Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8123 Films to Buy & Rent
Osaka Elegy (1936)
- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Isuzu Yamada, Yoko Umemura
- A counterpart to Mizoguchi's other 1936 film SISTERS OF THE GION, featuring some of the same cast and crew and again focusing on the hardships faced…
Prisoner of Shark Island, The (1936)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart
- Gripping John Ford–directed prison yarn is based on the ordeal of Dr. Samuel Mudd, a famous victim of circumstance who unknowingly cared for…
Sisters of the Gion (1936)
- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Isuzu Yamada, Yoko Umemura
- An early feminist film from director Kenji Mizoguchi, focusing on two geisha sisters – one of whom enters into a codependent relationship with…
Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The (1936)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda
- This pioneering colour film is an engaging old–fashioned Western tale of loyalty, family and romance set against an age–old feud between…
Une Partie de Campagne (A Day in the Country) (1936)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Sylvia Bataille
- This evocative, unfinished short (originally part of a full–length feature) lovingly captures the flirtations of a young girl as she detours…
Dangerous + Hell's House (1935/32)
- Dir. Alfred Green, Howard Higgin
Feat. Bette Davis
- Bette Davis in two early roles – her lead performance as a star–turned–alcoholic in DANGEROUS fetching her the first of two Best…
David Copperfield (1935)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. W.C. Fields
- Top–line Hollywood–ization of the Dickens classic.
Devil Is A Woman, The (1935)
- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero
- Set during Carnival in turn on the century Seville where a temptress comes between a young revolutionary and his old friend.
Heritage (1935)
- Dir. Charles Chauvel
Feat. Frank Harvey, Margot Rhys, Franklyn Bennett
- Epic Australian drama following three generations of the same family from their initial arrival to the outbreak of the first World War.
Informer, The (1935)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Victor McLaglen
- Stunning character study unfolds when an IRA leader is sold out by his dim–witted friend for reward money. Full–blooded acting by all was…