Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8067 Films to Buy & Rent
A Lady in Paris (2012)
- Dir. Ilmar Raag
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Laine Mägi, Patrick Pineau
- An Estonian woman bereft of loved ones moves to France to care for an elderly expatriate who still obsessively pines for a former younger lover. An…
A Mother's Son (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
- Feat. Hermione Norris, Martin Clunes, Paul McGann…
- Taut two–part psychological thriller set in the sleepy Suffolk market town of Eastlee, where the disappearance of a young girl sends the…
A Perfect Ending (2012)
- Dir. Nicole Conn
Feat. Barbara Niven, Jessica Clark, John Heard…
- Romantic drama about a terminally ill women in a loveless marriage who turns to an escort service seeking seeking sexual fulfillment, and meets a sex…
A Royal Affair (2012)
- Dir. Nikolaj Arcel
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Alicia Vikander, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
- 18th Century Denmark is the backdrop for this high–costumed drama about the love affair between Queen Caroline Matilda and her royal physician…
After May (Something in the Air) (2012)
- Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Lola Créton, Clément Métayer
- Hatched from dir. Olivier Assayas' personal experiences, this bittersweet evocation of the leftist fervour that caught hold of young Europeans in the…
Amber (2012)
- Dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Feat. Eva Birthistle
- 4–part Irish miniseries about the disappearance of a teenage girl, and the toll it takes on her parents. Received mixed reviews, partly due to…
Amour (2012)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
- An octogenarian couple find their love put to the ultimate test when one of them suffers a stroke in this devastating humanist drama from master…
And While We Were Here (2012)
- Dir. Kat Coiro
Feat. Kate Bosworth, Jamie Blackley
- Kate Bosworth shines in this hushed, understated romance between a married woman and a younger man on an island off the coast of Naples.
Anna Karenina (2012)
- Dir. Joe Wright
Feat. Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Kelly MacDonald…
- Costume drama artisan Joe Wright boldly directs this Tom Stoppard scripted adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic tale of Russian aristocracy.
Any Day Now (2012)
- Dir. Travis Fine
Feat. Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Frances Fisher…
- A gay couple in the 1970s fight to earn custody of the Downs Syndrome teenager they've taken in and raised as their own in this poignant family drama.