Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics: 3552 Films to Rent
End of Summer, The (Kohayagawa-ke no aki) (1961)
- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Ganjiro Nakamura, Setsuko Hara
- Another intimate portrayal of Japanese family life
from the dir. of TOKYO STORY that explores the breakdown of traditional family values in the face…
Errand Boy, The (1961)
- Dir. Jerry Lewis
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Brian Donlevy, Howard McNear…
- Lewis plays his perennial bumbler, here recruited as an oddjob man on a Hollywood Studio lot who must also spy on employee activities. Contains some…
Fanny (1961)
- Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer…
- Adored melodrama set in Marseilles, starring Leslie Caron as the titular character who falls in love with a young sailor (Buchholz) but must grapple…
Femme Est Une Femme, Une (A Woman is a Woman) (1961)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo…
- Godard flirts with the Hollywood musical, and any other idea that takes his fancy to tell his buoyant tale of a free–spirited stripper who…
Five Minutes To Live (Door-to-Door Maniac) (1961)
- Dir. Bill Karn
Feat. Johnny Cash, Cay Forrester, Donald Woods…
- Little known B–movie thriller with Cash and Forrester playing hoods who complete a smalltown bank robbery, then start paying suburban house…
Flower Drum Song (1961)
- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta
- Amiable if overlong musical comedy telling the story of a Chinese girl who smuggles herself into San Francisco as a "picture bride" to marry a young…
Francis Of Assisi (1961)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman
- Cinema–scopic religious epic about the founder of the school of monks, with Bradford Dillman well suited as St. Francis, and Dolores Hart good…
Frightened City, The (1961)
- Dir. John Lemont
Feat. Sean Connery, Herbert Lom, John Gregson
- London becomes terrorised by protection racketeers who intend to amalgamate into one vast crime syndicate.
Goodbye Again (Aimez-Vous Brahms) (1961)
- Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins…
- Elegant love triangle has Bergman falling in love with dashing young Anthony Perkins much to her philandering husband's chagrin.
Overly familiar…
Great Impostor, The (1961)
- Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O'Brien…
- Tony Curtis bluffs his way though society in this comic caper based on the true story of Ferdinand Demara who successfully passed himself off as a…