Classic Cinema Drama Films

City Lights (1931)
None
Rating: 8.6/10
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Silent, Thirties,
Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee,

The Wages of Fear (1953)
BRITISH ACADEMY AWARD FOR THE BEST FILM!... (original USA/Canada posters)
Rating: 8.3/10
Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Fifties,
Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck,

Scarface (1983)
He was Tony Montana. The world will remember him by another name...SCARFACE.
Rating: 8.3/10
Crime, Drama,
Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia,

La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)
None
Rating: 8.2/10
Biography, Drama, History, Silent, Twenties,
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley,

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
None
Rating: 8.1/10
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Fifties,
James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara,

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
At last....the motion picture!
Rating: 8.1/10
Drama, War,
Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray,

His Girl Friday (1940)
The Year's Wildest, Wittiest Whirlwind of a Love Battle... Outrageously Racy... Sparkling... Gay!
Rating: 8.0/10
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Forties,
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy,

The 39 Steps (1935)
Handcuffed to the girl who double-crossed him
Rating: 7.9/10
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Thirties,
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim,

The Ten Commandments (1956)
It would take more than a man to lead the slaves from bondage. It would take a God.
Rating: 7.8/10
Adventure, Drama, History, Fifties,
Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter,

Meet John Doe (1941)
ALL AMERICA WANTS TO MEET THE "MR. DEEDS" OF 1941! (original print media ad - all caps)
Rating: 7.7/10
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Forties,
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold,

Billy Budd (1962)
The Men!.. The Mutiny!...The Might!... The Magnitude Of Herman Melville's Classic Adventure of the High Seas!
Rating: 7.7/10
Adventure, Drama, Sixties,
Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas,

And Then There Were None (1945)
None
Rating: 7.7/10
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Forties,
Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward,

The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
The whole town WHISPERED about these two!
Rating: 7.6/10
Drama, Romance, Forties,
Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall,

Lux Video Theatre (1950)
None
Rating: 7.6/10
Comedy, Drama,
Ken Carpenter, Jay Jackson, Otto Kruger,

The Four Feathers (1939)
See...The Dreaded Dervishes! - Kipling's Famous FUZZY WUZZIES!
Rating: 7.6/10
Adventure, Drama, Romance, War, Thirties,
John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C Aubrey Smith,

The Stranger (1946)
The Most Deceitful Man A Woman Ever Loved !
Rating: 7.5/10
Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Mystery, Thriller, Forties,
Orson Welles, Edward G Robinson, Loretta Young,

Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège (1933)
None
Rating: 7.5/10
Short, Comedy, Drama, Thirties,
Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Louis Lefebvre,

Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
She overheard the plans for her own destruction!
Rating: 7.5/10
Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, Thirties,
Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards,

Stella Dallas (1937)
Sure - I like a good time!
Rating: 7.5/10
Drama, Romance, Thirties,
Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley,

Kansas City Confidential (1952)
Every city wears a mask! This is the picture that goes behind that mask to bare the bullet-scarred face of a brutal underworld!.
Rating: 7.5/10
Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Mystery, Fifties,
John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster,

Quiz Show (1994)
Fifty million people watched, but no one saw a thing.
Rating: 7.5/10
Biography, Drama, History,
John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, David Paymer,

Holiday Inn (1942)
None
Rating: 7.4/10
Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Forties,
Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds,

The Bad Seed (1956)
What would you do if you were cursed with "The Bad Seed"?
Rating: 7.4/10
Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Fifties,
Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones,

Shangri-La (1960)
None
Rating: 7.4/10
Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Sixties,
Richard Basehart, Claude Rains, John Abbott,

Moby Dick (1956)
In all the world---in all the seas---in all adventure, there is no might like the might of [Moby Dick]
Rating: 7.4/10
Adventure, Drama, Fifties,
Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn,

Three Came Home (1950)
The story of one woman's confinement in a WW II Japanese prison camp
Rating: 7.4/10
War, Drama,
Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond, Sessue Hayakawa, Sylvia Andrew,

