Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Cult > Drama: 148 Films to Rent
- Deep End (1970)
- Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
Feat. Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Diana Dors
- Remarkable, darkly comic story of 15–year–old Mike who takes a job at the local swimming baths and becomes obsessed with a beautiful…
- Harold and Maude (1970)
- Dir. Hal Ashby
Feat. Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon
- Much adored black comedy about a lonely teenager who befriends an old woman who shares his morbid fascination, among other interests. This cult hit…
- Trash (1970)
- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn
- Only the inimitable Joe Dallesandro could play a drug–addicted loser with a sex problem and still come off cool. Holly Woodlawn and other…
- Walkabout (1970)
- Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. David Gulpilil
- An English schoolgirl and her brother end up abandoned by their father in the Australian Outback, before meeting Aboriginal boy David Gulpilil. Dir.…
- Wanda (1970)
- Dir. Barbara Loden
Feat. Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins
- The sole writing/directing credit of Barbara Loden, whose command of verite storytelling is matched by her own astonishing performance as a feckless…
- All the Right Noises (1969)
- Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Olivia Hussey, Tom Bell, John Standing…
- The story of a young married man who has an affair with a teenage girl, this forms part of a peculiarly 1960s British wave of films exploring such…
- Medium Cool (1969)
- Dir. Haskell Wexler
- Filmed against the backdrop of the Democratic National convention in 1968 Chicago, this remarkable directorial effort by renowned cinematographer…
- Model Shop (1969)
- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Anouk Aimee, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay
- A mesmerizing, shamefully neglected stateside film from French New Wave director Jacques Demy that follows an aimless, unemployed architect who ends…
- Faces (1968)
- Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin
- A marriage in crisis lurches into a downward spiral of drunkeness and desperate affairs. The dishevelled honesty and stark camerawork may not suit…
- If.... (1968)
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Malcolm McDowell, Richard Warwick, Mona Washbourne…
- An angry yet sublimely poetic counter–cultural work in which events both real and imagined culminate in a violent revolt at a repressive public…