Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8068 Films to Buy & Rent
Within the Whirlwind (2009)
- Dir. Marleen Gorris
Feat. Emily Watson, Ulrich Tukur, Ian Hart…
- The memoirs of Eugenia Ginzburg, a Russian academic sentenced to ten years labor in a Siberian Gulag, are brought to life in this harrowing account…
Women in Trouble (2009)
- Dir. Sebastian Guitierrez
Feat. Carla Gugino, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Marley Shelton…
- A grungy burlesque comedy set on the fringes of Hollywood in LA's porn industry, this connects stories of wives, mothers and ladies of the trade…
World's Greatest Dad (2009)
- Dir. Bobcat Goldthwait
Feat. Robin Williams, Daryl Sabara, Geoff Pierson…
- Savage black comedy gifts Robin Williams his best role in years as a struggling writer and poetry teacher whose life is burdened by his insufferable…
Wuthering Heights (TV Mini-series) (2009)
- Dir. Coky Giedroyc
Feat. Tom Hardy, Charlotte Riley, Burn Gorman…
- Award–winning British writer Peter Bowker takes to the task of adapting Emily Brontë's classic tale of doomed romance between Heathcliff…
Young Victoria, The (2009)
- Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
Feat. Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany…
- Emily Blunt radiates in this elegant if corseted biopic of Queen Victoria's early years as she deals with royal power struggles while being wooed by…
$5 A Day (Five Dollars a Day) (2008)
- Dir. Nigel Cole
Feat. Christopher Walken, Alessandro Nivola, Sharon Stone…
- Lightweight comedy with the conservative son of a thrifty conman begrudgingly joining his father on the road –– after being released from…
10,000 B.C. (2008)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis
- Beasts, behemoths and flesh–eating emus prowl the prehistoric landscape in another of Roland (INDEPENDENCE DAY) Emmerich's effects–heavy…
35 Shots of Rum (35 rhums) (2008)
- Dir. Claire Denis
Feat. Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogue…
- A gorgeous meditation on child–parental devotion, centred on a middle–aged widower (Descas) who, in the tradition of Yasujiro Ozu (which…
5 Centimetres Per Second (Five Centimetres Per Second) (2008)
- Dir. Makoto Shinkai
- Sublimely romantic animated feature divided into three separate episodes tracing the emotional journey of a teenage boy through to manhood, and the…
90210 (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Rob Estes, Shenae Grimes, AnnaLynne McCord…
- This updating of the popular '90's show brings the bling as more photogenic rich kids contend with regular problems.