Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 7995 Films to Buy & Rent
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
- Dir. Eliza Hittman
Feat. Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Sharon Van Etten
- The director of BEACH RATS directs impressive newcomers Sidney Flanigan and Talia Ryder as a pair of teenage girls from rural Pennsylvania who travel…
- Nine Days (2020)
- Dir. Edson Oda
Feat. Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Benedict Wong…
- The assured debut of writer–director Edson Oda is this existential drama about life, death and rebirth, unfolding in a parallel dimension where…
- Nomadland (2020)
- Dir. ChloƩ Zhao
Feat. Frances McDormand, David Strathairn
- Frances McDormand offers arguably her greatest performance yet (ahead of a cast of nomadic non–actors) as a woman who leaves her…
- Pale Horse, The (2020)
- Dir. Leonora Lonsdale
Feat. Rufus Sewell, Sheila Atim, Georgina Campbell…
- Two–part miniseries based on the 1961 Agatha Christie novel of the same name, involving all manner of malevolent goings on in the picturesque…
- Penance (TV Mini-series) (2020)
- Feat. Julie Graham, Nico Mirallegro, Neil Morrissey…
- 3–part TV miniseries which replaces the male gaze with that of a mother who, grieving for her son's death, struggles with maelstrom of emotions…
- Penguin Bloom (2020)
- Dir. Glendyn Ivin
Feat. Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln, Jackie Weaver…
- The luminous Naomi Watts leads this gracious Australian drama as the mother of three boys who take in an injured Magpie after she suffers a…
- Plot Against America, The (TV Mini-series) (2020)
- Dir. Thomas Schlamme
Feat. Winona Ryder, Anthony Boyle, Zoe Kazan…
- Created by David Simon (THE WIRE) and Ed Burns, this HBO mini–series adapts Philip Roth's 2004 prescient novel of the same name imagining an…
- Promising Young Woman (2020)
- Dir. Emerald Fennell
Feat. Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie…
- Carey Mulligan is sensational as the 'promising young woman' who contrives an elaborate scheme to avenge for a traumatizing past event in this…
- Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020)
- Dir. Jasmila Zbanic
Feat. Jasna Djuricic, Johan Heldenbergh
- A devastating, personal account of a nightmarish dilemma for a wife and mother working as a translator between the UN, the Serbian aggressors and…
- Rams (2020)
- Dir. Jeremy Sims
Feat. Sam Neill, Michael Caton, Miranda Richardson…
- Aussie re–imagining of the hit Icelandic comedy RAMS (2016), with Sam Neill the obvious choice to play a farmer in a decades long war with his…