Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 978 Films to Buy & Rent
- Bill of Divorcement, A (1932)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Billie Burke…
- Shell–shocked war veteran John Barrymore returns to the world after 15 years in an asylum, to find that wife Katharine Hepburn (in her screen…
- Bird of Paradise (1932)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Dolores Del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday…
- Erotic adventure drama about a sailor who falls in love with a woman from an unnamed Pacific island where the film is set. Plenty of colonialist…
- Blonde Venus (1932)
- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall…
- Director Josef von Sternberg reunites with muse Marlene Dietrich in this sweeping melodrama about a German chanteuse turned struggling housewife who…
- Fanny (1932)
- Dir. Marc Allegret
Feat. Raimu, Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay…
- Leisurely French romantic drama based on the play by Marcel Pagnol that marks the second part in the Marseille film trilogy that started with Marius…
- Grand Hotel (1932)
- Dir. Edmund Goulding
Feat. Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore…
- The granddaddy of extravagent soap–opera, this pre–eminent, Oscar–winning Hollywood affair glitters with stars. Weekend guests'…
- I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
- Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson…
- Minor American classic unravels Paul Muni's plight an as innocent man subjected to the brutality of prison life. With fierce conviction, the film…
- Rain (1932)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Joan Crawford, Walter Huston
- A turbulent adaptation of Somerset Maugham's short story 'Miss Thompson' set on a Samoan island quarantine station during the rainy season.
When a…
- Shanghai Express (1932)
- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Warner Oland
- Hollywood's version of pre–revolutionary Shanghai is a lavish parallel universe of sin and oriental treachery with Marlene Dietrich (as…
- Marius (1931)
- Dir. Alexander Korda
Feat. Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis…
- Based on the play by revered French writer Marcel Pagnol, this is the first film in the Marseille Trilogy featuring the characters of Marius (Pierre…
- Mata Hari (1931)
- Dir. George Fitzmaurice
Feat. Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore…
- Heavily fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, the exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I. Garbo is magnetic…