Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Freud (1962)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks…
- John Huston once again proves his mastery of adaptation and biography, here depicting the famous psychoanalyst's clash with conservative Viennese…
Grim Reaper, The (La Commare Secca) (1962)
- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Carlotta Barilli, Lorenza Benedetti, Clorinda Celani
- Dir. Bertolucci's first film – with trademark technical virtuosity already in evidence – is a whodunnit about a prostitute murdered in a…
Harakiri (Seppuku) (1962)
- Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama…
- Japanese jidaigeki (period drama) set at the beginning of the Edo period, following a masterless samurai (ronin) who wishes to commit suicide…
Hedda Gabler (1962)
- Dir. Alex Segal
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson…
- Adapted from the Henrik Ibsen Play for broadcast on BBC. Ingrid Bergman plays the title character, a manipulative woman who marries a kind but naïve…
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Richard Beymer, Diane Baker
- Drama from director Martin Ritt (HUD), based on Ernest Hemingway's semi–autobiographical character Nick Adams, a restless young man who leaves…
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov
- A teenage spy works behind enemy lines in WW2 Germany. The Russian master's first feature is his least self–conscious and most efficient…
Ken Russell at the BBC (Elgar; Debussy; Always on Sunday; Isadora; Dante's Inferno; Song of Summer) (1962-1968)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Oliver Reed, Vladek Sheybal, Vernon Dobtcheff…
- The engrossing early works of the controversial director comprises six of his famed artist portraits
L'eclisse (1962)
- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal, Alain Delon
- The final part in the Italian trilogy begun by L’AVVENTURA, set during a stock–market crash in Rome, this finds Monica Vitti disengaging…
L-Shaped Room, The (1962)
- Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Leslie Caron
- Defining slice of gritty Brit realism tackles the issue of pregnancy outside marriage with considerable pathos. French girl Leslie Caron crosses the…
Le Combat Dans L'île (1962)
- Dir. Alain Cavalier
Feat. Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Henri Serre…
- French drama exploring the tension between right and left wing politics in the early 60's, through the romantic conflict faced by a woman (Romy…