Subgenre Sampler
Rental > : 24514 Films to Rent
Road to Jerusalem + Roaring Forties (1997)
- Dir. Bruce Morrison
- Affectionate biography/homage tracing the life of the late great NZ poet James K Baxter. Admirable recitals of his verse complement many candid…
Road to Nhill (1997)
- Dir. Sue Brooks
Feat. Tony Barry, Vikki Blanche, Paul Chubb…
- A ripple of effect sweeps through a tiny Australian country town after four elderly women get trapped in their upturned Falcon on their way home from…
Robinson in Space (1997)
- Dir. Patrick Keiller
Feat. Paul Scofield
- Following up his widely–noted documentary LONDON, dir. Keiller again hits the road with his anonymous alter ego (voiceover by Paul Scofield)…
Ronin (1997)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone…
- Perfunctory caper round the grey streets of Paris stuffs as much car–chasing and other cliches as possible into its baggy plot concerning…
Rosewood (1997)
- Dir. John Singleton
Feat. Ving Rhames, Jon Voight, Don Cheadle…
- A black community in 1920s Florida is plagued by mobs of local rednecks in this impassioned melodrama from Dir. John Singleton's ('Boyz in the…
Russia's War - Blood Upon The Snow (1997)
- Exhaustive 10–part series that traces Stalin's rise to power, his association with Hitler and Soviet involvement in the Second World War,…
Saint, The (1997)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija…
- Val Kilmer's reincarnation of 'The Saint' only vaguely resembles the original character played by Roger Moore and Iain Ogilvy. There is considerable…
Sarabande (1997)
- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Lori Singer, Don McKellar
- The dramatic entry in the 'Inspired by Bach' series in which renowned cellist Yo Yo Ma collaborates with an artist in another medium. Finding perfect…
Saving Grace (1997)
- Dir. Costa Botes
Feat. Kirsty Hamilton, Jim Moriarty
- A kind of Jesus of Upper Cuba Street, this adaptation of Duncan Sarkies' stageplay ambitiously hammers a drama of poverty in inner–city…
Scream 2 (1997)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette…
- Neve Campbell and friends get revisited by another round of cell–phone threats, masked stalkers and spotty, self–referential…