Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > Arts & Artists: 131 Films to Rent
- Factory Girl (2006)
- Dir. George Hickenlooper
Feat. Sienna Miller, Hayden Christensen, Guy Pearce…
- Sienna Miller plays the ill–fated Warhol 'superstar' Edie Sedgwick in this flashy, precocious portrait of her rise and fall out of the New York…
- Fur (2006)
- Dir. Steven Shainberg
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jnr.
- Taking fictional liberties with the real–life character of revered New York photographer Diane Arbus, the dir. of SECRETARY fashions another…
- Goya's Ghosts (2006)
- Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgard…
- A lavish, if ill–designed costume epic based around Spanish artist Francisco Goya (Skarsgard), his closest acquaintances, and the eventful late…
- Impressionists, The (TV Mini-series) (2006)
- Dir. Tim Dunn
Feat. Richard Armitage, Andrew Havill, Julian Glover…
- A mini–series presentation of the intimate history of a most illustrious brotherhood of Impressionist artists – Monet, Degas, Renoir,…
- Miss Potter (2006)
- Dir. Chris Noonan
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson
- Charming biopic tells the tale of Beatrix Potter – specifically the story of the woman behind the drawings – and her fixation from a…
- Tenants, The (2006)
- Dir. Danny Green
Feat. Dylan McDermott, Snoop Dogg, Rose Byrne…
- Gripping drama about two ambitious writers – one black, one white – who spar in an abandoned New York tenement block.
McDermott plays…
- Junebug (2005)
- Dir. Phil Morrison
Feat. Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola, Amy Adams…
- An enchanting indie gem about an art–dealer whose pursuit of an 'outsider artist' in backwoods North Carolina prompts various life crises,…
- Klimt (2005)
- Dir. Raul Ruiz
Feat. John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Stephen Dillane…
- Chilean director Raul Ruiz' typically idiosyncratic biopic about the life of the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) told in a series of…
- Brother to Brother (2004)
- Dir. Rodney Evans
Feat. Anthony Mackie, Larry Gilliard, Jr, Duane Boutte…
- Heartfelt drama delves deep into the quagmire of identity politics in its depiction of the challenges faced by gay black artists in America set both…
- Modigliani (2004)
- Dir. Mick Davis
Feat. Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein
- The debauched final years of painter Amedeo Modigliani (Garcia) – he of the famous paintings of almond–eyed women – are conveyed…