Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Place in the Sun, A (1951)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters…
- Montgomery Clift excels as a penniless youth whose determination to win the heart of socialite Elizabeth Taylor (in her debut as an adult actress) is…
Prowler, The (1951)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell…
- This underseen "perv noir" deliciously subverts archetypes by twisting its menacing male lead (a terrific Van Heflin) into a 'homme fatale', replete…
Quo Vadis? (1951)
- Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov…
- Lavish Roman epic, set during the decadent reign of Nero, has legionnaire Robert Taylor falling for lion–bait Christian Deborah Kerr, amid…
Racket, The (1951)
- Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Lizabeth Scott…
- An incorruptible police captain's attempts to clean up the streets of his town leads to confrontation with the local mob boss. Minor noir, previously…
Rashomon (1951)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori…
- The film that brought Kurosawa to the attention of the world, and an Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film.
Four wildly varying perspectives on a…
Rawhide (1951)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Dean Jagger…
- Tense western with a stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveler finding themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on…
Red Badge of Courage, The (1951)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Audie Murphy, Royal Dano, Arthur Hunnicutt
- A classic film version of the classic American Civil War novel by Stephen Crane, which depicts the line between courage and cowardice in the Yankee…
Repast (Meshi) (1951)
- Dir. Mikio Naruse
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara
- A perceptive study of a fading marriage, in which a housewife (Hara) confronts the tedium and unhappiness of her domestic life, brought into sharp…
River, The (1951)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Nora Swinburne, Arthur Shields
- A sublime and serene drama set on the banks of India's holy Bengal River in the 1920s, where a trio of young English girls come under the spell of a…
Roy Rogers Show, The (TV Series) (1951-1957)
- Feat. Roy Rogers, Dale Evans
- Much–loved early TV classic with 'King of the Cowboys' Roy Rogers hanging out on the Double R Ranch with Trigger ('The Smartest Horse in the…