Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Dinner for One (Der 90. Geburtstag (The 90th Birthday)) (1963)
- Dir. Heinz Dunkhase
Feat. Freddie Frinton, May Warden
- A classic two–hand comedy sketch staged by German TV in its original English language (written by British author Lauri Wylie), with a short…
Doctor Who (TV Series) [William Hartnell] (Dr. Who) (1963-1966)
- Feat. William Hartnell
- William Hartnell plays the very first incarnation of the BBC's highly successful TV creation, the resourceful Time Lord "Doctor Who" who travels time…
Donovan's Reef (1963)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden…
- One of dir. Ford’s more comically inclined efforts with ex–Navy buddies John Wayne, Lee Marvin and Jack Warden raising hell on the remote…
Doulos, Le (The Finger Man) (1963)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani
- Eschewing the French New Wave movement in favour of homage to the then ‘passe’ genre of film noir, dir. Jean–Pierre Melville adds shades of…
Dr. Strangelove (or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1963)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Peter Sellers, George C. Scott
- A brilliant black comedy in which the U.S. president and his henchmen await imminent nuclear retaliation from the Russians. A landmark satire with…
Empty Canvas, The (La Noia) (1963)
- Dir. Damiano Damiani
Feat. Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak
- Unsuccessful painter Buccholz falls for a young model who spurns his love and drives him to both ruin and his overbearing mother. Based on the novel…
Fast Lady, The (1963)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Leslie Phillips, Ronnie Barker, James Robertson-Justice…
- Stanley Baxter attempts to woo Julie Christie with a Bentley convertible he can't drive in this hilarious English comedy, centred on the perils of…
Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni
- Fellini's most revered film is a self–analytical exercise casting Marcello Mastroianni as a troubled director trapped by his own visions and…
Francis Durbridge Presents... (1963)
- Feat. Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Quilley, Gerald Harper…
- A collection of mystery writer Francis Durbridge's works for BBC television. Billed as 'event' thrillers they featured an enjoyable mix of…
Fugitive, The (TV Series) (1963-1967)
- Feat. David Janssen
- David Janssen is Dr. Richard Kimble, an innocent man accused of murder who escapes prison to track down his wife's killer. Long–running TV…