Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Independent: 817 Films to Rent
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009)
- Dir. John Krasinski
Feat. Julianne Nicholson, Ben Shenkman, Timothy Hutton…
- A graduate student copes with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with various men.
Ill–conceived and messy adaptation of David Foster…
- City Island (2009)
- Dir. Raymond De Felitta
Feat. Andy Garcia, Julianne Margulies, Steven Strait…
- Winning ensemble stars Andy Garcia as a would–be actor–cum–corrections officer who brings a young ex–con home from work, much…
- Cold Souls (2009)
- Dir. Sophie Barthes
Feat. Paul Giamatti, David Strathairn, Lauren Ambrose…
- A existentialist tragi–comedy in which Paul Giamatti plays himself, a New York actor in crisis, who literally has his soul extracted, only to…
- Entre Nos (Between Us) (2009)
- Dir. Gloria La Morte, Paola Mendoza
Feat. Paola Mendoza, Sarita Choudhury, Anthony Chisholm…
- Affecting drama reveals the inner life of an Colombian immigrant and her two children fending for themselves in New York City.
- Girlfriend Experience, The (2009)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Sasha Grey, Chris Santos
- Ex–pornstar Sasha Grey impresses as a high–end call girl offering much more than just sex for her Manhattan clientele, in this small…
- Humpday (2009)
- Dir. Lynn Shelton
Feat. Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmor…
- Though easily mistaken for another Judd Apatow dude comedy, this hilarious indie bromance about two macho BFs engaged in a dare to go ‘beyond…
- Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, The (2009)
- Dir. David Russo
Feat. Marshall Allman, Vince Vieluf, Natasha Lyonne
- Pleasingly off–kilter indie comedy bares witness to the spiritual crisis of an office clerk who joins a posse of bohemian night janitors who…
- Life During Wartime (2009)
- Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Shirley Henderson, Michael Kenneth Williams, Allison Janney…
- Dir. Todd Solondz recasts his controversial 1998 indie hit, HAPPINESS, revisiting the dysfunctional characters and their future lives in this blackly…
- Limits of Control, The (2009)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Isaach de Bankole, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton…
- Indie King Jim Jarmusch directs this mysterious and moody crime thriller, in which a Lone Man wanders through Madrid and Seville on an undisclosed…
- Mammoth (2009)
- Dir. Lukas Moodysson
Feat. Michelle Williams, Gael Garcia Bernal, Marife Necesito…
- Ambitious social drama concerned with the corrosive effects of globalisation. Williams and Bernal play a well–heeled New York couple who…