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"
Essential Bergman: The Faith Trilogy - Through A Glass Darkly / Winter Light / The Silence (1963)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Gunnel Lindblom, Ingrid Thulin, Max von S...
This 3 disc box set contains three of Bergman's signature dramas, exploring themes of alienation and faith. In 'Through a Glass Darkly', he confronts... Read more
Odd Man Out (1947)
7.8/10
Director: Carol Reed
Starring: James Mason, Robert Newton, Kathleen Ryan
Atmospheric and suspenseful Carol Reed film with James Mason as an idealistic IRA leader shot and left for dead during a hold-up. From then on he is h... Read more
He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
6.4/10
Director: Ken Kwapis
Starring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly...
An all-star cast lined up for this filming of the wildly popular (as seen on 'Oprah') self-help book, here adapted by writers of 'Sex and the City'. T... Read more
The African Queen ( Blu-ray ) (1951)
7.9/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Peter Bull, Robert Morley, Theodore Bikel
One of the all-time greats, "The African Queen" stars Humphrey Bogart (in his Oscar-winning role) and Katharine Hepburn as unlikely lovebirds who enco... Read more
Lorna Doone (2000)
7.1/10
Director: Mike Barker, Anthony Calf
Starring: Anthony Calf, Martin Clunes, Richard Coyle, Barbara Flynn, Joanne Froggatt, Mart...
Witness to his father's murder by the Doones when he was just a child, John Ridd is hell-bent on revenge. But a chance meeting with a beautiful girl c... Read more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
8.1/10
Director: Richard Brooks
Starring: Burl Ives, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson, Paul Newman, Madelein...
Adapted from the Tennesse Williams' Pulitzer-winning play which lifts the lid on the emotional tangles of a rich southern family. Some of the more con... Read more
Moby Dick (1956)
7.4/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Orson Welles, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice,...
Herman Melville's sea classic is brought to the screen with intensity by director John Huston. Starring Gregory Peck as Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishm... Read more
A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
7.1/10
Director: Ralph Thomas
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker
A faithful retelling of the Dickens story in this well-made British production, with Dirk Bogarde a good Sydney Carton. Read more
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
7.6/10
Director: George Seaton
Starring: William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith
William Holden stars as Eric Erickson, a Swedish-American businessman blackmailed by British Intelligence into posing as a Nazi sympathizer while actu... Read more
Ship of Fools (1965)
7.2/10
Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Jose Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner, Simone Signoret, Vivien Leigh
This Oscar-winning drama is set on a luxury liner bound for Germany in the early '30s and details the lives, loves, and fears of the passengers and cr... Read more