Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8088 Films to Buy & Rent
Jarhead (2005)
- Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard
- An arresting and grimly ironic vision of the 1991 Gulf War, based on the memoir of ex–marine Anthony Swofford, and depicting the experiences of…
Jewboy (2005)
- Dir. Tony Krawitz
Feat. Ewen Leslie
- A young Rabbi–in–training struggles with the oppression of the strict Hasidic–Jewish faith, tail–spinning into a world of…
Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) (2005)
- Dir. Christian Carion
Feat. Ian Richardson, Diane Kruger, Daniel Bruhl
- Fact–based WWI drama centred around how, on Christmas Eve, 1914, opposing French, German and British soldiers called a temporary ceasefire amid…
Junebug (2005)
- Dir. Phil Morrison
Feat. Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola, Amy Adams…
- An enchanting indie gem about an art–dealer whose pursuit of an 'outsider artist' in backwoods North Carolina prompts various life crises,…
Karol - A Man Who Became Pope (2005)
- Dir. Giacomo Battiato
Feat. Piotr Adamczyk
- A lavish TV biopic concerning the life of the Polish–born leader of the Roman Catholic church between 1978 and 2005, Karol Wojtyla or Pope John…
Kidnapped (TV Mini Series) (2005)
- Feat. Adrian Dunbar, John Bach, Paul McGann…
- A stirring adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure yarn, set around a young boy's entanglement with the Scottish Jacobite rebellion…
King, The (2005)
- Dir. James Marsh
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, William Hurt, Laura Elena Harring
- A brooding, accomplished slice of southern discomfort with Gael Garcia Bernal (in his first US film) playing recently dischargee from the Navy named…
Klimt (2005)
- Dir. Raul Ruiz
Feat. John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Stephen Dillane…
- Chilean director Raul Ruiz' typically idiosyncratic biopic about the life of the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) told in a series of…
L'Enfer (Hell) (2005)
- Dir. Danis Tanovic
Feat. Emmanuelle Beart, Karin Viard, Marie Gillain…
- Intense and twisting family psychodrama based on a script by Krystof Kieslowski (THREE COLOURS) has three French sisters finding their lives…
La Maison de Nina (2005)
- Dir. Richard Dembo
Feat. Agnes Jaoui, Sarah Adler, Katia Lewkowicz
- Quietly accomplished French drama focused on the relationships within the fragile structures of the 'houses of hope': houses run by surrogate mothers…