Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 978 Films to Buy & Rent
- Friendly Persuasion (1956)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins…
- Gary Cooper headlines this sentimental yet atmospheric and beautifuly crafted drama about a Quaker family in southern Indiana whose pacifist beliefs…
- Giant (1956)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. James Dean, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor
- A beautifully conceived saga of life on a Texas cattle ranch told through two generations. James Dean's final performance.
- Kanal (1956)
- Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Feat. Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar
- The darkest chapter of dir. Wadja's WWII 'Trilogy', is an unremitting portrayal of the last gasps of the 1944 Warsaw uprising. With desperate…
- Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The (1956)
- Dir. Nunnally Johnson
Feat. Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March…
- Adapted from the novel by Sloan Wilson, this powerful drama evokes the multiple crises of an Madison Avenue advertising executive (Peck), whose…
- Spanish Gardener, The (1956)
- Dir. Philip Leacock
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sir Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack…
- Curious father/son drama with Bogarde in the title role forming a close relationship with a young boy much to his father's envy.
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- There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Bennett
- Resolute Sirk melodrama tugs at the heartstrings of a disenchanted family man whose chance encounter with an old–flame compels his children to…
- Trapeze (1956)
- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida…
- Surprisingly well–realised drama, which sets a love–triangle (Lancaster, Curtis, Lollobrigida) in the world of European circus…
- Written On the Wind (1956)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack…
- Douglas Sirk’s strident Texas oil–dynasty drama about a pair of spoiled and wayward heirs to the family fortune and the…
- Yield to the Night (Blonde Sinner) (1956)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig
- British crime drama film that features a celebrated performance by "blonde bombshell" Diana Dors. Bearing a coincidental resemblance to the Ruth…
- All That Heaven Allows (1955)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead…
- Middle–aged widow Jane Wyman fights for the respect of her family and upscale community when she conducts an affair with her ‘gardener’…