Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8101 Films to Buy & Rent
Remember Me (Ricordati di Me) (2003)
- Dir. Gabriel Muccino
Feat. Fabrizzio Bentivoglio, Laura Morante, Monica Bellucci
- The dir. of THE LAST KISS constructs an equally heightened melodrama about the saga of a middle–class Italian family, their various personal…
Return, The (Vozvrashcheniye) (2003)
- Dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev
Feat. Ivan Dobronravov, Vladimir Garin, Konstantin Lavronenko…
- A surprise arthouse hit about a couple of teenage brothers who are taken on a mysterious trip by their estranged and rather surly father, with his…
Return, The (2003)
- Dir. Dermot Boyd
Feat. Julie Walters, Neil Dudgeon, Ger Ryan
- An affecting performance from Julie Walters enlivens an otherwise routine drama concerning a woman's release from prison after the murder of her…
Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The (2003)
- Dir. Robert Allan Ackerman
Feat. Helen Mirren, Olivier Martinez, Anne Bancroft…
- Reasonably solid telemovie version of Tennessee Williams' only novel, with Mirren here playing the aging actress lured into an affair after the…
Room, The (2003)
- Dir. Tommy Wiseau
Feat. Tommy Wiseau, Juliette Danielle, Greg Sestero
- Famously terrible melodrama turned cult phenomenon that has cashed in handsomely on its reputation of being "one of the worst film's ever made".…
Rosemary & Thyme (TV Series) (2003)
- Dir. Tom Clegg
Feat. Pam Ferris, Felicity Kendal
- Utterly peculiar crime series follows two disenchanted botanists – Rosemary, a sacked horticulture lecturer, and Laura, a police officer separated…
Rosenstrasse (2003)
- Dir. Margarethe von Trotta
Feat. Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Martin Feifel
- Fact–based drama set around the wartime protest movement of Aryan German women in 1943 Berlin, who were distraught at the forced detention of…
Rules of Attraction, The (2003)
- Dir. Roger Avary
Feat. James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Kate Bosworth…
- James Van Der Beek tries mightily to shake off his clean–idol image in this unruly and unattractive black comedy about an over–privileged…
Runaway Jury (2003)
- Dir. Gary Fleder
Feat. John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman…
- It's back to court with John Grisham, in a well–cast, entertaining tale of gun–control issues, jury–manipulation, big business and…
Saddest Music in the World, The (2003)
- Dir. Guy Maddin
Feat. Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros…
- Another stunning tableaux from dir. Maddin's ongoing series of fantasies inspired by the musty, spectral qualities of early cinema, this time setting…