Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8087 Films to Buy & Rent
Penance (TV Mini-series) (2020)
- Feat. Julie Graham, Nico Mirallegro, Neil Morrissey…
- 3–part TV miniseries which replaces the male gaze with that of a mother who, grieving for her son's death, struggles with maelstrom of emotions…
Penguin Bloom (2020)
- Dir. Glendyn Ivin
Feat. Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln, Jackie Weaver…
- The luminous Naomi Watts leads this gracious Australian drama as the mother of three boys who take in an injured Magpie after she suffers a…
Plot Against America, The (TV Mini-series) (2020)
- Dir. Thomas Schlamme
Feat. Winona Ryder, Anthony Boyle, Zoe Kazan…
- Created by David Simon (THE WIRE) and Ed Burns, this HBO mini–series adapts Philip Roth's 2004 prescient novel of the same name imagining an…
Promising Young Woman (2020)
- Dir. Emerald Fennell
Feat. Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie…
- Carey Mulligan is sensational as the 'promising young woman' who contrives an elaborate scheme to avenge for a traumatizing past event in this…
Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020)
- Dir. Jasmila Zbanic
Feat. Jasna Djuricic, Johan Heldenbergh
- A devastating, personal account of a nightmarish dilemma for a wife and mother working as a translator between the UN, the Serbian aggressors and…
Rams (2020)
- Dir. Jeremy Sims
Feat. Sam Neill, Michael Caton, Miranda Richardson…
- Aussie re–imagining of the hit Icelandic comedy RAMS (2016), with Sam Neill the obvious choice to play a farmer in a decades long war with his…
Resistance (2020)
- Dir. Jonathan Jakubowicz
Feat. Jesse Eisenberg, Clemence Poesy, Géza Röhrig…
- Handsomely mounted biopic based on the life of Marcel Marceau. Jesse Eisenberg impresses as the mime artist who fought for the French Jewish…
Reunion (2020)
- Dir. Jake Mahaffy
Feat. Julia Ormond, Emma Draper, John Bach…
- Beautifully–lensed NZ horror shot in a grand old mansion in Lower Hutt, following an academic studying black magic (Emma Draper, DAFFODILS) who…
Richard Jewell (2020)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm…
- A powerful biopic from the dependably compelling American story–teller Clint Eastwood, about Richard Jewell, the man who saved countless lives…
Rosa's Wedding (2020)
- Feat. Candela Pena, Sergi Lopez, Nathalie Poza…
- Delightful Spanish comedy about a hard–working seamstress in her mid–40's who decides to turn her life around after spending years…