Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8101 Films to Buy & Rent
Sins, The (TV Mini-series) (2000)
- Feat. Pete Postlethwaite, Geraldine James, Frank Finlay…
- BBC miniseries with Pete Postlethwaite playing an aging getaway driver who decides to go straight – after one last robbery.
A light hearted…
Sky Is Falling, The (Cielo cade, Il) (2000)
- Dir. Andrea Frazzi, Antonio Frazzi
Feat. Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbe
- Two young orphan girls are sent to live with relatives in Tuscany, Italy during WW2 and discover intriguing new perspectives through their Jewish…
Songcatcher (2000)
- Dir. Maggie Greenwald
Feat. Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, Taj Mahal
- In the dappled, secluded backwoods of 1900s Appalachia, music scholar Janet McTeer makes the exciting discovery of a set of unknown Scots–Irish…
Sopranos, The (TV Series) - Season 2 (2000)
- Continuing episodes of the groundbreaking TV–series that ironically portrays the life of a New Jersey Mafia clan.
13 Episodes over 4…
Space Cowboys (2000)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland…
- Director Clint Eastwood plays a specially trained astronaut who takes three of his retirement–age buddies into space on a mission to repair a…
Straight Story, The (2000)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Richard Farnsworth
- Far from wild at heart, this soft–peddle road movie from the infamous David Lynch is a serene, supremely dignified fable (though based on a…
Subway Stories (2000)
- Dir. Various
Feat. Denis Leary, Lili Taylor, Christine Lahti…
- Renewing the London TUBE TALES concept on the NYC subways, this tele–movie saw 10 true–life experiences (submitted by HBO viewers)…
Sunshine (2000)
- Dir. Istvan Szabo
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Deborah Kara Unger
- Expansive and immaculately crafted epic of the last 100 years of Hungarian history, with Ralph Fiennes playing three roles – Grandfather,…
Takedown (2000)
- Dir. Joe Chappelle
Feat. Skeet Ulrich, Tom Berenger
- This telemovie depiction of infamous computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, who went on the run in the 1990s, is less flashy than expected, with some…
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000)
- Dir. John Hay
Feat. Lewis McKenzie, Robert Carlyle, Gina McKee…
- Feelgood hit about one boy's quest for football fame in the estates of Manchester, where he emerges from the school–of–hard–knocks…