Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 988 Films to Buy & Rent
Rage to Live, A (1965)
- Dir. Walter Grauman
Feat. Suzanne Pleshette, Ben Gazzara
- Soapy melodrama starring Suzanne Pleshette as a young heiress who has a series of steamy relationships, undermining her wealthy family's reputation.…
Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendall, Madhur Jaffrey
- The first major film from the Merchant–Ivory collaboration, this elegaic drama follows the progress of an English theatre troupe through India…
Ship of Fools (1965)
- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret…
- A gaggle of ocean liner passengers intermingle in this leaky melodrama, headlined by a top–notch cast. Vivien Leigh's last film.
Shop on High Street, The (The Shop on Main Street) (1965)
- Dir. Jan Kadar
- A key film of the Czech film renaissance of the 1960s, that explores 'everyday fascism' through the story of a Jewish shopkeeper who mistakes her…
Those Calloways (1965)
- Dir. Norman Tokar
Feat. Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Walter Brennan…
- Sincere and effective Disney drama about a smalltown eccentric (Keith) in New England, who, with the help of his family, decides to buy a lake and…
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1965)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Joseph Gehrard, Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey
- The life of a Parisian prostitute, analysing the likes of women, language, western society as well as cinema itself. Godard's cinematic essay broke…
Young Sinner, The (Like Father, Like Son) (1965)
- Dir. Tom Laughlin
Feat. Tom Laughlin, Stefanie Powers
- The story of a small–town football player, told mostly in confessional flashbacks, who has to go against God and decent society to do naughty…
Americanization of Emily, The (1964)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas…
- Plucky black comedy with James Garner as the scapegoat for a wacky US admiral's grand plan to have a American naval officer be the first killed at…
Bande a Part (Band of Outsiders) (1964)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey
- One of the dir.’s more accessible films follows the carefree criminal adventures of Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey, while still…
Beauty Jungle, The (Contest Girl) (1964)
- Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Ian Hendry, Janette Scott, Ronald Fraser…
- Interesting early expose of the lurid, cut–throat world of beauty pageants has a fetching Bristol typist (Scott) teased into entering a local…