Subgenre Sampler
Girl-centric: 779 Films to Buy & Rent
- Reality (2023)
- Dir. Tina Satter
Feat. Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis
- A potent chamber drama that re–enacts true events surrounding a government security breach related to Russian interference in the 2016 US…
- Shayda (2023)
- Feat. Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Selina Zahednia, Osamah Sami
- This Australian drama filmed mostly in the Persian language is made something special by two magnetic actresses. Iranian émigré Zar Amir Ebrahimi…
- Elizabeth: A Portrait in Parts (2022)
- Dir. Roger Michell
- A nostalgic, uplifting, and modern documentary about Queen Elizabeth II – the greatest British monarch of all time and longest–serving female…
- Fall (2022)
- Dir. Scott Mann
Feat. Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner, Mason Gooding…
- For best friends Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) and Hunter (Virginia Gardner), life is all about conquering fears and pushing limits. But after they…
- Merkel (2022)
- Dir. Eva Weber
- A fittingly admirable portrait of the one of the great diplomats of modern times, Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany for sixteen years, and most…
- Quiet Girl, The (An Cailín Ciúin) (2022)
- Dir. Colm Bairead
Feat. Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett…
- An exquisite rites–of–passage drama filmed mostly in the Irish/Gaelic language, it is the very definition of a literary pastoral that…
- She Said (2022)
- Dir. Maria Schrader
Feat. Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan, Jennifer Ehle…
- Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) and Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) star in this excellent dramatisation of the true story of New York Times…
- Whina (2022)
- Dir. James Napier Robertson, Paula Jones
Feat. Miriama McDowell, Rena Owen, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne…
- A biopic of the trailblazing female Maori leader, Dame Whina Cooper, whose extraordinary life saw her break gender boundaries, champion innovation,…
- Black Widow (2021)
- Dir. Cate Shortland
Feat. Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour…
- Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow gets deserved time in the spotlight in this belated, but very much welcomed, Marvel movie.
Set before the events…
- Cousins (2021)
- Dir. Ainsley Gardiner, Briar Grace-Smith
Feat. Tanea Heke, Ana Scotney, Te Raukura Gray…
- Powerful Kiwi drama from the directors of WARU, following the intertwining lives of three Maori women who are cousins.
While one of them is…