Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 978 Films to Buy & Rent
- Pittsburgh (1942)
- Dir. Lewis Seiler
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne
- Marlene Dietrich – striking as always – is courted by John Wayne and Randolph Scott as coalminers–turned–millionaires. A…
- Random Harvest (1942)
- Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Ronald Colman, Greer Garson
- A shell–shocked WW1 officer marries and is contented until he remembers his past life in the aristocracy. Far–fetched but very enjoyable…
- Roxie Hart (Chicago) (1942)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery…
- Comedy adapting the 1926 play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins, which was the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical.
Ginger Rogers plays the…
- Tales of Manhattan (1942)
- Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers…
- A star–studded portmanteau of five tales of life in the Big Apple. Runs the gamut from film noir, to romantic comedy, to high melodrama.
- Thunder Birds (Soldiers of the Air) (1942)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton…
- Routine wartime love triangle with two fighter pilots falling for a radiant Gene Tierney, gorgeous Technicolor and ace aerial photography liven it up…
- Thunder Rock (1942)
- Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Barbara Mullen…
- Wonderfully cerebral first film from the great Boulting Brothers in which a disillusioned newspaperman living in self imposed exile in a Michigan…
- Went the Day Well? (1942)
- Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
Feat. Leslie Banks, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr
- British pluck and courage is put to the test in this Graham Greene story, where a cosy English village is infiltrated during WWII by a truckload of…
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead
- Orson Welles ground–breaking work chronicles a publishing tycoon's rise to power, told through a reporter's efforts to discover the meaning of…
- Devil and Daniel Webster, The (1941)
- Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, James Craig…
- Originally released in a heavily edited version as "All That Money Can Buy", this recently restored version can now be fully appreciated as a true…
- Face Behind the Mask, The (1941)
- Dir. Robert Florey
Feat. Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes
- Film noir following the descent of a kind watch maker whose face is disfigured in a fire shortly after immigrating to America, and despite being a…