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"
In this superb film based on the notorious Scopes Monkey trial, a biology teacher is put on trial for teaching the theory of evolution. The courtroom... Read more
Stanley Kubrick gives us a scathing indictment against the staff-officer mentality that cares about promotions more than the men who make those promot... Read more
The talented Fred Zinnemann ('A Man for All Seasons') perfectly captures the static isolation and boredom that envelops the military personnel in peac... Read more
The birth of the nation of Israel, based on the novel by Leon Uris. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a commander of the Israeli underground, manages to l... Read more
A taut honest drama greatly aided by Stuart Rosenberg's direction and a marvellously controlled and artful performance by Paul Newman as a gutsy priso... Read more
Setsuko Hara has been promised an arranged marriage in post-war Japan, but too much in the world has changed for her not to challenge this tradition.... Read more
Director David Lean follows the heroic, true-life odyssey of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) in this dramatic portrait of the famed British Officer's jo... Read more
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
Montgomery Clift plays the poor relation of a wealthy manufacturer who falls in love with a beautiful socialist (Elizabeth Taylor) while having an aff... Read more
The desperation and hopelessness of the Great Depression are graphically shown in this powerful drama, through a pitiful collection of marathon dancer... Read more