Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3634 Films to Buy & Rent
You Only Live Once (1937)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney
- An awesome early film noir from dir. Lang with Fonda playing a career criminal determined to go straight, but compelled by fate into murdering a…
Young and Innocent (1937)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Nova Pilbeam, Derrick de Marney, Percy Marmont
- A young girl aids a fugitive on the run, who she believes is innocent. Hitch adds some clever twists to his reworking of THE 39 STEPS.
After the Thin Man (1936)
- Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart…
- That great American screen coupling, William Powell and Myrna Loy, forgo their New Year's celebrations to wittily dissect another murder mystery. A…
Anything Goes (1936)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles…
- The first film adaptation of the famous Cole Porter musical.
As You Like It (1936)
- Dir. Paul Czinner
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Elisabeth Bergner, Sir Felix Aylmer…
- Early cinematic adaptation of the bard's comedy is stagey and very mannered, but boasts an exceptional cast with a young Olivier a stand out.
César (1936)
- Dir. Marcel Pagnol
Feat. Raimu, Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay…
- Playwright Marcel Parcol takes over the director's reins himself for this concluding part of his Marseille trilogy, following 'Marius' and 'Fanny'.…
Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn
- Rousing action on the North–western frontier with Errol Flynn leading the climactic charge into certain death with fellow British cavalry men.
Chronological Donald, The (1936-1941)
- An excellent archive collection of all the early shorts starring Walt Disney's most successful cartoon character – Donald Duck. Includes an…
Desire (1936)
- Dir. Frank Borzage
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper
- Cooper and Dietrich make a spellbinding duo in this highly entertaining tale of an automotive engineer bound for a holiday in Spain who becomes…
Dimples (1936)
- Feat. Shirley Temple, Frank Morgan, Robert Kent
- Shirley Temple musical set in the New York Bowery, where the young lass helps her pickpocket grandfather., Soon however her musical talents come to…