Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Independent: 587 Films to Buy & Rent
- Safe (1996)
- Dir. Todd Haynes
Feat. Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman, Xander Berkeley…
- This subtly gripping and rewarding portrait of neurosis stars Julianne Moore as a fragile '80s LA housewife who takes refuge at a health compound in…
- Trees Lounge (1996)
- Dir. Steve Buscemi
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Chloe Sevigny, Anthony LaPaglia…
- Lovelorn, unemployed mechanic Steve Buscemi drags himself downstairs each day to the local watering hole of the title for bouts of…
- Unhook the Stars (1996)
- Dir. Nick Cassavetes
Feat. Gena Rowlands, Marisa Tomei, Gerard Depardieu
- Ageing widow Gena Rowlands forms an unlikely bond with a seven–year old neighbour and his abrasive mother in this absorbing drama, directed…
- Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996)
- Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Heather Matarazzo, Victoria Davis
- Winner of the grand prize at Sundance '96, this is a blackly comic portrait of a dreaded kind of coming–of–age. Teenage persecution and…
- Amateur (1995)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan, Elina Lowensohn
- Hal Hartley approaches the conventions of a thriller in further probing his fixation with dysfunctional romance and relationships, and thus checks in…
- Basketball Diaries, The (1995)
- Dir. Scott Calvert
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, Juliette Lewis…
- Leonardo DiCaprio excels as a young Jim Carroll, an infamous New York poet/musician/junkie who maintained a personal journal through a…
- Before Sunrise (1995)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
- Young tourists American Ethan Hawke and French Julie Delpy, meet by chance on a train in Europe and spend the following twelve hours…
- Brothers in Trouble (1995)
- Dir. Udayan Prasad
Feat. Om Puri, Angeline Ball
- A Pakistani illegal–immigrant family struggle to maintain an income and dignity in a grim '60s Midland town. Bittersweet tragicomedy.
- Brothers Mcmullen, The (1995)
- Dir. Edward Burns
Feat. Edward Burns
- Filmed on weekends over two years at his family home, Ed Burns' DIY romantic comedy went on to win the Grand Prize at the 1995 Sundance Festival.…
- Dead Man (1995)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Johnny Depp, Iggy Pop, Lance Henriksen
- A unique meditation on the mystique of the Wild West, branded with the distinctive marks of dir. Jarmusch's dilatory tempo and playful eccentricity.…