Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8088 Films to Buy & Rent
Coco Avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel) (2009)
- Dir. Anne Fontaine
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola…
- Fittingly stylish and appealing biopic of legendary couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, tracing her early life from the rags of an orphaned childhood…
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (Coco & Igor) (2009)
- Dir. Jan Kounen
Feat. Anna Mouglalis, Mads Mikkelsen
- Fashion icon Coco Chanel and composer Igor Stravinsky share a passionate, illicit love affair in this lavish period romance, which more or less takes…
Cold Souls (2009)
- Dir. Sophie Barthes
Feat. Paul Giamatti, David Strathairn, Lauren Ambrose…
- A existentialist tragi–comedy in which Paul Giamatti plays himself, a New York actor in crisis, who literally has his soul extracted, only to…
Concert, The (Le Concert) (2009)
- Dir. Radu Mihaileanu
Feat. Alexeï Guskov, Mélanie Laurent, Dmitry Nazarov…
- A band of out–of–work Moscow musicians travels to Paris posing as the celebrated Bolshoi Orchestra in this lavish, shamelessly popular…
Cracks (2009)
- Dir. Jordan Scott
Feat. Eva Green, Juno Temple, Maria Valverde…
- Moody boarding–school set drama follows a clique of six girls whose dynamic is thrown off–kilter by the arrival of a new girl whose…
Crazy Heart (2009)
- Dir. Scott Cooper
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Keane…
- In an Oscar–winning turn, Jeff Bridges plays faded country music star Bad Blake, who swaggers from one dive to the next until his friendship…
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'.
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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…