Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5561 Films to Buy & Rent
Up Pompeii (1971)
- Dir. Bob Kellett
Feat. Frankie Howerd, Sir Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray…
- Frankie Howerd's bawdy comedy with a Roman slave inadvertently becoming the possessor of a scroll naming the proposed assassins of the Emperor Nero.
Woody Allen Collection, The (Annie Hall, Bananas, Interiors, Love and Death, Manhattan, Sleeper, Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex) (1971-1979)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen
- Seven Woody Allen classics all, bar one, from his earlier, funnier period – "Annie Hall", "Bananas", "Interiors", "Love and Death",…
Archie's Funhouse (TV Series) (1970)
- Animated 70's series based on the popular comic strip starring Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead and Reggie, the famous group of friends at Riverdale…
Bombay Talkie (1970)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Zia Mohyeddin
- Probably the most visually distinguished Merchant–Ivory film, this semi–satiric swirl through the 'Bollywood' film industry works as both…
Borsalino (1970)
- Dir. Jacques Deray
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Michel Bouquet
- Delightful seriocomic film of two likeable hoods who become gangland chieftains in 1930s Marseilles. Music by Claude Bolling.
Breaking Of Bumbo,The (1970)
- Dir. Andrew Sinclair
Feat. Joanna Lumley, Richard Warwick
- Curiosity from 1960s 'swinging London', this has Joanna Lumley debuting as a drop–out who persuades a newly inducted British guardsman over to…
Carry On Up the Jungle (1970)
- Dir. Gerald Thomas
Feat. Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey
- The 'Carry On' crew encounter familiar humour in darkest Africa, shipping the concept to the days of the British Raj.
Catch 22 (1970)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Alan Arkin, Jon Voight, Orson Welles
- An acerbic anti–war statement based on the much–hailed novel about a WW2 fighter pilot's reluctance to fight, in order to preserve his…
Claire's Knee (1970)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Jean-Claude Brialy
- The director's fifth moral tale gained him major international recognition. A curiously droll tale of a middle–aged man's obsession with the…
Darling Lili (1970)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson
- Julie Andrews goes undercover as an all–singing, all–dancing German spy in this deceptively peachy WWI musical.
Also starring the…