Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 991 Films to Buy & Rent
Cry, The Beloved Country (1951)
- Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Joyce Carey, Canada Lee…
- Deeply felt racial drama has Rev. Sidney Poitier encountering South African–style bigotry as he searches for his son in Johannesburg.
David and Bathsheba (1951)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey…
- The Hollywood romance as Biblical epic, with Gregory Peck as an adulterous King David who falls for the foxy Bathsheba (Hayward) – nevermind…
Lady with the Lamp, The (1951)
- Dir. Herbert Wilcox
Feat. Dame Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Gladys Young…
- Well–wrought biopic charts the dramatic life of Florence Nightingale, finely played by Dame Neagle, and her pioneering nursing career.
No Highway in the Sky (1951)
- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns…
- Early disaster pic has Stewart as an aeronautical engineer convinced that a new model of airplane is doomed to disaster due to metal fatigue, and…
Olivia (1951)
- Dir. Jacqueline Audry
Feat. Simone Simon, Edwige Feuillere
- One of the first French films to portray lesbian relationships, Olivia is set in a girls' school in the late 1900s, where a newly arrived British…
Outcast of the Islands (1951)
- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley…
- Sturdy British adventure melodrama from the director of THE THIRD MAN and FALLEN IDOL based on Joseph Conrad's 1896 novel. A riveting Trevor Howard…
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
- Dir. Albert Lewin
Feat. Ava Gardner, James Mason, Nigel Patrick…
- Ava Gardner stars as the ravishing siren of a small Spanish town who has never fallen for anyone until the arrival of the mysterious James Mason, the…
People Will Talk (1951)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Hume Cronyn
- Enjoyable and sophisticated allegory, disguised as a standard Hollywood romantic comedy, in which a humanitarian doctor (Grant) must contend with the…
Place in the Sun, A (1951)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters…
- Montgomery Clift excels as a penniless youth whose determination to win the heart of socialite Elizabeth Taylor (in her debut as an adult actress) is…
Rashomon (1951)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori…
- The film that brought Kurosawa to the attention of the world, and an Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film.
Four wildly varying perspectives on a…