Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 991 Films to Buy & Rent
Oedipus Rex (1967)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli
- Striking visual achievement, filmed amidst the Moroccan desert and Bologna, describes the Oedipal tale of a tortured soul who murders his father and…
Poor Cow (1967)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Carol White, Terence Stamp, Malcolm McDowell
- Striking the tone of much of his subsequent work, Ken Loach's debut film gives a semi–documentary edge to the story of 'poor cow' Carol White,…
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith…
- Adaptation of Carson McCuller's novel. Taking place on a peacetime army base, a career officer finds his personal and professional life compromised…
Two of Us, The (Le Vieil Homme et l'Enfant) (1967)
- Dir. Claude Berri
Feat. Alain Cohen, Michel Simon
- Touching wartime nostalgia, with Michel Simon as a grizzly anti–Semite who befriends a Jewish boy sent to countryside during occupied France.…
Ulysses (1967)
- Dir. Joseph Strick
Feat. Barbara Jefford, Milo O'Shea, Maurice Roeves…
- A brave stab at filming James Joyce's sprawling novel, but it's better known for the stir it caused over its seminal use of the f–word and…
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…
Young Girls of Rochefort, The (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort) (1967)
- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Francois Dorleac, Gene Kelly
- The carrot of love is dangled in Jacques Demy's positively radiant follow–up to UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG: an unbridled, colour–saturated…
10:30 PM Summer (1966)
- Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Melina Mercouri, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch
- Tawdry, heavy–handed curiosity adapts Marguerite Duras’s New Wave novel into a sordid, albeit beautifully locationed spectacle. With a…
A Man Called Adam (1966)
- Dir. Leo Penn
Feat. Sammy Jr. Davis, Louis Armstrong, Cicely Tyson…
- Sammy Davis Jr stars as a caustically charismatic jazz musician who questions his self–destructive lifestyle upon falling in love with a civil…
Andrei Rublev (1966)
- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko
- Enthralling historical drama vividly portrays the 15th Century Russian painter who was encumbered by the political turbulence of the time.