Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8090 Films to Buy & Rent
Moonlight Mile (2002)
- Dir. Brad Silberling
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon…
- A remarkably quirky weepie, that coats its tale of Jake Gyllenhaal’s grieving and re–adjustment to life in 1973 after his fiance’s…
Morvern Callar (2002)
- Dir. Lynne Ramsay
Feat. Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott
- Enigmatic drama from the dir. of RATCATCHER that unreels a woman's journey into the unknown after her boyfriend commits suicide and she purloins his…
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002)
- Dir. Aparna Sen
- A casual aquaintance between two passengers (one Hindu, one Muslim) on a bus journey in northern India becomes a matter of life and death when the…
Mystic Masseur, The (2002)
- Dir. Ismail Merchant
Feat. Om Puri, James Fox
- An ambitious adaptation of V.S. Naipul’s first novel, that traces the rise of a poor Indian student in 1950s Trinidad who emigrates to Oxford…
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
- Dir. Douglas McGrath
Feat. Stella Gonet, Christopher Plummer, Tom Courtenay…
- Able–handed version of Dicken's classic of Victorian–age injustice, that respects both the comic and tragic sides to the tale.
After…
Oasis (2002)
- Dir. Chang-Dong Lee
Feat. Kyung-gu Sol, So-ri Moon
- Tough and emotionally powerful drama, highlighted by fearless performances, which charts the romance between a recent parolee and a cerebral…
Off (.OFF.) (2002)
- Dir. Colin Hodson
Feat. Colin Hodson, Gregory King, George Rose…
- Locally produced DV–feature which observes the activities of several drug associates, with a style both languid and, at times,…
On the Edge (2002)
- Dir. John Carney
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea
- Fairly risky and consistently bleak drama set around three teenage mental patients and their doctor. Thin treatment of the subject matter is redeemed…
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
- Dir. Shane Meadows
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Kathy Burke, Ricky Tomlinson…
- The bittersweet dramatics of dir. Meadows (ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS) get a fresh telling in this Nottingham drama, with the added spin of some ironic…
Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) (2002)
- Dir. Susanne Bier
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter
- A touch edgier than recent 'Dogme 95' melodramas, this explores the consequences of a car accident on the previously steady lives of those…