Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8101 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
One True Thing (1998)
- Dir. Carl Franklin
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Meryl Streep, William Hurt
- Superlative take on the 'illness' genre, wherein Renee Zellweger returns home after sickness falls upon the family, rediscovering bonds with Mum and…
Only Thrill, The (1998)
- Dir. Peter Masterson
Feat. Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Diane Lane…
- Smalltown folk Diane Keaton and Sam Shepard's unrequited love mellows into a thirty year friendship, which their children then risk repeating.…
Oscar and Lucinda (1998)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciaran Hinds…
- The Booker Prize–winning novel, by Australian literary wunderkind Peter Carey, is spun out into a sunlit daydream of unlikely personages and…
Our Mutual Friend (Mini-series) (1998)
- Dir. Julian Farino
Feat. Paul McGann, Keeley Hawes
- Adapted by the BBC, Charles Dickens' last novel opens on a forlorn family who earn a crust fishing corpses out of the Thames, before sifting upwards…
Permanent Midnight (1998)
- Dir. David Veloz
Feat. Ben Stiller, Elizabeth Hurley, Owen Wilson…
- Based on the therapeutic memoirs of television writer Jerry Stahl (namely of the hit series 'Alf'), infamous for snorting and injecting his sizeable…