Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 978 Films to Buy & Rent
- To Sir with Love (1966)
- Dir. James Clavell
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Lulu
- Sidney Poitier instructs a class of cheeky, wayward teenagers in this feel–good classic of British cinema.
- War and Peace (1966)
- Dir. Sergei Bondarchuk
Feat. Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Irina Gubanova
- The definitive version of Leo Tolstoy's gargantuan novel, set during the Napoleonic invasion of Russia in the early 19th century. Nothing else quite…
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor
- High powered melodrama with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in peak form as a married couple whose dinner party turns into a violent debacle.…
- A Blonde in Love (1965)
- Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. Hana Brejchova, Vladimir Pucholt, Vladimir Mensik
- This early film from the director of AMADEUS tells the simple story of a young girl's search for a pianist with whom she spent the night. Forman…
- Alfie (1965)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Michael Caine, Shelley Winters
- The film that made Michael Caine a household name. His eponymous anti–hero is that of a likely lad who likes to 'ave a go wiv the birds. They…
- Battle of Algiers, The (1965)
- Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
Feat. Brahim Haggiag
- Gripping account of the Muslim uprising which led to the withdrawal of France from Algeria was shot merely four years after the revolution, and as…
- Chimes at Midnight (1965)
- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, John Gielgud…
- Orson Welles' late–career masterpiece in which one of the Bard's great supporting characters Falstaff is given his due through a series of…
- Cincinnati Kid, The (1965)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Tuesday Weld…
- Memorable visit to the shady world of card–sharking in Depression–era America, with some excellent character acting from a great cast.
- Darling (1965)
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde
- Oscar–winning, watershed film of British sexual mores is a fashionably flashy and cynical moral fable. Julie Christie social climbs to a…
- Fists in the Pocket (1965)
- Dir. Marco Bellochio
Feat. Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Mase
- A ferocious intensity pervades this bitter yet utterly startling tale of a family afflicted with epilepsy, blindness and frustration, unafforded the…