Subgenre Sampler
Rental > : 24509 Films to Rent
Mamma Mia! (2008)
- Dir. Phyllida Lloyd
Feat. Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth…
- A knowingly cheesy yet still irresistible movie version of the smash–hit stage musical about a girl trying to find her father before her…
Man Made Marvels (TV Series) (2008)
- Produced by Natural History New Zealand for the Discovery Channel, this fascinating doco series looking at some of the Earth's biggest man–made…
Man On Wire (2008)
- Dir. James Marsh
Feat. Phillipe Petit
- Oscar–winning doco about a truly remarkable, one–of–a–kind subject; a cavalier French daredevil called Phillipe Petit who in…
Man Who Loves, The (2008)
- Dir. Maria Sole Tognazzi
Feat. Pierfrancesco Favino, Monica Bellucci, Kseniya Rappoport…
- Melodramatic exploration of a heterosexual man's troubled relationships in comparison to his gay brother's blissful monogamy.
Management (2008)
- Dir. Stephen Belber
Feat. Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson
- Likable rom–com sees Jennifer Aniston play an obsessively organized woman whose life is thrown into disarray when an employee of a roadside…
Manolete (2008)
- Dir. Menno Meyjes
Feat. Adrien Brody, Penelope Cruz, Nacho Aldeguer
- Soapy biopic of the great Spanish bullfighter focuses more on his torrid love affair with a hot–tempered actress than his actual bullfighting…
Map Reader, The (2008)
- Dir. Harold Brodie
Feat. Rebecca Gibney, Jordan Selwyn, Bonnie Soper…
- A small–town teenager’s obsession with maps is the central metaphor in this ragged yet heart–felt local feature about finding and…
Maradona (Maradona by Kusturica) (2008)
- Dir. Emir Kusturica
- Celebrated filmmaker Emir Kusturica (BLACK CAT, WHITE CAT) directs this wayward love letter to the revolutionary – and troubled –…
Margaret Cho - I'm the One That I Want (2008)
- Feat. Margaret Cho
- Feminist comedy sensation Margaret Cho performs live at The Warfield in her hometown of San Francisco.
Margaret Mahy: A Tall Long Faced Tale (2008)
- Dir. Yvonne MacKay
- An invaluable documentary on New Zealand's greatest children's writer, which combines a fascinating conversation between Mahy and Elizabeth Knox with…