Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8067 Films to Buy & Rent
Promise, The (TV Series) (2011)
- Dir. Peter Kosminsky
Feat. Claire Foy, Christian Cooke, Itay Tiran…
- Intelligent, finely balanced drama alternates between storylines set in 1940s Palestine and present day Israel in its address of the contentious…
Puncture (2011)
- Dir. Adam Kassen
Feat. Chris Evans, Vinessa Shaw, Brett Cullen…
- Chris Evans jitters his way through this aggressive legal drama with a motive, ostensibly about a cocaine–addicted lawyer fighting battles both…
Rage (Rage1981) (2011)
- Dir. Danny Mulheron
Feat. Maria Walker, Ryan O’Kane, Paul Harrop…
- Vividly–realised telemovie depicting a star–crossed romance against the turbulent and controversial 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour of New…
Red Dog (2011)
- Dir. Kriv Stenders
Feat. Josh Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Keisha Castle-Hughes…
- True blue Ocker hit inspired by the "true story" (ie. legend) of a charismatic kelpie who united a disparate local mining community before roaming…
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.
Resistance (2011)
- Dir. Amit Gupta
Feat. Andrea Riseborough, Tom Wlaschiha
- A restrained, understated war drama shot through the lens of an alternate history, where the Germans have gained the upper hand and begun to invade…
Restless (2011)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper, Ryo Kase…
- Languid tween romance from dir. Gus Van Sant, about a terminally ill girl (Wasikowska) who falls in love with an eccentric boy with a compulsion for…
Return, The (2011)
- Dir. Liza Johnson
Feat. Linda Cardellini, Michael Shannon, John Slattery…
- Linda Cardellini excels as a soldier returning to her family, friends, and old job after a tour of duty, who finds herself struggling to find her…
Rum Diary, The (2011)
- Dir. Bruce Robinson
Feat. Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard…
- Johnny Depp returns to the world of Hunter S. Thompson in this adaptation of the Gonzo journalist's "lost" autobiographical novel of the same name,…