Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8101 Films to Buy & Rent
Taking Sides (2001)
- Dir. Istvan Szabo
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgard, Moritz Bleibtreu
- The ambiguities of Germany during the Nazi era are interrogated with skill in this taut examination of the case of famed classical conductor Dr…
Tape (2001)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Robert Sean Leonard
- Three school friends reunite for an evening of reminiscence and recrimination, in this tense, coiled drama filmed in ‘fly on the wall’ style by…
Tart (2001)
- Dir. Christina Wayne
Feat. Dominique Swain, Brad Renfro, Lacey Chabert…
- Dominique Swain (LOLITA) comes a cropper in New York’s prestigious prep–school, Hewitt College, becoming involved with cocaine,…
Teachers (TV Series) (2001-2004)
- Feat. Andrew Lincoln, Nina Sosanya, Adrian Bower…
- British TV comedy following the lives of a group of secondary school teachers in and out of the classroom. Series One centres around Andrew Lincoln…
The Way We Live Now (2001)
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. David Suchet, Matthew MacFadyen, Shirley Henderson…
- The rise and fall of a Jewish financer is laid bare by the masterful pen of Anthony Trollope. David Suchet broadly, if unlikeably encompasses the…
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
- Dir. Jill Sprecher
Feat. Matthew McConaughey, Alan Arkin, John Turturro…
- Not just chit–chat, but drama with its philosophical head screwed on, the various lives of middle–class Bostonians (a hot–shot…
This Filthy Earth (2001)
- Dir. Andrew Kotting
Feat. Rebecca R. Palmer, Shane Attwooll, Demelza Randall…
- The tragic story of two sisters whose lives are disrupted by two men. Amidst a landscape of rural hardship and a community consumed with…
This is Not a Love Story (2001)
- Dir. Keith Hill
Feat. Stephen Lovatt, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
- Exploring the dynamics of a love–triangle between a soap–opera actor and two women, this local 'DV drama' from debuting dir. Hill catches…
Till Human Voices Wake Us (2001)
- Dir. Michael Petroni
Feat. Guy Pearce, Helena Bonham Carter
- A supernaturally–tinged drama in which psychiatrist Guy Pearce returns his hometown and the spectres of a doomed teenage romance.
Mourning…
Time for Drunken Horses, A (2001)
- Dir. Bahman Ghobadi
Feat. Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini…
- Set in remote Kurdistan, along the mountainous smuggling border between Iran and Iraq, this chronicles the pitiable circumstances of a recently…