Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8108 Films to Buy & Rent
Shayda (2023)
- Feat. Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Selina Zahednia, Osamah Sami
- This Australian drama filmed mostly in the Persian language is made something special by two magnetic actresses. Iranian émigré Zar Amir Ebrahimi…
Significant Other (TV Mini-Series) (2023)
- Dir. David Sant
Feat. Katherine Parkinson, Youssef Kerkour, Ben Bailey Smith
- Manchester–set comedy drama starring Katherine Parkinson and Youssef Kerkour as two 40–something neighbours, who begin a tentative…
Son, The (2023)
- Dir. Florian Zeller
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby…
- A teenage son moves out on his single mother to live with his father. The part time dad tries to make the best of the situation. But juggling his new…
Teacher Who Promised the Sea, The (El maestro que prometió el mar) (2023)
- Dir. Patricia Font
Feat. Enric Auquer, Laia Costa
- Lovely and tragic in equal measure, this historical drama tells the true story of Antoni Benaiges, the schoolmaster of a small Catalonian town in the…
There's Still Tomorrow (2023)
- Dir. Paola Cortellesi
Feat. Paola Cortellesi, Valerio Mastandrea, Vinicio Marchioni
- An audacious, bittersweet comedy–drama that swept the Italian Oscars and broke domestic box–office records.
Directed, co–written…
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The (2023)
- Dir. Hettie MacDonald
Feat. Jim Broadbent, Penelope Wilton, Earl Cave…
- Jim Broadbent stars as Harold, an ordinary man who has passed through life living on the side lines, until he goes to post a letter one day... and…
Uproar (2023)
- Dir. Paul Middleditch, Hamish Bennett
Feat. Julian Dennison, Rhys Darby, Minnie Driver…
- Set in Dunedin in 1981, a rugby–obsessed country is divided over the arrival of the South African Springboks team, sparking nationwide…
1923 (TV Series) (2022)
- Dir. Guy Ferland
Feat. Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford, Jerome Flynn…
- Prequel series to YELLOWSTONE continues the grandeur and grimness of the earlier show, and stars Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford as stoic frontier…
Aftersun (2022)
- Dir. Charlotte Wells
Feat. Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio
- This quietly devastating story of a father and daughter that share holiday time in the 90's assembles its remembered and video–recorded…
Allelujah (2022)
- Dir. Richard Eyre
Feat. Jennifer Saunders, Russell Tovey, David Bradley…
- An adaptation of the play by Alan Bennett, set in a geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital that is threatened with closure. The hospital…