Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8101 Films to Buy & Rent
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman
- A fascinating and convoluted Freudian thriller, Stanley Kubrick's swansong has elicited praise, condemnation and baffled dumb–looks, though its…
Feeling Sexy (1999)
- Dir. Davida Allen
Feat. Susie Porter, Tamblyn Lord
- Short and sweet indie deals with young suburban housewife's desires for sexual and creative fulfilment in the face of claustrophobic domesticity.…
Finding Graceland (1999)
- Dir. David Winkler
Feat. Johnathon Schaech, Harvey Keitel, Bridget Fonda
- Heartbroke Johnathon Schaech is speeding away from his ex–wife when he picks up Harvey Keitel, an Elvis impersonator who takes his…
Five Senses, The (1999)
- Dir. Jeremy Podeswa
Feat. Mary-Louise Parker, Pascale Bussieres, Daniel MacIvor…
- Austere relationship drama in which five loosely–connected characters serve as metaphors for the five senses, including a bisexual housecleaner…
Girl on the Bridge, The (1999)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Vanessa Paradis
- This glossy slice of modern 'poetic realism' has an attractive visual component but its arch–Romanticism won't be everyone's glass of Chablis.…
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
- Dir. James Mangold
Feat. Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie
- Winona Ryder flies over the cuckoo's nest as the confused middle–class waif of Susanna Kaysen's 60s counterculture memoir, who's persuaded by…
Gloomy Sunday (Ein Lied Von Liebe Und Tod) (1999)
- Dir. Rolf Schubel
Feat. Joachim Krol, Erika Marozsan, Ben Becker…
- Captivating drama which pivots around the apocryphal origins of the classic melancholy song 'Gloomy Sunday' in pre–WW2 Budapest.
An amiably…
Gloria (1999)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sharon Stone
- Stepping into the moll stilettos worn by Gena Rowlands in the 1980 original, Sharon Stone plays a hard–boiled dame who is landed with a mouthy…
Go (1999)
- Dir. Doug Liman
Feat. Sarah Polley, Katie Holmes, Jay Mohr…
- The director of SWINGERS switches focus to the reckless chic of LA's twentysomething rave scene, brandishing a slew of racy taboos, an impossibly…
Gohatto (Taboo) (1999)
- Dir. Nagisa Oshima
Feat. Takeshi Kitano
- Visually stunning evocation of the tensions in a samurai–training school in 1860s Japan, with Kitano playing a captain who agonises over his…