Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8101 Films to Buy & Rent
Mrs. Caldicot's Cabbage War (2000)
- Dir. Ian Sharp
Feat. Pauline Collins, Peter Capaldi
- Pauline Collins (SHIRLEY VALENTINE) plays an elderly widow who is shunted into a resthome by her money grubbing offspring, who don’t count on her…
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) (2000)
- Dir. Paul Seed
Feat. Ian Richardson, Robin Laing, Charles Dance
- A rather fascinating speculation which dramatises the real–life relationship between "Sherlock Homes"–author Arthur Conan Doyle (Laing)…
My Family (TV Series) (2000-2006)
- Feat. Zoe Wanamaker, Robert Lindsay
- Sturdy British sitcom with Zoe Wanamaker and Robert Lindsay at the head of middle–class family whose dysfunctions range from the petty…
My Mother Frank (2000)
- Dir. Mark Lamprell
Feat. Sinead Cusack, Sam Neill, Sacha Horler…
- Sober comedy with an 'it's never too late' theme, is nicely done despite some rather convenient plotting.
Mother and widow Sinead Cusack decides…
Nicholas Nickleby (TV Series) (2000)
- Dir. Stephen Whittaker
Feat. James D'Arcy, Charles Dance
- An ITV version of Charles Dickens’ saga of family misfortune. Young Nicholas (James D’Arcy) must fight his malevolent uncle (Charles Dance) to…
Nuremberg (2000)
- Feat. Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Brian Cox…
- This two part miniseries follows the Chief Prosecutor through the Nuremberg Trials of 1945–46.
O (Othello) (2000)
- Dir. Tim Blake Nelson
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles
- Continuing recent trends, this ‘updating’ of Shakespeare’s ”Othello” transfers the dialogue and setting into the US schoolyard, where Josh…
One Hundred Steps, The (I Cento Passi) (2000)
- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Expansive, fact–based drama set around a young man's fight against local mafiosos in the small Sicilian village of Cinisi in the…
Phantom (Fantasma, O) (2000)
- Dir. João Pedro Rodrigues
Feat. Ricardo Meneses
- This plunge into Portugal’s gay underground concerns an alienated garbage collector who seeks out anonymous sexual encounters in Lisbon’s…
Platform (Zhantai) (2000)
- Dir. Jia Zhang-ke
Feat. Zhao Tao
- Taking its title from a Chinese hit rock song of the 80s, this fetchingly spare epic meditates on the changes of that turbulent decade and the…