Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8118 Films to Buy & Rent
Torment (Hets) (1944)
- Dir. Alf Sjoberg
Feat. Stig Jarrel, Alf Kjellin, Mai Zetterling…
- Impressionistic study of authoritarian education and adolescent love was scripted by a young Ingmar Bergman, and its universe of cruel twists and…
Way Ahead, The (1944)
- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. David Niven, Stanley Holloway, Trevor Howard…
- A depleted battalion must scrub up and train a ragtag bunch of conscripts to re–fill the positions left by deceased soldiers in this morale…
White Cliffs of Dover, The (1944)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Roddy McDowall, Irene Dunne…
- Patriotic sentiment up full–bore, this extended saga of English–American fraternising over both World Wars, has Irene Dunne and family…
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
- Dir. Lloyd Bacon
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale…
- Dramatic battle scenes highlight this Oscar–nominated WW2 drama, in which Bogie portrays the first mate of a freighter travelling the…
Crash Dive (1943)
- Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews
- A submarine lieutenant and his commander fall in love with the same girl in this thrilling propaganda piece that won the 1943 Oscar for best special…
Day of Wrath (1943)
- Dir. Carl Dreyer
Feat. Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam
- Witchcraft drama set in 17th century rural Denmark, where an innocent young woman is denounced following the death of her much older, harshly…
Flemish Farm, The (1943)
- Dir. Jeffrey Dell
Feat. Clive Brook, Clifford Evans, Jane Baxter
- Low budget WW2 aviation drama focused on a regiment of Belgian pilots who use a Flemish farm as an airstrip with one of the injured men becoming…
Hard Way, The (1943)
- Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie
- Musical drama based on a story by Irwin Shaw, which was reportedly inspired by Ginger Rogers' first marriage to Jack Pepper.
Joan Leslie plays a…
Ivan the Terrible Pts. 1 & 2 (1943)
- Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Nikolai Cherkassov, Serafima Birman, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
- Spectacularly staged chronicle of the life of Czar Ivan IV, and his struggle to consolidate the Russian empire in the 16th Century. One of the…
Jane Eyre (1943)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Peggy Ann Garner…
- Orphan Jane's (Joan Fontaine) harsh childhood and strange marriage are fuel for splendid gothic melodrama in this version of Charlotte Bronte's…