Drama

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Blood and Sand

Blood and Sand

Romance · Drama · Silent

A young Spaniard who achieves his boyhood ambition to become a celebrated toreador finds himself the victim of his own desires, forsaking the pure love of the sweet-natured Carmen for the sinister charms of the exotic Doña Sol.

Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock

Film Noir · Drama

When a journalist winds up dead while investigating gang-related murders, Ida Arnold sets out to find the truth. On the trail of the true murderer, she becomes romantically involved with young hoodlum Pinke Brown ...but unbeknownst to Ida, Pinkie is the very murderer she's looking for!

Cobra Woman (Special Edition)

Cobra Woman (Special Edition)

Romance · Adventure · Drama

After Ramu discovers that his fiancée Tollea has been kidnapped by a lost tribe and taken to a Pacific isle, he and his friend Kado set out across the seas to find her. They soon discover that the island paradise is ruled by Tollea’s evil twin Naja, the Cobra Woman, who commands all str…

The Damned

The Damned

Drama · War · World Cinema

Set during the closing days of WWII this gritty, claustrophobic mix of Film Noir and psychological suspense follows the doomed escape of a group of Nazi's as they flee for South America aboard a submarine hoping to evade their fate in Europe

Dead of Night (4KUHD)

Dead of Night (4KUHD)

Horror · Drama · Fantasy

A group of strangers, mysteriously gathered at an isolated country estate, recount chilling tales of the supernatural.

The Devil Bat

The Devil Bat

Horror · Cult · Drama

Bela Lugosi stars as a scientist who commands a mutant bat to avenge himself upon his enemies (using a specially formulated after-shave lotion as the targeting device). Even as he takes diabolical pleasure in such a ludicrous premise, Lugosi invests the character with an underlying sense of tragedy,…

Drifting/White Tiger

Drifting/White Tiger

Crime · Drama

Drifting - An opium trafficker is caught between an undercover government agent and a fellow smuggler in a remote Chinese village. White Tiger involves a band of jewel thieves who employ a chess-playing automaton to gain entry into the homes of the wealthy.  

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema III [Abandoned / The Lady Gambles / The Sleeping City]

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema III [Abandoned / The Lady Gambles / The Sleeping City]

Film Noir · Drama · Box Set

This collection features three film noir classics.

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema IV [Calcutta / An Act of Murder / Six Bridges to Cross]

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema IV [Calcutta / An Act of Murder / Six Bridges to Cross]

Film Noir · Drama · Box Set

This collection features three film noir classics.

MOM AND DAD (FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EXPLOITATION PICTURE    Volume 1)

MOM AND DAD (FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EXPLOITATION PICTURE    Volume 1)

Drama

In the 75 years since its initial release, Kroger Babb’s Mom and Dad has achieved mythical cinematic status. It was a film that, during the height of the Production Code, not only dared to address issues of venereal disease and unexpected pregnancy but presented graphic footage of bodies scarr…

She Should'a Said 'NO'!/Devil's Sleep (Forbidden Fruit Vol. 6)

She Should'a Said 'NO'!/Devil's Sleep (Forbidden Fruit Vol. 6)

Exploitation · Drama

“She Should’a Said ‘NO’!” stars Lila Leeds as a party girl recruited by a hard-boiled cop to take down the sinister dope-pusher responsible for the addiction and death of her brother. George Weiss loaded his gymnasium pill-mill thriller "Devil’s Sleep" with three …

Test Tube Babies/Guilty Parents (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Pictures, Vol. 7)

Test Tube Babies/Guilty Parents (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Pictures, Vol. 7)

Drama

Cathy and George seem like the perfect postwar American couple, but a medical deficiency deprives them of the children that will complete their happy home.

