Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8053 Films to Buy & Rent
Living (2022)
- Dir. Oliver Hermanus
Feat. Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp…
- An exquisite period drama that brings out the best in Kurosawa’s 1952 classic ‘Ikiru’, not least through Bill Nighy’s performance as a…
Man Called Otto, A (2022)
- Dir. Marc Forster
Feat. Tom Hanks, Rachel Keller, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
- Based on the bestseller and subsequent Swedish film “A Man Called Ove”, this English language remake tells the story of Otto Anderson (Tom…
Menu, The (2022)
- Dir. Mark Mylod
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult…
- A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.…
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris (2022)
- Dir. Anthony Fabian
Feat. Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson…
- The story of a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress and decides that she must have one of her own.…
My Old School (2022)
- Dir. Jono McLeod
Feat. Alan Cumming
- Filmmaker Jono McLeod returns to his old school in 1993 Glasgow for a nostalgic look at the unbelievable yet true story of his former classmate,…
One Fine Morning (Un Beau Matin) (2022)
- Dir. Mia Hansen-Love
Feat. Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud…
- Lea Seydoux is French movie star royalty but she keeps it real in this sublime film from Mia Hansen–Løve (Bergman Island), one of Europe’s…
Playground (2022)
- Dir. Laura Wandel
Feat. Maya Vanderbeque, Günter Duret
- 7–year–old Nora and her big brother Abel are back to school. When Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect…
Quiet Girl, The (An Cailín Ciúin) (2022)
- Dir. Colm Bairead
Feat. Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett…
- An exquisite rites–of–passage drama filmed mostly in the Irish/Gaelic language, it is the very definition of a literary pastoral that…
Saint Omer (2022)
- Dir. Alice Diop
Feat. Guslagie Malanda, Kayije Kagame
- Inspired by real events, this devastating fictional drama from French–Senegalese director Alice Diop delivers a formally brilliant treatise on…
She Said (2022)
- Dir. Maria Schrader
Feat. Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan, Jennifer Ehle…
- Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) and Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) star in this excellent dramatisation of the true story of New York Times…