Subgenre Sampler
Rental > : 24526 Films to Rent
40 Pounds of Trouble (Forty Pounds of Trouble) (1962)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette, Phil Silvers…
- Tony Curtis plays a harangued casino manager dodging outstanding alimony payments while caring for an abandoned six–year–old girl.…
47 Ronin, The (Genroku chushingura) (1962)
- Dir. Hiroshi Inagaki
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Setsuko Hara
- A grand and spectacular take on a famous Japanese legend, with 47 ronin (masterless samurai) in feudal Japan seeking revenge on those responsible for…
A Kind of Loving (1962)
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. June Ritchie, Alan Bates
- A key film of the British New Wave, describing in unfussy black–and–white images the life of young couple June Ritchie and Alan Bates…
Advise and Consent (1962)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray…
- Political thriller–fable set in the corridors and committee rooms of Washington DC, where the fundamentally decent Senator, Henry Fonda, learns…
Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The (TV Series) (1962-1965)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, various
- Picking up directly from where 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' left off, this three season series expands Hitch's iconic mystery anthology to 50 minute…
American Folk Blues Festival, The (1962-1966)
- Classic live performances from the American Folk–Blues Festival which toured Europe in the 1960s.
Adding a startling new dimension to the…
An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Chishu Ryu, Shiwa Iwashita, Keiji Sada
- Dir. Ozu's final work is one of his best – an appropriately autumnal evocation of age and dependency, set around a widower who sorrowfully…
Barabbas (1962)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Jack Palance, Arthur Kennedy…
- Lavish, literate and thrilling by equal measure, this Hollywood Roman speculation follows the wanderings of the legendary thief (Quinn) who was saved…
Beverly Hillbillies, The (TV Series) (1962-1971)
- Feat. Buddy Ebson, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas…
- A searing indictment of the American class system disguised as a lame–brain 60's TV show. Great theme tune too.
Big Red (1962)
- Dir. Norman Tokar
Feat. Walter Pidgeon, Emile Genest
- Likeable Disney outing has a young boy hired by wealthy Pidgeon to train his Irish Setter. When the boy is fired 'Big Red' escapes with him.