Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8108 Films to Buy & Rent
Wyvern Mystery, The (TV Mini-Series) (2000)
- Dir. Alex Pillai
Feat. Naomi Watts, Derek Jacobi
- Naomi Watts plays the adopted daughter of a prickly Squire (Derek Jacobi) with more than just fatherhood on his mind. Pseudo–haunted house…
Yolngu Boy (2000)
- Dir. Stephen Johnson
Feat. Jack Thompson
- Three contrasting aboriginal boys from Arnhem Land, North Australia undertake a harsh journey out of loyalty when the petrol–sniffing habits of…
You Can Count On Me (2000)
- Dir. Kenneth Lonergan
Feat. Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Kieran Culkin…
- Winner of Best Picture at Sundance 2000, this bittersweet comedy, woven around the smalltown reunion of long–separated siblings Laura Linney…
28 Days (1999)
- Dir. Betty Thomas
Feat. Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen, Diane Ladd…
- Fun–loving NY journalist Sandra Bullock doesn't know when to say 'when' and gets slapped with a month in rehab after a drink driving incident.…
8 1/2 Women (1999)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. John Standing, Matthew Delamare, Vivian Wu…
- The indefatiguable provocateur of English cinema makes a perverse 'tribute' to Federico Fellini's 1963 masterpiece 8 1/2, with this tale of a rich…
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…