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Rental > Drama: 7913 Films to Rent
Daniel Deronda (TV Mini-series) (2002)
- Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. Hugh Dancy, Romola Garai, Barbara Hershey…
- Faithful and reasonably stylish BBC adaptation of George Eliot's final novel, in which the titular young man (Dancy), an orphan raised by a guardian…
Dead Zone, The (TV Series) (2002-2006)
- Dir. Robert Lieberman
Feat. Anthony Michael Hall, David Ogden Stiers, Nicole De Boer
- Surprisingly effective spinoff from the 1983 David Cronenberg–Stephen King film, with Hall playing a coma victim who upon awakening six years…
Devdas (2002)
- Dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Feat. Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai
- The most expensive production in Bollywood history to date is this gorgeously extravagant soap opera based on one of India’s most widely–read…
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sergi Lopez
- A tightly–wound, satisfying British melodrama about illegal immigrants in London that find themselves exploited by a medical scam.
Chiwetel…
Divine Intervention (2002)
- Dir. Elia Suleiman
Feat. Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader
- A rare cinematic glimpse into life in Ramallah, on the Palestine–Israel border, with its daily challenges presented through a series of…
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
- Dir. Callie Khouri
Feat. Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Ashley Judd…
- In this spirited adaptation of Rebecca Wells’ novel, alienated daughter Sandra Bullock is given the lowdown on her mother Ellen Burnstyn’s…
Dolls (2002)
- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Miho Kanno, Tatsuya Mihashi
- Beautiful to behold with its spectacular Japanese vistas, but unfocused in content, dir. Takeshi stumbles with an art film that feels stranded…
Drumline (2002)
- Dir. Charles Stone III
Feat. Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Orlando Jones
- Depicting the journey of a talented street drummer from Harlem into the world of big–time stadium marching bands, this is short on story moves,…
Edge of Madness (2002)
- Dir. Anne Wheeler
Feat. Brendan Fehr, Caroline Dhavernas
- A dark vision of frontier marriage gone horribly wrong in 1850s Manitoba. Dhavernas plays a wife whose tyrannical husband, Fehr playing against type,…
El Bonaerense (2002)
- Dir. Pablo Trapero
- An authentically macho tale about the notoriously clannish and corrupt police force of Buenos Aires (members are known as 'el Bonaerense') which…