Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8101 Films to Buy & Rent
Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married (TV Series) (1999)
- Dir. Brian Grant
Feat. Gerard Butler
- Romantic drama based on the top selling chick lit novel by Marian Keyes following the life and loves of a twenty–something living in London.…
Lunatics Ball, The (1999)
- Dir. Michael Thorp
Feat. Michael Daly, Jane Irwin, Sarah Ashworth…
- Idiosyncratic indie set around a doctor’s efforts to apply his unorthodox ideas in a psych–ward which is slowly coming unstuck.
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Man On the Moon (1999)
- Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. Jim Carrey, Courtney Love, Danny De Vito
- Mesmerising biopic of the late 'comedian' Andy Kaufman culls its magnificence from an utterly unique, intriguing personality subject and a virtuoso…
Mansfield Park (1999)
- Dir. Patricia Rozema
Feat. Frances O’Connor, Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola…
- Refashions one of Jane Austen's quirkier novels by drawing on the 19th century writer's own journals and letters, with the dir. of WHEN NIGHT IS…
Message in a Bottle (1999)
- Dir. Luis Mandoki
Feat. Robin Wright, Kevin Costner
- Troubled divorcee Robin Wright Penn discovers a bottled letter from a bereaved widower (Kevin Costner) to his late wife, and is moved enough to seek…
Mifune (1999)
- Dir. Soren Kragh-Jacobson
Feat. Iben Hjejle, Anders W Berthelsen, Jesper Asholt…
- The third Dogma 95 film is in many ways as traditional a European romantic comedy as you could come across, a breezy and smart take on a yuppie…
Million Dollar Hotel, The (1999)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Mel Gibson, Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich…
- Dir. Wim Wenders (WINGS OF DESIRE) works–up his latest narrative of modern alienation in the scuzzy, titular hotel (which actually exists in…
Miss Julie (1999)
- Dir. Mike Figgis
Feat. Saffron Burrows, Peter Mullan, Mary Doyle Kennedy
- The puritan 19th century Swedish setting of August Strindberg's one–act play yields dramatic dividends in its fraught affair between flighty…
Moloch (1999)
- Dir. Alexandr Sokurov
Feat. Yelena Rufanova, Leonid Mozgovoy
- Typically Sokurov, the dir. of RUSSIAN ARK turns his filtered lens on a day in the life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, concerned more with the…
Molokai - The Story of Father Damien (1999)
- Dir. Paul Cox
Feat. David Wenham, Sam Neill, Peter O'Toole…
- An earnest account of a Belgian priest’s heroic efforts in the Hawaiian leper colony of Molokai in the 1870s, distinguished by its intriguing tale…