Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8101 Films to Buy & Rent
Madame Bovary (2000)
- Dir. Tim Fywell
Feat. Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville, Frances O’Connor
- Typically lavish BBC costumer, here tackling Gustave Flaubert's classic French tragi–romance with gusto and explicit sex. Frances O'Connor…
Magnolia (2000)
- Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Tom Cruise, Jason Robards Jr., William H. Macy…
- A sprawling, stylistically–impressive but moribund domestic melodrama about Californian amorality and redemption (of sorts), with interleaved…
Malena (2000)
- Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Monica Bellucci
- The dir. of CINEMA PARADISO throws an amber–lit glow around a man’s memory of a boyhood infatuation in his hometown in WWII Sicily.…
Me You Them (Eu Tu Eles) (2000)
- Dir. Andrucha Waddington
Feat. Regina Case, Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia
- Set in the arid hinterlands of Brazil, this serio–comic study of rural polyandry has Regina Case (Brazil’s Oprah Winfrey) hitch up three…
Men of Honour (2000)
- Dir. George Tillman Jr.
Feat. Cuba Jr. Gooding, Robert De Niro, Charlize Theron
- As a US Navy serviceman in WW2, Cuba Gooding Jnr. overcomes institutionalised racism, then prejudice in another form later in life when he suffers a…
Merchant of Venice, The (2000)
- Dir. Trevor Nunn
Feat. Henry Goodman
- A wonderful TV version (taken from an acclaimed production) of Shakespeare's 'problem play', recreating the classic tale of debt, honour and love in…
Monarch of the Glen (TV Series) (2000)
- Dir. Edward Bennett, A.J. Quinn
Feat. Richard Briers, Susan Hampshire, Alastair Mackenzie
- A whimsical drama set on the Scottish Highland estate of Glenbogle, with Richard Briers and Susan Hampshire.
Monsignor Renard (TV Mini-series) (2000)
- Dir. Malcolm Mowbray
Feat. John Thaw, Cheryl Campbell, Dominic Monaghan
- ITV drama starring John Thaw as a humble parish priest who returns home to his French village to join the resistance during WWII after a twenty year…
Mr. Rice's Secret (2000)
- Dir. Nicholas Kendall
Feat. David Bowie
- David Bowie is the 400–yr old ‘friend’ of a terminally ill boy who is directed into a magical adventure in this British–Canadian…
Mrs Bradley Mysteries, The (TV Series) (2000)
- Feat. Diana Rigg
- Short–lived but rewarding variation on the mystery serial turns the clock back to the 1920s, where upper class socialite Adela Bradley dabbles…