Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 991 Films to Buy & Rent
Orchestra Wives (1942)
- Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. Ann Rutherford, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari…
- Swing–era musical featuring the Glenn Miller orchestra, with Miller himself playing the leader of a band.
When the trumpet player…
Ossessione (1942)
- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani
- Visconti's awesome debut interprets James Cain's novel of lust, greed, murder and recrimination, The Postman Always Rings Twice. Its stark rendering…
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…