Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7936 Films to Rent
Gravy Train, The (TV Mini-series) (1990-1991)
- Dir. David Tucker, James Cellan Jones
Feat. Ian Richardson, Alexei Sayle, Francesca Annis…
- Intriguing political TV Mini–series based around a scheming Director of European Economic Community and his naive assistant travelling across…
Guy Maddin Collection, The (Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, The Heart of the World, Archangel) (1990-2000)
- Dir. Guy Maddin
Feat. Michael Gottli, David Falkenburg, Michael O’Sullivan…
- Three films from Canada's silent movie alchemist, all deliciously dreamlike examples of the cult filmmaker's brilliant oeuvre.
Twilight of the Ice…
Hamlet (1990)
- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates…
- Mel Gibson pulls off a creditable lead performance as the melancholy Dane, certainly aided by the director's eye for detail, and top supporting…
Hamlet (1990)
- Dir. Kevin Kline
Feat. Kevin Kline, Diane Venora
- A traditional stage version of Shakespeare's classic, essentially filming Joseph Papp's 1990 New York Shakespeare Festival production. Kline is…
Handmaid's Tale, The (1990)
- Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway
- Disturbing but thoroughly rewarding version of Margaret Atwood's novel set in a near future where 99% of women have become infertile. Privileged…
Havana (1990)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Robert Redford, Lena Olin
- A gracefully ageing Robert Redford seeks his fortune on the verge of the Cuban revolution, while romantic entanglement with Lena Olin has political…
Henry and June (1990)
- Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Maria de Medeiros, Fred Ward, Uma Thurman
- From the diaries of French author Anais Nin, her steamy and stormy adventures with American writer Henry Miller and his wife are lensed to perfection.
Hidden Agenda (1990)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Brian Cox, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif…
- Perhaps dir. Loach’s most genre–based film, this political thriller about sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s involves…
Horseplayer (1990)
- Dir. Kurt Voss
Feat. Brad Dourif, Sammi Davis, Max Perlich
- Interesting item stars the incomparably strange Brad Dourif as a loner being manipulated by bored neighbours. Unfortunately for them, Brad turns out…
House of Cards, The (TV Series) (1990-1993)
- Dir. Paul Seed
Feat. Ian Richardson
- A sardonic and blackly humourous look at British politics, with a reptilian Ian Richardson plotting and blackmailing his way into power in three…