Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 993 Films to Buy & Rent
Razor's Edge, The (1946)
- Dir. Edmund Goulding
Feat. Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter…
- Engrossing adaptation of Somerset Maugham's philosophical novel about an affluent war veteran's worldly search for spiritual fulfillment.
Shoeshine (Sciuscia) (1946)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
- Perhaps Vittorio De Sica's first acknowledged masterpiece, concerns two young boys struggling to survive on the streets of post–WWII Rome by…
Years Between, The (1946)
- Dir. Compton Bennett
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Dame Flora Robson
- Michael Redgrave plays a British MI6 officer who returns home after working for the French Resistance to find that his wife, who had presumed him…
A Bell For Adano (1945)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix…
- Hodiak plays an army major assigned to restore order in a small Italian town in this gentle–natured drama. The luminous –and blonde…
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn…
- Dir. Kazan's restrained debut, adapting Betty Smith's novel about a family of immigrants making do in the Brooklyn tenements of the early 20th…
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
- Dir. Gabriel Pascal
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Claude Rains…
- The oft–told tale of the First Roman Emperor and the Queen of Egpyt, here adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play. Stagey filming is offset by…
Clock, The (1945)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason…
- Judy Garland's first dramatic role (in which she did not sing) reunites her with director (and future husband) Vincente Minnelli from MEET ME IN ST.…
Diary of a Chambermaid (1945)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Paulette Goddard
- Chambermaid Paulette Goddard upsets an aristocratic household brimming with secrets and intrigues. One of Renoir's early Hollywood pictures.
I'll Be Seeing You (1945)
- Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotton, Shirley Temple…
- Ginger Rogers picks up a rare dramatic role in this sincere, if at times clunky melodrama, playing a convict on Christmas leave who falls in love…
Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne (1945)
- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Maria Casares
- Dir. Bresson and writer Jean Cocteau are strange bedfellows in this lush, stylish drama, well–removed from the director’s austere later…