Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 988 Films to Buy & Rent
Stolen Kisses (Baisers Voles) (1968)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Delphine Seyrig
- Third film in the director's Antoine Doinel series (see also THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOWS) starring Jean–Pierre Leaud, here as a careless young man…
Theorem (Teorema) (1968)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti…
- A mysterious stranger seduces and corrupts each member of a bourgeois family. Pasolini stitches religious, social and political metaphors into his…
Up The Junction (1968)
- Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Dennis Waterman, Suzy Kendall, Maureen Lipman…
- A compelling later example of the British kitchen sink drama that follows a bored rich London girl from Chelsea who decides to "slum it" in depressed…
Up Tight (1968)
- Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Frank Silvera…
- In this landmark collaboration between activist and actress Ruby Dee and director Jules Dassin, Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their…
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…
Accident (1967)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Vivien Merchant, Michael York
- The second classic Joseph Losey / Harold Pinter collaboration takes place in a deceptively placid Oxford University setting, that conceals…
Banning (1967)
- Dir. Ron Winston
Feat. Robert Wagner, Anjanette Comer, Jill St. John…
- Biting critique of the country club set with Robert Wagner as a jaded ex–golfer who hustling his way into Los Angeles' high society.
Belle De Jour (Beauty of the Day) (1967)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli…
- Cool and elegant comedy of manners about a virginal newlywed who works the day shift in a high class brothel. Bunuel's surrealist…
Charlie Bubbles (1967)
- Dir. Albert Finney
Feat. Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Liza Minnelli…
- Albert Finney plays the titular character, an ennui–ridden author whose return to his hometown of Manchester is less than…
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.