Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series) (1974-1975)
- Feat. Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage
- Darkly comic supernatural series following newspaper reporter Carl Kochak as he attempts to uncover supernatural occurrences in downtown Chicago.…
Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) (1974-1982)
- Feat. Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert
- Gently focused account of a settler family building their 'little house' on the plains of Minnesota in the 1870s. While not exactly gritty, this is…
Little Prince, The (1974)
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Richard Kiley, Bob Fosse, Gene Wilder
- The classic childern's story by aviator Antoine de Saint–Exupery is here translated with whimsy and wit intact. A pilot is stranded in a desert…
Madhouse (1974)
- Dir. Jim Clark
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry…
- British horror film based on the 1969 novel Devilday by Angus Hall, with Vincent Price playing a horror actor renowned for his character Dr. Death,…
Man About the House: The Movie (1974)
- Dir. John Robins
Feat. Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox, Spike Milligan
- Big screen outing of the popular sitcom has an unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings, only Robin…
McQ (1974)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur…
- John Wayne plays it tough in this neo–noir as a grizzled Seattle cop investigating the murder of his best friend and the corruption within the…
Murder On the Orient Express (1974)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam…
- Extravagent production of Agatha Christie's mystery with Albert Finney as Poirot rounding up an all–star cast of suspects.
Onedin Line, The (TV Series) (1974-1980)
- Feat. Peter Gilmore, Howard Lang, Brian Rawlinson…
- A sterling soap–opera of the 1970s, this immensely popular TV saga followed the empire–building and family fortunes of gruff 19th Century…
Pallisers, The (TV Series) (1974)
- Dir. Hugh David
Feat. Phillip Latham, Barbara Murray, Susan Hampshire…
- Substantial saga of wealth, passion, power, and scandal set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid–Victorian England,…
Parade (1974)
- Dir. Jacques Tati
- An eclectic comedy cabaret show that involves the filming of live performers on and offstage with small minuets dotted throughout. This final film…