Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 619 Films to Buy & Rent
Jpod (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. David Kopp, Steph Song, Benjamin Ayres…
- Smart adaptation of cult author Douglas Coupland's novel chronicling the misadventures of the staff of an eccentric video game design studio.…
Spotswood (1991)
- Dir. Mark Joffe
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Bruno Lawrence…
- Anthony Hopkins plays an efficiency expert hired to overhaul a cottage moccasin factory, and finds himself endeared to the staff.
Samson and Delilah (1984)
- Dir. Lee Philips
Feat. Antony Hamilton, Belinda Bauer, Max von Sydow…
- Made–for–TV Old Testament epic centred on the classic Biblical tale of power, persuasion, and love between a Hebrew strongman and a…
Club, The (1980)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson
- Doing for Australian Rules football what DON'S PARTY did for Australian politics, this examines in brawling, bawdy detail the behind–scenes…
Formula, The (1980)
- Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Marlon Brando, George C. Scott, Marthe Keller…
- Muddled thriller with Scott as a detective caught up in a conspiracy to manipulate world fuel prices. Brando –only in three scenes– does…
Chapter Two (1979)
- Dir. Robert Moore
Feat. James Caan, Marsha Mason, Valerie Harper
- Neil SImon's hit play is competently adapted for the big screen. James Caan in a rare romantic role plays a man recently widowed who falls for a…
Days of Heaven (1979)
- Dir. Terrence Malick
Feat. Sam Shepard, Richard Gere, Brooke Adams…
- The mid–western wheat–fields provide a magnificent backdrop for this poignant tale of two disparate bachelors who vie for the same woman.…
Design For Living / Mrs. Capper's Birthday / What Mad Pursuit (The Noel Coward Collection - Disc 3) (1979-1985)
- Dir. Philip Saville, Mike Ockrent
Feat. Dandy Nichols, Patricia Hayes, Hugh Laurie…
- –Design For Living (79') Contrived comedy set in a Paris apartment where a woman and the two men she loves all live together in an awkward…
Elvis (1979)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell…
- Made just two years after Elvis's death, the king of rock 'n' roll's life is traced from dirt poor beginnings to becoming the most loved entertainer…
Europeans, The (1979)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Lee Remick, Wesley Addy, Lisa Eichhorn
- Possibly the best of the early Merchant–Ivory productions develops Henry James' novel of 19th century New England into a subtle study of family…