Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7912 Films to Rent
Vera Drake (2004)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Peter Wight
- An impeccable period drama from Mike Leigh that ranks alongside the director's best work, this is the moving story of a middle aged woman who was…
Veronica Mars (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni…
- Addictive, dark–hued mystery noir masquerading as a high school drama, centred on the socially ostracised teen daughter of a private eye whose…
Very Long Engagement, A (Long dimanche de fiançailles, Un) (2004)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Clovis Cornillac…
- Another crowd–pleasing favourite from the dir. of AMELIE, which uses the Great War as setting for the fairytale search by Audrey Tatou for her…
Way of Life, A (2004)
- Dir. Amma Asante
Feat. Stephanie James, Brenda Blethyn
- Emotionally brutal yet skillful 'kitchen sink' drama from first–time dir. Asante, about a single teenage mum giving and taking the hard knocks…
Wayward Cloud, The (2004)
- Dir. Ming-liang Tsai
Feat. Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen
- Eye–popping musical numbers burst forth from this outré Tsai Ming–liang offering, which couples the Taiwanese director’s usual…
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
- Dir. John Curran
Feat. Naomi Watts, Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern…
- Toughly gritty and unfairly–overlooked drama about two marriages knotted together in dual adultery, career–crises, and personal cynicism,…
West Wing, The - Season 6 (TV Series) (2004)
- More episodes from one of the most popular US TV–series of recent years, set in a White House presided over by Martin Sheen and his…
What the Bleep do we Know!? (What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?) (2004)
- Dir. William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente
Feat. Marlee Matlin
- A unique and certainly popular piece of 'New Age intellectualism", this follows the travails of a deaf photographer (Matlin) through life and…
When Will I Be Loved? (2004)
- Dir. James Toback
Feat. Neve Campbell, Dominic Chianese, Frederick Weller…
- A typically crackpot concoction from dir. Toback (BLACK AND WHITE), in which Neve Campbell plays a New Yorker who, feeling undervalued by her…
Whore (Yo Puta / The Life) (2004)
- Dir. Maria Lidon
Feat. Daryl Hannah, Denise Richards, Joaquim De Almeida
- A quasi–documentary about prostitution, which weaves together genuine interviews from Europe with a storyline in which a writer (Richards)…