers, The (1972)
- Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode…
- One of the more violet westerns not to be directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring William Holden as a rancher and Civil War hero who assembles a posse of…
Rossellini's History Films: Renaissance and Enlightenment (The Age of the Medici, Cartesius, Blaise Pascal) (1972-1974)
- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
- Three TV films about some of the western world's major figures and moments, from Italian master Roberto Rossellini in the final phase of his…