Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Bay of Angels (La baie des anges) (1963)
- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers
- A young bank employee is enticed into the world of gambling and travels to Nice where he falls in love with divorced mother and gambling addict…
Cardinal, The (1963)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Tom Tryon, Carol Lynley, John Saxon…
- Otto Preminger draws out an epic crisis of faith in this examination of an ordained Catholic Priest’s struggle to reconcile family turmoil and his…
Caretaker, The (1963)
- Dir. Clive Donner
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Alan Bates, Robert Shaw
- Praised film adaptation of Harold Pinter's breakthrough stageplay, in which two brothers invite a tramp into their London flat – an act of…
Child is Waiting, A (1963)
- Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands
- At a school for disabled children music therapist Judy Garland butts heads with the conservative superintendent Burt Lancaster.
Film is of note as…
Empty Canvas, The (La Noia) (1963)
- Dir. Damiano Damiani
Feat. Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak
- Unsuccessful painter Buccholz falls for a young model who spurns his love and drives him to both ruin and his overbearing mother. Based on the novel…
Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni
- Fellini's most revered film is a self–analytical exercise casting Marcello Mastroianni as a troubled director trapped by his own visions and…
Hands Over the City (Le mani sulla città ) (1963)
- Dir. Francesco Rosi
Feat. Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti
- An astute and ever–pertinent story of political corruption in post–World War II Italy starring Rod Steiger as a ruthless developer and…
Householder, The (1963)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Leela Naidu, Durga Khote…
- A young Indian newlywed is ill–prepared for marriage to his charming but independent wife and seeks advice from his tyrannical mother, a…
I Could Go on Singing (1963)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman…
- A successful singer visits her estranged son while on tour in England. Teary melodrama was Garland's last film and featured arguably her best acting.
Insect Woman, The (1963)
- Dir. Shohei Imamura
Feat. Sachiko Hidari, Masumi Harukawa, Emiko Aizawa
- The social upheaval of Japanese life between the wars is examined through the eyes of a struggling but resilient women in a poor farming village. The…