Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7932 Films to Rent
Under the Sand (2001)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Jacques Nolot, Bruno Cremer
- Charlotte Rampling enters a twilit zone of denial following her husband’s disappearance into the sea on a beach holiday, and mysterious…
Uprising (2001)
- Dir. Jon Avnet
Feat. Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer…
- An above–par telemovie that depicts the clearing of the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII by the Nazis.
Treading similiar territory to SCHINDLER'S…
Varian's War (2001)
- Dir. Lionel Chetwynd
Feat. William Hurt, Julia Ormond, Maury Chaykin…
- Mostly satisfactory telemovie which deals with the intriguing real–life case of Varian Fry, an American journalist who in WW2 helped smuggle…
Vertical Ray of the Sun, The (At the Height of Summer) (2001)
- Dir. Tran Anh Hung
Feat. Tran Nu Yen-Khe, Nhu Quynh Nguyen, Le Khanh
- Conjuring once more the scent, hue and atmosphere of Vietnam, the dir. of SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA depicts the complicated sisterhood of three women in…
Victoria and Albert (TV Mini-Series) (2001)
- Dir. John Erman
Feat. Victoria Hamilton, Jonathan Firth, Peter Ustinov
- Lengthy and lavish account of the early life of Queen Victoria and her subsequent marriage to Prince Albert.
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
- Dir. Shohei Imamura
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu
- Nourishing sex fable in which Japanese everyman Koji Yakusho, down and out after losing his wife and job, discovers the joys of making love to a…
West Wing, The - Season 3 (TV Series) (2001)
- 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 staff.…
What Time Is It There? (2001)
- Dir. Ming-liang Tsai
Feat. Kang-sheng Lee, Cecilia Yip, Jean-Pierre Leaud
- Three forlorn individuals bide their time between grief, ennui and loneliness in this minimalist – and unusually talky – masterpiece from…
Wild Iris (2001)
- Dir. Daniel Petrie
Feat. Gena Rowlands, Laura Linney, Fred Ward…
- Superior tele drama that cultivates a convincingly dysfunctional relationship between mother Gena Rowlands and daughter Laura Linney, returning home…
Wind Will Carry Us, The (2001)
- Dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Feat. Behzad Dourani
- Carried by the dir.’s deadpan comic instincts and more minimally poetic, this quasi–fable concerns (what seems to be) a documentary crew who…