Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Girl-centric: 377 Films to Buy & Rent
- Desperate Housewives (TV Series) - Season 1 (2004)
- Feat. Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross…
- A wildly popular "super–soap" which explores the secrets, neuroses, affairs and generally intriguing lives of a group of middle–aged…
- Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
- Dir. Katja von Garnier
Feat. Hilary Swank, Anjelica Huston, Frances O’Connor…
- Fairly inventive telemovie concerning the rise of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which had the aim of gaining voting and other…
- Maria Full of Grace (2004)
- Dir. Joshua Marston
Feat. Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Guilied Lopez…
- An accomplished delve into the experience of a 'drug mule', a teenage Colombian girl who enlists to smuggle heroin into the United States, so as to…
- Million Dollar Baby (2004)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Clint Eastwood…
- Clint Eastwood's straight–ahead drama about a feisty young woman who trains under his grizzled, reluctant coach to become a boxing champion…
- Moolaade (2004)
- Dir. Ousmane Sembene
Feat. Fatoumata Coulibaly
- A rare glimpse for New Zealanders of the work of elderly Sengalese dir. Sembene – novelist, newspaper editor and founder of the New African…
- Somersault (2004)
- Dir. Cate Shortland
Feat. Abbie Cornish, Sam Worthington, Lynette Curran…
- Visually impressive though underwritten account of a fragile Australian teenager who flees her home for the wider world after being caught in bed…
- Twenty Thirty Forty (20 30 40) (2004)
- Dir. Sylvia Chang
Feat. Sylvia Chang, Rene Liu, Lee Sinji
- The destinies of three women in contemporary urban Taiwan – aged 20, 30 and 40 – evolve in parallel as each feels their way through the…
- Vera Drake (2004)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Peter Wight
- An impeccable period drama from Mike Leigh that ranks alongside the director's best work, this is the moving story of a middle aged woman who was…
- Anatomy of Hell (Anatomie De L'enfer) (2003)
- Dir. Catherine Breillat
Feat. Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi
- A queasily explicit sex drama about a suicidal woman who challenges (and pays) a promiscuous gay man to participate in an uneasy nightly ritual of…
- Ashes and Sand (2003)
- Dir. Bob Blagden
Feat. Nick Moran, Lara Belmont
- Promising but ultimately disappointing drama set among the members of a girl–gang in Brighton, England.
Although based on an…