Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7905 Films to Rent
Creation (2009)
- Dir. Jon Amiel
Feat. Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Jeremy Northam…
- Paul Bettany adds another fine role to his resume in this big screen interpretation of the challenges faced by Charles Darwin as he struggles to…
Crossing Over (2009)
- Dir. Wayne Kramer
Feat. Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd…
- Harrison Ford helms this melodramatic mosaic focused on interweaving stories of immigrants trying to achieve the 'American Dream'.
Notorious for…
Damned United, The (2009)
- Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Colm Meaney…
- Michael Sheen gets under the skin of another (infamous) British personality in this charismatic portrait of superstar football manager Brian Clough,…
Dare (2009)
- Dir. Adam Salky
Feat. Emmy Rossum, Zach Gilford, Alan Cumming…
- A drama centered around three high school seniors – an aspiring actress, her misfit best friend, and a loner – who become engaged in an…
Darwin's Brave New World (TV Mini-series) (2009)
- Feat. Socratis Otto, Richard Jongejan, Nicola Bowman
- Three–part dramatized series tells the story of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Russel Wallace,…
Desert Flower (2009)
- Dir. Sherry Horman
Feat. Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins, Craig Parkinson…
- Inspiring biopic based on the story of Waris Dirie, a Somali victim of genital mutilation who, after escaping an arranged marriage, emigrated to…
Desperate Romantics (TV Mini-series) (2009)
- Feat. Rafe Spall, Samuel Barnett, Aidan Turner…
- Ribald treatment of the controversial art movement pays only cursory attention to their work and instead largely on their adventures in the bodice…
Diary of Anne Frank, The (Mini-series) (2009)
- Dir. Jon Jones
Feat. Kate Ashfield, Tamsin Greig, Iain Glen…
- Superlative BBC adaptation of Anne Frank's enduring story is sensitively written and perfectly cast. Told over five half–hour episodes, one of…
District 9 (2009)
- Dir. Neill Blomkamp
Feat. Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James
- Superb sci–fi blockbuster from first–time writer/director Blomkamp, set in an alternate–reality Johannesburg where an…
Dogtooth (Kynodontas) (2009)
- Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Feat. Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Hristos Passalis…
- An astringent, blackly comic tale of a modern Greek family whose adult children have been imprisoned in their home since birth.
Something of a…