Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7904 Films to Rent
Always - Sunset on Third Street (Always san-chôme no yûhi ) (2005)
- Dir. Takashi Yamazaki
Feat. Koyuki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Hiroko Yakushimaru
- A wistful Japanese drama, set against the backdrop of a developing Tokyo skyline in the 50's, centred on a handful of residents living in the…
An Unfinished Life (2005)
- Dir. Lasse Hallstrom
Feat. Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Morgan Freeman…
- Surprisingly robust and appealing drama set in bleak outland Wyoming, with Redford playing an embittered rancher, whose estranged…
Angel-A (2005)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Jamel Debbouze, Rie Rasmussen
- This sleek, stylized departure for dir. Luc Besson dabbles in an unlikely romance between a statuesque blonde (Rassmusen), and a nebbish, diminutive…
Aurora Borealis (2005)
- Dir. James C.E. Burke
Feat. Joshua Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Juliette Lewis
- A drifting twenty–something is torn between embarking on a burgeoning new romance, and caring for his Alzheimer’s–stricken…
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
- The BBC present a comprehensive visual and verbal account of the "Final Solution" phase of the Nazi Holocaust, focused on the most infamous of the…
Ballad of Jack and Rose, The (2005)
- Dir. Rebecca Miller
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener…
- Affecting coming–of–age melodrama from the dir. of PERSONAL VELOCITY about father Daniel Day–Lewis and daughter Camille Belle who…
Battle in Heaven (Batalla en el cielo) (2005)
- Dir. Carlos Reygadas
Feat. Marcos Hernández
- Heavyset follow–up to JAPON finds Mexican dir. Reygadas dealing in the spiritual and moral crises of two lost souls: one an underprivileged…
Beast in the Heart, The (La Bestia nel cuore, Don't Tell) (2005)
- Dir. Cristina Comencini
Feat. Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Stefania Rocca, Alessio Boni…
- Oscar–nominated Italian drama centred on the life of a successful career woman who finds herself haunted by nightmares of an abusive childhood…
Beauty Remains (Mei ren yi jiu) (2005)
- Dir. Ann Hui
Feat. Vivian Wu, Xun Zhou
- Two sisters negotiate the turbulent rise of communism in China during the 1940s in this family melodrama.
Sensuously filmed in tones reminiscent…
Bee Season (2005)
- Dir. Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Feat. Richard Gere, Juliette Binoche
- Elegant, well–grounded adaptation of Myla Goldberg's acclaimed novel about a San Franciscan family of high achievers whose domestic and…