Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 978 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…
- Becket (1964)
- Dir. Peter Glenville
Feat. Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud…
- Stinging, fact–based epic turns the trusted relationship between King Henry II (O’Toole) and his best friend, the Archbishop of Canterbury…
- Best Man, The (1964)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams…
- Bitter political satire finds Fonda and Robertson competing against each other in a bid to win the presidency. The two foes soon find themselves…
- Captain Newman, M.D. (1964)
- Dir. David Miller
Feat. Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson…
- Drama/comedy set during World War II, starring Gregory Peck as a psychiatrist in a military hospital in Arizona. Based on a novel by Leo Rosten,…
- Carpetbaggers, The (1964)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Carroll Baker…
- Drama based on the best–selling 1961 novel by Harold Robbins about a cheerfully vulgar business tycoon (perhaps modelled off Howard Hughes),…