Drama - Blu-ray

When a gay actor returns to his conservative Texas hometown for his grandmother's funeral, long-buried family secrets come to light. As three generations of a deeply dysfunctional family gather, their tangled relationships, hidden desires, and outrageous behavior are revealed. From a barroom brawl to...

Alex, a decorated Marine officer who is unexpectedly discharged from her wartime duty. Returning to her conservative home town she agrees to coach and counsel the precocious teen rebel Saffron. Alex is the no-nonsense role model and authority figure that Saffron needs, and in...

Brandon had everything; a great job, a loving companion, and the victory of quitting smoking! BUT suddenly, at the age of 23, he finds himself moving back in with his parents and manning the counter at the local tobacco shop, feeding the very addiction...

In this powerful drama based on a true story, a down-on-his-luck taxi driver hired by a foreign journalist finds himself in a life-or-death struggle in the midst of the Gwanju Uprising.

In the rural South, a down-and-out gambling addict reignites a deep-rooted rivalry with a ruthless loan shark to finance his nimwitted nephew's half-baked scheme.

After completing his required decade of military service and being honored as a hero, a North Korean sergeant makes a sudden shocking attempt to defect to the South, risking life and limb for the chance to finally determine his own destiny.

Country doctor Martin Arrowsmith (Ronald Colman) spent a career forgoing his lofty research ambitions for the practicality of making a home for his wife (Helen Hayes). When the invitation comes to apply his discoveries to a plague outbreak in the West Indies, his acceptance...

When spoiled Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is suspended from boarding school, his businessman father (Melvyn Douglas) takes him to Europe on a business trip. When the rebellious lad falls overboard from the steamship, he is saved from death by humble fisherman Manuel Fidello (Spencer...

Director Vincente Minnelli's filming of the Robert Anderson stage drama (underplaying the play's controversial homosexual theme) chronicles the relationship between a New England prep school student teased by his peers for being "unmanly" and his housemaster's wife. Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, and Leif Erickson...

Vantine, a prostitute on the run from Saigon authorities, is vulnerable yet tough. From the first moment she takes refuge on the plantation run by Carson, he sizes her up as an easy mark for his virile charm. But when a research engineer and...

Iconic screen tough guys Edward G. Robinson and George Raft square off for hard-hitting drama, portraying utility company workers tough enough to defy death and each other while working power lines more treacherous than snakes. It will take some kind of woman to stand...

No pretentions, no tantrums. Marjorie Lawrence is a prima donna in the most professional sense of the term. She's a foremost Wagnerian, a soprano equal to the vocal and physical demands of the composer's oeuvre. And she's a beacon of triumph to anyone who...

In Spain's convent of the valley of Mira Flores stands a symbol of sanctity: a statue of the Madonna. But one fateful day, the statue becomes more than a symbol. It becomes flesh and blood. One of the 20th Century's most popular stage productions,...

Nick Scanlon (Robert Ryan) is an old-fashioned kind of gangster. If someone crosses you, settle it with a fist or a bullet. Tom McQuigg (Robert Mitchum) is an old-fashioned kind of cop. Grab the bad guy, not the bribe. But they are both living...

John Garfield and Ida Lupino star in the big-screen adaptation of Irwin Shaws play "The Gentle People," a pre-World War II allegory warning of the seductive allure and danger inherent in pretending the looming danger of fascism could be ignored. A small fishing town...

Laurence Olivier makes his singing debut in this lively Technicolor adaptation of John Gay's 18th century theatrical piece. Olivier stars as Captain Macheath, the leader of England's bandits and cutthroats. Macheath is in love with Polly Peachum (Dorothy Tutin), the daughter of beggar king...

Michael Caine gives a standout performance as vicious London gangster Jack Carter in this landmark crime classic from director Mike Hodges. The story begins as Carter travels to Newcastle for his brother's funeral, where he begins to suspect that his brother's death was not...

