John Sayles
Director, Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
- Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, Adam LeFevre…
- In his feature debut, writer–director John Sayles demonstrates a wisdom way beyond his years with this ‘do–it–yourself’…
- Lianna (1983)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Linda Griffiths, Jane Hallaren, Jon DeVries
- A mother–of–two breaks out of her cold marriage by way of an affair with a senior lecturer in this defining lesbian film of the 1980s,…
- Brother from Another Planet (1984)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Joe Morton, Steve James, Bill Cobbs
- Quirky comic fantasy from John Sayles about a mute alien negro who crash lands in New York and mixes with some earthbound home–boys in downtown…
- Matewan (1987)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell…
- In 1920s Virginia, miners unite against their strong–arm company who resort to 'scab' minority labour in response to strike action. Costly…
- Eight Men Out (1989)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. John Cusack, Michael Rooker, Christopher Lloyd…
- True story of the Chicago White Sox baseball team who conspired with gamblers to lose the World Series in 1919. Finely detailed topical drama with an…
- Passion Fish (1992)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Mary MacDonnell, Alfre Woodard, David Strathairn
- After a debilitating accident, soap–opera super–bitch Mary MacDonnell returns to Louisiana and finds an unlikely soulmate in her black…
- Straight Talk (1992)
- Dir. Barnet Kellman
Feat. Dolly Parton, James Woods, Griffin Dunne…
- Easy–going comedy with Dolly Parton as a country gal who becomes a wildly popular 'agony aunt' on a Chicago radio station. Dolly livens up an…
- Secret of Roan Inish, The (1994)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Jeni Courtney, Eileen Colgan, Mick Lally…
- A young girl is sent to live with her grandmother at a coastal town in Ireland, 1949, and makes an unexpected connection with its mystical history…
- Lone Star (1996)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Pena, Matthew McConaughey…
- John Sayles' searching character study set in a dusty New Mexican town crosses multiple characters and time frames across three ethnic cultures.…
- Limbo (1999)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. David Strathairn, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
- John Sayles, the doyen of American independents, succeeds all Johnny–Come–Lately's with an arresting, multi–layered fable that…