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"
Brink of Life (1958)
7.7/10
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Max von Sydow, Eva Dahlbeck
Three seemingly different women meet in a Stockholm maternity ward in this award-winning drama from Ingmar Bergman ("Persona"), which compares and con... Read more
Brute Force (1947)
7.7/10
Director: Jules Dassin
Starring: Ann Blyth, Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Hume Cronyn, Yvonne De Carlo, Ella...
As hard-hitting as its title, "Brute Force" was the first of Jules Dassin's forays into the crime genre, a prison melodrama that takes a critical look... 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
Burn! (1969)
7.4/10
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Starring: Renato Salvatori, Marlon Brando, Evaristo Marquez
An engrossing drama based on a true incident and starring Marlon Brando as a British agent sent to a 19th Century Caribbean island to investigate a re... Read more
Burt Lancaster: Local Hero / The Flame and the Arrow / Executive Action / Seven Days in May (1950)
5.5/10
Director: Bill Forsyth, David Miller, Jacques Tourneur, John Frankenheimer
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Fredric March, Kirk Douglas, Peter Riegert, Robert Ryan, Virgini...
Burt Lancaster Box Set. 'Local Hero' (1983) - Burt Lancaster and Peter Riegert star in the wonderfully whimsical comedy of an oil company's planned bu... Read more
Bus Stop (1956)
6.7/10
Director: Joshua Logan
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray
Marilyn Monroe is Cherie in this adaptation of the William Inge play, that features Don Murray as Bo Decker, the young rodeo star who tries to abduct... Read more
By Love Possessed (1963)
5.6/10
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Barbara Bel Geddes, George Hamilton, Jason Robards, Lana Turner, Thomas Mitchell...
There's always something simmering beneath the quaint and placid surface of small-town New England lives as depicted in this glossy soap opera directe... Read more
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
6.4/10
Director: Gabriel Pascal
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson
George Bernard Shaw's exuberantly witty play about Rome's titanic leader and Egypt's young queen was transferred to the big screen with stars Vivien L... Read more
Call It Murder (1934)
5.5/10
Director: Chester Erskine
Starring: Henry Hull, Humphrey Bogart, Margaret Wycherley, Sidney Fox
Aka 'Midnight'. One of Humphrey Bogart's first featured roles was as a gangster in 'Call It Murder', the story of a man who must help his daughter whe... Read more
Campbell's Kingdom (1957)
6.3/10
Director: Ralph Thomas
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Justice, Michael Craig, Stanley Baker, Barbara Mur...
'Campbell's Kingdom' is the story of a young Englishman, Bruce Campbell, who has been given six months to live, and who travels to the Canadian Rockie... Read more