Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 991 Films to Buy & Rent
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
- Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Blasky, Grigori Alexandrov
- This landmark Soviet propaganda film about the 1905 revolution is one of the greatest classics of all time. The smart use of visual metaphor and that…
Last Laugh, The (Letzte Mann, Der) (1925)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings
- One of the classics of silent German cinema, this puts visual expressionism to use for a penetrating psychological study of a man's systematic…
Late Mathias Pascal, The (Feu Mathias Pascal) (1925)
- Dir. Marcel L'Herbier
Feat. Ivan Mosjoukine, Michel Simon
- A French silent film, based on the novel by Luigi Pirandello. Russian actor Ivan Mosjoukine stars as Mathias, an assistant librarian from a…
Variety (1925)
- Dir. E.A. Dupont
Feat. Emil Jannings, Lya de Putti
- A cautionary fable of romantic treachery set in the since–vanished vaudeville world, lent depth through its sophisticated visual style. Emil…
Kean (1924)
- Dir. Alexandre Volkoff
Feat. Ivan Mosjoukine
- A French silent film depicting the life of Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, played by Ivan Mosjoukine, focusing on his romance with countess Elena de…
A Woman of Paris (1923)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Edna Purviance, Adolphe Menjou, Charles Chaplin
- Chaplin's early attempt at drama is a mostly successful tale of a woman, who despite serious intentions, ends up the mistress of a boozing lecher in…
Phantom Carriage, The (Körkarlen) (1921)
- Dir. Victor Sjostrom
Feat. Victor Sjostrom, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg
- Impeccable Swedish silent film following a ghostly carriage as it takes a man's soul on a journey following his death on New Year's Eve, forcing him…
Blind Husbands / The Great Gabbo (1919-1929)
- Dir. Erich von Stroheim, James Cruze
Feat. Erich von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland, Sam De Grasse…
- Two feature films on one disc featuring visionary Austrian–American silent filmmaker and actor Erich von Stroheim.
Blind Husbands (directed…
Broken Blossoms (1919)
- Dir. D.W. Griffith
Feat. Lillian Gish, Donald Crisp, Robert Barthelmess
- D.W. Griffiths low–key lyric tragedy, set in 19th century London's docklands, with Lillian Gish at her most otherworldly.
As the…
Sentimental Bloke, The (1919)
- Dir. Raymond Longford
Feat. Arthur Tauchert
- Restored version of the iconic Australian silent drama, adapted from a series of poems by C.J. Dennis, telling the story of a typical bloke meeting…