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Rental > Drama: 7936 Films to Rent
Fire Down Below (1957)
- Dir. Robert Parrish
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon…
- Adventure drama set in the Caribbean, with Jack Lemmon and Robert Mitchum playing U.S. expatriates who eke out a meager subsistence transporting…
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr
- Kerr and Mitchum play a nun and Marine sergeant respectively, who are stranded on a desert island during WWII – the island happens to also be…
Il Grido (The Outcry) (1957)
- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair
- This lesser–known work from Antonioni provides a missing link between Italian neorealism and the director's later works like L'AVVENTURA,…
Interlude (1957)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. June Allyson, Rossano Brazzi, Marianne Koch…
- June Allyson falls for the charms of a married European conductor while being courted by a Munich doctor. One of Sirk's weaker melodramas, this was…
Le Notti Bianche (White Nights) (1957)
- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Jean Marais…
- A departure from neo–realist beginnings, this surreal Visconti masterwork adapts Dostoyevsky’s ‘White Nights’ through dreamlike art…
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier
- Dark horse Audrey Hepburn classic sees dir. Billy Wilder riff Ernst Lubitsch by way of Gary Cooper and Maurice Chevalier (a wall fixture of…
Lower Depths, The (Donzoko) (1957)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Isuzu Yamada…
- Arresting Maxim Gorky stage adaptation (previously filmed by Jean Renoir) is transposed to Japan’s Edo–era slums. Social realisms and the…
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
- Dir. Joseph Pevney
Feat. James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer
- James Cagney moulds his ‘dirty face’ into the many classic horror personas of actor Lon Chaney Jr, in this liberal biopic of the actor’s…
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Giulietta Masina
- Giulietta Masina is marvelous as a waifish prostitute dreaming of a rich, wonderful life but always finding sorrow. Tragicomic masterpiece won an…
Paths of Glory (1957)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou…
- Kubrick's muscular drama deals frankly with the hypocrisy and inhumanity of military ethics, based on a true incident in WWI France. Following a…