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Subgenre Sampler
Nurse Betty (2000)
- Dir. Neil LaBute
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock… - Part fairy–tale comedy, part edgy thriller, this perhaps qualifies as the perfect date movie. Due to the trauma of witnessing her…
O (Othello) (2000)- Dir. Tim Blake Nelson
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles - Continuing recent trends, this ‘updating’ of Shakespeare’s ”Othello” transfers the dialogue and setting into the US schoolyard, where Josh…
One Hundred Steps, The (I Cento Passi) (2000)- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Expansive, fact–based drama set around a young man's fight against local mafiosos in the small Sicilian village of Cinisi in the…
Original Sin (2000)- Dir. Michael Cristofer
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie - Candlelit plantation melodrama set in late 19th century Cuba, that ignites a ‘sight–unseen’ marriage between owner Antonio Banderas and…
Our Lady of the Assassins (la Virgen de los Sicarios) (2000)- Dir. Barbet Schroeder
Feat. Anderson Ballesteros, Juan David Restrepo - A middle aged author returns to his native Colombian village to find that it has been overrun by violence and corruption. After his young male lover…
Panic (2000)- Dir. Henry Bromell
Feat. William H. Macy, Neve Campbell, Tracey Ullman… - There is more than meets the eye in this curiously pitched black comedy concerning a well–dressed contract killer (Macy) who seeks refuge from…
Pledge, The (2000)- Dir. Sean Penn
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright, Helen Mirren… - Sean Penn as director's pledge to the stuff of raw drama pays off with a thriller/parable centred round a powerhouse turn from Jack Nicholson. As…
Princess and the Warrior, The (2000)- Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Franke Potente - Follow–up and companion piece to dir. Tykwer’s RUN LOLA RUN, is a 'Snow White'–inspired tale of a psychiatric nurse who is hit by a…
Proof of Life (2000)- Dir. Taylor Hackford
Feat. Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse - South American ransom thriller with Meg Ryan seeking to extricate her rich husband (David Morse) from the jungle, and Russell Crowe as the…
Rancid Aluminium (2000)- Dir. Edward Thomas
Feat. Rhys Ifans, Joseph Fiennes, Tara Fitzgerald… - A minor Britcrime thriller that, despite some amateurish production, has its own peculiar vein of comedy that may strike one as quite amusing in the…
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