Michael Caine gives a standout performance as vicious London gangster Jack Carter in this landmark crime classic from director Mike Hodges. The story begins as Carter travels to Newcastle for his brother's funeral, where he begins to suspect that his brother's death was not...

A Story of Flame and Fury, Faith and Fear, Love and Adventure! Anne Bancroft heads an all star cast in this powerful story set in 1935 on the Chinese-Mongolian border. A group of young American women are working as missionaries at a Chinese school...

Legendary director Clarence Brown brought M-G-M's cameras on location to the deep South to create this powerful and highly-lauded adaptation of the novel by William Faulkner set in a small town in Mississipi. When a local man is murdered, an African American (Juano Hernandez)...

Director Vincent Sherman helmed this dark drama about a woman (Ida Lupino) who will do almost anything to keep her younger sister from becoming trapped in a small-town life of marriage and drudgery as she has been. Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie and Jack Carson...

Step inside "the Castle," a large private psychiatric facility. Here, Dr. Stewart McIver (Richard Widmark) devotes night and day to his profession while neglecting his pining, voluptuous wife (Gloria Grahame). A colleague (Charles Boyer) with a fondness for booze and a pretty face seeks...

Forget cotton. Tobacco is king in the American South of the 1890s. Brant Royle buys and sells tobacco - and plenty of it, building a cigarette-manufacturing empire. But his empire is starting to crumble. Gary Cooper gives iconic presence to the role of Royle,...

Deanie (Natalie Wood in an Oscar nominated performance that marked a career turning point toward complex adult roles) is a teenager eager to do what's right in her 1920s Kansas town. But the emotions she shares with boyfriend Bud (Warren Beatty's screen debut) are...

Can two damaged, lonely people find happiness together? Can the love and inner beauty they nurture transform their outward appearance? When Oliver Bradford (Robert Young) returns hideously scarred from World War II, he leaves his fiancee, believing that no woman could ever love him....

The president of Tredway Corp. has unexpectedly died. Long live the new president. But who will the exec be? There's no official line of succession and so the shady deals and insider backstabbing begin. Boardroom and boudoir politics play out in this star-packed tail...

Typhoid. Tuberculosis. Cave-Inx. Young Dr. Andrew Mason fights the ills that beset the overworked and forgotten people in poor Welsh mining towns. He is a resolute healer .until the burdens of his struggle shatter his idealism. To the dismay of his wife, he opens...

World War I is over, let the living begin. So three German soldiers open a repair shop and get on with their lives. Erich (Robert Taylor) finds unexpected love with frail Patricia (Margaret Sullavan), Gottfried (Robert Young) falls in with a verboten anti-nationalist group....

Lean on Me is the true story of high school principal Joe Clark, who armed himself with a bullhorn and Louisville Slugger and slammed the door on losers at Eastdale High in Paterson, New Jersey. Brought in to save the school, he chained the...

She came from the streets of Paris and survived using the only gift she had. In this masterful biopic, Marion Cotillard (A Very Long Engagement) gives "one of the most devastating, inspired and breathtaking performances in film history" (Rex Reed-New York Observer) as the...

Academy Award winners Michael Keaton and Morgan Freeman star in this gritty and critically-acclaimed drama, directed by Glen Gordon Caron (Moonlighting) . Keaton portrays Daryl Pointer, a hustling Philadelphia real estate agent with a serious cocaine addiction and a life that is quickly unraveling.He...

Orphan Lili Daurier joins a carnival and falls under the spell of its star, a suave magician. But it is the show's crippled, embittered puppeteer who truly loves Lili, a love he can express only through his puppets. "It is not often that the...

In this vivid melodrama, Joan Crawford is Sadie McKee, who must choose between love (with Gene Raymond) and money (with Edward Arnold) and eventually gets both (with Franchot Tone). Crawford had an amazing ability to adapt her screen persona with changing times. She was...

As America despaired during the early days of the Depression, Hollywood met the challenge with chorus girls, gangsters, romances, a few dramas of social realism, and this one-of-a-kind thoroughly astonishing fantasy: Gabriel Over the White House. Walter Huston gives a bravura performance, starring as...

