Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8088 Films to Buy & Rent
Another World (Un altro Mondo) (2010)
- Dir. Silvio Muccino
Feat. Silvio Muccino, Isabella Ragonese, Michael Rainey Jr…
- Glossy dramedy in which a wealthy slacker who after the death of his father finds himself the legal guardian of a half–brother he never new…
Another Year (2010)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville…
- A happily married middle–aged couple attempt to fix up their cheery, if secretly depressed friend in this honest domestic drama, another winner…
Anton Chekhov's The Duel (2010)
- Dir. Dover Koshashvili
Feat. Andrew Scott, Fiona Glascott, Tobias Menzies…
- Quietly absorbing and witty adaptation of a Chekhov novella with a young aristocrat's fickle relationship with a married woman leading to potential…
Any Human Heart (TV Mini-series) (2010)
- Feat. Jim Broadbent, Matthew MacFadyen, Sam Claflin…
- Exquisite four–part British miniseries about a novelist's life that ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way…
Ao: The Last Neanderthal (Ao: The Last Hunter) (2010)
- Dir. Jacques Malaterre
Feat. Simon Paul Sutton, Aruna Shields
- Grounded in a semblance of reality and anthropology, this dramatic reimagining of the lives of Neanderthals speculates on the behaviors of homo…
April Showers (2010)
- Dir. Andrew Robinson
Feat. Kelly Blatz, Daryl Sabara, Ellen Woglom…
- Sad–eyed dramatization of the Columbine High School massacre follows one particular student as he struggles to deal with the aftermath and the…
Archipelago (2010)
- Dir. Joanna Hogg
Feat. Tom Hiddleston, Kate Fahy
- This smart, wryly observed family–disfunction drama set in the idyllic Isles of Scilly marks director Joanna Hogg as a highly distinctive voice…
Bang Bang Club, The (2010)
- Dir. Steven Silver
Feat. Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch…
- Lacerating portrait of the notorious group of war photographers who made their name during South Africa's turbulent transition out of Apartheid.…
Barney's Version (2010)
- Dir. Richard J. Lewis
Feat. Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Mark Addy…
- Paul Giamatti fans will find much to enjoy in this bittersweet character piece in which he plays a jaded TV producer who reflects on his varied…
Beautiful Boy (2010)
- Dir. Shawn Ku
Feat. Maria Bello, Michael Sheen, Alan Tudyk…
- A serious–minded, refreshingly un–histrionic drama which deals with the oft–explored theme of grief via otherwise sensational…