Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Independent: 587 Films to Buy & Rent
- Last Days of Disco (1998)
- Dir. Whit Stillman
Feat. Chloe Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale
- Not so much a nostalgia trip as a literate comedy of manners a la 1980s Manhattan, dissecting the sashays on the social dancefloor among a troupe of…
- Love And Rage (1998)
- Dir. Cathal Black
Feat. Greta Scacchi, Daniel Craig, Stephen Dillane
- Tantalising Irish melodrama starring Greta Scacchi as an English aristocrat who hires Daniel Craig as manager for her sumptuous estate and ends up…
- Lulu On the Bridge (1998)
- Dir. Paul Auster
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, Willem Dafoe
- A baffling series of events beset jazz–saxophonist Harvey Keitel after a near–death experience in this hard–to–summarise,…
- Men with Guns (1998)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Frederico Luppi
- Criminally denied a theatrical release, this masterful study of Third World realities is arguably prolific indie dir. John Sayles most accomplished…
- Miss Monday (1998)
- Dir. Benson Lee
Feat. James Hicks, Andrea Hart
- An improving indie thriller sets its improbable but well–realised story around a struggling screenwriter, who sneaks into a woman's apartment…
- Music from Another Room (1998)
- Dir. Charlie Peters
Feat. Jude Law, Jennifer Tilly, Martha Plimpton…
- Rising British star Jude Law (GATTACA) tries it down–home Yankee style in this off–beat drama, varnished with folksy charm and crammed…
- Price Above Rubies, A (1998)
- Dir. Boaz Yakin
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Christopher Eccleston, Julianne Margulies…
- Sincere though meddlesome attempt to depict life in the closed society of Hasidic Judaism, finds it hard to measure up to dir. Boaz Yakin's…
- Slam (1998)
- Dir. Marc Levin
- Tight, impassioned street–drama that won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance in 1998, following the travails of a petty drug–dealer whose…
- Smoke Signals (1998)
- Dir. Chris Eyre
Feat. Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard
- Entirely made and funded by Native American Indians, this is both a fresh, palpably authentic portrait of a minority culture and an engrossing…
- Whatever (1998)
- Dir. Susan Skoog
Feat. Lisa Weil
- Beset by apathy, uncertainty and her indulgent best friend, a teenage girl falls victim to her own adolescence while trying to complete her final…