Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7955 Films to Rent
Prospero's Books (1991)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. John Gielgud
- A radically stylised take on Shakespeare's The Tempest, with John Gielgud in the title role upstaged by the graphic opulence on display. Like a good…
Quarrel, The (1991)
- Dir. Eli Cohen
Feat. Saul Rubinek, R.H. Thompson
- In 1948, two estranged friends of the Jewish faith overcome their differences through honest discussion on how the Holocaust has impacted on their…
Queens Logic (1991)
- Dir. Steve Rash
Feat. Joe Mantegna, Kevin Bacon, John Malkovich
- Joe Mantegna, Kevin Bacon, John Malkovich and others gather for a friend's wedding, but are each encumbered with personal crises. Strong ensemble…
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Gong Li
- Gong Li is unforgettable as an educated woman who bitterly serves as the fourth arranged wife of a feudal nobleman. A magnificent tragedy, enriched…
Rambling Rose (1991)
- Dir. Martha Coolidge
Feat. Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd
- Laura Dern plays the title nymphet, a free–spirited nanny whose promiscuous ways elicit more than a few raised eyebrows in '30s Georgia.
Rapture, The (1991)
- Dir. Michael Tolkin
Feat. Mimi Rogers
- Mimi Rogers, in a tour–de–force performance, trades in her lurid sex romps for spiritual ecstasy. Her rocky road from sin to redemption…
Regarding Henry (1991)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Harrison Ford, Annette Bening
- The tables turn for ruthless lawyer Harrison Ford when his mentality is reverted to that of a 10–year–old – the result of a shotgun…
Rhapsody in August (1991)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere
- A Japanese grandmother shares painful memories of Nagasaki with her four grandchildren who travel to meet extended kin–folk in Hawaii.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1991)
- Dir. Tom Stoppard
Feat. Gary Oldman, Tim Roth
- Tom Stoppard films his own play that follows the aimless lives of two incidental characters from HAMLET. Gary Oldman and Tim Roth dazzlingly…
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Winter's End; Skylark) (1991-1999)
- Dir. Glenn Jordan
Feat. Glenn Close, Christopher Walken
- A beloved made–for–TV adaptation of Patricia MacLachlan's famous children's novel. A widowed farmer places an ad for a wife, with a…