Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8101 Films to Buy & Rent
Augustus (TV Mini-Series) (2003)
- Dir. Roger Young
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Charlotte Rampling
- Peter O'Toole takes on the role of Augustus Caesar in this refreshing series focusing on the time when Augustus stepped into his adopted father's…
Barbarian Invasions, The (2003)
- Dir. Denys Arcand
Feat. Remy Girard, Stephane Rousseau, Dorothee Berryman…
- Another finely–wrought drama from French–Canadian dir. Denys Arcand, who invests his keen sense of history, politics, literature and sex…
Battle of Shaker Heights, The (2003)
- Dir. Efram Potelle, Kyle Rankin
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Elden Henson, Amy Smart…
- This product of the "Project Greenlight" film–making reality–TV is a a light but engaging story of a young war–reenactment…
Best of Youth, The (La Meglio gioventù) (2003)
- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Sprawling and heady Italian saga tracks the lives of two brothers through the idealistic dreams of the 1960s and the long messy aftermath of…
Between the Sheets (TV Mini Series) (2003)
- Feat. Brenda Blethyn, Richard Armitage, Alun Armstrong
- A well–to–do housewife, unhappy in marriage, rediscovers the joy of sex after a passionate encounter with a much younger man. A frank,…
Beyond Borders (2003)
- Dir. Martin Campbell
Feat. Clive Owen, Angelina Jolie, Teri Polo…
- An underrated romantic drama in which a bored American woman (Jolie) falls in with a compassionate aid–worker who works in war ravaged…
Blackjack (TV Series) (2003-2007)
- Dir. Peter Andrikidis
Feat. Colin Friels, Vince Colosimo, Kate Beahan…
- Tenacious Aussie crime series centred on a detective banished to work in the police archives section, who uses his new surrounds to solve long…
Blind Flight (2003)
- Dir. John Furse
Feat. Ian Hart, Linus Roache
- True story of the 4–year kidnapping in 80s Lebanon of Irishman Brian Keenan and Englishman John McCarthy, given an affecting depth by its…
Bloom (2003)
- Dir. Sean Walsh
Feat. Stephen Rea, Angeline Ball, Hugh O'Conor…
- The second attempt at adaptating James Joyce's famously 'difficult' novel "Ulysses" is more ambitious (and successsful) than the 1967 version at…
Blue Murder (TV Series) (2003)
- Feat. Caroline Quentin
- Pragmatic crime series featuring British comedian Caroline Quentin as a detective at the top of her game, trying to juggle her demanding career and…