Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Midnight (O Primeiro Dia) (1998)
- Dir. Walter Salles
Feat. Fernanda Torres, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
- Drama from director Walter Salles (ON THE ROAD) commissioned as part of the "2000, Seen By..." project in which directors from all over the world…
Miss Monday (1998)
- Dir. Benson Lee
Feat. James Hicks, Andrea Hart
- An improving indie thriller sets its improbable but well–realised story around a struggling screenwriter, who sneaks into a woman's apartment…
Mosley (TV Mini-series) (1998)
- Dir. Robert Knights
Feat. Jonathon Cake, Jemma Redgrave, Eric Allan…
- A four–part TV biopic of the famous English fascist Oswald Mosley, who attempted to unite Britain with the Nazis in the 1930s. As 'radical' in…
Mother and Son (1998)
- Dir. Alexandr Sokurov
Feat. Aleksei Ananishnov, Gudrun Geyer
- Little–seen outside Europe, dir. Sokurov's dream–like films have been championed by critics (incl. Susan Sontag), and find their best…
Music from Another Room (1998)
- Dir. Charlie Peters
Feat. Jude Law, Jennifer Tilly, Martha Plimpton…
- Rising British star Jude Law (GATTACA) tries it down–home Yankee style in this off–beat drama, varnished with folksy charm and crammed…
My Life So Far (1998)
- Dir. Hugh Hudson
Feat. Colin Firth, Irene Jacob, Malcolm McDowell
- Set on a Scottish estate in the 1920s, this slice of nostalgia is based on the childhood memoirs of Denis Forman, a director of the Royal Opera…
My Name Is Joe (1998)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall
- Dir. Ken Loach revisits his mainstay – the not–working–class of urban Britain, this time extending further north to the slums of…
Never Ever (Circle of Passion) (1998)
- Dir. Charles Finch
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire, Jane March, Charles Finch…
- Mediocre, if elegantly framed, this drama has an American couple (Finch and March) move to Paris and diverging into romance (with Sandrine Bonnaire)…
Nil by Mouth (1998)
- Dir. Gary Oldman
Feat. Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Charlie Creed-Miles
- Brutality, poverty and drug abuse inhabit the daily reality of a South London family in actor Gary Oldman's writer/directing debut – a fierce,…
No Looking Back (1998)
- Dir. Edward Burns
Feat. Lauren Holly, Jon Bon Jovi, Edward Burns
- Dir. Ed Burns (BROTHERS MCMULLEN) again provides a mellow, if lukewarm comedy of romance and muted expectations set among a group of…