Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3628 Films to Buy & Rent
Our Daily Bread (1934)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper…
- Another fascinating sociological drama from director King Vidor about a struggling couple during the Great Depression who move to the country and…
Scarlet Empress, The (1934)
- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Sam Jaffe
- Outrageously ornate telling of the rise of Russia's Catherine the Great. Marlene Dietrich plays the Empress, with her great director/collaborator at…
Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1934)
- Dir. Harold Young
Feat. Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Merle Oberon
- Leslie Howard leads a double–life as an aristocratic fop by day and swashbuckling hero by night in the dark days of the French Revolution.…
Thin Man, The (1934)
- Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy
- Taken from Dashiell Hammett's novel, this near–perfect comedy–thriller virtually invented the genre, with William Powell and Myrna Loy as…
Twentieth Century (1934)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Barrymore, Carole Lombard
- Cracking good comedy staged aboard a luxury express–train, where egomaniac theatre producer John Barrymore attempts to win back…
Vanishing Shadow, The (1934)
- Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Onslow Stevens, Walter Miller, Ada Ince…
- 12–episode sci–fi serial about an electrical engineer and a mad scientist who attempt to take down a corrupt politician with a device…
42nd Street (1933)
- Dir. Lloyd Bacon
Feat. Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent
- The definitive backstage musical, centered around a chorus girl's shot at stardom when the leading lady twists her ankle. Busby Berkeley wrote the…
A Shriek in the Night (1933)
- Dir. Albert Ray
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Harvey Clark…
- A murderer terrorises a quiet neighbourhood, with each victim ominously receiving a polite card before being dispatched. This solidly produced…
Alice in Wonderland (1933)
- Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Charlotte Henry, Edward Everett Horton, W.C. Fields…
- Extravagant early version of the Lewis Carroll classic was a box office bomb in its day, but age has been kind, and if Charlotte Henry is a little…
Betty Boop - The Ultimate Collection (1933-1939)
- Dir. Max Fleisher
- An early cartoon sensation, Betty Boop flashed her curves and batted her eyelids across Depression–era America in an amusing, slightly…