Subgenre Sampler
Rental > : 903 Films to Rent
All is Lost (2013)
- Dir. J.C. Chandor
Feat. Robert Redford
- Elegant maritime thriller in which Robert Redford is the sole actor, faced with the challenges of survival aboard his shipwrecked yacht. Helmed by…
American Hustle (2013)
- Dir. David O. Russell
Feat. Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams…
- David O. Russell directs a full–house of acting talent in this wild crime drama about a FBI agent and con man collaborating to sting corrupt…
August: Osage County (2013)
- Dir. John Wells
Feat. Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper…
- Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, and other heavy hitters come out swinging in this fierce, sometimes hysterical, screen adaptation of Tracy Letts'…
Beyond the Edge (2013)
- Dir. Leanne Pooley
Feat. Chad Moffitt, Sonam Sherpa
- Thrilling, definitive docu–drama on Sir Edmund Hillary's historic 1953 scaling of Everest with sherpa Tenzing Norgay.
Captain Phillips (2013)
- Dir. Paul Greengrass
Feat. Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener
- Paul Greengrass directs with exhilarating dramatic realism this gripping true account of the hijacking of a U.S. container ship by Somali pirates.
Counselor, The (2013)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz…
- Michael Fassbender plays a successful Texan laywer whose greed prompts him to finally accept the offer of some ill–gotten gains from one of his…
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
- Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
Feat. Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto…
- Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto both won Oscars for their performances in this dramatization of the story of Ron Woodroof, an AIDS–afflicted…
Devil's Knot (2013)
- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth, Alessandro Nivola…
- Solid dramatisation of the long–running West Memphis Three case covered in depth by several documentaries, with dir. Egoyan weaving a typically…
Don Jon (2013)
- Dir. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Feat. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore…
- Joseph Gordon–Levitt wrote, directs and stars in this distinctly masculine rom–com as a New Jersey 'player' who must confront his nagging…
Double, The (2013)
- Dir. Richard Ayoade
Feat. Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn…
- Richard Ayoade (SUBMARINE) directs this stylish Kafka–esque thriller about a government worker who is joined by his doppelganger.