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"
Goodbye Again (1961)
7/10
Director: Anatole Litvak
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Ingrid Bergman, Jessie Royce Landis, Yves Montand
Aka "Aimez-vous Brahms?". In this adaptation of Francoise Sagan's best selling novel, Ingrid Bergman is astonishing in her role as a fortyish Parisian... Read more
Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939)
7.8/10
Director: Sam Wood
Starring: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Paul Henreid
A moving and much-loved drama, Goodbye Mr Chips earned Robert Donat the 1940 Academy Award for Best Actor. Charles Chipping, a retired English schoolm... Read more
Grand Hotel (1932)
7.6/10
Director: Edmund Goulding
Starring: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery
Welcome to Grand Hotel - a beautiful Berlin establishment filled with palatial splendor and whose occupants include Greta Garbo as a fading ballerina,... Read more
Grand Hotel ( Blu-ray ) (1932)
7.6/10
Director: Edmund Goulding
Starring: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery
Welcome to Grand Hotel - a beautiful Berlin establishment filled with palatial splendor and whose occupants include Greta Garbo as a fading ballerina,... Read more
Grand Prix (1966)
7.2/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Eva Marie Saint, James Garner, Jessica Walter, Toshiro Mifune, Yves Montand, Bri...
Incredible racing sequences highlight this Oscar-winning lightning-fast drama about the on-, and off-track rivalries of the Grand Prix drivers. With... Read more
Great Expectations (1946)
7.9/10
Director: David Lean
Starring: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles, Alec Guinness, Martita Hunt, Jean Sim...
One of the great translations of literature into film, David Lean's "Great Expectations" brings Charles Dickens's masterpiece to robust on-screen life... Read more
Great Expectations ( Blu-ray ) (1946)
7.9/10
Director: David Lean
Starring: Alec Guinness, Bernard Miles, Jean Simmons, John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita...
One of the great translations of literature into film, David Lean's "Great Expectations" brings Charles Dickens's masterpiece to robust on-screen life... Read more
Green for Danger (1946)
7.6/10
Director: Sidney Gilliat
Starring: Alastair Sim, Rosamund John, Trevor Howard
Alastair Sim stars as the eccentric and irreverent Inspector Cockrill of the Kent County Police alongside Trevor Howard and Rosamund John in this susp... Read more
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)
7.8/10
Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghto... 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