Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 978 Films to Buy & Rent
- Interlude (1957)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. June Allyson, Rossano Brazzi, Marianne Koch…
- June Allyson falls for the charms of a married European conductor while being courted by a Munich doctor. One of Sirk's weaker melodramas, this was…
- Love in the Afternoon (1957)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier
- Dark horse Audrey Hepburn classic sees dir. Billy Wilder riff Ernst Lubitsch by way of Gary Cooper and Maurice Chevalier (a wall fixture of…
- Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
- Dir. Joseph Pevney
Feat. James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer
- James Cagney moulds his ‘dirty face’ into the many classic horror personas of actor Lon Chaney Jr, in this liberal biopic of the actor’s…
- Nights of Cabiria (1957)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Giulietta Masina
- Giulietta Masina is marvelous as a waifish prostitute dreaming of a rich, wonderful life but always finding sorrow. Tragicomic masterpiece won an…
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou…
- Kubrick's muscular drama deals frankly with the hypocrisy and inhumanity of military ethics, based on a true incident in WWI France. Following a…
- Peyton Place (1957)
- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Lana Turner, Hope Lange, Lee Philips…
- A cheesy classic based on the mega–seller, weaving almost any domestic scandal you can think of into a compelling melodrama. Followed by a TV…
- Pride and the Passion, The (1957)
- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren…
- A solemn epic set around Napoleon's campaign in Spain in the early 19th century – the cast doing their sincere best with a fairly passionless…
- Raintree County (1957)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint…
- Civil War set romance has Montgomery Clift as a schoolteacher whojoins the Union Army as they march into Georgia in the hope of finding his estranged…
- Robbery Under Arms (1957)
- Dir. Jack Lee
Feat. Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis, Laurence Naismith…
- Seminal Aussie western with Peter Finch as charismatic outlaw Captain Starlight leading two brothers astray after they join his roving band of…
- Saint Joan (1957)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, John Gielgud…
- Colourized version of the Joan of Arc story with Jean Seberg in her acting debut.