Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8067 Films to Buy & Rent
Mademoiselle Chambon (2009)
- Dir. Stéphane Brizé
Feat. Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Aure Atika
- Though familiar bourgeois territory for the French, this softly finessed chamber drama of a blue–collar mason (Lindon) who contemplates an…
Mammoth (2009)
- Dir. Lukas Moodysson
Feat. Michelle Williams, Gael Garcia Bernal, Marife Necesito…
- Ambitious social drama concerned with the corrosive effects of globalisation. Williams and Bernal play a well–heeled New York couple who…
Man Who Will Come, The (L'uomo che verrà) (2009)
- Dir. Giorgio Diritti
Feat. Maya Sansa, Alba Rohrwacher, Greta Zuccheri Montanari
- Moving Italian war drama told through the eyes of an eight–year–old mute, who witnesses the brutal struggle between Italian partisans and…
Many Kisses Later (Ex) (2009)
- Dir. Fausto Brizzi
Feat. Claudia Gerini, Flavio Insinna, Silvio Orlando
- Breezy rom–com –a smash hit in Italy– follows six couples from Chistmas to Valetine's Day and their various entanglements.…
Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan…
- Enthralling true–life story traces the life of acclaimed ballet dancer Li Cunxin from his impoverished upbringing in communist China to the…
Marc Pease Experience, The (2009)
- Dir. Todd Louiso
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Ben Stiller, Anna Kendrick…
- Remorseless comedy of the deluded with Schwartzman as a sad–sack limo driver desperate to relive his glory days as a high school music star.…
Married, Single, Other (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Lucy Davis, Shaun Dooley, Dean Lennox Kelly…
- Light, likeable drama follows six friends as they discover the difficulties of living with, and without, the one you love.
Me and Orson Welles (2009)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay…
- Dir. Richard Linklater impeccably evokes the charms of 30's New York for this traditional backstage drama that has great affection for the era and…
Me Too (Yo, Tambien) (2009)
- Dir. Antonio Naharro, Alvaro Pastor
Feat. Lola Dueñas, Isabel Garcia Lorca, Antonio Naharro
- Affecting tale of a bittersweet friendship between an office worker with Down syndrome and his restless, free–spirited colleague.
Memories of Anne Frank (2009)
- Dir. Alberto Negrin
- Moving Italian–made biopic on the relationship between Anne Frank and (the surviving) Hanneli Goslar, whose close childhood friendship and…