Subgenre Sampler
Road Movie: 273 Films to Buy & Rent
Siam Sunset (1999)
- Dir. John Polson
Feat. Linus Roache, Danielle Cormack
- Bright brain candy that puts a surreal, antipodean tilt on road–movie/black comedy familiarities, with dazed Brit Linus Roache suffering an…
Central Station (1998)
- Dir. Walter Salles
Feat. Fernanda Montenegro
- A cantankerous woman who writes letters for the illiterate at Rio De Janeiro's train station obliges to help a 9–year–old boy locate his…
Perdita Durango (1998)
- Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem
- Derivative English language debut from the promising director of Spanish cult faves ACCION MUTANTE and DAY OF THE BEAST.
Typical of writer Barry…
Smoke Signals (1998)
- Dir. Chris Eyre
Feat. Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard
- Entirely made and funded by Native American Indians, this is both a fresh, palpably authentic portrait of a minority culture and an engrossing…
American Perfekt (1997)
- Dir. Paul Chart
Feat. Robert Forster, Amanda Plummer, David Thewlis
- The most familiar of premises, an American desert road–trip entangling three motorists with a series of mysterious killings is elevated by an…
Breakdown (1997)
- Dir. Jonathan Mostow
Feat. Kurt Russell, Kathleen Quinlan, J.T. Walsh
- With Kurt Russell driving and Kathleen Quinlan in the passenger seat, buckle up for a tight, lean car–trip thriller that heads out across…
Dream with the Fishes (1997)
- Dir. Finn Taylor
Feat. David Arquette, Brad Hunt
- Its 'indie' Americana revisited – two mismatched loners on the ultra–hip road to oblivion or redemption – whichever comes first. …
I Went Down (1997)
- Dir. Paddy Breathnach
Feat. Peter McDonald, Antoine Byrne, David Wilmot…
- Irish filmmakers lift a few steps from the TRAINSPOTTING lads and the Coen Bros for this deadpan skid into misadventure, amongst a crew of criminal…
Kiss or Kill (1997)
- Dir. Bill Bennett
Feat. Frances O’Connor, Matt Day
- Many critics confounded our suspicions that this was going to be yet another vapid, pretentious, cheap–shot road–movie that exploits the…
Life Less Ordinary, A (1997)
- Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter
- Round three for the creators of SHALLOW GRAVE and TRAINSPOTTING this time takes Ewan McGregor Stateside for a screwball comic–fantasy embroided…