Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Romance: 267 Films to Buy & Rent
Bank Holiday (Three on a Weekend) (1938)
- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Margaret Lockwood, John Lodge, Hugh Williams…
- Minor drama with nurse Lockwood heading to the seaside for an illicit weekend only to have her enjoyment tempered by her job.
Beachcomber, The (Vessel of Wrath) (1938)
- Dir. Erich Pommer
Feat. Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester
- Drama based on the short story by Somerset Maughamet, set in a remote tropical Dutch colony, where the sister of a missionary attempts to reform a…
Hurricane, The (1938)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall
- A doomed South Seas romance between islander natives, provides the melodramatic prelude to an awesome special f/x typhoon. Vintage Hollywood…
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
- Dir. George B. Seitz
Feat. Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Judy Garland…
- Mickey Rooney stars in this early teenage rom–com as a ruddy–faced youth who becomes entangled with three different girls (Garland,…
Made for Each Other (1938)
- Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. James Stewart, Carole Lombard
- Couple James Stewart and Carole Lombard test their marriage vows through a patch of misfortune in this finely acted soap.
Angel (1937)
- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas
- Love triangle between a distracted husband, a neglected wife and an ardent suitor set amid the rigid social norms of the…
Camille (1937)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore…
- One of Greta Garbo’s finest roles, playing the courtesan heroine of Alexandre Dumas’ potboiler, navigating the treacheries of the French…
Damsel in Distress, A (1937)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Fred Astaire, George Burns, Joan Fontaine…
- A wealthy American entertainer (Astaire) must win the heart of a lovely English lady (Fontaine). His efforts to woo are drastically hindered by her…
Knight Without Armour (1937)
- Dir. Jacques Feyder
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Herbert Lomas…
- Visually sumptuous tale of Russian Countess Marlene Dietrich fleeing the 1917 Revolution with the help of Robert Donat. Dir. Feyder made his name as…
Maytime (1937)
- Dir. Robert Z. Leonard
Feat. Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore
- Love affair between opera soprano and two–bit singer in Paris. An exemplary Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy musical.