Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8101 Films to Buy & Rent
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
- Dir. Peter Webber
Feat. Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson…
- A superior dramatic conceit that speculates on the background to Johannes Vermeer's enigmatic 17th century portrait of the title.
Johannson plays…
Going for Broke (2003)
- Dir. Graeme Campbell
Feat. Delta Burke, Gerald McRaney, Elliot Page
- A superior telemovie about a woman's spiralling gambling addiction.
Delta Burke gets hooked to the slot–machine buzz, managing to lose her…
Good Fences (2003)
- Dir. Ernest Dickerson
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Mo'Nique
- Instructive race–relations telemovie about the stresses of prejudice on an upwardly mobile black family in the white, affluent suburb of…
Good Morning, Night (2003)
- Dir. Marco Bellocchio
- A dramatisation of events surrounding the kidnapping and murder of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978 by The Red Brigades, as seen through the…
Good Pope, The (Il Papa Buono) (2003)
- Dir. Rick Tognazzi
Feat. Bob Hoskins
- Pope John XXIII – the 'Good Pope' – was perhaps the most progressive and influential of the Catholic church's 20th century…
Goodbye Lenin! (2003)
- Dir. Wolfgang Becker
Feat. Daniel Bruhl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova
- This comedy of concealment set around the fall of the Berlin Wall was a justifiable success around the world, with a bittersweet mood of political…
Helen of Troy (Mini Series) (2003)
- Dir. John Harrison
Feat. Rufus Sewell, Stellan Skarsgard, John Rhys-Davies…
- Combining various Greek legends into a grand composite tale, the stories of Helen, Agamemnon, Paris and Troy are reasonably well–served in this…
Hitler - The Rise of Evil (2003)
- Dir. Christian Duguay
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Peter O'Toole…
- Somewhat controversial account of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, attempting to fathom his potential for evil–doing.
An only…
Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Classics: From 1983 to 1986 (The Boys From Fengkuei; A Summer at Grandpa's; A Time to Live, A Time to Die; Dust in the Wind) (2003)
- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- A collection of four of the early films from director Hou Hsiao–Hsien, who is a leading figure in the Taiwanese New Wave.
The Boys From…
House of Sand and Fog (2003)
- Dir. Vadim Perelman
Feat. Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Frances Fisher…
- Essentially a showdown over the ownership of a house between an abandoned wife and a stoic Iranian immigrant, this throws up a compelling, if foggy,…