Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Paris vu par (Six in Paris) (1965)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol
- Passionate, parochial anthology of New Wave shorts from six of France's best: Godard, Chabrol and Rohmer headline a concoction of Parisian sketches…
Party's Over, The (1965)
- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Oliver Reed
- Stark yet salubrious cautionary tale of wayward youth set in the Chelsea beatnik scene, where "wild and drunken partying" and a brooding Oliver Reed…
Patch of Blue, A (1965)
- Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman
- Near flawless film about the friendship between a blind, uneducated girl and a black man she meets in the park, who becomes determined to help her…
Pawnbroker, The (1965)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Rod Steiger
- Rod Steiger gives a career–best performance as a Jewish pawnbroker whose new life in Spanish Harlem conjures haunting images of his Nazi prison…
Rage to Live, A (1965)
- Dir. Walter Grauman
Feat. Suzanne Pleshette, Ben Gazzara
- Soapy melodrama starring Suzanne Pleshette as a young heiress who has a series of steamy relationships, undermining her wealthy family's reputation.…
Rapture (1965)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell…
- Drama based on the 1954 novel "Rapture in My Rags" about a lonely teenage girl living with her widower father, who develops an attraction to an…
Red Beard (Akahige) (1965)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki…
- An unusual hospital drama from dir. Kurosawa, collaborating for the final time with Mifune, who here plays a tough doctor coaching an intern (Kayama)…
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
- Dir. Sergei Paradjanov
Feat. Ivan Mikolajchuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva
- A tragic, Carpathian folk tale of two lovers separated by a family feud is the basis for Parajanov’s staggering debut. Miraculous visuals and a…
Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendall, Madhur Jaffrey
- The first major film from the Merchant–Ivory collaboration, this elegaic drama follows the progress of an English theatre troupe through India…
Ship of Fools (1965)
- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret…
- A gaggle of ocean liner passengers intermingle in this leaky melodrama, headlined by a top–notch cast. Vivien Leigh's last film.