Subgenre Sampler
      Classics > Drama: 991 Films to Buy & Rent
	  		 
	        
 Stella Dallas (1937) Stella Dallas (1937) 
- Dir. King Vidor
 Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles
- Definitive family melodrama in which Barbara Stanwyck compels as the social–climbing Stella, ultimately driven to painful self–knowledge…
 Uncivilised (1937) Uncivilised (1937)
- Dir. Charles Chauvel
 Feat. Margot Rhys, Dennis Hoey, Ashton Jarry
- Illogical Chauval epic with a white authoress, looking for a story in the outback, kidnapped by an Afghan slaver!
 César (1936) César (1936)
- Dir. Marcel Pagnol
 Feat.  Raimu, Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay…
- Playwright Marcel Parcol takes over the director's reins himself for this concluding part of his Marseille trilogy, following 'Marius' and 'Fanny'.…
 Dodsworth (1936) Dodsworth (1936) 
- Dir. William Wyler
 Feat. Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas…
- While on a European holiday, businessman Walter Huston's marriage reaches crisis point. A mature, highly–rated studio pic with especially…
 Fury (1936) Fury (1936)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
 Feat. Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney
- Blunt statement against the mob–mentality with Spencer Tracy as an innocent man set upon by vicious locals intent on lynching with extreme…
 Mary of Scotland (1936) Mary of Scotland (1936)
- Dir. John Ford
 Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, John Carradine…
- Katharine Hepburn stars as Mary, Queen of Scots who, after languishing in jail for 18 years at Elizabeth I's command, is offered a pardon if she will…
 Prisoner of Shark Island, The (1936) 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…
 Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The (1936) 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…
 Dangerous + Hell's House (1935/32) 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) David Copperfield (1935)
- Dir. George Cukor
 Feat. W.C. Fields
- Top–line Hollywood–ization of the Dickens classic.