Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Romance: 840 Films to Buy & Rent
- And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2002)
- Dir. Claude Lelouch
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas, Thierry Lhermitte…
- A smooth exercise in self–satire from dir. Lelouch, with Jeremy Irons playing a shifty jewel–thief who hooks up with lounge–singer…
- Australian Rules (2002)
- Dir. Paul Goldman
Feat. Nathan Phillips, Luke Carroll, Lisa Flanagan…
- A powerful, ultimately compassionate story of white and aboriginal youngsters in remote South Australia, who bond both on and off the football field.…
- Book Of Eve, The (2002)
- Dir. Claude Fournier
Feat. Claire Bloom, Susannah York, Daniel Lavoie
- Canadian romantic drama with Claire Bloom playing a reclusive married woman who falls in love with a Romanian immigrant.
- Charlotte Gray (2002)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon
- WWII France is the backdrop for a love–triangle in this well–made, though sappy war–romance, Cate Blanchett providing a compelling…
- Heart of Me, The (2002)
- Dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Paul Bettany, Olivia Williams
- A moody, though slightly outmoded period drama set in London between the wars in which two sisters become involved with the same man, as wife and…
- Hope Springs (2002)
- Dir. Mark Herman
Feat. Colin Firth, Minnie Driver, Heather Graham…
- Smoothly enjoyable though indistinguishable romance that sees a British illustrator (Firth) 'start again' in a small New England town after being…
- L'Idole (2002)
- Dir. Samantha Lang
Feat. Leelee Sobieski, James Hong
- Playing a troubled Australian actress, Sobieski arrives in Paris and befriends her elderly Chinese neighbour in this melancholy…
- Marie-Jo and her Two Loves (2002)
- Dir. Robert Guediguian
Feat. Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gerard Meylan
- A dreamy, perceptive romance gently steered under the Mediterranean sun by dir. Guédiguian, who again uses the vibrant setting of his native…
- Oasis (2002)
- Dir. Chang-Dong Lee
Feat. Kyung-gu Sol, So-ri Moon
- Tough and emotionally powerful drama, highlighted by fearless performances, which charts the romance between a recent parolee and a cerebral…
- Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
- Dir. Peter Sollett
Feat. Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte
- A sensitive, appealing urban coming of age story set in a Hispanic New York subculture that rewardingly favours low–key incident over…