Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics > Drama: 29 Films to Rent
- Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendall, Madhur Jaffrey
- The first major film from the Merchant–Ivory collaboration, this elegaic drama follows the progress of an English theatre troupe through India…
- Carpetbaggers, The (1964)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Carroll Baker…
- Drama based on the best–selling 1961 novel by Harold Robbins about a cheerfully vulgar business tycoon (perhaps modelled off Howard Hughes),…
- Chalk Garden, The (1964)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills…
- British melodrama based on the eccentric stage play by Enid Bagnold, with Hayley Mills playing a rebellious teenager who meets her match in governess…
- Kitten with a Whip (1964)
- Dir. Douglas Heyes
Feat. Ann-Margret, John Forsythe, Peter Brown…
- Ann–Margaret brings white–hot intensity to this cult classic about a teenage girl on the run from the law who blackmails a clueless…
- Hands Over the City (Le mani sulla città ) (1963)
- Dir. Francesco Rosi
Feat. Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti
- An astute and ever–pertinent story of political corruption in post–World War II Italy starring Rod Steiger as a ruthless developer and…
- Leopard, The (Il Gattopardo) (1963)
- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale…
- An Italian classic, concerning the decline of the 19th century Sicilian aristocracy – represented by Burt Lancaster– that fulfils its…
- Harakiri (Seppuku) (1962)
- Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama…
- Japanese jidaigeki (period drama) set at the beginning of the Edo period, following a masterless samurai (ronin) who wishes to commit suicide…
- Hustler, The (1961)
- Dir. Robert Rossen
Feat. Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, George C. Scott…
- Classic Paul Newman, playing a pool–shark with potential who gets into a match with the legendary Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason). George C…
- Room at the Top (1958)
- Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret
- Matters sexual are treated with rare maturity in this stunning, landmark British drama about an ambitious, working–class cad who falls in love…
- Eddy Duchin Story, The (1956)
- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Tyrone Power, Kim Novak, James Whitmore
- Tearjerking, CinemaScope biopic of the beloved but short–lived pianist and bandleader Eddy Duchin. Nominated for four Academy Awards.