Fritz Lang's Destiny

Fritz Lang's Destiny

Adventure · Silent · Action & Adventure

A young woman (Lil Dagover) confronts the personification of Death (Bernhard Goetzke), in an effort to save the life of her fiance (Walter Janssen). Death weaves three romantic tragedies and offers to unite the girl with her lover, if she can prevent the death of the lovers in at least one of the ep…

Hangmen Also Die

Hangmen Also Die

Film Noir · Drama · War

Beautifully shot by James Wong Howe and tightly scripted by Brecht and Lang in their only collaboration, this noir-like espionage thriller is set in occupied Czechoslovakia and revolves around the successful plot by the Czech resistance to assassinate Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia "H…

Hitchcock: British International Pictures Collection

Hitchcock: British International Pictures Collection

Comedy · Drama

Before he became known as the Master of Suspense in Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock had already established himself as a precociously talented filmmaker in England. Hitchcock: British International Pictures Collection brings together five features he directed for the production company that first displa…

I Walk Alone

I Walk Alone

Crime · Thriller · Film Noir

Frankie Madison (Burt Lancaster) returns to New York after 14 years in prison. Noll Turner (Kirk Douglas), Frankie's former partner in bootlegging, is now a wealthy nightclub manager, and Frankie intends to collect his half of the nightclub's profits.

The Informer

The Informer

Drama

Based on Liam O’Flaherty’s popular Irish novel (which John Ford famously adapted in 1935), this gripping thriller is set among a group of revolutionaries in the newly independent Ireland of 1922. When one of their number kills the chief of police, he goes on the run. But when he returns …

It Always Rains on Sunday

It Always Rains on Sunday

Thriller · Film Noir · Drama

An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, despite her moving on to have a new family.

It Happened Tomorrow

It Happened Tomorrow

Drama

What would happen if someone could get tomorrow's newspaper headlines today? This charming comedy tells the story of a turn of the century newspaper reporter (Dick Powell) who wishes he could scoop his colleagues by knowing about events before they occur. This sparkling black and white film was mast…

Kiss the Blood off My Hands

Kiss the Blood off My Hands

Crime · Film Noir · Drama

After killing a man in a bar fight, a former POW flees the scene and manages to find cover in the home of a nurse. But a racketeer who witnessed the murder threatens to turn him into the police unless he agrees to assist in a crime.

The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend

Drama

A would-be writer’s dissatisfaction with life leads to a self-destructive three-day binge.

The Love of Jeanne Ney

The Love of Jeanne Ney

Silent · Drama

The Love of Jeanne Ney follows a young French woman’s struggle for happiness amid the political turbulence and corruption of post-World War I Europe.

Munchhausen

Munchhausen

Comedy · Adventure · Fantasy

Starring hypnotic, blond superstar Hans Albers, this lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting, and a rich color palette.

Never Fear

Never Fear

Noir · Drama

Carol Williams is a beautiful young dancer whose body, and promising career, is suddenly crippled by polio. Carol’s dance partner and fiancé, Guy Richards, wants to see her through her illness, but the angry, self-pitying Carol prefers to go it alone.

Not Wanted

Not Wanted

Drama

In Ida Lupino's directorial debut Not Wanted, young and naive "unwed mother" Sally Forrest's life spirals out of control after her musician beau (Leo Penn) ditches her for an out-of-town gig, despite the presence of another man (Keefe Brasselle) determined to win her heart.

The Outlaw

The Outlaw

Romance · Comedy · Western

The Outlaw follows the friendship of Billy the Kid (Jack Buetel, Rose of Cimarron) and fellow outlaw Doc Holliday (Walter Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), as they both pursue the affections of Holliday's girlfriend, Rio (Jane Russell), while being chased through the desert by Sheriff Pat G…

Paracelsus

Paracelsus

Biography · Drama · World Cinema

A physician, alchemist, and spiritual guru, Paracelsus (1493-1541) was one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of science. And, like its subject, this 1943 film is shrouded in mystery, even though it was  directed by one of the supreme stylists of the German cinema: G.W. Pabst.

Les Parents Terribles (The Storm Within)

Les Parents Terribles (The Storm Within)

Drama · World Cinema

A rediscovered classic by director Jean Cocteau. When Michel, who's 22, tells his parents he is in love, his parents are distressed by the declaration for different reasons.

