Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > Comedy: 38 Films to Rent
- While We're Young (2014)
- Dir. Noah Baumbach
Feat. Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver…
- Ben Stiller plays a documentarian whose career and marriage are overturned when a much younger couple enters their social circle in this…
- Don Jon (2013)
- Dir. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Feat. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore…
- Joseph Gordon–Levitt wrote, directs and stars in this distinctly masculine rom–com as a New Jersey 'player' who must confront his nagging…
- Enough Said (2013)
- Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Feat. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener…
- Writer/director Nicole Holofcener moves into the first division with her fifth feature film, a savvy divorcee rom–com in perfect accord with…
- Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
- Dir. David O. Russell
Feat. Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro…
- An institutionalized man attempts to readjust to life and love in this full–bodied comedy–drama that pairs two of the hottest stars of…
- Boy (2010)
- Dir. Taika Waititi
Feat. Taika Waititi, James Rolleston, Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu…
- Taika Waititi continues his dream run as director with this fictionalised coming–of–age tale that draws on his own experience growing up…
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Mykeltin Williamson
- Oscar–winning box–office monster has suffered heavily from over–exposure, but one cannot dispute its effectiveness as a nutshell of…
- Losing Ground (1982)
- Dir. Kathleen Collins
Feat. Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones
- Noted as the first feature–length drama directed by a black American woman since the 1920s – a semi–autobiographical story of a…
- Graduate, The (1967)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katherine Ross
- An endearing Dustin Hoffman in his first leading role, is seduced by a middle–aged woman and then falls in love with her daughter. A brilliant…