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"
The Phantom Of The West (1931)
6.2/10
Director: D Ross Lederman
Starring: Tom Tyler
A young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a note intimating that seven local men know the real kille... Read more
The Miracle Woman (1931)
7.3/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners
A minister's daughter finds fame as an evangelist but struggles with her own lack of faith in Frank Capra's impassioned drama. Inspired by a true stor... Read more
Mata Hari (1931)
6.7/10
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Starring: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley
Who better to play the famous World War I spy than the Swedish Sphinx, Greta Garbo? She is mesmerising as the dancer-turned-German spy in a wartime P... Read more
The Skin Game (1931)
5.8/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Helen Haye, C V France, Edmund Gwenn, John Longden
Early Hitchcock drama, based on John Galsworthy's popular stage play, that was decidedly atypical of the Master's subsequent suspensers. The aristocra... Read more
Svengali (1931)
6.9/10
Director: Archie Mayo
Starring: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp
John Barrymore stars as the mysterious music teacher whose hypnotic hold over a young model (Marian Marsh) propels her singing career, until their biz... Read more
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Abraham Lincoln (1930)
5.8/10
Director: D W Griffith
Starring: Kay Hammond, Walter Huston
Abraham Lincoln was voted number two of the ten best films of 1930, heralding the comeback to movie-making by one of the world's leading pioneers - D.... Read more
Morocco (1930)
7.3/10
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Starring: Adolphe Menjou, Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich
As jaded cabaret Mademoiselle Amy Jolly, Marlene Dietrich falls for Tom Brown (Gary Cooper), a devil-may-care private in the French Foreign Legion. In... Read more
All Quiet on the Western Front ( Blu-ray ) (1930)
8.1/10
Director: Lewis Milestone
Starring: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, Slim Summerville, John Wray
One of the first and most powerful war films ever made, director Lewis Milestone's adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque novel follows a group of ide... Read more
Marlene Dietrich Collection: Morocco / Blonde Venus / The Devil is a Woman / The Flame of New Orleans / Golden Earrings (1930)
Director: Josef Von Sternberg, Mitchell Leisen, Rene Clair
Starring: Bruce Cabot, Cary Grant, Cesar Romero, Gary Cooper, Herbert Marshall, Lionel Atw...
In "Morocco" (1930), her first American feature, Marlene Dietrich is a Parisian cafe singer who falls for legionnaire Gary Cooper and eventually follo... Read more
Anna Christie (1930)
6.9/10
Director: Clarence Brown, Jacques Feyder
Starring: Charles Bickford, Marie Dressler, Greta Garbo, George F Marion, Theo Shall, Hans...
Along with the director and cinematographer, Garbo was nominated for an Oscar in her first 'talkie' role in this rivetting adaptation of Eugene O'Neil... Read more