Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5561 Films to Buy & Rent
Young Frankenstein (1974)
- Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr…
- One of Mel Brooks' best is this on–target parody of Mary Shelley's gothic legend and especially James Whale's classic 1930s film versions.…
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973)
- Dir. Norman Cohen
Feat. Jim Dale, Arthur Lowe
- Jim Dale plays a young Spike Milligan, then an aspiring jazz musician who in 1940 reluctantly obeys his call–up and joins the Royal Artillery…
Alvin Purple / Alvin Rides Again (1973)
- Dir. Tim Burstall
Feat. Graeme Blundell
- The first of a wave of Australian sex–comedies that proved exceptionally popular in 70s Oz. Here Bludell plays an ordinary Ocker who has a "way…
American Graffiti (1973)
- Dir. George Lucas
Feat. Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss
- Seminal coming–of–age comedy set in '62 spawned a hit TV show (Happy Days), a mega–selling soundtrack and boosted many careers.
Father, Dear Father: The Movie (1973)
- Dir. William G Stewart
Feat. Patrick Cargill, Joyce Carey
- Spin–off movie version of the British sitcom of the same name is decidedly un–cinematic but worth a look for fans of the series.
Girl Most Likely To, The (1973)
- Dir. Lee Philips
Feat. Stockard Channing, Edward Asner, Jim Backus
- An 'ugly duckling' high–school student is transformed by plastic surgery and decides to wreak homicidal vengeance on former boyfriends and…
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…
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…
Love and Anarchy (1973)
- Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Eros Pagni
- Cult director Lina Wertmuller's political parable about the would–be assassin of Mussolini who falls in love with a prostitute at his…
Love Thy Neighbour - The Movie (1973)
- Feat. Jake Smethurst, Rudolph Walker
- Card–carrying unionist Eddie Booth, a socialistic avowed racial discriminator who maintains a constant barrage of abuse at his neighbor, a…