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"
La Notte ( The Night ) (Blu-ray) (1961)
7.6/10
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki
Michelangelo Antonioni's stunning follow-up to 'L'Avventura' explores similar themes of relationship dysfunction and the search for unattainable passi... Read more
La Ronde (1950)
7.7/10
Director: Max Ophuls
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Danielle Darrieux
Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook, and Simone Simon lead a roundelay of French stars in Max Ophuls's delightful, acerbic adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler... Read more
La Tete Contre Les Murs ( Head Against the Wall ) (1959)
7.3/10
Director: Georges Franju
Starring: Anouk Aimee, Charles Aznavour, Jean-Pierre Mocky
An intense study of the clash between medical ideals and methods in postwar psychiatric care. A young man is committed to a psychiatric ward and must... Read more
Lady in a Cage (1964)
6.9/10
Director: Walter Grauman
Starring: James Caan, Olivia de Havilland, Rafael Campos
Olivia de Havilland plays an aging, wealthy widow who is recuperating from a recent hip operation and is forced to use an elevator to get from one sto... Read more
Lassie: Lassie Come Home / Hills of Home / Courage of Lassie / Son of Lassie (1948)
5.9/10
Director: Fred M Wilcox, S Sylvan Simon
Starring: Dame May Whitty, Donald Crisp, Edmund Gwenn, Elizabeth Taylor, Elsa Lanchester,...
Lassie x 4. 'Lassie Come Home' (1943) - In "one of the all-time great family films" (Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide), a remarkable collie - sold by her... Read more
Late Spring (1949)
8.3/10
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Yumeji Tsukioka
One of the most powerful of Yasujiro Ozu's family portraits, "Late Spring" tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his be... Read more
Lauren Bacall: Key Largo / Blood Alley / Dark Passage / Designing Woman (1957)
9/10
Director: Delmer Daves, John Huston, Vincente Minnelli, William A Wellman
Starring: Edward G Robinson, Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall Box Set. 'Dark Passage' (1947) - Humphrey Bogart is a prison escapee framed for murder who emerges from plastic surgery with a new face.... Read more
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
8.3/10
Director: David Lean
Starring: Alec Guinness, Anthony Quayle, Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Claude Rains, Jack...
Director David Lean follows the heroic, true-life odyssey of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) in this dramatic portrait of the famed British Officer's jo... Read more
Lawrence of Arabia ( Blu-ray ) (1962)
8.3/10
Director: David Lean
Starring: Alec Guinness, Anthony Quayle, Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Claude Rains, Jack...
Director David Lean follows the heroic, true-life odyssey of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) in this dramatic portrait of the famed British Officer's jo... Read more
Le Bonheur ( Happiness ) (1964)
7.7/10
Director: Agnes Varda
Starring: Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Marie-France Boyer
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse (Claire Drouot), young husband and father François (Jean-Claude Drouot) finds himself falling un... Read more