Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7936 Films to Rent
Tabu (1931)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Anna Chevalier
- A beautifully filmed romantic tragedy based on a simple Pacific island folk tale. Poetry and sensuality is startlingly evoked through the play of…
Threepenny Opera, The (3 Penny Opera, The) (1931)
- Dir. G.W. Pabst
- The ever–pointed satire of Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill's musical, in its London dockland setting of thieves, beggars and bobbies is given a…
Anna Christie (1930)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, Marie Dressler…
- Ayoung woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past. Garbo's first…
Blood of a Poet (1930)
- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Lee Miller, Pauline Carton
- Cocteau's first film is a surrealist gem that sewed the seeds of his style. The Dali/Bunuel influence is clear, but this goes one step further with…
Blue Angel, The (1930)
- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings
- A masterwork of the twenties German grotesquerie, this enjoyed great success and gave an early career boost to Marlene Dietrich.
City Girl (1930)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Charles Farrell, David Torrence
- Murnau's lost pastoral beauty about a Minnesota boy who marries a tough city girl and brings her home at harvest time, where their love is…
Party Girl (Dangerous Business) (1930)
- Dir. Victor Halperin
Feat. Douglas Jr. Fairbanks
- Tarty pre–code expose of ‘party girl’ rackets – or prostitution rings – with Douglas Fairbanks as a college cad looking for love in all…
Prix de Beaute (1930)
- Dir. Augusto Genina
Feat. Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Augusto Bandini
- Louise Brooks is vivacious beyond compare in her first sound film, a jazz–age classic about a young office worker who enters a beauty…
Applause (1929)
- Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Helen Morgan, Jack Cameron, Joan Peers…
- Early sound musicial about a fading burlesque queen who sends her daughter to a convent in an attempt to remove her from the sleazy theatre world she…
Asphalt (1929)
- Dir. Joe May
Feat. Gustav Frohlich, Betty Amann
- Bravura melodrama from the German Expressionist era wrangles with the divided loyalites of a love–struck police officer who falls for a sultry…