Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 991 Films to Buy & Rent
Misfits, The (1961)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe
- Stark melodrama was to be the curtain call for both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe. They are two of a group of cheerless souls roping wild mustangs…
No Love for Johnnie (1961)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Donald Pleasence…
- Peter Finch excels as a British MP whose desire for career advancement threatens his personal life.
Notte, La (The Night) (1961)
- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti
- A compelling bout of urban alienation, with Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau as a despairing married couple coming slowly apart at the seams.…
Only Two Can Play (1961)
- Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough…
- One of Peter Seller's earlier films sees him in rare semi–dramatic part, playing a librarian in a small Welsh town who has an affair. Dryly…
Paris Blues (1961)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Joanne Woodward…
- Undernourished romantic drama has Newman and Poitier as Jazz musicians on holiday in Paris forced to decide whether to stay or return to the U.S. for…
Raisin in the Sun (1961)
- Dir. Daniel Petrie
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee…
- Rounded drama about the struggles of black family living in Chicago in the 1940s, that was ground–breaking in its day and features several…
Singer Not the Song, The (1961)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Mylene Demongeot…
- Philosophical western is an oddity amongst the Rank canon with Bogarde as a campy Mexican bandit terrorising a catholic priest Mills. Homoerotic…
Splendour in the Grass (1961)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle…
- Smitten teens work up considerable sexual frenzy when their respective families won't let them be together. Appropriately, it's the lurid scenes…
Taste of Honey, A (1961)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Dora Bryan, Rita Tushingham, Robert Stephens…
- Powerful and starkly realistic 'kitchen sink' drama in which a mollycoddled lonely girl (Rita Tushingham) leaves her loveless home to befriend a…
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Max von Sydow
- Husband, father and brother must cope with the disintegrating mental health of a young woman on an island. The focus is on religion, madness and the…