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"
Seven Samurai (1954)
8.7/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Yoshio Inaba, Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura
One of the most beloved movie epics of all time, Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhab... Read more
Shadow of the Eagle (1950)
6.4/10
Director: Sidney Salkow
Starring: Richard Greene, Valentina Cortese, Binnie Barnes, Greta Gynt
Empress Catherine the Great of Russia hires an assassin to kill Princess Tarakanova, but when the assassin falls in love with the princess he takes of... Read more
Shake Hands With The Devil (1959)
7.1/10
Director: Michael Anderson
Starring: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns
A gripping drama of war-torn Ireland in the 1920s, with an American student being drawn by circumstances into joining a rebel army led by an iron-will... 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
Shanghai Express (1932)
7.4/10
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Starring: Anna May Wong, Clive Brook, Marlene Dietrich, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette
This exotic Marlene Dietrich classic is set aboard Peking Railroad's great train, inhabited by a host of fascinating characters: Shanghai Lily (Dietri... Read more
She (1935)
6.6/10
Director: Irving Pichel, Lansing C Holden
Starring: Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce
A rollicking adaptation of H Rider Haggard's novel about a party of adventurers searching for a mystical element hidden in the Arctic that can provide... 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
Shock (1946)
6.3/10
Director: Alfred L Werker
Starring: Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore, Anabel Shaw
In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross (Vincent Price) kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was o... Read more
Since You Went Away (1944)
7.6/10
Director: John Cromwell
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple
A sweeping panorama of life on the home-front during World War II, seen through the eyes of one family. All-star cast includes Claudette Colbert, Jose... Read more
Sissi: Forever My Love (1962)
7.1/10
Director: Ernst Marischka
Starring: Karlheinz Bohm, Romy Schneider, Magda Schneider
The beautiful Romy Schneider, while still in her teens, leads in a star making performance as the beloved Austrian Empress Elisabeth, "Sissi". This 19... Read more