Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Independent: 590 Films to Buy & Rent
Steal Me (2005)
- Dir. Melissa Painter
Feat. Danny Alexander, Hunter Parrish, Paz de la Huerta
- Sensitive rumination on encroaching adulthood, about a 15–year–old kleptomaniac whose friendship with a drifter precipitates…
Trouble With Sex, The (2005)
- Dir. Fintan Connolly
- An impressionistic love story set in rain–clouded Dublin, where two young people – a barman and a lawyer respectively – find solace…
Twelve and Holding (12 and Holding) (2005)
- Dir. Michael Cuesta
Feat. Jeremy Renner, Zoe Weizenbaum, Conor Donovan…
- A dark yet heart–rending coming–of–age indie drama concerning a group of pre–teens coping with life in the aftermath of a…
Wassup Rockers (2005)
- Dir. Larry Clark
Feat. Jonathan Velasquez, Francisco Pedrasa, Milton Velasquez
- Teen–centric misanthropist Larry Clark offers a shockingly enthusiastic view of contemporary youth in this story of Latino…
9 Songs (Nine Songs) (2004)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Margo Stilley, Kieran O'Brien
- A controversially explicit sex'n'rock'n' roll drama about two stray souls – an American student and a British bloke – who over a year…
Assassination of Richard Nixon, The (2004)
- Dir. Niels Mueller
Feat. Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Naomi Watts…
- The ghost of 'Travis Bickle' (TAXI DRIVER) pervades this accomplished diatribe on the contentious era of Richard Nixon's administration – a…
Before Sunset (2004)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
- Taking up some nine years after their characters met in BEFORE SUNRISE, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, now in their mid–thirties, reacquaint…
Bullet Boy (2004)
- Dir. Saul Dibb
Feat. Ashley Walters
- Tough expose of London's violent East End tracks the spiralling events and dire consequences which follow the release of a young black man (Walters)…
Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Roberto Benigni, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop…
- A compendium of whimsical b&w shorts from lapsidaisical indie auteur Jim Jarmusch, set around various celebrity encounters over nicotine and…
Down to the Bone (2004)
- Dir. Debra Granik
Feat. Vera Farmiga, Hugh Dillon, Clint Jordan…
- A mother–of–two in wintery upstate New York grapples with cocaine addiction and checks into rehab, only to discover unexpected fissures…