Subgenre Sampler
Politics: 627 Films to Buy & Rent
When the Levees Broke - A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
- Dir. Spike Lee
- Powerful, enraging chronicle of this century’s first great natural disaster, and the man–made catastrophe that unfolded post–Hurricane…
Wind That Shakes the Barley, The (2006)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Gerard Kearney
- Thoroughly gripping Cannes winner from "kitchen sink" exponent Ken Loach, retelling with parochial force Ireland's tumultuous twenties, where the…
American Dad (TV Series) (2005)
- More politically–inclined satire from the creator of THE FAMILY GUY (Seth MacFarlane), set around a CIA operative with a very strange family…
Archangel (TV Mini-Series) (2005)
- Dir. Jon Jones
Feat. Daniel Craig, Yekaterina Rednikova
- Biting thriller based on the Robert Harris novel, with Daniel Craig taking on the role of an academic thrust into darkest post–war Russia to…
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
- Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson…
- Cillian Murphy glitters in this whimsical drama as an Irish transgender escort during the social and political upheaval of the 70s.
Despite the…
Churchill's Bodyguard (2005)
- Imposing, unprecedented memoir of the life and times of Winston Churchill, adapted from the diaries of his stoic bodyguard, Walter H.…
Commander in Chief (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Geena Davis, Donald Sutherland, Bruce Boxleitner…
- Excellent WEST WING–style political drama has Geena Davis depict an imagined first woman President of the USA, an independent senator who is…
Excellent Cadavers (2005)
- Dir. Marco Turco
- The hush–hush war between Sicily’s mafia and the prosecutors who slept with the fishes is recounted in this fascinating documentary, an ideal…
Girl in the Cafe, The (2005)
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. Bill Nighy, Kelly MacDonald
- Richard Curtis (LOVE ACTUALLY) penned this second–chances romance with a mild political streak, where an aging civil servant strikes up an…
Interpreter, The (2005)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener…
- A topical thriller embroiled in the thorny issues of African politics (with obvious allusions to Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe), this is a slick,…