Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Caddie (1976)
- Dir. Donald Crombie
Feat. Helen Morse, Drew Forsythe, Jack Thompson…
- Key film of the Australian cinema renaissance with Helen Morse exceptional as a young solo mother struggling to get by in a male dominated…
Captains and the Kings (TV Mini-Series) (1976)
- Feat. Patty Duke, Jane Seymour, Perry King…
- Rich inter–generational saga chronicling the life of an Irish immigrant who arrives penniless in America in the mid–19th century.…
Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette) (1976)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira…
- Daunting Fassbinder drama concerning a cheating mother and father unwittingly convinced by their disabled daughter to each take their lovers on a…
Deathcheaters (1976)
- Dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith
Feat. Grant Page, John Hargreaves, Chris Haywood
- Stunt–packed Aussie adventure involving a couple of spies attempting to infiltrate the stronghold of a criminal genius.
It's all just a…
Duchess of Duke Street, The (TV Series) (1976)
- Feat. Gemma Jones, Christopher Cazenove
- A classic of BBC television, this easily equals UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS in its serio–comic depiction of domestic drama in Victorian–Edwardian…
Eat My Dust! (1976)
- Dir. Charles B Griffith
Feat. Ron Howard, Warren Kemmerling
- Set around the racetrack world of stock–cars and demolition derbys, this Roger Corman–produced actioner has a young Ron Howard behind the…
Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The (TV Series) (1976)
- Dir. John Howard Davies, Gareth Gwenlan
Feat. Leonard Rossiter, Pauline Yates
- The ultimate midlife–crisis sitcom, follows the adventures of Reginald as he wakes up to the absurdity of his middle–class existence and…
George and Mildred (TV Series) (1976)
- Dir. Peter Frazer-Jones
Feat. Yootha Joyce, Brian Murphy
- The landlords of MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE bicker away to much amusement in this still–funny 70s sitcom.
Moving to an upmarket suburb proves an…
Killer Force (1976)
- Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Telly Savalas, Peter Fonda, Hugh O'Brian…
- Routine heist film made palpable by its oddball casting, with Savalas hot on the heels of Fonda and his crack team of thieves as they plot an…
Last Hard Men, The (1976)
- Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. Charlton Heston, James Coburn
- Western starring Charlton Heston as a retired lawman who is hunted by James Coburn, a half–Navajo outlaw who has escaped from prison and is…