Subgenre Sampler
Romance: 1494 Films to Buy & Rent
- Adrift in Manhattan (2007)
- Dir. Alfredo De Villa
Feat. Heather Graham, Victor Rasuk, William Baldwin…
- Character drama set in New York where three lonely urban–types – grieving optometrist, elderly painter and obsessive photographer…
- An Old Mistress (Une vieille maîtresse/The Last Mistress) (2007)
- Dir. Catherine Breillat
Feat. Asia Argento, Fu’ad Ait Aattou, Caroline Ducey…
- Fervent, visually opulent costume drama finds feminist firebrand Catherine Breillat tempering her sexually explicit tendencies to present a…
- Angel (2007)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Sam Neill, Lucy Russell…
- Pretty costume drama follows the fortunes of an aspiring lady writer in Edwardian England.
Based on the novel by Elizabeth Taylor (MRS PALFREY AT…
- Away From Her (2007)
- Dir. Sarah Polley
Feat. Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis
- Julie Christie stars in this carefully observed drama about a woman with Alzheimer's, her husband, and the tragedy of the disease's 'long goodbye',…
- Because I Said So (2007)
- Dir. Michael Lehmann
Feat. Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Lauren Graham…
- A cushy, formulated ‘chick flick’ made–to–order, concerning an over–controlling mother’s attempts to engineer her…
- Becoming Jane (2007)
- Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters…
- The early chapters of Jane Austen’s literary life are dramatised in this rose–tinted biopic of her formative romantic…
- Before the Rains (2007)
- Dir. Santosh Sivan
Feat. Linus Roache, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das
- Steamy tropical melodrama made under the "Merchant Ivory" banner, set in southern India against the backdrop of a growing nationalist movement.
A…
- Black Snake Moan (2007)
- Dir. Craig Brewer
Feat. Christina Ricci, Samuel L. Jackson, Justin Timberlake
- Christina Ricci stars as a scrawny, Southern–fried nympho whose demons get her deep into trouble in the deep, deep South the minute her doting…
- Blood and Chocolate (2007)
- Dir. Katja von Garnier
Feat. Agnes Bruckner, Olivier Martinez, Hugh Dancy…
- A beautiful teenager must choose between her love for a young artist and her werewolf lineage in this campy but adequately entertaining supernatural…
- Blue State (2007)
- Dir. Marshall Lewy
Feat. Anna Paquin, Breckin Meyer, Nick Ouellette
- Politically skewed road movie following an ardent liberal who makes good on a drunken promise to move to Canada if George Bush wins the…