Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > Music: 140 Films to Rent
- Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (Sex and Drugs and Rock & Roll) (2010)
- Dir. Mat Whitecross
Feat. Andy Serkis, Naomie Harris, Olivia Williams…
- Andy Serkis portrays trailblazing British rocker Ian Dury, who overcame childhood polio and its attendant social problems to emerge as an unlikely…
- Step Up 3 (Step Up 3-D) (2010)
- Dir. Jon Chu
Feat. Rick Malambri, Adam G. Sevani, Sharni Vinson…
- Hormonal third entry in the back–popping dance series has a tight–knit group of street dancers pitted against the world's best…
- Worried About the Boy (2010)
- Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. Douglas Booth, Mathew Horne, Mark Gatiss…
- Compassionate, but never fawning, biopic of the eighties icon Boy George jumps between his early taste of pop stardom to post–fame despair.…
- Crazy Heart (2009)
- Dir. Scott Cooper
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Keane…
- In an Oscar–winning turn, Jeff Bridges plays faded country music star Bad Blake, who swaggers from one dive to the next until his friendship…
- No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009)
- Dir. Bahman Ghobadi
Feat. Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Hamed Behdad
- Unprecedented pseudo–documentary exploring Iran’s forbidden underground music scene, starring Tehranian rockers Negar Shaghaghi and Ashkan…
- Notorious (2009)
- Dir. George Tillman Jr.
Feat. Jamal Woolard, Angela Bassett, Derek Luke…
- Surprisingly credible biopic of Christopher 'Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace, whose rise to the throne of East Coast rap – and inexplicable murder via…
- Nowhere Boy (2009)
- Dir. Sam Taylor-Johnson
Feat. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff…
- A likeable portrait of John Lennon's pre–Beatles youth in 1950's Liverpool and his emotional tug–of–war with the two maternal…
- Taking Woodstock (2009)
- Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman…
- Dir. Ang Lee painstakingly recreates the age of Aquarius for this sprawling yet tepid comedy based on the 'true story' of a Jewish interior designer…
- Arctic Monkeys - At The Apollo (2008)
- Dir. Richard Ayoade
- Live performance from Indie rockers 'Arctic Monkeys' performing the last gig of their World Tour at the Manchester Apollo in 2007.
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- Cadillac Records (2008)
- Dir. Darnell Martin
Feat. Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Gabrielle Union…
- Flashy interpretation of the rise of the seminal Chess Records, regarded by many as America's greatest blues label.
This ensemble piece is more…