Love Affair (1939)
None
Rating: 7.4/10
Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lee Bowman, Astrid Allwyn,

Nothing Sacred (1937)
See the big fight! LOMBARD vs MARCH. Selznick International's sensational Technicolor comedy
Rating: 7.4/10
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thirties,
Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger,

The Big Combo (1955)
The Most Startling Story The Screen Has Ever Dared Reveal!
Rating: 7.4/10
Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, Fifties,
Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Cornel Wilde,

Detour (1945)
He went searching for love... but Fate forced a DETOUR to Revelry... Violence... Mystery!
Rating: 7.4/10
Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Mystery, Forties,
Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake,

The Naked Kiss (1964)
Shock and Shame Story of a Night Girl!
Rating: 7.4/10
Crime, Drama, Sixties,
Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante,

The Lodger (1927)
None
Rating: 7.3/10
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Twenties,
June, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault,

Of Human Bondage (1934)
The Love That Lifted a Man to Paradise......and Hurled Him Back to Earth Again
Rating: 7.3/10
Drama, Romance, Thirties,
Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee,

Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
None
Rating: 7.3/10
Drama, Fifties,
Bette Davis, Shelley Winters, Gary Merrill,

Big (1988)
You're only young once!
Rating: 7.3/10
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance,
Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, Jared Rushton,

El Cid (1961)
The GREATEST ROMANCE and ADVENTURE in a THOUSAND YEARS!
Rating: 7.2/10
Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War,
Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone,

The Dark Corner (1946)
Save your lipstick, girls, he plays for keeps.
Rating: 7.2/10
Crime, Film-Noir, Drama,
Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix, Mark Stevens, Kurt Kreuger,

Dragon Princess (1976)
The Deadliest Dragon That Ever Smashed the Street Gangs!
Rating: 7.1/10
Action, Drama, Martial Arts, Seventies,
Sonny Chiba, Akane Kawasaki, Akiko Koyama,

Heidi (1937)
Shirley's A Little Swiss Miss In The Loveliest Story of Her Career !
Rating: 7.1/10
Family, Drama, Thirties,
Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher,

The Vikings (1958)
Mightiest Of Men... Mightiest Of Spectacles... Mightiest Of Motion Pictures!
Rating: 7.1/10
Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War, Fifties,
Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine,

Clash by Night (1952)
Livin' in my house! Lovin' another man! Is that what you call bein' honest? That's just givin' it a nice name!
Rating: 7.1/10
Drama, Film Noir, Fifties,
Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas,

Reign of Terror (1949)
None
Rating: 7.1/10
Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War, Forties,
Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart,

The Return of the Sister Street Fighter (1975)
None
Rating: 7.0/10
Action, Drama, Martial Arts, Seventies,
Etsuko Shihomi, Akane Kawasaki, Miwa Cho,

Stage Fright (1950)
Gripping New Greatness From Warner Bros.
Rating: 7.0/10
Crime, Drama, Thriller, Fifties,
Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd,

Carmen Jones (1954)
None
Rating: 7.0/10
Drama, Musical, Romance, Black Cast, Fifties,
Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey,

Dorothy Dandridge Singing at Her Best (0000)
She was everything America wanted a movie star to be... except white.
Rating: 7.0/10
Biography, Drama, Musical, Black Cast,
Dorothy Dandridge,

The Little Princess (1939)
A great classic comes to life in glorious Technicolor!
Rating: 7.0/10
Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Thirties,
Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise,

The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
there's Death in his upraised Thumb!
Rating: 7.0/10
Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, Fifties,
Edmond O Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman,

Impact (1949)
Wanted By Two Women! One For Love! One For Murder!
Rating: 7.0/10
Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Mystery, Forties,
Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn,

Suddenly (1954)
A cold-blooded thriller!
Rating: 6.9/10
Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Romance, Thriller, Fifties,
Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason,