Subgenre Sampler
: 25144 Films to Buy & Rent
Roxy Music - The Thrill of it All (1972-1982)
- Definitive visual history of Roxy Music that chronicles the 10–year prime of the band’s recording career, live performance (much of it…
Ruling Class, The (1972)
- Dir. Peter Medak
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe
- An eccentric comedy about English eccentricity, with schizophrenic aristocrat Peter O’Toole succeeding the Earlship of Gurney, and proceeding to…
Salzburg Connection, The (Top Secret) (1972)
- Dir. Lee H. Katzin
Feat. Barry Newman, Anna Karina, Klaus Maria Brandauer…
- Entertaining espionage tale has Newman tangling with neo–Nazis and spies both in pursuit of the identity of German war criminals. Densely…
Savages (1972)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Sam Waterston, Lewis J. Stadlen, Anne Francine…
- Merchant Ivory's most unexpected film is an allegorical story of a primitive jungle tribe who are interrupted, mid human–sacrifice, by a…
Scoumoune: Mafia Warfare (La Scounoune) (1972)
- Dir. Jose Giovanni
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Michael Constantine
- Punchy underworld tale charts the rise and fall of icy hitman Belmondo who returns to Marseilles to help clear his friend of a murder charge.
Told…
Season of the Witch (Hungry Wives) (1972)
- Dir. George Romero
Feat. Jan White, Raymond Laine, Joedda McClain…
- The third feature film from director George Romero is a self–described "feminist" horror following a neglected and dissatisfied housewife who…
Seduction of Mimi, The (1972)
- Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato
- Satirical comedy taking plenty of shots at Italianisms, about a poor labourer who is forced to leave his family in Sicily to take an illegal factory…
Shaft's Big Score (1972)
- Dir. Gordon Parks Snr.
Feat. Richard Roundtree
- Richard Roundtree as Shaft goes upmarket for this first sequel, having moved away from urban squalor to fight crime Bond–style with a bigger…
Shelley (TV Series) (1972-1992)
- Feat. Hywel Bennett
- Classic British comedy series revels in one of the more unlikely deadly sins: sloth. University graduate James Shelley (Bennett) is a cynical,…
Siddhartha (1972)
- Dir. Conrad Rooks
Feat. Shashi Kapoor
- A young Brahmin Indian goes in search of knowledge, wisdom and spirituality in this gloriously shot version of Hermann Hesse’s cult novel.
Set…