Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8108 Films to Buy & Rent
What is Love? (Quale Amore) (2006)
- Dir. Maurizio Sciarra
Feat. Giorgio Pasotti, Arnoldo Foa, Vanessa Incontrada…
- Sullen adaptation of Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata" has jealous Pasotti recount how he murdered his wife. Good looking film features some accomplished…
What the Bleep!? - Down the Rabbit Hole (2006)
- Dir. William Arntz, Betsy Chasse
Feat. Marlee Matlin
- A sequel–recut of WHAT THE BLEEP? which again presents an New Age spread of provocative comparisons between the theories of quantum physics and…
Who Loves The Sun (2006)
- Dir. Matt Bissonnette
Feat. Lukas Haas, Molly Parker, Adam Scott
- Subtle reunion drama, with Lukas Haas reacquainting with his best friend–turned–successful novelist (Scott) and estranged former wife…
Wild at Heart (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Stephen Tompkinson, Amanda Holden
- Gratifying drama series following the adventures of a middle class British family who travel to the wilds of Africa with their veterinarian father…
Wind That Shakes the Barley, The (2006)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Gerard Kearney
- Thoroughly gripping Cannes winner from "kitchen sink" exponent Ken Loach, retelling with parochial force Ireland's tumultuous twenties, where the…
Winter's Tale, The (2006)
- Dir. Dominic Cooke
Feat. Sir Antony Sher
- The Royal Shakepeare Company's 2006 adaptation of one of Shakespeare's 'problem' plays is, as you would expect, a vibrant, perfectly studied affair,…
World Trade Center (2006)
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal…
- Powerful and gripping rendering of the plight of two NYC cops who became trapped in the rubble of the collapsing World Trade Center in the 9/11…
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
- Dir. Goran Dukic
Feat. Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Tom Waits…
- Wilfully eccentric suicide comedy (!?) set in a warped and washed–out afterlife inhabited solely by suiciders, in which a young no–hoper…
3 Needles (2005)
- Dir. Thom Fitzgerald
Feat. Chloe Sevigny, Lucy Liu, Stockard Channing…
- Three globally sprawling dramas about the A.I.D.S. crisis set in South Africa, China and Canada. Attempting to replicate the effect TRAFFIC had on…
50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (2005)
- Dir. Stewart Main
Feat. Rima Te Wiata
- Rural New Zealand forms a stylised background to this unusual rites–of–passage drama which combines whimsy, pathos and cruelty for a…