Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7946 Films to Rent
O'Quatrilho (1996)
- Dir. Fabio Barreto
Feat. Fabio Barreto, Mariana Pellegrino Barreto
- Steamy Latino variant on the patented love–triangle/adultery story, set among immigrants newly settled in turn of the century Brazil, freshly…
Oliver Twist (1996)
- Dir. Coky Giedroyc
Feat. Timothy Spall, William Miller, Adam Arnold
- Faithful BBC adaptation of the Charles Dicken's classic, most notable for Timothy Spall's sympathetic take on Fagin.
Other Side of Sunday, The (1996)
- Dir. Berit Nesheim
Feat. Marie Theisen, Bjorn Sundquist, Hildegun Riise
- Yearning to discover the 'other side' of life in 1950s Norway, teenager Marie Theisen evades her harshly religious father to explore the amorphous…
Our Friends in the North (TV Mini-series) (1996)
- Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee, Daniel Craig…
- British TV show following four friends living in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England over a period of 31 years from 1964 to 1995.…
People Vs. Larry Flynt, The (1996)
- Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love
- A weighty, colourful biopic of the notorious publisher of 'Hustler' magazine. The 'free speech' debate presides over the issue of pornography, but…
Phenomenon (1996)
- Dir. Jon Turteltaub
Feat. John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker…
- John Travolta is aptly cast a genial mechanic who, after being struck by lightening, acquires super–intelligence that gradually ostracises him…
Ponette (1996)
- Dir. Jacques Doillon
Feat. Victoire Thivisol
- Staying at her Aunt's provincial cottage after the accidental death of her mother, a four–year–old girl comes to terms with death, while…
Portrait of a Lady (1996)
- Dir. Jane Campion
Feat. Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich
- Unfairly roasted by many critics, our Jane's adaptation of Henry James' novel dares to offer more than romance in fancy dress, but instead a complex,…
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
- Dir. Sadjan Dragojevic
Feat. Dragan Bjelorgrlic, Nikola Kojo
- Seen in flashback from a ward in triage, the Bosnian war is portrayed in a riveting counter–play of nihilism and theatre, as a band of Serbian…
Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)
- Dir. Sergei Bodrov
Feat. Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr, Susanna Mekhraliyeva…
- A Tolstoy fable is here seamlessly transposed to the Chechean conflict, with two Russian soldiers apprehended by a Chechean village elder who hopes…