Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 5810 Films to Buy & Rent
Beautiful Creatures (2013)
- Dir. Richard LaGravenese
Feat. Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons…
- A young man is drawn to a mysterious new arrival whose family possess secret supernatural powers in this vivid adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret…
Mt. Zion (2013)
- Dir. Te Arepa Kahi
Feat. Stan Walker, Temuera Morrison, Miriama Smith
- Singer Stan Walker plays a humble potato picker who dreams of performing the opening act to Bob Marley and the Wailers’ 1979 Auckland concert, in…
Safe Haven (2013)
- Dir. Lasse Hallstrom
Feat. Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel, David Lyons…
- The Nicholas Sparks juggernaut rolls on, here delivering the calculated slow–reveal of an airport novel in its story of a mysterious woman who…
33 Postcards (2012)
- Dir. Pauline Chan
Feat. Guy Pearce, Zhu Lin, Claudia Karvan…
- An affecting, small scale drama of redemption, with Guy Pearce playing a jailed businessman whose sponsored Chinese orphan arrives in Sydney to meet…
Anna Karenina (2012)
- Dir. Joe Wright
Feat. Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Kelly MacDonald…
- Costume drama artisan Joe Wright boldly directs this Tom Stoppard scripted adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic tale of Russian aristocracy.
Arbitrage (2012)
- Dir. Nicholas Jarecki
Feat. Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling…
- Sleek drama with "silver fox" Richard Gere in fine form as a troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire before…
Argo (2012)
- Dir. Ben Affleck
Feat. Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin…
- Oscar–winning thriller based on the fact–based story of a CIA agent's unconventional plans to rescue six American diplomats during the…
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
- Dir. Benh Zeitlin
Feat. Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry
- An acclaimed dramatic fantasy centred on a motherless child who, together with her hard–drinking father and a group of loveable rogues,…
Being Flynn (2012)
- Dir. Paul Weitz
Feat. Robert De Niro, Paul Dano, Julianne Moore…
- Paul Dano, a struggling writer assisting the homeless, is forced to confront his estranged father (De Niro) when he shows up at a shelter in this…
Bel Ami (2012)
- Dir. Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod
Feat. Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas…
- Parisian set bodice–ripper with Robert Pattinson brooding his way through the boudoirs of the city's wealthy women.