Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > Independent: 579 Films to Rent
- Garden State (2004)
- Dir. Zach Braff
Feat. Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm…
- Sitcom actor Zach Braff compliments his career in "Scrubs" as the ambitious writer, director and star of this personal, melancholy comedy that became…
- Heights (2004)
- Dir. Chris Terrio
Feat. Glenn Close, James Marsden, Jesse Bradford
- The collective aspirations and angst of a group of attractive New Yorkers, all loosely connected to the theatre and art world, collide in showers of…
- Keane (2004)
- Dir. Lodge Kerrigan
Feat. Damian Lewis, Abigail Breslin, Amy Ryan
- A powerful and unnerving feat of ‘mental’ endurance, dir. Kerrigan’s follow–up to the equally unsettling CLEAN, SHAVEN plunges the viewer…
- Land of Plenty (2004)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Michelle Williams, John Diehl
- There's good intentions aplenty in dir. Wenders latest dramatic meditation on the state of post–9/11 America, set mainly around the…
- My Summer of Love (2004)
- Dir. Pawel Pawlikowski
Feat. Natalie Press, Emily Blunt, Paddy Considine
- A sunlit teenage escapade, set around two girls who develop an unlikely relationship amid the unpretty but impressive Yorkshire Dales.
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- Mysterious Skin (2004)
- Dir. Gregg Araki
Feat. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue, Michelle Trachtenberg…
- An acclaimed realisation of 'New Queer Cinema' dir. Araki's early promise, with an uncompromising fable based around a teenage hustler who is…
- Palindromes (2004)
- Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Ellen Barkin, Jennifer Jason Leigh
- A queasy fairytale about a suburban teenage girl who quests to fall pregnant, does so, but is then forced by her mother (Barkin) to have an abortion,…
- Prozac Nation (2004)
- Dir. Erik Skjoldbjaerg
Feat. Christina Ricci, Jason Biggs, Anne Heche…
- Rites–of–passage drama distinguished by an intense performance by Christina Ricci, as a young woman struggling through her first year at…
- Pure (2004)
- Dir. Jim Donovan
Feat. Giancarlo Caltabiano, Robert Crooks, Laura Jordan
- Boasting one of the hottest music scenes in recent years, Montreal takes centre stage in this character–driven piece involving a girl torn…
- She Hate Me (2004)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin…
- Another well–packed 'joint' from Spike Lee, has a corporate whistle–blower (Mackie) fired from his job and recruited to impregnate…