Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7946 Films to Rent
Investigator, The (1997)
- Dir. Chris Oxley
Feat. Helen Baxendale, Christopher Fulford, Sean Gilder…
- Drama based on the true story of Caroline Meagher, a military police woman who is tasked with the rooting out of suspected lesbians from the army…
Ivanhoe (1997)
- Dir. Stuart Orme
Feat. Steven Waddington, Victoria Smurfit, Ciaran Hinds…
- Sir Walter Scott's classic adventure of the Crusades gets a fair rollicking in this BBC adaptation. Returning from the wars in Palestine, Ivanhoe…
Jane Eyre (1997)
- Dir. Robert Young
Feat. Samantha Morton, Ciaran Hinds, Deborah Findlay…
- Suitably gothic retelling of Charlotte Brontë's classic tale of a Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess and falls for the brooding lord of the…
Kitchen (1997)
- Dir. Yim Ho
Feat. Jordan Chan, Yasuko Tomita
- Treading the same grungy Hong Kong streets as the films of Wong Kar–Wai, this adaptation of a novel by Banana Yoshimoto concerns a love affair…
La Vie de Jesus (Life of Jesus) (1997)
- Dir. Bruno Dumont
- Virtuoso bleakness from the dir. of TWENTYNINE PALMS, in his debut study of alienated existence for a group of unruly skinheads in rural Flanders who…
Lakes, The (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. John Simm, Emma Cunniffe, Kaye Wragg…
- Gritty British drama following a compulsive gambler from Liverpool who moves to the Lake District and encounters the secrets, lies and crimes that…
Last of the High Kings (1997)
- Dir. David Keating
Feat. Jared Leto, Christina Ricci, Gabriel Byrne…
- An irreverent flashback to late 70s Dublin, where Jared Leto ducks the familiar teenage troubles: girls, school and eccentric relations. Strong cast,…
Last Time I Committed Suicide, The (1997)
- Dir. Stephen T. Kay
Feat. Thomas Jane, Keanu Reeves, Adrien Brody…
- Free–spirited odyssey inspired by a letter from the pen of beatnik hedonist Neal Cassady. See Keanu Reeves smoke, drink and shoot pool in…
Law and Order (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. Michael Moriaty, George Dzundza, Paul Sorvino…
- The original US police and courtroom drama from which various satellite shows and TV movies have sprouted, which contrasts its polish with fairly…
Lawn Dogs (1997)
- Dir. John Duigan
Feat. Sam Rockwell, Mischa Barton
- The Australian director of THE YEAR MY VOICE BROKE applies a lightly–stylised Antipodean touch to this American tale of a friendship between a…