Subgenre Sampler
Maitresse (1976)
- Dir. Barbet Schroeder
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Bulle Ogier - An eye–watering, willfully transgressive tale of a petty crook (Depardieu) who enters into a seemingly conventional romance with a…
Man of Marble (1976)- Dir. Andrzej Wajda
- One of dir. Wadja's later masterpieces is a strong attack on the tactics and hypocrisy of the Communist government of the day. A film student…
Mr. Klein (1976)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau - A dark, dread–inducing moral tale, with Delon fleecing vulnerable Jews under German–occupied–France, only to be mistaken by…
News From Home (La Chambre, Hotel Monterey) (1976)- Dir. Chantal Akerman
Feat. Chantal Akerman - A beautifully composed tableaux of New York in the seventies, cut to a reading of letters from dir. Akerman's mother. Also includes the…
Satan's Brew (Satansbraten) (1976)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Margit Carstensen, Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven… - Schizophrenic Fassbinder dramedy involving a German poet struck with writer's block that partakes in a number of moneymaking schemes involving his…
Scar, The (Blizna) (1976)- Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Feat. Franciszek Pieczka - Dir. Kieslowski's debut theatrical feature follows on from his earlier documentary work in dramatising what happens when a large chemical plant is…
Shaolin Wooden Men (1976)- Feat. Jackie Chan
- Jackie Chan cut his teeth on these cheap fist–and–feet–fests. More intentionally serious than his later star–turns, but…
Small Change (L'argent de Poche) (1976)- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Nicole Felix, Chantal Mercier - Childhood in a small French village is portrayed as a series of witty poetic moments in a comedy that’s sunny, tender and finally serious in…
Stroszek (1976)- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruno S., Eva Mattes - Powerful tragi–comedy follows a simple–minded Bruno S to America with a prostitute trying to escape her unsavoury past. The film's…
The Marquise of O (Die Marquise von O) (1976)- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz - An Eric Rohmer period drama set in 1799 telling the story of the Marquise von O, a virtuous widow, who finds herself pregnant who protests her…
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