Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
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.
Shop on High Street, The (The Shop on Main Street) (1965)
- Dir. Jan Kadar
- A key film of the Czech film renaissance of the 1960s, that explores 'everyday fascism' through the story of a Jewish shopkeeper who mistakes her…
Stand Up, Nigel Barton/Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton (1965)
- Dir. Gareth Davies
Feat. Keith Barron, Jack Woolgar, Janet Henfrey
- Formative Dennis Potter chronicles the bumpy political rise of one aspiring Nigel Barton, from Oxford to Cabinet. Sharply autobiographical,…
Those Calloways (1965)
- Dir. Norman Tokar
Feat. Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Walter Brennan…
- Sincere and effective Disney drama about a smalltown eccentric (Keith) in New England, who, with the help of his family, decides to buy a lake and…