Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8067 Films to Buy & Rent
Pieta (2012)
- Dir. Kim Ki-Duk
Feat. Min-soo Jo, Jung-Jin Lee
- Kim Ki–Duk directs this controversial Golden Lion winner, about a debt–collecting thug who is forced to confront his violent ways when a…
Place Beyond the Pines, The (2012)
- Dir. Derek Cianfrance
Feat. Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, Bradley Cooper…
- Ryan Gosling re–teams with the dir. of BLUE VALENTINE for this equally arresting crime saga that unfolds after a motorcycling drifter's…
Political Animals (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
- Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Carla Gugino, James Wolk…
- Meaty White House drama with Sigourney Weaver, in a clear nod to Hillary Clinton, playing a divorced former First Lady now making waves as Secretary…
Private Peaceful (2012)
- Dir. Pat O'Connor
Feat. Jack O'Connell, George MacKay, Alexandra Roach…
- This sensitive, small scale contrast to Spielberg's WAR HORSE (also from a Michael Morgpurgo novel) centres on two brothers who are compelled to put…
Promised Land (2012)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski…
- Matt Damon plays a natural–gas representative who has the best interests of a small–town community at heart despite his company's…
Puberty Blues (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Claudia Karvan, Ashleigh Cummings, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor
- Two inseparable teenage girls growing up on the beaches of Cronulla come of age in this acclaimed TV adaptation of the seminal late 70s Australian…
Pusher (2012)
- Dir. Luke Prieto
Feat. Richard Coyle, Bronson Webb, Agyness Deyn…
- Slick remake of the Nicolas Winding Refn thriller with Richard Coyle as a street dealer who's life spins out of control after losing a drug shipment.
Quartet (2012)
- Dir. Dustin Hoffman
Feat. Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly…
- Another pleasant surprise for the retiree set, this time centred on a home for retired musicians, and the recently arrived opera diva (Maggie Smith)…
Reality (2012)
- Dir. Matteo Garrone
Feat. Aniello Arena, Loredana Simioli, Nando Paone
- A working class scam artist tries out for 'Big Brother' in this bustling, Fellini–esque satire of unrealised dreams from dir. Matteo Garrone…
Red House, The (2012)
- Dir. Alyx Duncan
- A breakthrough for New Zealand's fledgling art cinema, this impressive first feature finds a beguiling middle ground between fiction and documentary…