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"
Hellfighters (1968)
6.6/10
Director: Andrew V McLaglen
Starring: John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton
John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton and Vera Miles star in an exciting contemporary drama about the men who risk their lives fighting oil well fire... Read more
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? (Blu-Ray) (1967)
7.8/10
Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy
When Joanna Drayton (Katharine Houghton), a free-thinking white woman, and black doctor John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) become engaged, they travel to... Read more
The Incident (1967)
7.8/10
Director: Larry Peerce
Starring: Victor Arnold, Robert Bannard, Beau Bridges, Ruby Dee, Robert Fields, Jack Gilfo...
After mugging a helpless old man, two young thugs take over a Manhattan-bound subway car, trapping the 15 occupants, and one by one, proceed to bait,... Read more
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Charlie Bubbles (1967)
6.5/10
Director: Albert Finney
Starring: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Colin Blakely, Liza Minnelli
Albert Finney both directs and stars in the "alienation" comedy-drama Charlie Bubbles. The eponymous Bubbles (Finney) is a trendy and fabulously wealt... Read more
The Thief of Paris (1967)
6.9/10
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Genevieve Bujold, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie Dubois, Francoise Fabian
Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is shocked to learn that the uncle who raised him has not only squandered the yo... Read more
Cool Hand Luke ( Blu-ray ) (1967)
8.1/10
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Starring: Dennis Hopper, George Kennedy, Harry Dean Stanton, Jo Van Fleet, Paul Newman, Ro...
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
Far From the Madding Crowd (Blu-ray) (1967)
7.1/10
Director: John Schlesinger
Starring: Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp, Alan Bates, Fiona Walker
Based upon the classic novel by Thomas Hardy and set against the harsh, foreboding landscape of rural Victorian England, "Far From the Madding Crowd"... Read more
Robbery (1967)
6.9/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet, James Booth, Frank Finlay, Barry Foster, William M...
Inspired by the true story of the 1963 British Royal Mail robbery (aka The Great Train Robbery), this late '60s British caper film was directed by Pet... Read more
Far From the Madding Crowd (1967)
7.2/10
Director: John Schlesinger
Starring: Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp, Alan Bates, Fiona Walker
Based upon the classic novel by Thomas Hardy and set against the harsh, foreboding landscape of rural Victorian England, "Far From the Madding Crowd"... Read more
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
7/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, Julie Harris, Gordon Mitchell, Rob...
Based on the novel by Carson McCullers, Marlon Brando stars as the hard-driving military officer whose latent homosexuality has led his passionate wif... Read more