Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7932 Films to Rent
A Christmas Carol (1999)
- Dir. David Hugh Jones
Feat. Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Joel Grey…
- Fine adaptation of the Dickens classic this time with Patrick Stewart as the miserly Scrooge.
A Map of the World (1999)
- Dir. Scott Elliot
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn…
- A somewhat overlooked drama with Weaver giving a tour–de–force performance as a slightly prickly woman, uncomfortable with her life, who…
Adventures of Sebastian Cole, The (1999)
- Dir. Tod Williams
Feat. Adrian Genier
- A Sundance nominee of 1999, this small, unusual drama turns back the clock to the early 1980s as a family fragments when Dad announces he's having a…
Afterlife (1999)
- Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Arata Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima
- Original, intriguing conception of what happens after life – a panel of students challenge a succession of deceased persons to choose one…
Agnes Browne (1999)
- Dir. Anjelica Huston
Feat. Anjelica Huston, Ray Winstone
- Anjelica Huston adapts Brendan O'Carroll best–selling novel through an American romantic prism of working class Irish culture. The director…
All About My Mother (1999)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Cecilia Roth
- Almodovar's "celebration of mother and womanhood" has been hailed as something of a departure for the director, though in fact all of his (beloved)…
All the King's Men (1999)
- Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. David Jason, Maggie Smith
- BBC dramatisation of one of WWI's most enduring enigmas, in which the Sandringham Company, made up from King George's private staff, disappeared into…
American Beauty (1999)
- Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch…
- Signifying a coming–of–age of the 'indie' movie and mainstream acceptance of a darker sensibility, this most quirky of all Academy Award…
Angel (TV Series) - Season 1 (1999)
- Dir. Various
Feat. David Boreanaz
- Considerably darker spin–off of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER TV–series, with the angelic vampire David Boreanaz battling demons,…
Angela's Ashes (1999)
- Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Emily Watson, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens…
- Lovingly–detailed adaptation of Frank McCourt's best–selling memoir of the worst kind of childhood – the deprived Irish Catholic…