Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Intentions of Murder (Akai satsui, Unholy Desire) (1964)
- Dir. Shohei Imamura
Feat. Masumi Harukawa, Ko Nishimura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi…
- Unsentimental drama from Japanese director Shohei Imamura (THE INSECT WOMAN), depicting a rape survivor's determination to overcome her pitiless…
Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964)
- Dir. Richard Wilson
Feat. Yul Brynner, Janice Rule, Brad Dexter…
- Set in New Mexico in the wake of the Civil War, a small bigoted town is beset by racist prejudices despite being outwardly pro–Union. Yul…
Kitten with a Whip (1964)
- Dir. Douglas Heyes
Feat. Ann-Margret, John Forsythe, Peter Brown…
- Ann–Margaret brings white–hot intensity to this cult classic about a teenage girl on the run from the law who blackmails a clueless…
Le Bonheur (Happiness) (1964)
- Dir. Agnes Varda
Feat. Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Marie-France Boyer
- Agnes Varda's sly subversion of romantic norms courted controversy with its frank depiction of the infidelity of a happily married man and the…
Magnificent Showman, The (Circus World) (1964)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale, Rita Hayworth
- Grandiose "Cinerama" spectacle (that flopped at the box office) starring John Wayne as a circus proprietor who decides to take his show on a…
My Way Home (Igy jottem) (1964)
- Dir. Miklos Jancso
Feat. Andras Kozak, Sergei Nikonyenko, Janos Gorbe
- In the final days of World War II, a young Hungarian is making his way home, through countryside full of the debris of war, when he is captured and…
Night of the Iguana, The (1964)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon…
- Tennessee Williams–scripted brew of melodrama, old–style religion and sexual repression sees defrocked priest/alcoholic Richard Burton…
Onibaba (the Hole) (1964)
- Dir. Kaneto Shindo
Feat. Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura
- An eerie, brazenly sensual medieval folk tale about a mother and daughter–in–law who kill just to survive and eventually turn on each…
Parade's End (TV Mini-Series) (1964)
- Dir. Alan Cooke
Feat. Judi Dench, Ronald Hines
- A three–part BBC adaptation of the classic novel by Ford Madox Ford. On the eve of the Great War, a wealthy aristocrat is torn in a love…
Pumpkin Eater, The (1964)
- Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason…
- Anne Bancroft is riveting as a woman of the verge of a nervous breakdown in this penetrating and vastly under–rated British melodrama.
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