Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Harlow (1965)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Carroll Baker, Red Buttons, Raf Vallone…
- Biopic loosely based on the life of 1930's star Jean Harlow, in the years leading up to her tragic death at the age of 26.
Hill, The (1965)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sean Connery, Ian Bannen, Roy Kinnear
- Intense military stockade drama, with Sean Connery doing gruelling punishment in the Sahara.
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
- Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon
- Curious account of the rise and fall of a starlet in 30s Hollywood has improved with age thanks to off–kilter performances from Natalie Wood as…
Intimate Lighting (1965)
- Dir. Ivan Passer
Feat. Zdenek Bezusek
- Intimacy and lightness are two words that fit this excellent Czech New Wave film like a glove. Ivan Passar (CUTTER’S WAY) contrasts the urbane…
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Giulietta Masina
- Perhaps the female flipside of Fellini's 8 1/2, he again infuses stylised flashbacks and fantasies into the real world of a gregarious housewife who…
Life at the Top (1965)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman…
- Laurence Harvey returns for this sequel to Room at the Top (1958). Thinking he's really made it by marrying the boss's daughter in his northern mill…
Morituri (1965)
- Dir. Bernhard Wicki
Feat. Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard…
- Unusual WW2 adventure features Brando as an anti–Nazi German who tries to persuade a German freighter plying the Pacific to defect to the…
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…