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"
Susannah of the Mounties (1939)
6.7/10
Director: William A Seiter
Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Randolph Scott, Shirley Temple
Next to that underage Brooklyn kid in the war picture, the surest kiss of death in movies is to play Shirley Temple's natural parents. This time an In... Read more
Suspicion (1941)
7.4/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Nigel Bruce, Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Dame May Whitty, Cedric Hardwicke
Taut suspense tale stars Joan Fontaine as a recently married woman who comes to believe that dashing husband Cary Grant is a murderer, and his next vi... Read more
Svengali (1931)
6.9/10
Director: Archie Mayo
Starring: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp
John Barrymore stars as the mysterious music teacher whose hypnotic hold over a young model (Marian Marsh) propels her singing career, until their biz... Read more
Swamp Water (1941)
7.1/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore, John...
French auteur Jean Renoir made his US debut with this thriller about a man wrongly sentenced to hang who escapes from prison to clear his name. After... Read more
Sweet Bird Of Youth (1962)
7.5/10
Director: Richard Brooks
Starring: Shirley Knight, Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Ed Begley, Rip Torn, Mildred Dunnoc...
An expert adaptation of Tennesse Williams' critically acclaimed play. Geraldine Page excels as a former movie queen whose career has given way to acho... Read more
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
8.2/10
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Marty Milner
This hard-hitting expose of gossip columnists and press agents stars Burt Lancaster as a merciless scribe whose sister is his only soft spot. Tony Cur... Read more
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
7.4/10
Director: Julien Duvivier
Starring: Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton, Edward G Robinson, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda,...
A "cursed" formal tailcoat is followed through a series of owners in this five-episode, all-star film that mixes laughter and poignancy. Among the gar... Read more
Taras Bulba (1962)
6.4/10
Director: J Lee Thompson
Starring: Yul Brynner, Tony Curtis, Christine Kaufmann, Sam Wanamaker, Brad Dexter
The legendary tale of the Cossacks' fight for freedom from the Poles over 400 years ago. Yul Brunner stars as a powerful Cossack chieftain leading his... Read more
Tartuffe (1926)
7.3/10
Director: F W Murnau
Starring: Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, Lil Dagover, Werner Krauss, Emil Jannings
Famous German filmmaker FW Murnau's interpretation of Moliere's satirical play about a devious housekeeper who convinces her master to cut his son out... Read more
Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938)
5.1/10
Director: Edward Kull, Wilbur McGaugh
Starring: Herman Brix, Ula Holt, Frank Baker
In this classic Tarzan adventure, culled from 1935's 'The New Adventures of Tarzan' serial, Tarzan (Herman Brix) and his allies are in Guatemala, wher... Read more