Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 991 Films to Buy & Rent
Life at the Top (1965)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman…
- Laurence Harvey returns for this sequel to Room at the Top (1958). Thinking he's really made it by marrying the boss's daughter in his northern mill…
Patch of Blue, A (1965)
- Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman
- Near flawless film about the friendship between a blind, uneducated girl and a black man she meets in the park, who becomes determined to help her…
Pawnbroker, The (1965)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Rod Steiger
- Rod Steiger gives a career–best performance as a Jewish pawnbroker whose new life in Spanish Harlem conjures haunting images of his Nazi prison…
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…