Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8088 Films to Buy & Rent
On a Clear Day (2005)
- Dir. Gaby Dellal
Feat. Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Sean McGinley…
- Smoothly delivered feelgooder has Peter Mullan (MY NAME IS JOE) playing a middle–aged Glaswegian dockworker who decides to affirm himself and…
Once You're Born (Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti) (2005)
- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
Feat. Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti
- Frank Italian adventure by acclaimed director Marco Tullio Giordana (THE BEST OF YOUTH) telling the coming–of–age story of a wealthy…
One Stays, One Leaves (L' un reste, l'autre part) (2005)
- Dir. Claude Berri
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nathalie Baye…
- Witty French comedy with an undercurrent of angst in which two philandering middle–aged husbands do their utmost to juggle fresh–faced…
Opal Dream (2005)
- Dir. Peter Cattaneo
Feat. Vince Colosimo, Jacqueline McKenzie
- Semi–precious gem of a family drama about a precocious 10–year–old girl in Australian 'opal country', who wreaks a cute brand of…
Over There (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Josh Henderson, Luke MacFarlane, Erik Palladino
- Demanding Iraqi War excursion from Steven Bochco (NYPD BLUE) focuses on a US army unit’s dispatch to Iraq. Light on politics, this nevertheless…
Pierrepoint (The Last Hangman) (2005)
- Dir. Adrian Shergold
Feat. Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson
- Timothy Spall is typically excellent in this biopic of Albert Pierrepoint, who had an alarmingly prolific career as a state hangman in pre– and…
Point Pleasant (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Elisabeth Harnois, Grant Show
- Short–lived, mildly cultish series may interest BUFFY fans as a brief alternative: it concerns a mysterious girl who washes up on the shoreline…
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
- Dir. Joe Wright
Feat. Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Brenda Blethyn…
- Well–groomed incarnation of Jane Austen's early 19th century novel in which five sisters, whose family is down on their means, must navigate…
Princesses (Princesas) (2005)
- Dir. Fernando León de Aranoa
Feat. Candela Pena, Micaela Nevarez
- A raw, heartfelt slice of social realism on Spain's unforgiving streets, this authentic drama about the tenuous friendship between two women who…
Proof (2005)
- Dir. John Madden
Feat. Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal…
- An elegant adaptation of David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play, with Gwyneth Paltrow reprising her London stage role as the grieving…