Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Independent: 592 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Sucker Free City (2004)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Ken Leung, Ben Crowley, Anthony Mackie
- Originally a pilot, Spike Lee’s little–known excursion into the realm of Cable TV is an ethnically diverse gang drama converging black,…
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
- Dir. John Curran
Feat. Naomi Watts, Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern…
- Toughly gritty and unfairly–overlooked drama about two marriages knotted together in dual adultery, career–crises, and personal cynicism,…
What the Bleep do we Know!? (What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?) (2004)
- Dir. William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente
Feat. Marlee Matlin
- A unique and certainly popular piece of 'New Age intellectualism", this follows the travails of a deaf photographer (Matlin) through life and…
Whore (Yo Puta / The Life) (2004)
- Dir. Maria Lidon
Feat. Daryl Hannah, Denise Richards, Joaquim De Almeida
- A quasi–documentary about prostitution, which weaves together genuine interviews from Europe with a storyline in which a writer (Richards)…
Wilby Wonderful (2004)
- Dir. Daniel MacIvor
Feat. Elliot Page, Sandra Oh
- Slice–of–life indie drama about the residents of the small island of Wilby and the ups and downs they experience during a typical day.…