Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 978 Films to Buy & Rent
- Miracle Woman, The (1931)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy
- Barbara Stanwyck teams with dir. Frank Capra for this captivating pre–Code film about a preacher's daughter who becomes disillusioned by the…
- Possessed (1931)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Joan Crawford, Clark Gable
- Vivid and detailed early drama about a rich NYC lawyer and his mistress, made when its lead performers were both on the verge of stardom.
Centred…
- Street Scene (1931)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Sylvia Sidney, William Collier, Jr., Estelle Taylor…
- Drama set over a single 24 hours on a city block in Hell's Kitchen, New York City.
Describes a melting pot of gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery…
- Tabu (1931)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Anna Chevalier
- A beautifully filmed romantic tragedy based on a simple Pacific island folk tale. Poetry and sensuality is startlingly evoked through the play of…
- Anna Christie (1930)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, Marie Dressler…
- Ayoung woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past. Garbo's first…
- Blood of a Poet (1930)
- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Lee Miller, Pauline Carton
- Cocteau's first film is a surrealist gem that sewed the seeds of his style. The Dali/Bunuel influence is clear, but this goes one step further with…
- Blue Angel, The (1930)
- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings
- A masterwork of the twenties German grotesquerie, this enjoyed great success and gave an early career boost to Marlene Dietrich.
- City Girl (1930)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Charles Farrell, David Torrence
- Murnau's lost pastoral beauty about a Minnesota boy who marries a tough city girl and brings her home at harvest time, where their love is…
- Party Girl (Dangerous Business) (1930)
- Dir. Victor Halperin
Feat. Douglas Jr. Fairbanks
- Tarty pre–code expose of ‘party girl’ rackets – or prostitution rings – with Douglas Fairbanks as a college cad looking for love in all…
- Prix de Beaute (1930)
- Dir. Augusto Genina
Feat. Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Augusto Bandini
- Louise Brooks is vivacious beyond compare in her first sound film, a jazz–age classic about a young office worker who enters a beauty…