Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Cult: 45 Films to Rent
- Fight Club (1999)
- Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Edward Norton, Brad Pitt
- Those grim forebodings of the pre–millennial zeitgeist form a backdrop to this flawed but thoroughly unique thriller–satire.
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- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman…
- With just his second film, Quentin Tarantino not only became a household name but a massive cultural phenomenon.
He miraculously surpasses…
- Reflecting Skin, The (1990)
- Dir. Philip Ridley
Feat. Viggo Mortensen
- An eerie and perverse tale of a young boy's unsettling experiences growing up in the prairie farmlands of Idaho, where the adults are weird and the…
- Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, The (1989)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Helen Mirren, Tim Roth, Michael Gambon
- Greenaway combines the best elements of his previous work into one illustrious concoction of charcoal humour, explicit violence, awe–inspiring…
- Blue Velvet (1986)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern…
- David Lynch's ground–breaking, brilliantly controlled work tells the story of a pure teenager (Kyle Maclachlan) whose curiosity embroils him in…
- Night of the Comet (1984)
- Dir. Thom Eberhardt
Feat. Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Beltran, Kelli Maroney
- Terrific B–movie where a comet hits earth and two surviving valley girls must fight the resulting cannibal zombie apocalypse. Trashy in all the…
- Star Trek III - The Search for Spock (1984)
- Dir. Leonard Nimoy
Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley…
- Leonard Nimoy himself directed this continuation of 'The Wrath of Khan', in which the crew set out to rescue Spock from Kurge (Christopher Lloyd).…
- Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
- Dir. Godfrey Reggio
- This unique visual and aural masterpiece looks at our earth and 20th Century 'progress' through the eye of time–lapse camera. The…
- Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan (1982)
- Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley…
- The Enterprise crew are back to do battle with Kirk's old enemy Khan, as he takes control of a Federation Starship. Nice touches of humour and…
- Escape from New York (1981)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine…
- 1997 New York is a huge maximum–security prison where the President's plane just happens to crash! Futuristic actioner notable for its sardonic…