Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 991 Films to Buy & Rent
Devil Is A Woman, The (1935)
- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero
- Set during Carnival in turn on the century Seville where a temptress comes between a young revolutionary and his old friend.
Heritage (1935)
- Dir. Charles Chauvel
Feat. Frank Harvey, Margot Rhys, Franklyn Bennett
- Epic Australian drama following three generations of the same family from their initial arrival to the outbreak of the first World War.
Informer, The (1935)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Victor McLaglen
- Stunning character study unfolds when an IRA leader is sold out by his dim–witted friend for reward money. Full–blooded acting by all was…
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…