Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > Independent: 579 Films to Rent
- Tracey Fragments, The (2007)
- Dir. Bruce McDonald
Feat. Elliot Page, Julian Richings
- Experimentally inclined coming–of–age drama follows a troubled teen (JUNO’s Elliot Page) searching for her little brother after he goes…
- Unfinished Sky (2007)
- Dir. Peter Duncan
Feat. William McInnes, Monic Hendrickx
- Cross–cultural Australian romantic drama, in which a widowed farmer discovers a distressed Afghani refugee on his property, who he lets into…
- Weapons (2007)
- Dir. Adam Bhala Lough
Feat. Nick Cannon, Paul Dano, Mark Webber…
- Nihilistic thriller revolves around the intersecting lives of gun–toting teenagers and the circumstances surrounding a murder filled…
- Year of the Dog (2007)
- Dir. Mike White
Feat. Laura Dern, Peter Sarsgaard, Regina King…
- This sensitive comedy–drama about a woman whose life falls to pieces when her pet beagle dies, is the directorial debut of Mike White, writer…
- 2:37 (2006)
- Dir. Murali K. Thalluri
- Topical and wrenching youth drama links six Australian teenagers to an unspeakable tragedy, unraveling with assured and precocious confidence their…
- Art School Confidential (2006)
- Dir. Terry Zwigoff
Feat. Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich…
- CRUMB dir. Terry Zwigoff and comic book icon Daniel Clowes (GHOST WORLD) re–team for this darkly set, though often hilarious stakeout of the…
- Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
- Dir. Guy Maddin
Feat. Gretchen Krich, Andrew Loviska, Maya Lawson
- Further autobiographical adventures from Canada’s silent movie alchemist, delving into Maddin's repressed childhood past: a delirious, Gothic…
- Choking Man (2006)
- Dir. Steve Barron
Feat. Octavio Gómez Berríos, Eugenia Yuan, Aaron Paul…
- A gloomy Ecuadorian dishwasher pines after his co–worker and relieves boredom with outrageous fantasies in this humdrum, if occasionally…
- Court of Lonely Royals (2006)
- Dir. Rohan Michael Hoole
Feat. Damon Gameau, Samantha Noble, Leah De Neise…
- Atypical Aussie indie in which a group of twisted teen mercenaries kill for the cops, using their targets’ weaknesses against them, in an urban…
- Dance Party USA (2006)
- Dir. Aaron Katz
Feat. Cole Pensinger, Anna Kavan
- At the cruder end of the Mumblecore movement, two idle teenagers share a fleeting connection at a dance party in this talky, micro–budgeted…