Subgenre Sampler
: 25144 Films to Buy & Rent
99 Women (1969)
- Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Maria Rohm, Herbert Lom, Mercedes McCambridge
- Fiery, if comparatively contained first–time outing for cult dir. Jess Franco in the ‘women in prison’ genre: a rowdy sexploitation romp…
Airport Terminal Pack (Airport, Airport 1975, Airport '77, The Concorde - Airport '79) (1969-1979)
- A 4–disc set of all the 'Airport' disaster movies.
Alice's Restaurant (1969)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick…
- Loosely built around the adventures of hippie troubadour Arlo Guthrie (son of Woody and star of WOODSTOCK), as he wanders rural America asking…
All the Right Noises (1969)
- Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Olivia Hussey, Tom Bell, John Standing…
- The story of a young married man who has an affair with a teenage girl, this forms part of a peculiarly 1960s British wave of films exploring such…
An Ideal Husband / Lady Windermere's Fan (1969-1985)
- Dir. Rudolph Cartier
Feat. Margaret Leighton, Keith Michell, Jeremy Brett…
- Two well–mounted BBC television productions from the pen of Oscar Wilde, done with fidelity, grace, cunning and wit: An Ideal Husband (1969) &…
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
- Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold, Irene Papas…
- Opulent recounting of the doomed romance between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn with a gallery of fine performances and stunning costume design.
Army of Shadows (L'Armée des Ombres, aka Army in the Shadows) (1969)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel…
- Melville’s heavyweight masterpiece – by turns sombre, exhilarating, and tension–filled – tackles the clandestine rearguard…
Arrangement, The (1969)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway
- Advertising exec Kirk Douglas follows a mid–life suicide attempt with some desperate hi–jinks and a cry of rage at his hollow life.…
Assassination Bureau, The (1969)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas…
- Spirited crime caper which translates Jack London's novel of the same name to Europe on the cusp of WWI.
Diana Rigg plays an aspiring journalist…
Battle of Britain (1969)
- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard…
- Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier head an ensemble cast of British old boys for this extravagant re–enactment of the famous aerial battle that…