Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Independent: 587 Films to Buy & Rent
Old Joy (2006)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Kelly Reichardt
Feat. Will Oldham, Daniel London
- Downbeat naturalism is the tramping ground for this meditative, softly spoken indie of two distanced friends who reunite for a weekend camping trip…
Once (2006)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. John Carney
Feat. Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova, Hugh Walsh
- A gorgeous, understated paean to the transformative power of music, this unique, Irish independent follows the burgeoning relationship between a…
Quinceañera (2006)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer
Feat. Emily Rios, Jesse Garcia, Chalo Gonzalez
- Accessible indie about a Mexican–American teen approaching her Quinceañera ( "sweet 15"), who is forced to seek refuge with her great uncle…
Red Road (2006)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Andrea Arnold
Feat. Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston…
- Absorbing, unbearably tense drama of undisclosed motivations, which follows a lonely surveillance operator and her pursuit of a man throughout the…
Running with Scissors (2006)
- Dir. Ryan Murphy
Feat. Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes…
- Star–studded adaptation of Augusten Burroughs’ humourous yet hard–hitting memoir of a childhood locked between distanced and abusive…
Sherrybaby (2006)
- Dir. Laurie Collyer
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Danny Trejo, Giancarlo Esposito…
- Overfamiliar but sincere portrait of a recovering addict, with a warts–and–all Maggie Gyllenhaal fresh out of jail and determined to go…
Special (2006)
- Dir. Hal Haberman, Jeremy Passmore
Feat. Michael Rapaport, Josh Peck, Paul Blackthorne…
- Michael Rappaport plays a lonely parking warden who enrolls in a program for an experimental anti–depressant that has the unusual side effect…
Stephanie Daley (2006)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Hilary Brougher
Feat. Amber Tamblyn, Tilda Swinton, Halley Feiffer…
- A closely–observed, cogent indie drama about a teenager’s concealed pregnancy and the suspicious death of her baby.
The truth surrounding…
Suburban Mayhem (2006)
- Dir. Paul Goldman
Feat. Emily Barclay, Michael Dorman, Anthony Hayes…
- NZ's Emily Barclay crashes this trailer–trash satire of murderous alpha–males and vindictive females set in the god–awful 'burbs of…
What the Bleep!? - Down the Rabbit Hole (2006)
- Dir. William Arntz, Betsy Chasse
Feat. Marlee Matlin
- A sequel–recut of WHAT THE BLEEP? which again presents an New Age spread of provocative comparisons between the theories of quantum physics and…