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Rental > Drama > Arts & Artists: 131 Films to Rent
Van Gogh (1991)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Jacques Dutronc
- The ultra–naturalistic style of Maurice Pialat may not seem the best choice for a costume drama about probably the most–often filmed…
An Angel at My Table (1990)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Jane Campion
Feat. Kerry Fox
- Multi–award winning adaptation of Janet Frame's three autobiographies, deserving of its big reputation through compassionate storytelling and…
Henry and June (1990)
- Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Maria de Medeiros, Fred Ward, Uma Thurman
- From the diaries of French author Anais Nin, her steamy and stormy adventures with American writer Henry Miller and his wife are lensed to perfection.
Vincent and Theo (1990)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Tim Roth
- This biopic charts the relationship between the tortured artist and his patron brother, with sympathetic direction and Tim Roth's performance as…
A TV Dante (The Inferno Cantos I - VIII) (1989)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. John Gielgud, Bob Peck, Joanne Whalley
- Striking recitation by Gielgud and company of the first eight cantos. Greenaway superimposes some truly potent images over a series of talking heads.…
Camille Claudel (1988)
- Dir. Bruno Nuytten
Feat. Isabelle Adjani, Gerard Depardieu, Alain Cuny
- Intense, robust biopic of the French artist and lover of fellow sculptor, Auguste Rodin. Their tumultuous affair is passionately incarnated by…
Moderns, The (1988)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone…
- A witty and exquisite recreation of Paris in the 1920s, complete with the ‘lost generation’ of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and F Scott…
Rowing with the Wind (1988)
- Dir. Gonzalo Suárez
Feat. Hugh Grant, Elizabeth Hurley, Lizzy McInnerny…
- Earnest dramatisation of Mary Shelley's relationship with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley while in the midst of conceiving her famed novel…
Ebony Tower, The (1987)
- Dir. Robert Knights
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Roger Rees, Greta Scacchi…
- Self–conscious but watchable satire has a young art critic finding himself attracted to the unusual lifestyle of a reclusive painter. Based on…
Wolf at the Door, The (1987)
- Dir. Henning Carlsen
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow
- Thoughtful biopic of painter Paul Gauguin’s middle–years, with Donald Sutherland contending with the philistines of Paris upon his return…