The Queen of Spades (Special Edition)

The Queen of Spades (Special Edition)

Horror · Drama

A gambling craze is sweeping 19th-century St. Petersburg, yet a dashing Russian army captain is too impoverished to participate. But when he learns that an aging countess may hold the ultimate key to gambling riches, the desperate young officer will stop at nothing to steal the sinister secret for h…

Reginald Denny Collection: The Reckless Age, Skinner's Dress Suit, What Happened to Jones?

Reginald Denny Collection: The Reckless Age, Skinner's Dress Suit, What Happened to Jones?

Comedy · Drama

The Reginald Denny Collection gathers three silent features from the career of the debonair British star.

Seven Sinners

Seven Sinners

Romance · Adventure · Comedy

Deported from every South Sea island on which she has ever performed, sexy saloon singer Bijou Blanche uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.

The Shakedown

The Shakedown

Sports · Drama

A boxer who is part of a traveling team of scammers, falls head-over-heels for a fiery waitress and a rough-and-tumble orphan and begins to dramatically alter his life inside and outside of the ring.

The Shepherd of the Hills

The Shepherd of the Hills

Romance · Adventure · Western

Burdened from boyhood by a family tragedy, a hillbilly moonshiner's life is driven by the need to avenge his mother’s abandonment by an uncaring father.

Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars

Western · Drama

Shooting Stars is a sophisticated, modern morality tale, while also offering an affectionate critique of the film industry and a celebration of its possibilities. Kino Classics is proud to present this new restoration by the BFI National Archive, which is accompanied by a dazzling new score by John …

The Southerner

The Southerner

Drama

After achieving worldwide acclaim for such films as La Grande Illusion and The Rules of the Game, French filmmaker Jean Renoir wrote and directed this adaptation of George Sessions Perrys novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand. The story follows the struggles of an idealistic farmer (Zachary Scott) trying t…

Steamboat Bill Jr. and College

Steamboat Bill Jr. and College

Comedy · Action · Drama

STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. was Buster Keaton’s last independent silent comedy and also one of his finest. He stars as the effete son of a gruff riverboat captain (Ernest Torrence), who struggles to earn his father’s respect (and the love of beautiful Marion Byron). But the film is best remember…

The Stranger

The Stranger

Thriller · Spies · Film Noir

In the Academy Award-nominated THE STRANGER, legendary director Orson Welles delved into the suspense film, crafting a baroque postwar thriller that drew upon the style of his previous work, while laying the groundwork for his later film noir classics. Edward G. Robinson stars as a government agent …

Tartuffe

Tartuffe

Silent · Drama

Restoring censored images and filling in forgotten facts, Jia Zhangke provides an alternative version of 20th-century China’s fraught history as reflected through life in the Yangtze city.

Underground (1928)

Underground (1928)

Romance · Drama

Anthony Asquith’s Underground (1928) tells the story of an electrician (Cyril McLaglen) and an underground porter (Brian Aherne) who both fall in love with the same shop girl (Elissa Landi). Asquith (A Cottage on Dartmoor, Shooting Stars) is one of the supreme stylists of the British silent ci…

Variete

Variete

Romance · Drama · Silent

Now available in a newly-restored 2K DCP version! Former trapeze artist “Boss” Huller leaves his wife and child to go to Berlin with the younger, seductive Berta-Marie. They become the lead attraction at Berlin’s famed Wintergarten, where they perform as a trio with trapezist Artin…

Wake Island

Wake Island

War · Drama

The first realistic American film made about World War II, this hard-hitting drama is based on the incredible true story of a handful of U.S. Marines holding out against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault and battling their way to glory and into the pages of history.

Western Classics I [When the Daltons Rode / The Virginian / Whispering Smith]

Western Classics I [When the Daltons Rode / The Virginian / Whispering Smith]

Romance · Western · Drama

This collection features three classic 1940s westerns.