Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Disraeli (TV Mini-series) (1978)
- Dir. Claude Whatham
Feat. Ian McShane, Rosemary Leach, Mary Peach…
- Detailed biopic of the remarkable life of the author turned British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Talky and visually limited this is more than a…
End, The (1978)
- Dir. Burt Reynolds
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise
- Black comedy directed by and starring Burt Reynolds, who plays a real–estate agent who decides to kill himself when he is diagnosed with a…
F.I.S.T. (Fist) (1978)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle…
- Earnest union drama with Stallone as a Jimmy Hoffa type union leader whose idealism is gradually corrupted. Curious misfire is worth a watch with a…
Famous Five, The (TV Series) (Enid Blyton's The Famous Five) (1978-1979)
- Feat. Michele Gallagher, Marcus Harris, Gary Russell…
- The original and most beloved of The Famous Five TV serials, based on Enid Blyton's classic children's adventure novels.
Of Blyton's 21 stories,…
Fantasy Island (TV series) (1978-1984)
- Feat. Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize
- Unique and often inventive television classic set around a mysterious island resort, where white–suited Montalban and his diminutive sidekick…
Fedora (1978)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. William Holden, Marthe Keller, Jose Ferrer…
- Fascinating later work from dir. Wilder, in which an impoverished film producer travels to the Greek islands to track down an elusive European star…
Flying High (Airplane!) (1978)
- Dir. David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Feat. Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges…
- Side–splittingly funny lampoon of the Airport / Disaster movie genre, voted the best comedy of all time in 1999 by EMPIRE magazine.
Go Tell the Spartans (1978)
- Dir. Ted Post
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, David Clennon…
- Set in the early stages of the conflict in Vietnam, Lancaster plays a Major who, with a small band of untested soldiers, is ordered to hold a small…
Grange Hill (TV Series) (1978-2008)
- Candid British kids series following the exploits of a group of school misfits dealing with the day–to–day struggles of life in a…
Hazell (TV Series) (1978)
- Feat. Nicholas Ball
- Paying homage to classic film noir this ITV crime series centres around a charismatic private detective who tackles blackmail, missing persons cases,…