Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Female-centric: 382 Films to Buy & Rent
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
- Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Matthew Broderick, Campbell Scott
- Jennifer Jason Leigh lends her perfectly mannered precision to Dorothy Parker, anguished writer, poet and lonely socialite who merrily drowned her…
My Crazy Life (Mi Vida Loca) (1994)
- Dir. Allison Anders
Feat. Angel Aviles, Seidy Lopez, Jacob Vargas
- Latino, girl–centic spin on BOYZ 'N THE HOOD from the director of GAS, FOOD, LODGING derives its script from anecdotes from real gang girls and…
Oleanna (1994)
- Dir. David Mamet
Feat. Debra Eisenstadt, William H. Macy
- David Mamet brings his penetrating tete–a–tete about sexual agendas from the stage to screen in purely theatrical form. Stay with its…
Only the Brave (1994)
- Dir. Ana Kokkinos
Feat. Elena Mandalis, Dora Kaskanis, Maud Davey
- Gritty portrait of a bleak rite–of–passage for two Greek girls in the wasteland of suburban Melbourne. Succinct feature possesses a…
Serving in Silence (1994)
- Dir. Jeff Bleckner
Feat. Glenn Close, Judy Davis
- Glenn Close and Judy Davis star in this biopic of Margarethe Cammermeyer, an exemplary colonel of the US military who was forced to fight for her…
Silences of the Palace (1994)
- Dir. Moufida Tlatli
Feat. Amel Hedhili, Hend Sabri, Najia Ouerghi…
- The daughter of a palatial servant reflects on her upbringing and steady revolt of her birthright obligations.
Impassioned look at the status of…
Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
- Dir. Maggie Greenwald
Feat. Suzy Amis
- Suzy Amis is terrific as a cowgirl who masquerades as a man in order to realise her fiercely independent dreams. A refreshing revision of the Wild…
Bandit Queen (1993)
- Dir. Shekhar Kapur
Feat. Seema Biswas
- Far and away from the innocuous fluff that dominates India's film industry, comes this bold, controversial true story of Phoolan Devi, a notorious…
Bhaji On the Beach (1993)
- Dir. Gurinder Chadha
Feat. Kim Vithana, Jimmi Harkishin, Sarita Khajuria
- Warm and energetic comedy joins a mini–bus full of Indian women on a day–trip to Blackpool. The first Asian woman to helm a Brit feature…
Bread and Roses (1993)
- Dir. Gaylene Preston
Feat. Genevieve Picot
- A gracious tribute to the post–war generation of New Zealand women, Gaylene Preston does a job worthy of her forebears in charting the early…