Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7932 Films to Rent
Somers Town (2008)
- Dir. Shane Meadows
Feat. Piotr Jagiello, Ireneusz Czop, Perry Benson…
- A gentle, winsome offering from dir. Shane Meadows, centred on an unlikely friendship between a shy Polish teen, and a knockabout runaway from the…
Song of Sparrows, The (Âvâz-e gonjeshk-hâ) (2008)
- Dir. Majid Majidi
Feat. Reza Naji
- Iranian film following the life of a simple and contented ostrich farmer whose life changes dramatically when he loses his job and travels to Tehran…
Sons of Anarchy (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Katey Sagal, Ron Perlman, Charlie Hunnam…
- Muscular television drama centred on a Californian motorcycle club and its Vice President (Hunnam), whose growing ambivalence towards lawlessness is…
Step Up 2: The Streets (2008)
- Dir. Jon Chu
Feat. Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman, Adam G. Sevani…
- Sequel to the hip–hop dance hit flick following a group of young street dancers battling for supremacy. Well–orchestrated…
Still Walking (2008)
- Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Hiroshi Abe, You , Yui Natsukawa…
- A recently remarried son (Abe) pays visit to his quietly disapproving parents in this exquisitely observed family drama, shot in the tradition of…
Stone of Destiny (2008)
- Dir. Charles Martin Smith
Feat. Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Robert Carlyle…
- Crowd–pleasing heist movie following a group of young Glaswegian students as they attempt to steal the Stone of Scone, a beloved symbol of…
Stoning of Soraya M., The (2008)
- Dir. Cyrus Nowrasteh
Feat. Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jim Caviezel, Mozhan Marno
- Fact based account of a rural Iranian woman, framed by her husband for adultery and subsequently murdered with the participation of the wider…
Stop-Loss (2008)
- Dir. Kimberly Peirce
Feat. Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum…
- Sincerely handled melodrama from the director of BOYS DON'T CRY, dealing with a disillusioned Texan soldier (Phillippe) who goes AWOL after returning…
Summer Hours (2008)
- Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jeremie Renier…
- Three siblings deliberate over the family estate following the death of their mother in this subtle, gorgeously rendered meditation on ‘moving…
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
- Dir. Charlie Kaufman
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener…
- Screenwriting extraordinaire Charlie Kaufman turns his hand to directing for the first time with another amusing existential conundrum, here enjoying…