Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Politics: 563 Films to Rent on DVD
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)
- Dir. Errol Morris
- To see or not to see: that is the question posed by acclaimed director Errol Morris as he attempts to understand what took place inside the walls of…
Swing Vote (2008)
- Dir. Joshua Michael Stern
Feat. Kevin Costner, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper…
- Undemanding political comedy based around the idea of a dropkick father whose polling booth blunder means he holds the 'swing vote' that will decide…
Tony Manero (2008)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Pablo Larrain
Feat. Alfredo Castro, Paola Lattus, Héctor Morales
- Unsettling drama set against the Pinochet regime in Chile in 1978, where a psychopathic disco fan steals and kills in an effort to become the…
Traitor (2008)
- Dir. Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Feat. Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Said Taghmaoui…
- Don Cheadle stars as a Semtex racketeer selling to the highest bidder – be he CIA or Jihadist – and finds himself a pawn on the twin…
Tudors, The (TV Series) (2008)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Feat. Johnathon Rhys-Myers, Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill…
- Top–rating British costume drama brings to noughties audiences the rollicking, bed–hopping, head–lopping early years of the court…
W. (Bush) (2008)
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Josh Brolin, Richard Dreyfuss, James Cromwell…
- Oliver Stone examines the leadership of former U.S. President George W. Bush in this wayward, if strangely compelling account of the Texan’s…
Waltz With Bashir (Vals Im Bashir) (2008)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Ari Folman
- This striking hybrid animation is an audacious attempt to recall, through anecdote, dream, and documentary, the 1982 Israeli–Lebanon war.…
XIII: The Conspiracy (TV Mini-Series) (2008)
- Feat. Val Kilmer, Stephen Dorff
- Intriguing mini–series set around the premise that the first female President of the United States has been assassinated by an unknown sniper…
A Civilised Society (2007)
- Dir. Alister Barry
- Documentarian Alister Barry concludes his loose trilogy on New Right economic policies with this impassioned plea for the standards of public…
Axe in the Attic, The (2007)
- Dir. Ed Pincus, Lucia Small
- Two British filmmakers, horrified by the devastation to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, embark on a 60–day pilgrimage from…