Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Cult > Drama: 148 Films to Rent
- Night Porter, The (1974)
- Dir. Liliana Cavani
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling
- Bizarre yet sensual melodrama about an ex–gestapo officer who resumes a sado–masochistic affair with his Jewish former–prisoner.…
- Steppenwolf (1974)
- Feat. Max von Sydow, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clementi
- A strange yet spiritually faithful adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel about a solitary intellectual in 1920's Germany who is a half–human,…
- Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)
- Dir. Peter Medak
Feat. Alan Bates, Janet Suzman
- Rewarding black comedy stars Alan Bates and Janet Suzman as a couple with an autistic child whom they consider mercy–killing. Bizarre yet…
- Harder They Come, The (1972)
- Dir. Perry Henzell
Feat. Jimmy Cliff, Carl Bradshaw
- A classic that has found lasting significance as a music film, political film, and above all as a unique, authentic product of Jamaica. A young,…
- Heat (1972)
- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Sylvia Miles, Joe Dallesandro
- A great trash drama, this is the most polished production of all the Warhol–esqe features, with a bravura performance from Sylvia Miles. It's…
- Evel Knievel (1971)
- Dir. Marvin J. Chomsky
Feat. George Hamilton, Sue Lyon
- Low–budget drive–in movie version of the famed motorcycle stuntman’s life, growing up in Montana to be comes the world’s most famous…
- Music Lovers, The (1971)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson
- A wonderfully audacious film fantasia based on the life of Russian composer Tchaikovsky, the homosexual who married a nymphomaniac! Richard…
- Punishment Park (1971)
- Dir. Peter Watkins
- Extraordinary, 'fictionalised' docu–drama from the unique and largely unheralded talent of British director Peter Watkins, portraying the…
- Vanishing Point (1971)
- Dir. Richard Serafian
Feat. Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger…
- A loner accepts a challenge to drive his Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours, with the fuzz in pursuit and help from blind DJ,…
- Catch 22 (1970)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Alan Arkin, Jon Voight, Orson Welles
- An acerbic anti–war statement based on the much–hailed novel about a WW2 fighter pilot's reluctance to fight, in order to preserve his…