Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7905 Films to Rent
Up in the Air (2009)
- Dir. Jason Reitman
Feat. George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick…
- A cautionary business tale wrapped in a frisky romantic comedy, with George Clooney starring as a compulsive traveller whose job it is to dismiss…
Vampire Diaries, The (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder
- The TWILIGHT zeitgeist is vamped up as a 90210–style serial in this melodramatic teen soap, about a troubled girl torn between her brooding…
Van Diemen's Land (2009)
- Dir. Jonathan auf der Heide
Feat. Oscar Redding, Arthur Angel, Paul Ashcroft…
- Forbidding re–enactment of the "legend" of Alexander Pearce, who escaped from a penal colony in 1822 into the unforgiving Tasmanian wilderness…
Vicious Kind, The (2009)
- Dir. Lee Toland Krieger
Feat. Adam Scott, Brittany Snow, J.K. Simmons…
- Bilious familial drama stylistically indebted to Neil Labute features Adam Scott spitting misogynistic aphorisms at his brother's new girlfriend,…
Vincere (VIctory) (2009)
- Dir. Marco Bellocchio
Feat. Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Fausto Russo Alesi…
- Provocative portrait of Benito Mussolini's spurned first wife and their brief romance as Il Duce begins ascent to Italy's leadership. Stylistically…
Vintner's Luck, The (2009)
- Dir. Niki Caro
Feat. Keisha Castle-Hughes, Jeremie Renier, Gaspard Ulliel…
- Contentious, opulent NZ–made adaptation of the much–loved Elizabeth Knox novel, ostensibly about the relationship between a guardian…
Wah Do Dem (What They Do) (2009)
- Dir. Sam Fleischner, Ben Chace
Feat. Sean Bones, Carl Bradshaw, Norah Jones
- A young indie musician suffers solo through a disaster–prone Caribbean holiday in this shaggy road movie with a sweetly comic sensibility.…
Waiting City, The (2009)
- Dir. Claire McCarthy
Feat. Radha Mitchell, Joel Edgerton, Samrat Chakrabarti…
- Idiosyncratic relationship drama with an Australian couple traveling to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival finds their efforts…
Welcome (2009)
- Dir. Philippe Lioret
Feat. Vincent Lindon, Audrey Dana, Firat Ayverd
- An illegal Iraqi immigrant is befriended by a dispirited swim coach, who agrees to help smuggle the teenager into England by way swimming the English…
Whip It (2009)
- Dir. Drew Barrymore
Feat. Elliot Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig…
- Drew Barrymore's directorial debut is a joyful tale of a small town outsider (Page) who empowers herself through the bruising sport of roller…