Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8088 Films to Buy & Rent
House by the Medlar Tree, The (2010)
- Dir. Pasquale Scimeca
Feat. Giusepe Firullo, Antonio Curcia, Omar Noto
- Striking drama follows a family of fishermen struggling for survival in the face of harsh economic realities. Drawing from the same novel that…
Housemaid, The (2010)
- Dir. Sang-soo Im
Feat. Do-yeon Jeon, Jung-Jae Lee, Seo Woo
- A sleek, sexual thriller of manipulation and revenge, centred on the consequences of a torrid affair between a wealthy industrialist and his newly…
How Do You Know (2010)
- Dir. James L. Brooks
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson…
- A softball star (Witherspoon) past her prime contemplates the future while flittering romantically between a major league baseballer (Wilson) and a…
How to Make it in America (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Bryan Greenberg, Victor Rasuk, Lake Bell…
- High–energy, if sub–ENTOURAGE male drama centred on four twenty–something upstarts whose entrepreneurial ambitions see them tackle…
Howl (2010)
- Dir. Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Feat. James Franco, David Strathairn, Jon Hamm…
- A fitting celebration and account of the making and hostile reception of Allen Ginsberg's famously controversial poem, with James Franco superb as…
Human Resources Manager, The (2010)
- Dir. Eran Riklis
Feat. Mark Ivanir
- An absurdist odyssey from the director of LEMON TREE, about an Israeli bakery manager who must accompany the body of one of his employees back to…
Hunter, The (Shekarchi) (2010)
- Dir. Rafi Pitts
Feat. Rafi Pitts
- Spare, lyrical drama with a low–paid security guard on the run from authorities after gunning down two police officers. Unfolding against the…
I Am Slave (2010)
- Dir. Gabriel Range
Feat. Wunmi Mosaku, Isaach de Bankole, Lubna Azabal…
- Devastating performances carry this sometimes unsubtle, but never overwrought account of a Sudanese girl sold into western slavery at the hands of an…
In a Better World (2010)
- Dir. Susanne Bier
Feat. Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen
- This Oscar–winner for Best Foreign Language Film 2011 is another searing melodrama from celebrated Danish auteur Susanne Bier in which two…
Incendies (2010)
- Dir. Denis Villeneuve
Feat. Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette…
- Twin siblings, against their better judgment, dig deeper into the backstory of their recently deceased mother in this powerful French Canadian…