Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Ratcatcher (1999)
- Dir. Lynne Ramsay
Feat. William Eadie
- Set during the 1970s garbage strike in Glasgow, this intensely stylish though sombre Scottish childhood tragedy features an unusual mix of the…
RKO 281 (1999)
- Dir. Benjamin Ross
Feat. Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, John Malkovich
- Tells the story of The Battle Of CITIZEN KANE, Orson Welles' brilliant debut film which was blocked by media–baron Randolph Hearst who felt the…
Romance (1999)
- Dir. Catherine Breillat
Feat. Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stevenin
- A schoolteacher's boyfriend loses sexual interest in her, so she embarks on a series of unlikely sexual encounters in search of intimacy and…
Room for Romeo Brass, A (1999)
- Dir. Shane Meadows
Feat. Paddy Considine
- This extraordinary coming–of–age story places two twelve–year–old boys in the company of a well–meaning but…
Rosetta (1999)
- Dir. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Feat. Emilie Dequenne
- Drawing creative parallels with the Danish 'Dogma' movement, this is a rigidly intense study in survivalism that forsakes any plot contrivance to…
Scarlet Pimpernel, The (Mini Series) (1999)
- Dir. Simon Langton
Feat. Richard E. Grant, Elizabeth McGovern
- A lively television adaptation of the Baroness Orczy's famous novel set around the bloody chaos of post–revolutionary France and one English…
Secret Men's Business (1999)
- Dir. Ken Cameron
Feat. Ben Mendelsohn
- Solid and unflashy Australian drama in which a group of friends reunite – BIG CHILL–style – for beachside reminiscences after the…
Shopgirls (TV Series) (Commesse) (1999)
- A haute couture boutique in Rome is the playground for six headstrong, fiercely independent women in this colorful, empowering Italian soap opera…
Siam Sunset (1999)
- Dir. John Polson
Feat. Linus Roache, Danielle Cormack
- Bright brain candy that puts a surreal, antipodean tilt on road–movie/black comedy familiarities, with dazed Brit Linus Roache suffering an…
Simon Magus (1999)
- Dir. Ben Hopkins
Feat. Noah Taylor, Stuart Townsend, Embeth Davidtz…
- A subtly woven tale of communal fears and religious differences set in a small town in 1900s Poland, based around a young man who alienates his…