Subgenre Sampler
Independent: 833 Films to Buy & Rent
I Used to Go Here (2020)
- Dir. Kris Rey
Feat. Gillian Jacobs, Jemaine Clement, Josh Wiggins…
- Clever indie dramady exploring millennial ennui from writer–director Kris Rey, with the always likeable Gillian Jacobs playing a struggling…
Kajillionaire (2020)
- Dir. Miranda July
Feat. Evan Rachel Wood, Debra Winger, Gina Rodriguez…
- Irreverent comedy from writer–director Miranda July (ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW) following a struggling family who survive on petty crime,…
Lapsis (2020)
- Dir. Noah Hutton
Feat. Dean Imperial, Madeline Wise, Babe Howard
- Beguiling low budget sci–fi set in a parallel present, where a struggling delivery man takes a job laying cable for a new quantum trading…
Man in the Hat, The (2020)
- Dir. Stephen Warbeck, John-Paul Davidson
Feat. Ciaran Hinds, Stephen Dillane, Maïwenn …
- Road–trip comedy–musical about a man who sets off from Marseilles in a small Fiat 500, with five angry men in a Citroën Dyane…
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
- Dir. Eliza Hittman
Feat. Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Sharon Van Etten
- The director of BEACH RATS directs impressive newcomers Sidney Flanigan and Talia Ryder as a pair of teenage girls from rural Pennsylvania who travel…
Alien Addiction (2019)
- Dir. Shae Sterling
Feat. Jimi Jackson, JoJo Waaka, Thomas Sainsbury
- Goofball Kiwi comedy starring internet comedy sensations Tom Sainsbury and Jimi Jackson, the latter of whom plays a man from small town Waikato who…
Assistant, The (2019)
- Dir. Kitty Green
Feat. Julia Garner, Matthew MacFadyen, Makenzie Leigh…
- A searing, beautifully modulated indictment of toxic office culture in the wake of the #MeToo movement, that follows the daily routine of an intern…
Bait (2019)
- Dir. Mark Jenkin
Feat. Edward Rowe, Simon Shepherd, Giles King…
- A fisherman in a picturesque Cornish village finds his traditional way of life threatened by gentrification in this experimental but dramatically…
Booksmart (2019)
- Dir. Olivia Wilde
Feat. Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein
- Sensational directorial debut for actor Olivia Wilde, who transforms the High School coming–of–age comedy into a riotous celebration of…
Climb, The (2019)
- Dir. Michael Angelo Covino
Feat. Michael Angelo Covino, Kyle Marvin, Gayle Rankin…
- Expanding on their short film of the same name, friends Michael Angelo Corvino and Kyle Marvin write and star in this caustically funny portrait of…