Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Drama: 1093 Films to Buy & Rent
- Vortex, The / Hay Fever (The Noel Coward Collection - Disc 1) (1969-1984)
- Dir. Philip Dudley
Feat. Margaret Leighton, Richard Warwick, Penelope Keith…
- –The Vortex (69') Dark and disturbing drama centred on a family torn apart by drug abuse and sordid affairs. This deeply shocking play, that…
- With Six You Get Egg Roll (1968)
- Feat. Doris Day, Brian Keith
- Doris Day's last film sees the archetypal girl–next–door a more mature "working mom", here a widower trying to integrate her three sons…
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Paul Newman, George Kennedy
- Sure–footed, entertaining chain–gang yarn with a famously repulsive egg–eating contest.
- Graduate, The (1967)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katherine Ross
- An endearing Dustin Hoffman in his first leading role, is seduced by a middle–aged woman and then falls in love with her daughter. A brilliant…
- King of Hearts (1967)
- Dir. Phillipe De Broca
Feat. Alan Bates, Genevieve Bujold, Pierre Brasseur
- Excellently quirky mid–60s comedy that became a cult–hit in the US, has soldier Alan Bates infiltrate a French village in WWI, which has…
- Thief of Paris, The (Le Voleur) (1967)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Genevieve Bujold, Marie Dubois
- Enjoyable comedy with Belmondo as a young man cheated of his inheritance who in turn develops a taste for thieving. Set in Paris at the turn of the…
- Woman Times Seven (1967)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio Gassman…
- Shirley MacLaine inhabits seven different women in seven fanciful, star–studded mini–stories of adultery for Italian dir. Vittorio De…
- Family Way, The (1966)
- Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, John Mills…
- This Boulting Brothers classic is a hilarious yet affecting portrait of the marital difficulties of a young newlywed couple (Hywel Bennett and Hayley…
- Alfie (1965)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Michael Caine, Shelley Winters
- The film that made Michael Caine a household name. His eponymous anti–hero is that of a likely lad who likes to 'ave a go wiv the birds. They…
- Fists in the Pocket (1965)
- Dir. Marco Bellochio
Feat. Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Mase
- A ferocious intensity pervades this bitter yet utterly startling tale of a family afflicted with epilepsy, blindness and frustration, unafforded the…