Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Airport '77 (1977)
- Dir. Jerry Jameson
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, James Stewart…
- This third installment in the Airport franchise has a jetliner plunging into the mid–Atlantic's Bermuda Triangle where a fresh celebrity…
Another Bouquet (TV Mini-Series) (1977)
- Dir. John Frankau
Feat. Frank Finlay, James Aubrey, Deborah Grant…
- So–so follow up to Andrea Newman's painful chronicle of incestual desire is set six months later, and the repercussions are still being felt.
Are You Being Served? - The Movie (1977)
- Dir. Bob Kellett
Feat. John Inman, Mollie Sugden
- Spinoff movie of the British TV–Series set in a department store. Retains the cast and broad campiness of the original, as the staff go on…
Ascent, The (Voskhozhdeniye) (1977)
- Dir. Larisa Shepitko
Feat. Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoli Solonitsyn
- A Soviet WWII classic shot in appalling winter conditions in which two partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the…
Black Sunday (1977)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller…
- A suspenseful, violent terrorist thriller based on Thomas Harris' fictional novel about the pro–Palestinian "Black September" group who…
Blue Fin (1977)
- Dir. Carl Schultz
Feat. Hardy Kruger, Greg Rowe
- From the creators of STORM BOY, this ocean adventure focuses on the demanding relationship between a father and his son on a tuna–fishing boat…
CHiPS (TV Series) (1977)
- Feat. Erik Estrada, Larry Wilcox, Robert Pine
- A prime–time smash hit and cheeseball classic from the disco era, centers around straight–up country boy 'Jon' and his rogue partner…
Count Dracula (TV Mini-series) (1977)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon…
- Faithful 70's adaptation of the classic horror novel by Bram Stoker, this critically–acclaimed BBC version utilises London's Highgate Cemetery…
Fun With Dick And Jane (1977)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. George Segal, Jane Fonda, Ed McMahon…
- Amusing low–brow satire sees affluent Segal and Fonda plunged into possible poverty and turning to criminal enterprise in an effort to sustain…
Grand Theft Auto (1977)
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Ron Howard, Marion Ross, Barry Cahill
- Petrolhead debut in the directing seat for Ron Howard (who also stars) is a car–chase special involving a young runaway couple in the crunching…