Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 991 Films to Buy & Rent
Visit, The (1964)
- Dir. Bernhard Wicki
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Paolo Stoppa
- Ms. Bergman is hypnotic as always in this revenge tale about a millionaire who returns to the village that drove her out as a pregnant teenager,…
Whistle Down the Wind (1964)
- Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Alan Bates, Hayley Mills
- Alan Bates plays an escaped convict who Hayley Mills meets and believes to be Jesus himself. Unsentimental yet moving account of childhood faith…
Woman of the Dunes (1964)
- Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
Feat. Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida
- From a simple premise – a man becomes trapped in a valley of sand in which a solitary woman lives – the director is able to draw out…
Yellow Rolls-Royce, The (1964)
- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Omar Sharif…
- Star–studded omnibus following three consecutive owners of a cute Rolls Royce Pantom II. An English aristocrat, a Chicago gangster and a…
Zorba the Greek (1964)
- Dir. Michael Cacoyannis
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas
- Keynote role for Anthony Quinn as the title–character of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, a bawdy, womanising,…
An Actor's Revenge (1963)
- Dir. Kon Ichikawa
Feat. Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto
- Unusual storyline concerns a Kabuki female impersonator, who seduces and arranges the destruction of three nobles responsible for his parents'…
Balcony, The (Le Balcon) (1963)
- Dir. Joseph Strick
Feat. Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Lee Grant…
- Fascinating adaptation of Jean Genet's play set in a fictional country, where Shelley Winters plays the Madam of a brothel that satisfies the erotic…
Cardinal, The (1963)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Tom Tryon, Carol Lynley, John Saxon…
- Otto Preminger draws out an epic crisis of faith in this examination of an ordained Catholic Priest’s struggle to reconcile family turmoil and his…
Caretaker, The (1963)
- Dir. Clive Donner
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Alan Bates, Robert Shaw
- Praised film adaptation of Harold Pinter's breakthrough stageplay, in which two brothers invite a tramp into their London flat – an act of…
Child is Waiting, A (1963)
- Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands
- At a school for disabled children music therapist Judy Garland butts heads with the conservative superintendent Burt Lancaster.
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