Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Barquero (1970)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Forrest Tucker…
- Taut and bloody morality play set by a river's edge with Van Cleef as an ornery barge owner holding out against a band of mercenaries desperate to…
Bombay Talkie (1970)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Zia Mohyeddin
- Probably the most visually distinguished Merchant–Ivory film, this semi–satiric swirl through the 'Bollywood' film industry works as both…
Callan (TV Series) (1970)
- Dir. James Goddard, Voytek
Feat. Edward Woodward
- The bold British TV spy series with Edward Woodward as the cold–blooded but very human secret agent.
Catweazle (TV Series) (1970-1971)
- Feat. Geoffrey Bayldon, Charles Tingwell
- An eccentric, disheveled 11th century wizard teleports to the 1970s, spending much of his time in a state of utter bewilderment at the many…
Chisum (1970)
- Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George…
- A western starring John Wayne, very loosely based around events from the Lincoln County War in 1878, when a conflict arose over the control of goods…
Cold Sweat (De La Part Des Copains) (1970)
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, James Mason
- Tight Charles Bronson vehicle see the tough guy play a retired convict who lives with his wife and daughter in the idyllic French Rivera, until some…
Colossus - The Forbin Project (1970)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent
- Believably unsettling cold war parable concerning a huge electronic brain called Colossus, designed to control the American missile defense system.…
Conformist, The (Conformista, Il) (1970)
- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin…
- Dazzling images and a potent brew of sex and politics merge seamlessly in this milestone of cinema about a submissive Italian Fascist recruited to…
Cromwell (1970)
- Dir. Ken Hughes
Feat. Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley…
- Routine, if spectacularly staged rendition of the career of English revolutionary and King–slayer Oliver Cromwell (Harris). Unfortunately, the…
Deep End (1970)
- Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
Feat. Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Diana Dors
- Remarkable, darkly comic story of 15–year–old Mike who takes a job at the local swimming baths and becomes obsessed with a beautiful…