Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics: 368 Films to Rent on VHS
- Simon of the Desert (1965)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal, Claudio Brook
- A short surrealist fantasy concerning the life of Simon Stylites (Claudio Brook), an early Christian ascetic, who stood for years atop a column in…
- Dead Ringer (1964)
- Dir. Paul Henreid
Feat. Bette Davis
- Enjoyable, high camp star vehicle for Bette Davis who is driven by jealousy to murder her twin sister in order to assume her identity. Bette, of…
- Hamlet (1964)
- Dir. Grigori Kozintsev
Feat. Innokenti Smoktunovsky
- The legendary Russian version of Shakespeare's play, which visually at least, stands as the greatest yet.
Staged amidst the massive battlements of…
- Nothing but the Best (1964)
- Dir. Clive Donner
Feat. Alan Bates, Denholm Elliott, Harry Andrews
- Ruthless real estate agent Alan Bates grubs and grafts a way upwards, out of his working–class background and into the snobbish…
- Roustabout (1964)
- Dir. John Rich
Feat. Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck
- Relatively pleasing Elvis Presley vehicle. The King joins a carnival run by Barbara Stanwyk.
- Secret Invasion, The (1964)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney…
- Expedient actioner is a rare, unsensational Roger Corman flick about British intelligence using criminals behind enemy lines in WW2 Yugoslavia.
- Thin Red Line, The (1964)
- Dir. Andrew Marton
Feat. Keir Dullea, Jack Warden
- First version of James Jones' war–novel (later redone by Terrence Malick), chronicles the US invasion of Guadalcanal during WWII in grim B&W,…
- Empty Canvas, The (La Noia) (1963)
- Dir. Damiano Damiani
Feat. Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak
- Unsuccessful painter Buccholz falls for a young model who spurns his love and drives him to both ruin and his overbearing mother. Based on the novel…
- Fugitive, The (TV Series) (1963-1967)
- Feat. David Janssen
- David Janssen is Dr. Richard Kimble, an innocent man accused of murder who escapes prison to track down his wife's killer. Long–running TV…
- Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)
- Dir. Paul Wendkos
Feat. Cindy Carol, James Darren
- Cindy Carol as Gidget #2 strays miles from the beach in this affable enough sequel that doesn’t quite have the spontaneous charm of Sandra Dee and…