Drama
The denotative aspects of drama from Aristotle's "Poetics" include a story development with a beginning, middle and an end. In the more conventional sense, dramatic presentations include the portrayal of characters, settings, life situations and stories in the course of a theatrical performance. In theatre, drama usually takes on the scope of dealing with matters of a serious nature.
Drama is Alice's largest section and a treasure trove of great drama catering for every taste. The bulk of the "Drama" section (generally made since 1965 and include psychological dramas) is listed below, however you may also choose from the "Classic Drama" sub-section (generally made before 1965), in blue on left. Also helpful may be "Alices Playhouse", "True Stories" and "Shakespeare" features.
Right: Scene from Kubrick's beautifully mounted "Barry Lyndon"
Suspicion (1941)
7.4/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Nigel Bruce, Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Dame May Whitty, Cedric Hardwicke
Taut suspense tale stars Joan Fontaine as a recently married woman who comes to believe that dashing husband Cary Grant is a murderer, and his next vi... Read more
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
8.1/10
Director: Preston Sturges
Starring: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest
Joel McCrea plays successful Hollywood director John L Sullivan, an idealist who believes you can't accurately direct a screen tragedy unless you live... Read more
Citizen Kane (1941)
8.4/10
Director: Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane
Generally regarded as the greatest and most influential films of all time; Orson Welles directorial debut (he was only 25!) is the story of newspaper... Read more
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
7.8/10
Director: John Ford
Starring: Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall, Walter Pidgeon
This poignant saga of a coal-mining family in Wales examines the grim, dangerous life down in the mines and the labour dispute that divides a tight-kn... Read more
Meet John Doe (1941)
7.7/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan
Capra's classic ode to the common man. Gary Cooper is the unemployed worker built into a symbol by a newspaper publisher only to discover he's the obj... Read more
Penny Serenade (1941)
7.2/10
Director: George Stevens
Starring: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi, Ann Doran
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne play a couple about to separate. Through flashbacks, the joys and sorrows of their life together are recounted. Beulah Bond... Read more
North West Mounted Police (1940)
6.5/10
Director: Cecil B DeMille
Starring: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster, Robert Preston...
In 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Can... Read more
Adventures Of Red Ryder (1940)
7.2/10
Director: William Witney, John English
Starring: Noah Beery
Mesquite banker Calvin Drake plans to profit from the Santa Fe Railroad's acquisition of right-of-way by gaining control of the land in the territory.... Read more
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
6.5/10
Director: Joe May
Starring: Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, John Sutton, Cecil Kellaway
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness. Read more
Arizona (1940)
6.7/10
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Starring: Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William
During the 1860s Tucson, a pioneer woman struggles to succeed in the freight and cattle business while at risk at the hands of corrupt and violent loc... Read more