Classic Drama, Romance, and Literature
Many other films with dramatic and romantic overtones are found in Adventure, Musicals, War and every genre.
All films are available in DVD-R format, some as the double features noted. Inquire about higher end masters such as BetaSP and DVCam.
Stark Drama!
Abraham Lincoln (1930) 90m. Walter Huston is Lincoln in D.W. Griffith's last film.
Angel on My Shoulder (1946) 101m. Murdered convict Paul Muni is sent back to earth by Satan as a respected judge, then attempts to outwit him. With Anne Baxter, Claude Raines.
The Animal Kingdom (1932) 85m. Leslie Howard, Myrna Loy and marital discord.
The Big Lift (1950) 120m. Montgomery Clift in historic treatment of the Berlin air lift, filmed on location in bombed out Berlin.
The Bigamist (1953) 80m. Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund O’Brien marriage triangle!
Blood on the Sun (1945) 98m. James Cagney works in Japan in the 1930s, but is virtually helpless to stop the trouble he smells coming.
Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976) Color, 100m. John Travolta plays teenager with medical deficiency that confines him inside a sterile world.
Carnival Story (1954) Color, 98m. High-diver Lyle Bettger takes young Anne Baxter on to teach her the ropes, but a romantic triangle develops.
Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) 95m. Martha Scott is an elderly schoolteacher who reminisces about her life.
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940) 76m. Lew Ayres stars as Dr. Kildare, who tries to cure mental patient.
The Great Dan Patch (1949) 94m. Dennis O’Keefe and Gail Russell in true story of the famous harness-race horse.
The Great Gabbo (1929) 100m. Erich von Stroheim is a crazed puppeteer during Broadway musical with bizarro numbers.
Great Guy (1936) 67m. James Cagney is an inspector crusading against corruption in the meat packaging industry. With Mae Clark.
Guest in the House (1944) 121m. Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy in gripping melodrama about neurotic young woman in household of her betrothed.
Home Town Story (1951) 61m. Donald Crisp, Jeffrey Lynn, Marilyn Monroe (in a small, early role). A journalist takes on big business. Includes "The Town" short and Edgar Kennedy comedy "Good House Wrecking."
I Cover the Waterfront (1933) 70m. Waterfront reporter Ben Lyon romances Claudette Colbert to trap her father, Ernest Torrence, who has been smuggling Chinese immigrants.
Jack London (1943) 94m. Biography of the author, with Susan Hayward.
Letter of Introduction (1938) 104m. Adolphe Menjou. An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up.
Meet John Doe (1941) 123m. Naive Gary Cooper is chosen the average American man for a goodwill drive that benefits a corrupt politician.
Our Daily Bread (1934) 71m. Landmark experiment by director King Vidor. Displaced people band together in a communal farming project during the Great Depression.
Sin Takes a Holiday (1930) 81m. Married Constance Bennett falls in love with Basil Rathbone in Paris.
Smash-Up -- Story of a Woman (1947) 103m. Susan Hayward (Oscar nomination) is excellent as an insecure night club singer who weds a radio star, then sinks into alcoholism.
The Southerner (1945) 91m. Superb drama by the great director Jean Renoir about a farm family struggling to survive against overwhelming odds. With Zachary Scott, Betty Field.
The Stars Look Down (1939, British) 110m. Carol Reed classic about Welsh coal miners.
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) 92m. John Garfield thinks he has killed someone and lams out West with the Dead End Kids, pursued by Claude Rains. Directed by Busby Berkeley.
Tulsa (1949) Color, 90m. Cattlewoman Susan Hayward enters the wildcat oil business to avenge the death of her father, but loses her values along the way.
Romance!
Algiers (1938) 99m. Hedy Lamarr and Charles Boyer have torrid romance in the Casbah.
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953) 63m. American Jennifer Jones meets her Italian lover, Montgomery Clift, one last time in Rome’s railway station. Directed by Vittorio De Sica.
The Last Time I saw Paris (1954) Color, 115m. Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson play two struggling lovers in the reckless gaiety of post-World War-II Paris.
Love Affair (1939) 87m. Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer meet on shipboard. Plans to continue the romance meet tragedy.
Made for Each Other (1939) 93m. Jimmy Stewart and Carole Lombard are a young married couple struggling with jobs, illness and lack of money.
Mr. Imperium (1951) Color, 87m. Lana Turner, Enzio Pinza romance.
Of Human Bondage (1934) 83m. The darker side of obsessive love finds Leslie Howard inexplicably pursuing an affair with vulgar waitress Bette Davis.
Penny Serenade (1941) 120 min. Classic tearjerker directed by George Stevens. Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, meet, love, marry and then drift apart when their unborn baby dies.
A Star is Born (1937) Color, 111 min. Star-struck Janet Gaynor gets a break in Hollywood thanks to movie star Fredric March. They fall in love and marry, but her star rises as his falls.
Swing High, Swing Low (1937) 95m. Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray fall in and out of love.
Adapted from Literature!
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) 112m. Oscar-winning performance by Jose Ferrer as the tragic 17th century lover renowned for his nose but longing for love of a beautiful lady.
A Farewell to Arms (1932) 78m. Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes in Hemingway WW-I classic.
Jane Eyre (1970) Color, 110m. George C. Scott stars as the brooding Rochester in Bronte’s classic English tale, with Susannah York as Jane Eyre.
Life With Father (1947) Color, 119m. William Powell and Irene Dunne raise a family in 1900 New York in delightful comedy-drama based on Broadway play.
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) 98m. Young New Yorker Freddie Bartholomew suddenly finds himself a British Lord in this charming film from the classic story.
