Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Romance: 840 Films to Buy & Rent
- DL Chronicles, The (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Damian T. Raven, Sheilynn Wactor, T. Ashanti Mozelle
- Pioneering TV series about a group of gay African–American males who choose to lead double lives and attempt to keep their homosexual…
- Down in the Valley (2005)
- Dir. David Jacobson
Feat. Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood, David Morse…
- Slow–burn yet layered and intense drama has Edward Norton in fine form as a delusional 'cowboy' who charms his way into trouble via the heart…
- Elizabethtown (2005)
- Dir. Cameron Crowe
Feat. Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon…
- A fatefully 'personal film' from dir. Cameron Crowe, who is plainly given too much rope to tell this semi–autobiographical story.
Orlando…
- Elsa and Fred (2005)
- Dir. Marcos Carnevale
Feat. Manuel Alexandre, China Zorrilla
- Exquisitely acted romance between a pair of senior citizens expresses enough tenderness and fragility to overcome its rather prosaic storyline.…
- Gabrielle (2005)
- Dir. Patrice Chereau
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory
- Absorbing adaptation of a Joseph Conrad short story coolly dissects the disintegrating marriage of a bourgeois French couple.
Gorgeously framed…
- Girl in the Cafe, The (2005)
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. Bill Nighy, Kelly MacDonald
- Richard Curtis (LOVE ACTUALLY) penned this second–chances romance with a mild political streak, where an aging civil servant strikes up an…
- Heartbreak Hotel (2005)
- Dir. Colin Nutley
Feat. Helena Bergstrom, Maria Lundqvist
- Two recently–divorced Swedish women form an unlikely bond and navigate their way through the perils of singledom in this fresh–faced…
- Ladies in Lavender (2005)
- Dir. Charles Dance
Feat. Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Natascha McElhone…
- During the pre–WW2 period, a handsome Polish stranger (Bruhl) is washed up on a beach in Cornwall and taken into care by two aging spinster…
- Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (2005)
- Dir. Randall Miller
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, John Goodman…
- Old–fashioned melodrama, shading into elegaic whimsy, in which a widowed baker (Carlyle) helps and learns the story of a car crash victim…
- Mistress of Spices (2005)
- Dir. Paul Mayeda Berges
Feat. Aishwarya Rai, Dylan McDermott, Ayesha Dharkar…
- A beautiful Indian 'spice mistress' (Rai) emigrates to San Francisco, where she opens a dispensary, having to obey three special edicts –…