Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Roberta (1935)
- Dir. William A. Seiter
Feat. Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers…
- An unsuccessful American Football player inherits his Aunt's Parisian fashion house. One of the weaker Rogers/Astaire efforts.
Tale of Two Cities (1935)
- Dir. Jack Conway
Feat. Ronald Colman
- A model screen adaptation of a classic novel. Script and spectacle are in perfect accord to tell Charles Dickens' story of courage and honour in 18th…
Born to be Bad (1934)
- Dir. Lowell Sherman
Feat. Loretta Young, Cary Grant
- A worthy though now–obscure melodrama from pre–Hays Code Hollywood, in which street–tramp Young tries to successively rob, extort…
L'Atalante (1934)
- Dir. Jean Vigo
Feat. Michel Simon, Jean Daste
- A recently restored master work from the French film archive combines lyrical romance with inspired touches of fantasy.
Of Human Bondage (1934)
- Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Bette Davis, Leslie Howard
- The film which propelled Bette Davis to stardom, with her vivid personification of a coy, but slutty Cockney waitress who becomes the object of…
Our Daily Bread (1934)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper…
- Another fascinating sociological drama from director King Vidor about a struggling couple during the Great Depression who move to the country and…
Baby Face (1933)
- Dir. Alfred E. Green
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent
- Pre–code Hollywood–era revenge drama that ruffled a few feathers in it's day, with Barbara Stanwyk playing a woman who decides to turn…
Ecstasy (1933)
- Dir. Gustav Machety
Feat. Hedy Lamarr
- Hedy Lamarr came to world attention in this 1932 film, playing a sexually–frustrated bride who goes on a fifteen minute nude romp in an alpine…
Liebelei (1933)
- Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Arthur Schnitzler
- An early work from the German maestro of the tracking shot, whose tale of doomed romance between a young soldier and fraulein (taken from a play by…
Queen Christina (1933)
- Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Greta Garbo, John Gilbert
- Historical costume drama with Greta Garbo appropriately cast as the Swedish Queen.