Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Independent: 590 Films to Buy & Rent
Lowball (1996)
- Dir. Demian Lichenstein
Feat. Peter Greene
- Grimy, low–budget drama pursues NY cop Peter Greene through the mire of his deep cover assignment, as the various temptations of the scumbag…
No Way Home (1996)
- Dir. Buddy Giovinazzo
Feat. Tim Roth, James Russo, Deborah Kara Unger
- A recently paroled Tim Roth finds his hopes for a new life threatened by his brothers involvement with drugs. Though the introduction of a thriller…
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.