Classic Drama
Classic Drama is where you will find most of those great films you either grew up with or have heard of but never got round to seeing. Generally dramatic productions made between 1928 and 1965 fill this section. "Silents" and contempory "Drama" (post 1965) can be found under their respective headings..
Right: Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd gaze into one another's eyes in "Ben Hur"
Une Partie de Campagne ( A Day in the Country ) (1936)
7.8/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Sylvia Bataille, Georges D'Arnoux
A short and semisweet romantic vignette based on a story by Guy de Maupassant. A group of family members spend a day away from the city in the French... Read more
Victim (1962)
6.2/10
Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price
Dirk Bogarde, Britain's most popular matinee idol, risked his career to portray Melville Farr, a closeted gay lawyer, at a time when homosexual acts w... Read more
Victim (Blu-ray) (1962)
7.7/10
Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Dennis Price, Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms
Dirk Bogarde, Britain's most popular matinee idol, risked his career to portray Melville Farr, a closeted gay lawyer, at a time when homosexual acts w... Read more
Viva Zapata! (1952)
7.5/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn
An account of a Mexican peasant's rise to power and eventual Presidency. Marlon Brando is terrific as Zapata and Anthony Quinn is equally so in an Osc... Read more
War and Peace (1956)
6.8/10
Director: King Vidor
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom, Oscar Ho...
Leo Tolstoy's literary masterpiece comes to life in this epic film classic, featuring the talents of some of the greatest names from Hollywood's Golde... Read more
War and Peace (1966)
7.9/10
Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Starring: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Ludmila Savelyeva, Sergei Bondarchuk
Sergei Bondarchuk's massive epic production of Tolstoy's masterpiece is remarkable for its production values - it took five years to complete and cost... Read more
War and Peace (Blu-ray) (1956)
6.8/10
Director: King Vidor
Starring: Anita Ekberg, Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Herbert Lom, John Mills, Mel Ferrer,...
Leo Tolstoy's literary masterpiece comes to life in this epic film classic, featuring the talents of some of the greatest names from Hollywood's Golde... Read more
Watch on the Rhine (1943)
7.4/10
Director: Herman Shumlin
Starring: Bette Davis, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Paul Lukas
Anti-Fascist German engineer Kurt Muller (Paul Lukas), with his American-born wife, Sara (Bette Davis), and their three children, returns to the Unite... Read more
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
7.8/10
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson
The second of three adaptations of Robert E Sherwood's acclaimed play, this 1940 film was noticably dampened by the omnipotent Motion Picture Producti... Read more
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
8.1/10
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Anna Lee
This gothic psychological chiller from director Robert Aldrich stars Bette Davis as former child star Baby Jane Hudson, driven by jealousy and dementi... Read more