Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8110 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
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…
Man in Grey, The (1943)
- Dir. Leslie Arliss
Feat. James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Phyllis Calvert…
- Stagy melodrama told largely in flashback centers on the story of two women one rich, one poor and the man with whom a love triangle develops with…
Millions Like Us (1943)
- Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford…
- Honest dramatization of the British "home front" during the second World War focuses on a factory worker struggling to overcome her grief after the…
Ox Bow Incident, The (Strange Incident) (1943)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes…
- Superlative moral drama in a Western setting, where three lynched cattle rustlers are later proven innocent by the upstanding Henry Ford.
Although…
Power of the Press (1943)
- Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Otto Kruger
- Based on a story by Samuel Fuller. During World War II, a newspaper publisher investigates the murder of a colleague, who was attempting to steer his…
Silver Fleet, The (1943)
- Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Ralph Richardson, Esmond Knight, Googie Withers…
- A rousing WW2 maritime drama in which a Dutch shipping port owner decides to swindle the Nazis by agreeing to provide them with his submarines for…
Song of Bernadette, The (1943)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Jennifer Jones, Vincent Price, Charles Bickford…
- Religious melodrama set in 19th century rural France, where Jones controversially has visions of the Virgin Mary. Over–lavish (and long), this…