Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Leopard, The (Il Gattopardo) (1963)
- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale…
- An Italian classic, concerning the decline of the 19th century Sicilian aristocracy – represented by Burt Lancaster– that fulfils its…
Lilies of the Field (1963)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Sidney Poitier
- Helping to repair a chapel for a convent of German nuns and rewarded with an Oscar for Best Actor, this sees Sidney Poitier giving one of his quieter…
List Of Adrian Messenger, The (1963)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Tony Curtis…
- An intelligence officer is on the trail of a psychopath intent on working his bloody way through a seemingly unrelated list of…
Live it Up! (Sing and Swing) (1963)
- Dir. Lance Comfort
Feat. David Hemmings
- Low–budget, but historically fascinating musical wraps some great mid–60s pop music around its slender plot.
Hemmings plays a…
Long Ships, The (1963)
- Dir. Jack Cardiff
Feat. Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn
- Expensively produced Viking epic has the Nordic warrior Widmark clash with Moorish general Poitier over a mythical treasure, the 'Golden Bell of St…
Lord of the Flies (1963)
- Dir. Peter Brook
Feat. Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin…
- The chilling original screen adaptation of William Golding's novel about a gang of schoolboys stranded on a desert island, whose instinctive…
Man from the Diners' Club, The (1963)
- Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Danny Kaye, Cara Williams, Martha Hyer…
- Comedy with Danny Kaye playing a meek clerk who gets into trouble when he approves a Diner's Club card for a mobster running a racketeering…
Marriage Lines (TV Series) (1963-1965)
- Feat. Prunella Scales, Richard Briers
- A classic domestic comedy with Richard Briers and Prunella Scales as a newly married couple jumping hurdles both at home and at work. Included here…
Martin Scorsese's Short Films (What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?; It’s Not Just You, Murray; The Big Shave; Italianamerican; American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince) (1963-78)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
- Four early short films and one documentary from the man widely regarded as the best living filmmaker. Includes:
– What’s a Nice Girl Like…
McLintock! (1963)
- Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Yvonne De Carlo…
- TAMING OF THE SHREW goes West in this rambunctious battle of wits between cattle rancher (Wayne) and his firebrand wife (O’Hara), in search of a…