Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Sparrows Can't Sing (1963)
- Dir. Joan Littlewood
Feat. James Booth, Barbara Windsor, Roy Kinnear…
- A sprightly British kitchen sink comedy about a man who returns from two years at sea to find his house demolished and his wife living with a married…
That Kind of Girl (1963)
- Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Margaret Rose Keil, David Weston, Linda Marlowe
- Another gem rescued from obscurity by the BFI's Flipside label, this one deals with the hush–hush topic of venereal disease against a backdrop…
This Sporting Life (Sporting Life, The) (1963)
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts
- Richard Harris gives a star–making performance as a roguish rugby player with a no less gruelling personal life. Intense melodrama edifies the…
Toys in the Attic (1963)
- Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Mimieux…
- Raw melodrama adapted from the acclaimed play with Dean Martin returning home to his two spinster sisters. Chewy dialogue and gives flight to this…
Ugly American, The (1963)
- Dir. George Englund
Feat. Marlon Brando, Arthur Hiller, Sandra Church
- Featuring one of Marlon Brando’s more interesting choices of roles, this political thriller dramatises the American–vs–Communist…
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
- A compendium of three stories starring Sophia Loren in her luscious prime in three very different roles. Together with Marcello Mastroianni, it…
A Kind of Loving (1962)
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. June Ritchie, Alan Bates
- A key film of the British New Wave, describing in unfussy black–and–white images the life of young couple June Ritchie and Alan Bates…
Advise and Consent (1962)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray…
- Political thriller–fable set in the corridors and committee rooms of Washington DC, where the fundamentally decent Senator, Henry Fonda, learns…
An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Chishu Ryu, Shiwa Iwashita, Keiji Sada
- Dir. Ozu's final work is one of his best – an appropriately autumnal evocation of age and dependency, set around a widower who sorrowfully…
Barabbas (1962)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Jack Palance, Arthur Kennedy…
- Lavish, literate and thrilling by equal measure, this Hollywood Roman speculation follows the wanderings of the legendary thief (Quinn) who was saved…