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"
Mirage (1965)
7.4/10
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Starring: Diane Baker, George Kennedy, Gregory Peck, Jack Weston, Kevin McCarthy, Walter M...
Edward Dmytryk ("Murder, My Sweet"/"Cornered") directs an excellent diverting thriller in luminous black and white, scripted by Peter Stone (wrote "Ch... Read more
Life at the Top (1965)
6.7/10
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Starring: Honor Blackman, Jean Simmons, Laurence Harvey, Michael Craig
Laurence Harvey turns in an excellent performance in this sequel to the highly successful "Room at the Top" which follows the life of a social climber... Read more
None But the Brave (1965)
6.5/10
Director: Frank Sinatra
Starring: Clint Walker, Frank Sinatra, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tommy Sands
Frank Sinatra's directorial debut casts him as a Marine medic who finds himself and his crew stranded on a South Pacific island during World War II. T... 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
Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
7.3/10
Director: Otto Preminger
Starring: Keir Dullea, Laurence Olivier, Noel Coward, Martita Hunt, Carol Lynley, The Zomb...
Director Otto Preminger's unusual psychological thriller stars Carol Lynley as an American woman living in London who drops her young daughter off at... Read more
The Nanny (1965)
7.3/10
Director: Seth Holt
Starring: Jill Bennett, Wendy Craig, Bette Davis, James Villiers, William Dix, Pamela Fran...
Bette Davis fans will love this taut thriller, which represents something of a departure for Hammer Films, noted for their gothic period pieces, about... Read more
A Tattooed Life (1965)
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Starring: Hideki Takahashi, Akira Yamauchi, Hiroko Ito, Masako Izumi, Kayo Matsuo
Another yakuza classic from maverick director Seijun Suzuki ('Tokyo Drifter', 'Branded to Kill') about a recently retired assassin who finds he made s... Read more
Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
6.9/10
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Madhur Jaffrey
Acclaimed drama from filmmakers Ismail Merchant and James Ivory ("A Room with a View") is an allegory about the decline of British colonialism, told i... Read more
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
7.6/10
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Kruger, Ernest Borgnine
When a cargo plane crashes in the desert, the only hope for the survivors is to try to rebuild the craft before they all perish from heat, deprivation... Read more
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
8/10
Director: David Lean
Starring: Alec Guinness, Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie, Omar Sharif, Ralph Richardson,...
David Lean demonstrates again why he's a peerless filmmaker of substance and scale, directing Boris Pasternak's tumultuous tale of Russia divided by w... Read more