Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8088 Films to Buy & Rent
Noodle (2007)
- Dir. Ayelet Menahemi
Feat. Mili Avital, BaoQi Chen
- Satisfying, well–realized tale of an Israeli flight attendant who becomes the reluctant guardian of a six–year–old Chinese boy…
Normal (2007)
- Dir. Carl Bessai
Feat. Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Zegers, Callum Keith Rennie
- Multi–character drama links the seemingly unrelated stories of three strangers whose lives are altered overnight after a tragic car…
O'Horten (2007)
- Dir. Bent Hamer
Feat. Baard Owe, Ghita Norby
- The director of KITCHEN STORIES follows up with another comic delicacy about a 67–year–old engineer and his oddly challenging quest to…
Oliver Twist (TV Mini-series) (2007)
- Dir. Coky Giedroyc
Feat. Rob Brydon, Sophie Okonedo, Timothy Spall
- BAFTA–winning Mini–series version of the world's most infamous orphan story brought to life by a selection of Britain's finest current…
One Hundred Nails (Centochidi) (2007)
- Dir. Ermanno Olmi
Feat. Raz Degan, Luna Bendandi
- Quiet, thoughtful drama involving a jaded professor who in a fit of apostasy flees to the countryside only to be taken for Jesus by the locals.
Othello (2007)
- Dir. Wilson Milam
Feat. Tim McInnerny, Eamonn Walker, Zoe Tapper
- Live recording of the Shakespearian tragedy of racial tension and raging jealousy, performed here for the first time at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.…
P.S. I Love You (2007)
- Dir. Richard LaGravenese
Feat. Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow…
- Teary afterlife romance from the dir. of LIVING OUT LOUD, about a series of love notes left for a grieving widow (Swank) by her deceased…
Paranoid Park (2007)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Taylor Momsen
- Gus Van Sant shoots Blake Nelson’s coming–of–age novella, about a young skateboarder’s complicity in the death of a security guard,…
Partition (2007)
- Dir. Vic Sarin
Feat. Jimi Mistry, Kristin Kreuk, Neve Campbell…
- Epic cross–cultural romantic drama set during the partition of India and Pakistan, told through the touching relationship between an ex British…
Persepolis (2007)
- Dir. Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
- Exceptional black–and–white animated feature for adults based on the autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, who grew up in…