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"
Hell Drivers (1957)
7.2/10
Director: Cy Endfield
Starring: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, Sid James, William...
A hard-bitten Brit-noir about a corrupt trucking company forcing its drivers to work to the limit in order to make bonuses. Nominated for a BAFTA and... Read more
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
Her Mother's Profession (1954)
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka
Like much of his work, Kenji Mizoguchi directs this film about an aging geisha in Kyoto's Shimabara district longing for something beyond her marginal... Read more
High Sierra (1940)
7.6/10
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Arthur Kennedy
Humphrey Bogart gives a classic performance as an aging gangster in a modern, changing world. As a favour to a friend, Bogart agrees to one more job,... Read more
Hitchcock Collection: Secret Agent / The Farmer's Wife / Rich and Strange / Juno and the Paycock / The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Barry Fitzgerald, Margaret...
A collection of 5 classic Hitchcock films. 'Secret Agent' (1935) - Hitchcock's realistic, darkly funny thriller stars John Gielgud as the British agen... Read more
Hollywood Classics (2007)
Starring: Ava Gardner, Barbara Stanwyck, Bob Hope, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Cesar Romer...
This deluxe 5 Disc collection features 10 films from the golden age of the silver screen, starring such Hollywood legends as Elizabeth Taylor, Cary Gr... Read more
Hollywood Mystery Classics (2007)
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Boris Karloff, Cloris Leachman, Dirk Bogarde, Edmond O'Brien, E...
Lock the doors, close the windows and get ready for a collection of capers and whodunnits that will leave you chilled, thrilled and clutching the edge... Read more
Hollywood Romance Classics (2007)
Director: Various
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Carole Lombard, David Niven, Gary Cooper, George...
Relive Old Hollywood glamour, style and romance with this 5-disc celebration of some of the most tender and heartwarming movies of the 1930s and '40s.... Read more
Home Town Story (1951)
5/10
Director: Arthur Pierson
Starring: Donald Crisp, Alan Hale Jr, Marilyn Monroe, Marjorie Reynolds, Jeffrey Lynn
One of Marilyn Monroe's earliest starring roles (of her ten previous films, she had been uncredited in four of them) finds her playing the newspaper o... Read more
Houdini (1953)
6.9/10
Director: George Marshall
Starring: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher, Tor Johnson, Angela Clarke
Lavish (if not always accurate) account of the legendary magician/escape artist/spiritualist stars Tony Curtis as Harry Houdini and Janet Leigh as his... Read more