Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Independent: 127 Films to Rent on VHS
- Denise Calls Up (1996)
- Dir. Hal Selwen
Feat. Alannah Ubach, Tim Daly
- Twee New York low–budget indie in which six people, most of whom have never met, conduct the gamut of human relations using only the telephone.…
- Dogs (Dogs: The Rise and Fall of an All-Girl Bookie Joint) (1996)
- Dir. Eve Annenburg
Feat. Pam Columbus, Pam Gray, Melody Beal…
- Four Brooklyn women opt for a life of running an illegal bookie joint, over the dead–end, unemployed lifestyle of the local area. In her debut,…
- Driftwood (1996)
- Dir. Ronan O'Leary
Feat. James Spader
- A washed–up, amnesiac James Spader is beachcombed in remote Ireland by borderline obsessive Anne Brochet, who gets rather possessive when he…
- Feeling Minnesota (1996)
- Dir. Steve Baigelman
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz, Vincent D'Onofrio…
- Another in a line of sorry tales of violence, aimlessness and broken dreams, this represents everything that was bad about independent (American)…
- Get On the Bus (1996)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Danny Glover, Will Smith, Wesley Snipes
- A highly combustible mixed–bag of black men journey by bus to the Million Man March in Washington DC, a march of affirmation for a troubled…
- Girl 6 (1996)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Theresa Randle, Madonna, Naomi Campbell…
- Spike Lee's risque fable of the phone sex and role–playing favours glamour over substance, so treat it like a black SHOWGIRLS with phones.…
- Girls Town (1996)
- Dir. Jim McKay
Feat. Lili Taylor, Idina Harris, Anna Grace
- Winner of both the Filmmaker's Trophy and the Special Jury prize at Sundance, this little seen film was one of genuine highlights of the 1997 NZ Film…
- God's Lonely Man (1996)
- Dir. Francis Von Zerneck
Feat. Michael Wyle, Jamie Walters
- The story of St. Francis of Assisi is loosely transposed to the underbelly of modern LA – a redemption–seeking nervous loner befriends a…
- Jason's Lyric (1996)
- Dir. Doug McHenry
Feat. Allen Payne, Jada Pinkett Smith, Forest Whitaker…
- If you can't get enough boys in the 'hood, there's plenty of bloodshed and moral penance to be found in this tale of doomed lovers struggling to…
- Keeper, The (1996)
- Dir. Joe Brewster
Feat. Giancarlo Esposito, Isaach de Bankole, Regina Taylor…
- An idealistic black corrections officer bails out and offers shelter to a Haitian immigrant unjustly accused of rape, a gesture that will profoundly…