Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics: 3554 Films to Rent
Heat's On, The (Tropicana) (1943)
- Dir. Gregory Ratoff
Feat. Mae West
- Famous Mae West flop, with the screen vamp playing a Broadway star torn between rival producers. Once the talk of the town, she wouldn't make another…
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Don Ameche, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn
- Amusing comic fantasy in which playboy Don Ameche recalls his life of sin for the devil, to find he wasn't such a bad guy after all.
Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
- Dir. Bruce Humberstone
Feat. Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie…
- Classic technicolor musical set in Frisco's lively vaudeville scene in 1915.
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway
- Incandescent spook story about a nurse who unleashes historical and spiritual demons when called out to a Caribbean island. Its scare value may have…
Ivan the Terrible Pts. 1 & 2 (1943)
- Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Nikolai Cherkassov, Serafima Birman, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
- Spectacularly staged chronicle of the life of Czar Ivan IV, and his struggle to consolidate the Russian empire in the 16th Century. One of the…
Jane Eyre (1943)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Peggy Ann Garner…
- Orphan Jane's (Joan Fontaine) harsh childhood and strange marriage are fuel for splendid gothic melodrama in this version of Charlotte Bronte's…
Le Corbeau (1943)
- Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Pierre Fresnay
- Fascinating as a wartime allegory made under the German Occupation of France, a small town becomes a hot–bed of paranoia following a rash of…
Leopard Man, The (1943)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dennis O'Keefe
- The final Val Lewton–Tourneur horror collaboration concerns an escaped leopard (apparently) running amok in a small New Mexico town. A slim…
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook
- The numerous off–beat adventures of a British soldier are chronicled over a period of three wars, with Deborah Kerr playing all three of the…
Lulu Belle (1943)
- Dir. Leslie Fenton
Feat. Dorothy Lamour, George Montgomery, Albert Dekker
- Montgomery leaves his fiancee to take up with disreputable night club singer Lulu Belle. Almost forgotten musical is mostly of interest for it's…