Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8108 Films to Buy & Rent
Tuesdays with Morrie (2002)
- Dir. Mick Jackson
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Hank Azaria
- Jack Lemmon's last major role was in this unassuming telemovie about the friendship between an indomitable, but dying college professor and one of…
Turning Gate (On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate) (2002)
- Dir. Sang-soo Hong
Feat. Sang-kyung Kim
- A wry and astute drama of romantic hang–ups, this follows a crestfallen actor’s trysts with two random women as he rebounds from a failed…
Twilight Samurai, The (Tasogare Seibei) (2002)
- Dir. Yoji Yamada
Feat. Hiroyuki Sanada, Ren Osugi, Rie Miyazawa…
- Boldly subverting the masculine cliches of the genre, this refreshing and highly rewarding Samurai drama follows a dishevelled, low–status…
Twin Sisters (De Tweeling) (2002)
- Dir. Ben Sombogaart
- An epic 'tale of two sisters', which follows their lives after being separated as children in 1920s Holland and sent to live with rich and poor…
Uzak (Distant) (2002)
- Dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Exuding a sense of melancholic accomplishment, this slowly unfolding Turkish drama centres on two cousins – one, a successful but cynical…
Vatel (2002)
- Dir. Roland Joffe
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth…
- Talent–studded drama set in the cuisine–conscious French nobility of Louis XIV’s reign, where master chef Gerard Depardieu must prepare…
Villa Des Roses (2002)
- Dir. Frank Van Passel
Feat. Julie Delpy, Shirley Henderson, Timothy West
- A visually stylish excursion to Paris on the eve of WWI, in a shabby boarding house run by an English couple (Henderson and West) into which a new…
Waiting for Happiness (Heremakono) (2002)
- Dir. Abderrahmane Sissako
Feat. Khatra Ould Abder Kader, Mohamed Mahmoud
- A worldly 17–year–old returns to his coastal hometown, only to find himself a stranger amongst a community caught in limbo between…
Walk to Remember, A (2002)
- Dir. Adam Shankman
Feat. Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote, Daryl Hannah…
- Based on the Nicholas Sparks novel (who also wrote THE NOTEBOOK) this romantic drama tells the classic story of two teens from different worlds who…
Walking on Water (2002)
- Dir. Tom Ayres
Feat. Vince Colosimo
- Award–winning drama concerns a modern, open household thrown into crisis after the death of a close friend from AIDS.
Unsentimental about…