Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Female-centric: 386 Films to Buy & Rent
Classic Bronte Collection, The (TV Series) (1978-1996)
- Dir. Julian Amyes, Mike Barker
Feat. Timothy Dalton, Zelah Clarke, Tara Fitzgerald…
- Five–disc box–set containing three BBC television drama productions from the pen of the Bronte sisters.
– Jane Eyre (83')…
Little Women (TV Mini-series) (1978)
- Dir. David Lowell Rich
Feat. Susan Dey, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Ann Dusenberry…
- Emmy Award–winning two part miniseries adapting Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical novel. Mostly unsurprising except for the casting of…
Caddie (1976)
- Dir. Donald Crombie
Feat. Helen Morse, Drew Forsythe, Jack Thompson…
- Key film of the Australian cinema renaissance with Helen Morse exceptional as a young solo mother struggling to get by in a male dominated…
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Harvey Keitel…
- Resonant account of a young widow trying to secure self–assurance and financial stability for herself and her pre–teen son. Scorsese's…
A Doll's House (1973)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Jane Fonda
- Jane Fonda plays the liberated 19th Century woman of Ibsen's play.
Elizabeth R (TV Series) (1971)
- Dir. Claude Whatham, Herbert Wise, Various.
Feat. Glenda Jackson, Robert Hardy, Robert Ellis
- Glenda Jackson makes a banquet of English history, as Elizabeth I, one of Auld England's most influential monarchs. This BBC series is exceptional in…
Chalk Garden, The (1964)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills…
- British melodrama based on the eccentric stage play by Enid Bagnold, with Hayley Mills playing a rebellious teenager who meets her match in governess…
Gertrud (1964)
- Dir. Carl Dreyer
- Exploring similar territory to fellow Scandinavian Ingmar Bergman, Dreyer's final film is an intense psychological study about a middle–aged…
Yield to the Night (Blonde Sinner) (1956)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig
- British crime drama film that features a celebrated performance by "blonde bombshell" Diana Dors. Bearing a coincidental resemblance to the Ruth…
Three Secrets (1950)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman
- Three women exchange handkerchiefs and spill their secrets while awaiting news of their children after a plane crashes. You may need the tissues…