Movies: The American Film Theatre

  • 1975
    The Man in the Glass Booth

    The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)

    The Man in the Glass Booth

    61975HD

    Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking Charlie with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is asto...

    The Man in the Glass Booth
  • 1975
    Galileo

    Galileo (1975)

    Galileo

    5.91975HD

    Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance...

    Galileo
  • 1974
    Rhinoceros

    Rhinoceros (1974)

    Rhinoceros

    5.41974HD

    A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros....

    Rhinoceros
  • 1973
    The Iceman Cometh

    The Iceman Cometh (1973)

    The Iceman Cometh

    61973HD

    Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free drinks and spirited stories of his travels. However, when Hickey does show up...

    The Iceman Cometh
  • 1973
    A Delicate Balance

    A Delicate Balance (1973)

    A Delicate Balance

    6.11973HD

    In their finely appointed Connecticut home, Agnes and Tobias have grown used to the imperfection and fragility of their marriage. Quietly nursing their grief over the death of their son, they get by well enough together. Agnes' boozy sister wanders i...

    A Delicate Balance
  • 1973
    The Homecoming

    The Homecoming (1973)

    The Homecoming

    5.81973HD

    In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and introduces the four men - father, uncle and two brothers - to his wife....

    The Homecoming
  • 1975
    The Maids

    The Maids (1975)

    The Maids

    5.41975HD

    A film version of Genet's play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and insulting her....

    The Maids
  • 1975
    Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

    Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1975)

    Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

    4.31975HD

    Three attendees at a puppet theater don various roles in order to sing a variety of songs by Jacques Brel, all while hippies and other eccentrics cavort about them....

    Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
  • 1975
    In Celebration

    In Celebration (1975)

    In Celebration

    4.91975HD

    In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of their parents, but dark secrets come to the fore....

    In Celebration
  • 1974
    Butley

    Butley (1974)

    Butley

    6.31974HD

    Butley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and focuses on two English instructors, Ben Butley, a middle-aged former T. S. Eliot expert whose life is now in a shambles, and his protégé, Joey, a homosexual. With both Joey and his wife leaving, Butle...

    Butley