Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Romance: 842 Films to Buy & Rent
Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
- Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell…
- The first version of the true story of an English governess (Dunne) who in the 1860s journeyed to South East Asia to look after the King of Siam's 62…
It Rains On Our Love (1946)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Barbro Kollberg, Birger Malmsten
- Bergman experiments with this awkward combination of romance and misery, in which a couple's happiness is dogged by their criminal and vagrant past.…
Man I Love, The (1946)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Bruce Bennett…
- Romantic drama about a New York lounge singer who becomes homesick and decides to visit her siblings on the West Coast, where she unexpectedly falls…
Clock, The (1945)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason…
- Judy Garland's first dramatic role (in which she did not sing) reunites her with director (and future husband) Vincente Minnelli from MEET ME IN ST.…
Love Story (A Lady Surrenders) (1944)
- Dir. Leslie Arliss
Feat. Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc…
- Classy tearjerker with dying pianist Lockwood falling in love with blind pilot Granger. Treacly but satisfying with the two leads performances…
To Have and Have Not (1944)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart
- In the upper–bracket of Bogart films, this first time match–up with Lauren Bacall still sets the screen alight. Adapted from the…
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…
Casablanca (1942)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
- The role that immortalised Bogart is that of Rick, the laconic cafe–owner who assists old flame Ingrid Bergman to escape the Nazis with her…
Eternel Retour, L' (1942)
- Dir. Jean Delannoy
Feat. Jean Marais, Madeleine Sologney, Yvonne de Bray…
- (Love Eternal) A contemporary take on the legend of Tristan and Isolde, lovers united after death. Jean Cocteau's script is realised with the…
Lydia (Illusions) (1941)
- Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Merle Oberon, Joseph Cotton, Alan Marshall…
- Dreamy, melancholic melodrama follows the life and numerous loves of a society gal (Oberron) in New England over thirty odd years. Dir. Duvivier…