Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7946 Films to Rent
Les Miserables (1995)
- Dir. Claude Lelouch
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Widely considered the definitive screen version of this granddaddy of French literary staples. Few concessions have been allowed in staging a…
Letters from the East (1995)
- Dir. Andrew Grieve
Feat. Ewa Froling, Mark Womack, Ingeborga Dapkunaite
- The political turmoil of the Baltic Republics provides a backdrop for this Anglo–Estonian drama, in which a young English woman searches for…
Life (1995)
- Dir. Lawrence Johnston
Feat. John Brumpton, David Tredinnick
- Set in the HIV–isolation unit of an Australian prison, this is reflective cinema at its most interesting, distilling down the raw terms of…
Like Grains of Sand (1995)
- Dir. Hashiguchi Ryosuke
Feat. Yoshinori Okada, Kouta Kusano
- Remarkable, intense Japanese high school romance is centrally about a gay relationship, though it essentially captures the universal,…
Lilian's Story (1995)
- Dir. Jerzy Domaradzki
Feat. Toni Collette, Ruth Cracknell
- Toni Collette won an AFI Best Actress award for her moving portrait of a long–committed psych–patient who is rehabilitated into the…
Losing Isaiah (1995)
- Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal
Feat. Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn…
- Jessica Lange plays an adoptive mother who gives an abandoned black child a new chance at life, but the birth mother (Halle Berry) has cleaned up her…
Low Life, The (1995)
- Dir. George Hickenlooper
Feat. Rory Cochrane, Sean Astin, Kyra Sedgwick
- Amiable, intelligent US independent about a young writer who moves to L.A. to find a struggle in the simplest things, let alone his hopes of taking…
Maborosi (Mabaroshi) (1995)
- Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Makikio Esumi, Tadanobu Asano
- A young woman's fear that she brings death to those around her forms the basis for this contemplative, serene drama, the dir.'s debut. Suggestively…
Mad Love (1995)
- Dir. Antonia Bird
Feat. Chris O'Donnell, Drew Barrymore
- An apple–pie American boy (Chris O'Donnell) hightails it with free–spirit wild child Drew Barrymore, an ex–hospital patient who is…
Madagascar Skin (1995)
- Dir. Chris Newby
Feat. Bernard Hill, John Hannah
- Intimate drama that portrays the unlikely relationship between two outsiders in a remote seaside cottage in South Wales.
Hannah plays a disfigured…