Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8067 Films to Buy & Rent
War Witch (Rebelle) (2012)
- Dir. Kim Nguyen
Feat. Rachel Mwanza
- A remarkable magical realist portrayal of the tragedy of child soldiering in one of Africa’s many civil wars, with the phenomenal Rachel Mwanza as…
We and the I, The (2012)
- Dir. Michel Gondry
Feat. Michael Brodie, Teresa Lynn, Raymond Delgado
- Michel Gondry masters the docu–drama narrative with surprising ease, here directing an affecting and unsentimental look at a bus full of Bronx…
Welcome Aboard (2012)
- Dir. Jean Becker
Feat. Patrick Chesnais, Jeanne Lambert, Miou-Miou
- No stranger to movies about unlikely friendships, dir. Jean Becker balances sentiment with pathos in this finely drawn character study of a…
What Maisie Knew (2012)
- Dir. Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Feat. Julianne Moore, Steve Coogan, Alexander Skarsgard…
- A six–year–old girl is caught in the middle of her estranged parents' bitter custody battle in this thought–provoking drama,…
What Really Happened: Votes for Women (2012)
- Feat. Sara Wiseman, Craig Hall, Stephen Lovatt
- Another edifying take on a key turning point in New Zealand history (following What Really Happened: Waitangi), this Sunday Theatre commission…
What Richard Did (2012)
- Dir. Lenny Abrahamson
Feat. Jack Reynor, Róisín Murphy, Sam Keeley…
- Understated but highly compelling moral drama in which an exemplary teenager experiences a fall from grace after an impulsive incident at a college…
What to Do When Someone Dies (Without You) (2012)
- Feat. Anna Friel, Marc Warren
- A love story morphs into a psychological thriller in this compelling tale of a happily married woman whose husband is inexplicably killed in a car…
White Elephant (2012)
- Dir. Pablo Trapero
Feat. Ricardo Darín, Jeremie Renier, Martina Gusman
- Two priests determined to build a hospital in a Buenos Aires shantytown encounter violent resistance from local drug lords in this superb social…
White Heat (TV Series) (2012)
- Dir. John Alexander
Feat. MyAnna Buring, Sam Claffin, Lee Ingleby…
- British TV drama from writer Paula Milne (THE POLITICIAN'S WIFE) following seven students who first meet while flatting in London in 1965. The six…
Why Stop Now? (2012)
- Dir. Phil Dorling, Ron Nyswaner
Feat. Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo, Tracy Morgan
- Jesse Eisenberg plays a piano prodigy determined to get his drug addicted mother (Melissa Leo) into rehab – with the help of a bumbling dealer…