Subgenre Sampler
Rental > : 24509 Films to Rent
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel (2009)
- Dir. Betty Thomas
Feat. Jason Lee, Justin Long, David Cross…
- Brash sequel has the furry brothers struggling with fame and running amok while Dave recuperates in hospital after one frenetic concert too many.…
Amelia (2009)
- Dir. Mira Nair
Feat. Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor…
- A conventional retelling of the Amelia Earhart legend, examining the ground–breaking aviator’s turbulent love life during the years between…
Amer (2009)
- An experimental journey inside the mind of a sociopathic woman. Isolated chapters cover the details of her bizarre surreal childhood and sexually…
America Before Columbus (2009)
- Intriguing revisionist documentary considers America before Columbus stepped ashore in 1492 as an 'Old World', whose inhabitants had built a vast…
America's Hardest Prisons (TV Series) (2009)
- Four–part National Geographic series that takes the viewer into the middle of the hellish place that is prison life in America, where the…
American: The Bill Hicks Story (2009)
- Dir. Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas
Feat. Bill Hicks
- The belligerent standup comedian is posthumously honored in this thorough, well–rounded portrait that, if a little too gushing in its…
Amreeka (2009)
- Dir. Cherien Dabis
Feat. Hiam Abbass, Nisreen Faour, Alia Shawkat
- Timely, bittersweet immigrant tale of a Palestinian mother and son who escape the West Bank for a promised 'better life' in the States, only to…
An Education (2009)
- Dir. Lone Scherfig
Feat. Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina…
- An assured and alluring coming–of–age drama set in swinging sixties London (1961 in fact), with teenage ingenue Carey Mulligan falling in…
An Englishman in New York (2009)
- Dir. Richard Laxton
Feat. John Hurt, Swoosie Kurtz, Jonathan Tucker…
- Sequel to THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT with John Hurt reprising his role as gay raconteur Quentin Crisp as he spends the latter parts of his life in New…
Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain (TV Series) (2009)
- Following on from his "History of Modern Britain", Andrew Marr this time overviews the first half of the 20th Century, re–visiting the dramas…