Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8067 Films to Buy & Rent
A Quiet Passion (2016)
- Dir. Terence Davies
Feat. Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine
- The reclusive 19th Century poet Emily Dickinson is the worthy subject of this quietly mesmerising biopic, a stand–out in the career of director…
A Silent Voice (Koe no katachi) (2016)
- Dir. Naoko Yamada
Feat. Miyu Irino
- Unique Japanese anime following a deaf girl called Shoko, who is bullied at school by a boy who grows up to be tormented by his past behavior, and…
Adult Life Skills (2016)
- Dir. Rachel Tunnard
Feat. Jodie Whittaker, Ozzy Myers, Brett Goldstein…
- Smart indie Brit–com with Jodie Whittaker as a women approaching 30 but caught a state of arrested adolescence, living reclusively in her mum's…
After the Storm (Umi yori mo mada fukaku) (2016)
- Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Hiroshi Abe, Kirin Kiki, YƓko Maki
- After the death of his father, a morally bankrupt private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and…
Allied (2016)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Lizzy Caplan…
- Old–fashioned wartime romance between an intelligence officer and a French resistance fighter in 1942, which develops into a satisfying…
American Crime Story: People vs O.J. Simpson, The (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Cuba Jr. Gooding, Sarah Paulson, Courtney B. Vance…
- Mesmerizing dramatization of the O.J. Simpson trial that defies its unconventional casting choices to take the viewer on a gripping…
American Honey (2016)
- Dir. Andrea Arnold
Feat. Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough…
- Esteemed British director Andrea Arnold changes pace in her American debut, taking a cast of mostly non–actors through a poetically…
American Pastoral (2016)
- Dir. Ewan McGregor
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning
- Based on the novel by Philip Roth, Ewan McGregor directs and stars as an all–American college star who marries a beauty queen only to see their…
Aquarius (2016)
- Dir. Kleber Mendonca Filho
Feat. Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos…
- Gratifying portrait of a 65–year–old widow and retired music critic who battles a development company to retain her residency at the…
Arrival (2016)
- Dir. Denis Villeneuve
Feat. Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker…
- Amy Adams plays a linguistics expert who is recruited by the military to determine the intentions of seemingly–benign alien visitors who have…