Lizzy (Candice Bergen), a liberated American photographer, falls for narrow-minded journalist Paolo (Giancarlo Giannini). Then finds she can't live with him or without him. Bergen (Murphy Brown) and Giannini (Seven Beauties) take both comic and fierce battle stations in this colorful excursion into the...

Glamorous socialite Helen Wright (Joan Crawford) takes what she wants -- clothes, alcohol, men -- uses them up and tosses them aside. Then she meets brilliant young violinist Paul Boray (John Garfield). But this is one toy she can't break. Instead, her love for...

From legendary director Robert Altman comes his final film, the deeply moving and comedic A Prairie Home Companion. Based on Garrison Keillor's wildly popular radio program of the same name, Altman invites audiences to the fictional "closing night" of the fabled show. As the...

Orson Welles' touches of cinematic brilliance make Journey Into Fear a stunning success. From Welles' Mercury Theater comes this "imaginative and exciting tale of terror" (NY TIMES). Under the direction of Norman Foster, Joseph Cotten (who also wrote the screenplay, adapted from the novel...

Director George Stevens made his transition from breezy pre-war films to the acclaimed masterworks of his later career with this tender charmer about a Norwegian immigrant family in 1910 San Francisco. Irene Dunne (as Mama), Barbara Bel Geddes (the matriarch of a vastly different...

You haven't seen the true colors of vicious gang life in Los Angeles unless you've also seen Boulevard Nights. From Executive Producer Tony Bill (The Sting, Taxi Driver) comes this gritty drama that remains timely and powerful as when it first appeared in 1979....

Texas, 1935. It's a time of boomtowns or bust for oil wildcatters and, repeatedly, derby-topped Mr. Cox has come out flat busted. Not to worry. Mr. Cox has a mule -- headed optimism. He's sure as the sunrise that near the town of Henrietta...

Pay the man, get out of prison. It's a sweet deal for the Tennessee officials who let killers and rapists go free for a price. And who would have the guts to defy the state's power elite? No one, except a courageous single mom...

They first meet in Omaha. They meet again years later at the Swiss border and at the edge of World War II. Clark Gable as smalltime hoofer Harry Van and Norma Shearer as his one-time honey Irene, now passing herself off as a Russian...

When Joan Crawford saw The Shining Hour on the Broadway stage, she pleaded with M-G-M executives to let her spread her acting wings in the film version. Ms. Crawford got her way, playing a New York siren who marries a prosperous farmer (Melvyn Douglas)...

Shoshone tribesman and Civil War hero Lance Poole (Robert Taylor) returns home with a Congressional Medal of Honor on his chest and a saddlebag full of dreams about prospering as a cattleman on his family's land. But Native Americans have no citizenship, no property...

Unsure of herself, months pregnant and feeling trapped, Natalie Ravenna leaves her sleeping husband a note and drives away from her Long Island home one rainy morning to find herself. Natalie is the heroine of Francis Ford Coppola's intensely moving drama, The Rain People....

The Nun's Story is an unforgettable revelation of the seldom-seen world behind convent walls. This landmark motion picture classic stars a radiant Audrey Hepburn who portrays a nun whose life journey takes her from the staff of a mental asylum to a much-desired position...

For two years the Civil War has been elsewhere. Now Confederate forces are nearby, looting and burning. It's time to fight back, Jess Birdwell's neighbors insist. Yet Birdwell, a Quaker, knows there must be a better way to settle things. In a role ideally...

Palestinian intelligence says she's loyal to their cause. Israeli counterintelligence says she's "bright, creative, underused, romantic and a liar." Academy Award winner* Diane Keaton stars as Charlie, a repertory actor and Palestinian sympathizer who plays the role of -- and for -- her life...

Edward James Olmos stars as Jaime Escalante in this inspirational true story about a teacher and the unmotivated East Los Angeles high school students who he inspires, badgers, threatens and humors into learning the most demanding of all math sciences--calculus. But the accomplishment is...