Subgenre Sampler
Female-centric: 788 Films to Buy & Rent
Women, The (1939)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell…
- They gossip! They bitch! They cackle! What does one expect with a cast of 135 women. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell head the…
Bete Humaine, La (1938)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux…
- Adaptation of Zola's romantic tragedy brims with tension and exults the presense of French icon Jean Gabin as a hot–headed train driver coaxed…
Jezebel (1938)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Bette Davis, Henry Fonda
- A classic, Oscar–winning role for Bette Davis, as a southern belle who defies the arch conventions of 19th century New Orleans high society…
Annie Oakley (1935)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas…
- Sharpshooter Barbara Stanwyck joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for friendly rivalry with resident top gun Preston Foster. A romantic–comic…
Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant
- Katharine Hepburn looks smashing as a boy in this cross–dressing flop that was reappraised in the 1960s as a lost classic, with a unique style…
Little Women (1933)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Katharine Hepburn
- Constantly enjoyable version of Louisa Alcott's novel about four sisters and their mother coping while their father fights in the Civil War. Splendid…
Rain (1932)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Joan Crawford, Walter Huston
- A turbulent adaptation of Somerset Maugham's short story 'Miss Thompson' set on a Samoan island quarantine station during the rainy season.
When a…
Joys of the Women
- Dir. Franco Di Chiera
- An Australian–Italian folk–singer rediscovers the songs of her grandmother's generation in this inspiring document of her search, and…