Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Romance: 840 Films to Buy & Rent
- Late Bloomers (2011)
- Dir. Julie Gavras
Feat. William Hurt, Isabella Rossellini, Joanna Lumley…
- A breezy depiction of the late–life crisis, with old married couple William Hurt and Isabella Rossellini scrambling in opposite directions when…
- Like Crazy (2011)
- Dir. Drake Doremus
Feat. Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence
- Not to be mistaken for another Nicholas Sparks spin–off, this poignant, intelligently crafted indie romance intimately examines the young love…
- My Piece of the Pie (2011)
- Dir. Cedric Klapisch
Feat. Karin Viard, Gilles Lellouche
- A Capra–esque satire shot in the mode of a French romantic comedy, replete with clunky political statements and glossy Euro visuals. Karin…
- My Wedding and Other Secrets (2011)
- Dir. Roseanne Liang
Feat. Michelle Ang, Matt Whelan, Kenneth Tsang…
- Dir. Roseanne Liang adapts her winning documentary (BANANA IN A NUTSHELL) on the struggle to get her traditional Chinese parents to accept her Kiwi…
- Nothing Trivial (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Shane Cortese, Tandi Wright, Blair Strang…
- An agreeable and endearingly performed 'singles' comedy by way of modern day Auckland, centred on the romantic hang ups of five friends who compete…
- Off Hours, The (2011)
- Dir. Megan Griffiths
Feat. Amy Seimetz, Ross Partridge, Scoot McNairy
- Downbeat, deliberately–paced indie about a directionless waitress working the night shift at a roadside diner in a small, industrial town who…
- One Day (2011)
- Dir. Lone Scherfig
Feat. Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson…
- Tear–duct bursting romance based on the best–selling novel follows a couple's relationship as it flits between friendship and romance.
- Pan Am (TV Series) (2011-2012)
- Feat. Margot Robbie, Christina Ricci, Karine Vanasse…
- Named for the iconic Pan American World Airways, this fictionalised period drama series revolves around the stories of the pilots and stewardesses of…
- Red Riding Hood (2011)
- Dir. Catherine Hardwicke
Feat. Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman, Billy Burke…
- Amanda Seyfried plays the eponymous fairytale heroine lusted after by a sinister werewolf in this deliriously overheated horror–fantasy pitched…
- Remembrance (Die Verlorene Zeit) (2011)
- Dir. Anna Justice
- A powerful, decades long Holocaust tale of two lovers who endure the horrors of concentration camps, only to be separated by the chaos of the war.