Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7912 Films to Rent
Perfect Strangers (2003)
- Dir. Gaylene Preston
Feat. Sam Neill, Rachael Blake, Joel Tobeck
- Thriller of possessive love, set effectively on the rugged coastline of New Zealand’s West Coast, that changes tack mid–way into blackly…
Pieces of April (2003)
- Dir. Peter Hedges
Feat. Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Derek Luke…
- The uncomfortably comic family reunion done in the DAYTRIPPERS mold, with a tattooed Katie Holmes as the spacey black sheep of the clan, who invites…
Planman, The (2003)
- Dir. John Strickland
Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Graham Crowden
- Ingenious two–part thriller in which Robbie Coltrane, in a near–reprise of his CRACKER role, plays a clever Scottish lawyer who in his…
Prey For Rock n Roll (2003)
- Dir. Alex Steyermark
Feat. Gina Gershon, Drea De Matteo, Lori Petty
- Gina Gershon puts her all into a role playing an aging rock–singer who must decide whether to continue pursuing the dream after her 40th…
Radio (2003)
- Dir. Michael Tollin
Feat. Ed Harris, Cuba Jr. Gooding, Alfre Woodard…
- A semi–biographical sports drama based on the true story of a high–school football coach and a mentally challenged young man, James…
Rage in Placid Lake, The (2003)
- Dir. Tony McNamara
Feat. Ben Lee, Rose Byrne, Miranda Richardson…
- Tale of an eccentric bullied teenager, this mordant comedy executes its satire of abnormality without mercy.
The titular Lake (Ben Lee)…
Real Women Have Curves (2003)
- Dir. Patricia Cardoso
Feat. America Ferrera
- A natural antidote to Hollywood silicone, this tells the charming coming–of–age story of an ‘ordinary’ Mexican–American…
Reckoning, The (2003)
- Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Paul Bettany, Vincent Cassel…
- A sober minded recreation of plague–blasted England of the Middle Ages, with Bettany cowling–up as a monk on the run who falls in with a…
Remember Me (Ricordati di Me) (2003)
- Dir. Gabriel Muccino
Feat. Fabrizzio Bentivoglio, Laura Morante, Monica Bellucci
- The dir. of THE LAST KISS constructs an equally heightened melodrama about the saga of a middle–class Italian family, their various personal…
Return, The (Vozvrashcheniye) (2003)
- Dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev
Feat. Ivan Dobronravov, Vladimir Garin, Konstantin Lavronenko…
- A surprise arthouse hit about a couple of teenage brothers who are taken on a mysterious trip by their estranged and rather surly father, with his…