Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > Girl-centric: 372 Films to Rent
Crush (1992)
- Dir. Alison Maclean
Feat. Marcia Gay Harden
- A downbeat analysis of female personal politics, with Marcia Gay Harden, an American vixen in Rotorua who neglects her dear friend recently paralysed…
Enchanted April (1992)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, Polly Walker…
- A gentle, lucid ensemble piece about four women who escape the constrictions of Edwardian London for a month in a castle on the Riviera.
Leaving Normal (1992)
- Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Christine Lahti, Meg Tilly
- Post–THELMA AND LOUISE female–bonding drama with the ever–likeable Christine Lahti and Meg Tilly, who abandon their lives of…
Orlando (1992)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Sally Potter
Feat. Tilda Swinton
- Majestic interpretation of Virginia Woolf's 'unfilmable' novel salutes the work of Greenaway and gives Tilda Swinton the role of a lifetime, not to…
Passion Fish (1992)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Mary MacDonnell, Alfre Woodard, David Strathairn
- After a debilitating accident, soap–opera super–bitch Mary MacDonnell returns to Louisiana and finds an unlikely soulmate in her black…
Danzon (1991)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Maria Novaro
Feat. Maria Rojo
- Lovely film about a phone operator and mother in Mexico City enthralled by the popular Cuban dance, known as "danzon". When her regular dance partner…
Fried Green Tomatoes (Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe) (1991)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Jon Avnet
Feat. Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary-Louise Parker…
- Kathy Bates strikes up a friendship with Jessica Tandy who waxes nostalgic about a pair of Southern belles who triumphed over adversity in the '30s.…
Gas, Food, Lodging (1991)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Allison Anders
Feat. Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk
- Delectable romantic tale of life in a truck–stop town for mom and two teenage daughters adds up to much more than the sum of its incidental…
Not Without My Daughter (1991)
- Dir. Brian Gilbert
Feat. Sally Field, Alfred Molina
- Sally Field stars in this gripping true story of a woman who accompanied her Iranian–born husband to his homeland, and became his permanent…
Antonia and Jane (1990)
- Dir. Beeban Kidron
Feat. Saskia Reeves, Imelda Staunton
- Whimsical portrait of friendship will tickle the fancy of women in particular. Insecurities abound for long–time chums – attractive…