Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 991 Films to Buy & Rent
Secret Ceremony (1968)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, Robert Mitchum…
- Farrow resembles Taylor's dead daughter, Taylor resembles Farrow's dead mother, and their meeting has strange results. Originally an excellent…
Sergeant, The (1968)
- Dir. John Flynn
Feat. Rod Steiger, John Phillip Law
- Rod Steiger plays a decorated war veteran who turns to drinking after he experiences an attraction to one of the soldiers under his command.
Shoes of the Fisherman, The (1968)
- Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud…
- Anthony Quinn plays a Russian bishop who is elected Pope after twenty years in political asylum. Beautifully adorned best–seller adaptation.
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.