Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 978 Films to Buy & Rent
- Le Crime De Monsieur Lange (1935)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Rene Lefevre, Florelle , Jules Berry
- One of the dir.’s early classics. Rene Leferve rises to newsprint fame as the author of the serial “Arizona Jim” after his boss, a…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- American Madness (1932)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Walter Huston
- Vivid parable in which Walter Huston portrays a bank president facing the threat of commercial failure during the Great Depression.