Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics: 3554 Films to Rent
Affairs of Dobie Gillis, The (1953)
- Dir. Don Weis
Feat. Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Bob Fosse…
- Lighthearted MGM college musical set on a Midwestern university campus, where two freshmen spend their time cutting class and courting two coeds.…
Albert Lamorisse's Classic Shorts (White Mane, The Red Balloon) (1953-1956)
- Dir. Albert Lamorisse
Feat. Alain Emery
- French director Albert Lamorisse's two landmark films WHITE MANE and THE RED BALLOON presented together on a single DVD is a must–have…
All I Desire (1953)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck
- Template Sirk melodrama features Barbara Stanwyck as an ambitious stage actress who abandons her husband and family for Broadway, only to return when…
Band Wagon, The (1953)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Cyd Charisse
- In the top echelon of screen–musicals, this follows the fortunes of toe–tapping movie actor Fred Astaire, revue style, as he attempts a…
Beat the Devil (1953)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre…
- Spoofing their own suspense movies (such as CASABLANCA and MALTESE FALCON), Humphrey Bogart and dir. Huston produced this comic oddity with the help…
Beggar's Opera, The (1953)
- Dir. Peter Brook
Feat. Laurence Olivier
- Initially a commercial failure, this energetic romp through John Gay's 18th century ribald opera has since been critically acclaimed. In his first…
Big Heat, The (1953)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin, Gloria Grahame
- Pugnacious cop Glenn Ford turns up the heat on civic corruption in this iconic film–noir from dir. Lang's 50s period. When a detective's…
Bigamist, The (1953)
- Dir. Ida Lupino
Feat. Edmond O'Brien, Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino…
- A San Francisco adoption agency, investigating salesman Edmond O'Brien and wife Joan Fontaine, discover he has a second life, and wife, in LA.…
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
- Dir. David Butler
Feat. Doris Day, Gordon MacRae
- Quaint sequel to ON MOONLIGHT BAY finds Gordon MacRae returning from WWI where fiancée Doris Day waits impatiently to begin married life together.…
Caddy, The (1953)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin
- Golf comedy from the Jerry Lewis/Dean Martin stable. Lewis caddies, Martin sings ‘That’s Amore’.