Little Men (1940) 80m. The Louisa May Alcott novel brilliantly brought to the screen with Kay Francis, Jack Oakie and Jimmy Lydon.
The Little Princess (1939) Color, 91m. Shirley Temple is orphan when her father goes to war during Victorian era.
Oliver Twist (1933) 71m. Dickie Moore is Oliver to Irving Pichel’s Fagin in Dickens’ classic.
Our Town (1940) 90m. Thornton Wilder’s play brought to life starring William Holden, Martha Scott.
Rain (1932) 90m. Somerset Maugham’s tawdry South Seas tale. Joan Crawford is trollop Sadie Thompson and the target of preacher Walter Huston’s reform.
The Scarlet Letter (1934) 70m. Colleen Moore stars in Nathaniel Hawthorne classic.
Scrooge (1935) 60m. Faithful adaptation of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” with Sir Seymour Hicks an impressive Scrooge. Bonus Christmas cartoons.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) Color, 117m. Hemingway adventure with Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward.
Street Scene (1931) 80m. Sylvia Sidney in play by Elmer Rice. Director: King Vidor
The Time of Your Life (1948) 99m. James Cagney, William Bendix, Broderick Crawford in Pulitzer-Prize winning play by William Saroyan.
Tom Brown's Schooldays (1940) 86m. Thomas Hughe’s novel brought to life with Freddie Bartholomew in the title role. Life in a Victorian boy’s school.
Winterset (1936) 77m. Burgess Meredith, John Carradine, Eduardo Cianelli in adaptation of Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson.
Tons More! Dramatic B-Pix!
Back Door to Heaven (1939) Starring: Aline MacMahon, Jimmy Lydon, Anita Magee Director: William K. Howard B&W. 85m.
Bad Boy (1939) Starring: Johnny Downs, Rosalind Keith, Helen MacKellar Director: Herbert Meyer B&W. 65m.
Beggars in Ermine (1934) Starring: Lionel Atwill, Betty Furness, Henry B. Walthall Director: Phil Rosen B&W. 70m.
Behind Office Doors (1931) Starring: Mary Astor, Robert Ames, Ricardo Cortez Director: Melville W. Brown B&W. 82m.
Beloved Enemy (1936) Starring: David Niven, Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne Director: H. C. Potter B&W. 86m.
The Big Chance (1933) 62m. Young prizefighter wins fixed match. Gangsters move in. With: Kid Dynamite (1943) 66m. East Side Kids in the boxing world.
Blazing Barriers (1937) Starring: Junior Coughlan, Florine McKinney, Edward Arnold Jr. Director: Aubrey Scotto B&W. 65m.
Born to Be Wild (1938) Starring: Ralph Byrd, Doris Weston, Ward Bond Director: Joseph Kane B&W. 66m.
Born to Fight (1938) Starring: Frankie Darro, Kane Richmond, Jack La Rue Director: Charles Hutchison B&W. 64m.
Boy of the Streets (1937) Starring: Jackie Cooper, Maureen O'Connor, Kathleen Burke Director: William Nigh B&W. 75m.
Boys' Reformatory (1939) Starring: Frankie Darro, Grant Withers, Junior Coghlan Director: Howard Bretherton B&W. 62m. With: The Mystery Train (1931) 62m. Hedda Hopper. A group of passengers are trapped in a runaway Pullman car.
By Appointment Only (1933) Starring: Wilson Benge , Lew Cody, Gladys Blake Director: Frank Strayer B&W. 66m.
Hell's House (1932) 72m. Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien, Junior Coghlan. Jimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school.
Kid Monk Baroni (1952) 79m. Leonard Nimoy is "Kid" Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang who becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in "Little Italy" New York.
Kept Husbands (1931) Starring: Joel McCrea, Dorothy Mackaill, Ned Sparks Director: Lloyd Bacon B&W. 76m.
Mark of the Hawk (1958) Starring: Sidney Poitier, Patrick Allan, Earl Cameron Director: Michael Audley Color 85m.
Mr. Scarface (1977) Starring: Jack Palance, Al Cliver, Harry Baer Director: Edward Sutherland, Fernando Di Leo Color 85m.
One Third of a Nation (1939) Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Leif Erickson, Myron McCormick Director: Dudley Murphy B&W. 79 m.
Ship of Lost Men (1929) Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Robin Irvine Director: Maurice Tourneur B&W. 121m.
Shore Leave (1925) Starring: Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Mackaill, Ted McNamara Director: John S. Robertson B&W. 105 m.
State Department - File 649 (1949) Color, 87m. William Lundigan matches wits with a Chinese warlord to try to save American citizens threatened with execution.
Sundowners, The (1950) Starring: Robert Preston, Robert Sterling, Chill Wills Director: George Templeton Color 83m.
Swap, The (1969) Starring: Robert De Niro, Jarred Mickey, Jennifer Warren Director: Jordan Leondopoulos, John Shade Color 92m.
Tango (1936) Starring: Marian Nixon, Barbara Bedford, Herman Bing Director: Phil Rosen B&W. 65m.
Ten Nights on a Barroom (1931) Starring: William Farnum, Tom Santschi, Peggy Lou Lynd B&W. 70m.
Under the Red Robe (1936) Starring: Conrad Veidt, Annabella, Raymond Massey Director: Victor Sjostrom B&W. 82m.
Violent Years, The (1956) Starring: Jean Moorhead, Barbara Weeks, Arthur Millan Director: William Morgan B&W. 65m.
Wives under Suspicion (1938) Starring: Warren William, Gail Patrick, Constance Moore Director: James Whale B&W. 69m.
World Gone Mad (1933) Starring: Louis Calhern, Evelyn Brent, Mary Brian Director: Christy Cabanne B&W. 70m.
