Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8108 Films to Buy & Rent
Woodenhead (2003)
- Dir. Florian Habicht
- A remarkable and surrealistic melding of New Zealand setting and Germanic sensibility, in which a sad fairytale narrative is enacted, sung and…
Young Adam (2003)
- Dir. David Mackenzie
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan
- Evocatively set amid the grimy canal barges of post–WW2 Scotland, this follows the shady fortunes of a failed writer (McGregor), whose…
Zelary (2003)
- Dir. Ondrej Trojan
Feat. Anna Geislerova, Gyorgy Cserhalmi
- A layered tale of war and romance set around the 1943 purge of the Czech resistance by the occupying Nazis, and a young nurse's flight to…
Zero Day (2003)
- Dir. Ben Coccio
Feat. Andre Keuck, Calvin Robertson
- A confronting, fictionalized insight into the nihilistic mind–set of two alienated students who plotted and carried out a violent massacre at…
'R Xmas (2002)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Lillo Brancato Jr., Drea De Matteo, Ice-T
- Familiar territory tinged with originality from bad boy dir. Ferrara, examining the unusual Christmas crises of a drug–dealing Latino couple in…
11'09'01 (September 11) (2002)
- Dir. Ken Loach, Claude Lelouch, Sean Penn
Feat. Ernest Borgnine
- A consistently intriguing omnibus of 11 short films made by various top directors about the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001 in New York –…
24 Hour Party People (2002)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Steve Coogan, Andy Serkis, Paddy Considine…
- A serio–comic music industry biopic about one Tony Wilson, founder of the legendary Factory record label and the Hacienda Club, that provides a…
25th Hour (2002)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper…
- Slowburning drama that revolves around the personal tensions of drug–dealer Edward Norton, whose 8–year prison term begins the next…
8 Mile (Eight Mile) (2002)
- Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Eminem, Kim Basinger, Mekhi Phifer…
- Mainstream feature film vehicle for white rap star Eminem has a narrative typical of the “youth craze” genre – young working class wannabe…
A Loving Father (Aime ton père) (2002)
- Dir. Jacob Berger
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Guillaume Depardieu, Sylvie Testud
- Gerard Depardieu and real–life offspring Guillaume star as estranged father and son in this MISERY–inspired scenario of gaping family…