Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 991 Films to Buy & Rent
Town Without Pity (1961)
- Dir. Gottfried Reinhardt
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Robert Blake, Richard Jaeckel…
- Bitter legal drama with Kirk Douglas defending four American soldiers charged with the gang rape of a young German woman.
Somewhat sluggish in its…
Two Women (1961)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Sophia Loren
- Sophia Loren won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as a WW2 widow who endures turmoil with her 13–year–old daughter before they are…
Victim (1961)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms
- As an English barrister blackmailed over his homosexual past, Dirk Bogarde gives a keynote performance, the first in what was to become a long line…
Viridiana (1961)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey
- Bunuel purges his spiritual demons in this potent psychological study of a novice nun who loses her innocence when she visits her…
Young Savages, The (1961)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews…
- Arresting crime drama set on the segregated streets of East Harlem and focused on a district attorney investigating the murder of a blind Puerto…
Bad Sleep Well, The (1960)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune
- A contemporary gangster saga that uses a Hamlet–esque narrative to indict corporate and political corruption. Government officials were not…
Bells are Ringing (1960)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark…
- Winning musical rom–com from Vincente Minnelli (MEET ME IN ST LOUIS), with Judy Holliday playing a fictionalised version of real–life…
Butterfield 8 (La Venus au Vision) (1960)
- Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher…
- A purring Elizabeth Taylor stars in this high–strung melodrama as a bed–hopping New York model, who questions her ways when she falls in…
Entertainer, The (1960)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Laurence Olivier
- Laurence Olivier portrays a faded comedian who reflects on his failure as an entertainer and as a man. Another fine example of moody British…
Esther and the King (1960)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh, Mario Bava
Feat. Joan Collins, Richard Egan, Denis O'Dea…
- The Book of Esther is retold in this minor Biblical epic, with Joan Collins as a Jewish girl saves her people from a pogrom launched by the evil…