Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
- Dir. Albert Lewin
Feat. Ava Gardner, James Mason, Nigel Patrick…
- Ava Gardner stars as the ravishing siren of a small Spanish town who has never fallen for anyone until the arrival of the mysterious James Mason, the…
People Will Talk (1951)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Hume Cronyn
- Enjoyable and sophisticated allegory, disguised as a standard Hollywood romantic comedy, in which a humanitarian doctor (Grant) must contend with the…
Place in the Sun, A (1951)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters…
- Montgomery Clift excels as a penniless youth whose determination to win the heart of socialite Elizabeth Taylor (in her debut as an adult actress) is…
Rashomon (1951)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori…
- The film that brought Kurosawa to the attention of the world, and an Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film.
Four wildly varying perspectives on a…
Repast (Meshi) (1951)
- Dir. Mikio Naruse
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara
- A perceptive study of a fading marriage, in which a housewife (Hara) confronts the tedium and unhappiness of her domestic life, brought into sharp…
River, The (1951)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Nora Swinburne, Arthur Shields
- A sublime and serene drama set on the banks of India's holy Bengal River in the 1920s, where a trio of young English girls come under the spell of a…
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter…
- Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the savage brute who taunts his disturbed sister–in–law (Vivienne Leigh). Virtuoso…
Susana (The Devil and the Flesh) (1951)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Rosita Quintana
- A sexually devious reform girl seeks refuge in a decent working class family, only to cause upheaval with her devilish ways.
Early Bunuel…
Astonished Heart, The (1950)
- Dir. Terence Fisher, Antony Damborough
Feat. Sir Noel Coward, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton…
- Noel Coward stars in this adaptation of his play; a drawing–room melodrama about a married psychiatrist who unhappily succumbs to the wiles of…
Damned Don't Cry, The (1950)
- Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran…
- Loosely based on the relationship between Bugsy Siegel and Virginia Hill, this riveting film tells of a New York socialite's involvement with an…