Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8101 Films to Buy & Rent
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Bjork, David Morse, Catherine Deneuve…
- The third successive ‘masterpiece’ from the Danish wunderkind, who has that rare gift of being able to consistently realise the wildly ambitious…
Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000)
- Dir. Michael Radford
Feat. Daryl Hannah, Sandra Oh, Jennifer Tilly…
- Revealing the mixed–up lives of those who work at an L.A. stripclub, this well–meaning drama was written chiefly through the…
David Copperfield (Mini-series) (2000)
- Dir. Simon Curtis
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Ian McKellen…
- Charles Dicken's semi–autobiographical novel (and his own personal favourite) of an aspiring young lad, gets adapted by the BBC, with an…
Day I Became a Woman, The (2000)
- Dir. Marziyeh Meshkini
Feat. Fatemeh Cherag Akhur, Hassan Nebhan, Shahr Banou Sisizadeh
- A trio of strong metaphorical tales that outline three aspects of “a woman’s lot” in contemporary Iran, with humour and cinematic…
Dinner Rush (2000)
- Dir. Bob Giraldi
Feat. Danny Aiello, Summer Phoenix, John Corbett…
- An appetizing New York ‘food movie’ sprinkled over lightly with mobster melodrama set in the bustling, upmarket Italian restaurant of the…
Dirty Pictures (2000)
- Dir. Frank Pierson
Feat. James Woods, Craig T. Nelson
- Based on the true–story of how the Chicago Arts Centre was prosecuted in 1990 for obscenity over an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's…
Disco Pigs (2000)
- Dir. Kirsten Sheridan
Feat. Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy
- Bleak, edgy rites–of–passage portrait of an intense friendship between two 17 year–olds who share a twisted appetite for…
Dr T and the Women (2000)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett…
- Director Altman's typically offbeat ensemble comedy–drama about a middle–aged gynaecologist's (Richard Gere) midlife crisis, as he's…
Edge of Seventeen (2000)
- Dir. David Morton
Feat. Thomas Arklie
- With its drab mid–1980s Ohio setting, complete with pastel clothing, Boy George–inspired haircuts and Bronksi Beat music, this puts a…
Erin Brockovich (2000)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart
- An interesting and successful marriage of a Hollywood star vehicle (Julia Roberts) and independent credentials (dir. Soderbergh), that takes an…