Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Controversy: 176 Films to Rent on DVD
- Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1995)
- Dir. Nick Broomfield
- Another sensational art–tabloid gem from professional muck–raker Nick Broomfield, who here lies down with various dogs of the film and…
- Kids (1995)
- Dir. Larry Clark
Feat. Leo Fitzpatrick, Sarah Henderson, Justin Pierce…
- Cult photographer Larry Clark's debut, 24hrs of New York streetkid life, attracted immediate controversy. The unblinking depictions of sex, drugs and…
- Strange Days (1995)
- Dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis
- Ralph Fiennes runs into all sorts of bother as a low–rent dealer of subversive pleasures encoded on diskettes.
An ambitious,…
- Boy Meets Girl (1994)
- Dir. Ray Brady
Feat. Tim Poole, Danielle Sanderson, Margot Steinberg
- For many years banned in the UK on video at least, this abrasive, low–budget drama plays out the wilfully unpleasant scenario of a man who gets…
- Crumb (1994)
- Dir. Terry Zwigoff
- Remarkable portrait of controversial cartoonist and non–conformist Robert Crumb. Documented over six years, his friend Terry Zwigoff manages to…
- Natural Born Killers (1994)
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis
- Oliver Stone turns a Tarantino script into a mean–spirited satire that points fingers at the decline of America without any measure of…
- Priest (1994)
- Dir. Antonia Bird
Feat. Linus Roache
- Provocative working–class drama about a gay priest wrestling with multiple dilemmas – his sexuality, a new parish and his exclusive…
- Bandit Queen (1993)
- Dir. Shekhar Kapur
Feat. Seema Biswas
- Far and away from the innocuous fluff that dominates India's film industry, comes this bold, controversial true story of Phoolan Devi, a notorious…
- Beavis and Butthead (TV Series) (1993-1997)
- Dir. Mike Judge
- Once rejected by our television networks on moral grounds, this might've been your only chance to catch America's favourite miscreants in animated…
- Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, The (1993)
- Dir. Ray Muller
- Regarded both as great filmmaker and Nazi Party propagandist, Leni Reifenstahl, the maker of TRIUMPH OF THE WILL and OLYMPIAD, will always be a…