Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8099 Films to Buy & Rent
Lie To Me (TV Series) (2009-2011)
- Feat. Tim Roth, Kelli Williams, Brendan Hines
- Engaging crime drama that sees an unlikely Tim Roth play Cal Lightman, a doctor who has such an uncanny ability to read facial expressions and body…
Life Coach, The (Le Coach) (2009)
- Dir. Olivier Doran
Feat. Jean-Paul Rouve, Richard Berry, Annie Marivin…
- Affable comedy with a business coach, up to his eyeballs in debt, taking on a most difficult assignment help an irredeemable miquetoast close an…
Life During Wartime (2009)
- Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Shirley Henderson, Michael Kenneth Williams, Allison Janney…
- Dir. Todd Solondz recasts his controversial 1998 indie hit, HAPPINESS, revisiting the dysfunctional characters and their future lives in this blackly…
Limits of Control, The (2009)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Isaach de Bankole, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton…
- Indie King Jim Jarmusch directs this mysterious and moody crime thriller, in which a Lone Man wanders through Madrid and Seville on an undisclosed…
London River (2009)
- Dir. Rachid Bouchareb
Feat. Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyate, Francis Magee…
- Quiet, meditative drama set amongst the carnage of the London bombings has two parents of different faiths searching for their lost children and…
Looking For Eric (2009)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, Stephanie Bishop…
- With a touch of magic realism, the great British director Ken Loach returns to the top of his game to tell the story of a beleaguered postal worker…
Lourdes (2009)
- Dir. Jessica Hausner
Feat. Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Elina Lowensohn
- A subdued, open–ended account of pilgrimage and the credibility of miracles, this measured drama stars the always–excellent Sylvie Testud…
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (The Other Woman) (2009)
- Dir. Don Roos
Feat. Natalie Portman, Scott Cohen, Lisa Kudrow…
- Quietly affecting drama with Portman as a newlywed struggling to cope with the sudden death of her newborn daughter, and her difficult relationship…
Love Happens (2009)
- Dir. Brandon Camp
Feat. Jennifer Aniston, Aaron Eckhart, Martin Sheen…
- Chintzy romance with Eckhart as a self help author struggling to cope with the death of his wife and a burgeoning romance with a floral designer.…
Lovely Bones, The (2009)
- Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Saoirse Ronan…
- Peter Jackson’s errant, though wonderfully imagined murder mystery begins with the brutal death of a teenage girl in small town Pennsylvania,…