Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > Romance: 820 Films to Rent
- 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…
- Tess Of The D'Urbervilles (TV Mini-series) (2008)
- Feat. Gemma Arterton, Eddie Redmayne, Ruth Jones
- Sound adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic tragedy following Tess, the poor peasant girl who becomes an outcast after falling pregnant to her rich…
- Tru Loved (2008)
- Dir. Stewart Wade
Feat. Najarra Townsend, Jane Lynch, Alexandra Paul
- Recently relocated from San Francisco to conservative suburbia by her lesbian mothers, Tru struggles like all teens to fit in and find love, but her…
- Twilight (2008)
- Dir. Catherine Hardwicke
Feat. Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Billy Burke…
- The first installment of the uber–popular book franchise (by Stephanie Meyer) sees lonely teenage girl Bella fall in love with Edward, a…
- Two Lovers (2008)
- Dir. James Gray
Feat. Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw…
- Joaquin Phoenix (in reputedly his final film) re–teams with dir. James Gray for this acutely observed ‘anti–romance’, about a bipolar…
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Vicky Christina Barcelona) (2008)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem…
- Woody Allen proves he hasn't lost his touch with this refreshing and vital rom–com that follows two American gal–pals who fall for the…
- Across the Universe (2007)
- Dir. Julie Taymor
Feat. Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson…
- Thirty–three tunes from the Beatles songbook are excitably re–constituted for this lavish 'jukebox' musical that threads together a story…
- An Old Mistress (Une vieille maîtresse/The Last Mistress) (2007)
- Dir. Catherine Breillat
Feat. Asia Argento, Fu’ad Ait Aattou, Caroline Ducey…
- Fervent, visually opulent costume drama finds feminist firebrand Catherine Breillat tempering her sexually explicit tendencies to present a…
- Angel (2007)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Sam Neill, Lucy Russell…
- Pretty costume drama follows the fortunes of an aspiring lady writer in Edwardian England.
Based on the novel by Elizabeth Taylor (MRS PALFREY AT…
- Away From Her (2007)
- Dir. Sarah Polley
Feat. Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis
- Julie Christie stars in this carefully observed drama about a woman with Alzheimer's, her husband, and the tragedy of the disease's 'long goodbye',…