Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7904 Films to Rent
Year of the Dog (2007)
- Dir. Mike White
Feat. Laura Dern, Peter Sarsgaard, Regina King…
- This sensitive comedy–drama about a woman whose life falls to pieces when her pet beagle dies, is the directorial debut of Mike White, writer…
You the Living (2007)
- Dir. Roy Andersson
Feat. Jessica Lundberg, Elisabeth Helander, Björn Englund
- Master of the painstaking, deadpan vignette, Roy Andersson, continues his singular and obsessive vision with this absurdist comedy of…
Youth Without Youth (2007)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz
- Joining a recent glut of Dorian Gray–like fantasies, this Francis Ford Coppola comeback (following a 10 year sabbatical) centres on a Romanian…
2:37 (2006)
- Dir. Murali K. Thalluri
- Topical and wrenching youth drama links six Australian teenagers to an unspeakable tragedy, unraveling with assured and precocious confidence their…
A Good Year (2006)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Russell Crowe, Marion Cotillard, Albert Finney…
- Russell Crowe plays workaholic bonds–dealer who inherits a vineyard in Provence and discovers the easy life in this lightweight tale of…
Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
- Dir. Doug Atchison
Feat. Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett
- A fictional African–American take on the SPELLBOUND craze, with a firm but fair Laurence Fishburne coaching an underprivileged…
All The King's Men (2006)
- Dir. Steven Zaillian
Feat. Sean Penn, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins…
- A heavyweight, if not entirely functional adaptation Robert Penn Warren's political novel about a failed idealist turned corrupt, powermongering…
Along the Ridge (Anche libero va bene) (2006)
- Dir. Kim Rossi Stuart
Feat. Barbora Bobulova, Kim Rossi Stuart
- Italian actor Kim Rossi Stuart's directorial debut is a heart–rending drama told through the eyes of an 11 year old boy whose family must cope…
Alpha Dog (2006)
- Dir. Nick Cassavetes
Feat. Ben Foster, Emile Hirsch, Sharon Stone…
- The versatile Emile Hirsch plays a rich, white, and very teenage drug dealer whose charmed existence is threatened when a kidnapping–murder…
Amazing Grace (2006)
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Albert Finney…
- Stirring dramatisation of the true story of 18th–century abolitionist William Wilberforce and his revolt against Britain’s slave…