Subgenre Sampler
Cult: 1365 Films to Buy & Rent
Sweeney, The (TV Series) (1976)
- Dir. David Wickes, Tom Clegg
Feat. John Thaw, Dennis Waterman
- Before THE PROFESSIONALS and MINDER came the ground–breaking Brit cop show starring John Thaw and Dennis Waterman. A highly influential action…
Tenant, The (1976)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Shelley Winters
- Polanski himself plays an introverted office clerk who undergos a psycho–sexual mutation while residing in a seedy high–rise apartment.…
UP! (1976)
- Dir. Russ Meyer
Feat. Raven De La Croix, Kitten Natividad
- Wacky and extreme Russ Meyer sexploitationer takes the dir.'s cherished fascination with ample bosomage into sexually hardcore territory, but with…
Beast, The (La Bete) (1975)
- Dir. Walerian Borowczyk
Feat. Lucy Broadhurst
- This unsexy, frequently hilarious art–porn parable from the easily aroused dir. of IMMORAL TALES consists of a hairy sasquatch in heat chasing…
Black Moon (1975)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Joe Dallesandro
- A vastly ambitious and haunting fantasy excursion for dir. Malle proffers an allegorical future world in which civil war rages between the sexes,…
Boy and His Dog, A (1975)
- Dir. L.Q. Jones
Feat. Don Johnson
- Intriguingly subversive film about a youth and his telepathic canine friend who scour the post–holocaust landscape in search of civilisation.…
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975)
- Dir. Chuck Bail
Feat. Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens
- Buxom blaxploitation flick. The 6'2 Tamara Dobson is Cleopatra Jones, a karate–chopping government agent sent to Hong Kong to bring her special…
Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975)
- Dir. Norman Cohen
Feat. Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Linda Hayden
- Risque British farce about the meteoric rise and fall of a band called Kipper. Being part of the "confessions" series the band's downfall will no…
Death Race 2000 (1975)
- Dir. Paul Bartel
Feat. David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone
- Hilarious black comedy from the director of EATING RAOUL, about a road race across the States where one can gain points from killing pedestrians…
Devil Times Five (1975)
- Dir. Sean MacGregor
Feat. Leif Garrett
- Chillingly effective 70s horror about a stranded group of children (yes five of them) with a collective penchant for adult–icide. While it…