Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth
- Quintessential Hawks fare in which men are men and women have to be equally tough. At a South American outpost, mail pilot Cary Grant becomes…
Stars Look Down, The (1939)
- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams
- Gritty account of life in a Northumberland coal mining village was dir. Reed's first notable film and still one of his most successful.
Centred…
Story of the Last Chrysanthemums, The (1939)
- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Shôtarô Hanayagi
- The story of an aspiring kabuki actor in late 19th–century Japan, and the woman who loves and supports him at a great cost to herself. A…
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
- Dir. John M. Stahl
Feat. Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Barbara O'Neil
- Overly sentimental romantic melodrama about an unhappily married concert pianist who casually falls for a restaurant waitress whom he takes back to…
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver…
- A fresh–faced Henry Fonda gives credence to the formative years of Abraham Lincoln, seen here as a country boy–turned–lawyer…
Alexander Nevsky (1938)
- Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Nikolai Cherkassov, Nikolai Okhlopkov
- Eisenstein's first sound film is a patriotic epic about the 13th century hero who led his people against the Teutonic Knights. Monumental battle…
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche…
- Irving Berlin contributes over two dozen songs as well as the screenplay for this rousing story of the history of (white) jazz music from ragtime to…
Algiers (1938)
- Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Hedy Lamarr, Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie…
- Remake of a PEPE LE MOKO, in which a dashing jewel thief who has been hiding out for two years in the mysterious, murky Casbah, falls madly in love…
Bank Holiday (Three on a Weekend) (1938)
- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Margaret Lockwood, John Lodge, Hugh Williams…
- Minor drama with nurse Lockwood heading to the seaside for an illicit weekend only to have her enjoyment tempered by her job.
Beachcomber, The (Vessel of Wrath) (1938)
- Dir. Erich Pommer
Feat. Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester
- Drama based on the short story by Somerset Maughamet, set in a remote tropical Dutch colony, where the sister of a missionary attempts to reform a…