Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8101 Films to Buy & Rent
Among Giants (1998)
- Dir. Sam Miller
Feat. Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Griffiths
- Quirky, lowkey romance from the writer of FULL MONTY, follows the travails of a group of daredevil labourers who paint high–voltage…
An Autumn Tale (1998)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Marie Riviere, Beatrice Romand, Alain Libolt
- Completing his suite of films based on the four seasons, dir. Rohmer provides another mellow, seemingly unplotted comedy, in which Rhone valley…
Another Day in Paradise (1998)
- Dir. Larry Clark
Feat. Melanie Griffiths, Vincent Kartheiser, Natasha Gregson Wagner…
- The director of KIDS injects his trademark 'heroin chic' into the lowlife crime genre, though the effect by now seems passe and unshocking.…
Basil (1998)
- Dir. Radha Bharadwaj
Feat. Jared Leto, Christian Slater, Derek Jacobi…
- Novel–based Victorian–era romance starring a veritable feast of eye candy in the form of Leto, Slater and Forlani as the beautiful young…
Beau Travail (1998)
- Dir. Claire Denis
Feat. Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Gregoire Colin
- Best Film of 2000 for many highbrow critics, this oblique study of jealousy and power in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion is pure…
Beloved (1998)
- Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Oprah Winfrey, Thandiwe Newton, Danny Glover
- Risk–taking adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel of rural Southern Gothic, former–slave Ophrey Winfrey (her first role since THE COLOUR…
Berkeley Square (TV Mini-series) (1998)
- Feat. Victoria Smurfit, Tabitha Wady, Clare Wilkie
- Mini–series following three woman from very different backgrounds who all gain positions as nannies for wealthy families living on Berkeley…
Besieged (1998)
- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Thandiwe Newton, David Thewlis
- Returning to a 'chamber–piece' setting reminiscent of LAST TANGO IN PARIS, dir. Bertolucci unfolds an enigmatic relationship in a Rome…
Bird People In China, The (Chûgoku no chôjin) (1998)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishibashi
- Visually rich and accomplished drama set around a parallel journey by a businessman and a yakuza gangster to a remote Chinese highland in search of a…
Book of Life (1998)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Martin Donovan, Polly Jean Harvey, Thomas Jay Ryan
- The return of Jesus Christ in the hours prior to Armageddon, December 31, 1999, is told in a series of wry, amusing and thoughtful scenes by indie…