Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Family Life (Wednesday's Child) (1971)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Grace Cave
- Grating realist cinema from ‘kitchen sink’ original Ken Loach, about a troubled young girl whose domineering parents drive her to a nervous…
Fat City (1971)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell
- One of dir. Huston's later accomplishments, this gritty, yet warmly toned drama inhabits a neighbourhood of boxing gyms, lowrent bars and amiable…
Fiddler On the Roof (1971)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Topol, Molly Picon
- Epic folk tale of community survival is given a vivid musical setting, as a Jewish family travel from pre–revolutionary Ukraine to America in…
Firechasers, The (1971)
- Dir. Sidney Hayers
Feat. Chad Everett, Anjanette Comer, Roy Kinnear…
- Brit–crime flick has an insurance investigator chasing down an arsonist, along the way he meets and works with a beautiful newspaper reporter…
Follyfoot (TV Series) (1971)
- Dir. Stephen Frears, Michael Apted, Vic Hughes
Feat. Gillian Blake, Desmond Llewelyn
- Young Dora (Gillian Blake), discarded in the country by her globe–trotting parents, takes to caring for the neglected horses of Follyfoot Farm,…
Friends (1971)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Sean Bury, Anicee Alvina
- Sentimental, page–turning romance blossoms an enternal love between two idealistic French teens head over heels. Hit soundtrack by Elton John…
Go-Between, The (1971)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Julie Christie, Alan Bates
- A young boy acts as a secret messenger for class–divided lovers Julie Christie and Alan Bates during a hot Norfolk summer in Edwardian England.…
Grissom Gang, The (1971)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante…
- Crime noir set in Missouri during the Depression, following the kidnapping of a priviledged meat heiress by notorious amateur hoodlums the Grissom…
Gunfight, A (1971)
- Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander…
- An inventive late western in the Sergio Leone tradition, concerning rival gunfighters Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash (in his debut) charging admission…
Hired Hand, The (1971)
- Dir. Peter Fonda
Feat. Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom…
- An unusual directorial debut for Peter Fonda, who turns out a small masterpiece with this revisionist Western bathed in the hippie afterglow of the…