Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8067 Films to Buy & Rent
Broken (2012)
- Dir. Rufus Norris
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Tim Roth, Eloise Laurence…
- In Rufus Norris’s artfully constructed drama... there’s a lot to like, not least a striking central performance from newcomer Eloise Laurence.…
Call the Midwife (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Jessica Raine, Jenny Agutter, Miranda Hart…
- Immensely popular BBC series follows – in fashionable period detail – the trials and tribulations of a newly–qualified midwife, who begins…
Careless Love (2012)
- Dir. John Duigan
Feat. Nammi Le, David Field, Peter O'Brien
- A young Vietnamese Australian woman prostitutes herself as a way to both make ends meet and settle her family’s debts. John Duigan directs with…
Chasing Mavericks (2012)
- Dir. Curtis Hanson, Michael Apted
Feat. Gerard Butler, Jonny Weston, Elisabeth Shue…
- A plucky teenager enlists the help of a local surfing guru (Gerard Butler) in his quest to tackle the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the largest…
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)
- Dir. Donald Rice
Feat. Felicity Jones, Luke Treadaway, Mackenzie Crook…
- Coy period drama with a young woman battling with nerves on her wedding day, while downstairs her fretting husband waits.
Cloud Atlas (2012)
- Dir. Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer
Feat. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent…
- An awe–inspiring cinematic epic that adapts David Mitchell's ambitious and 'unfilmable' novel as an 'auteur blockbuster' and genuine…
Company You Keep, The (2012)
- Dir. Robert Redford
Feat. Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie…
- Robert Redford directs and stars in this bristling thriller, about a former Weather Underground member, now in hiding, whose violent past comes back…
Compliance (2012)
- Dir. Craig Zobel
Feat. Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy…
- When a prank caller masquerading as a police officer convinces a fast food restaurant manager to interrogate an innocent young employee, no–one…
Cosmopolis (2012)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton…
- David Cronenberg adapts Don DeLillo's post–modern novel about a billionaire asset manager whose journey via limousine across a gridlocked…
Dangerous Liaisons (2012)
- Dir. Jin-ho Hur
Feat. Cecilia Cheung, Jang Dong-Gun, Zhang Ziyi
- A sumptuous new adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' famous novel, relocating the grand sexual conspiracy to opulent 1930s Shanghai, where two wealthy…