Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8123 Films to Buy & Rent
Wuthering Heights (1998)
- Dir. David Skynner
Feat. Robert Cavanah, Orla Brady, Peter Davison
- Faithful adaptation of Emily Bronte's classic Gothic romance of the Yorkshire moors, flavoured by the Irish casting of Robert Cavanah and Orla Brady.
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (Tian yu) (1998)
- Dir. Joan Chen
Feat. Li Xiaolu
- Coming–of–age story set in the 70's about a teenage girl who is sent to the countryside during the "Down to the Countryside" Movement in…
Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star, The (1998)
- Dir. Sheree Folkson, Kieron Walsh
Feat. Ciaran McMenamin, Simone Lahbib, Nicole Stapleton…
- Young persons are the target of the whimsical Scottish TV series following the fortunes of an eclectic rock group who go from garage nobodies to gain…
Your Friends and Neighbours (1998)
- Dir. Neil LaBute
Feat. Jason Patric, Amy Brenneman, Nastassja Kinski…
- Both elegant and caustic, this dark, dark comedy from Neil LaBute mingles with a pack of handsome, sexually carnivorous and frustrated urbanites…
187 (1997)
- Dir. Kevin Reynolds
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson
- The school–as–hellhole drama gets taught tough new lessons from Samuel L. Jackson, a teacher whose idealism is bitterly exhausted in the…
A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
- Dir. Alvin Rakoff
Feat. John Gielgud, Miranda Richardson, Alan Bennett…
- Adapted from Anthony Powell's 12 volume sequence of novels which begins among the aspiring classes of Edwardian Britain and continues across the…
A Thousand Acres (1997)
- Dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse
Feat. Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michelle Pfeiffer…
- Daughters of rancher Jason Robards are an embattled trio, in this adaption of Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Story attempts to…
Affliction (1997)
- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Nick Nolte, James Coburn, Sissy Spacek…
- A murder–mystery obscured in a snowbound landscape of wrecked relationships and alcoholic longings, this gets right under the skin of its…
Alive and Kicking (Indian Summer) (1997)
- Dir. Nancy Meckler
Feat. Jason Flemyng, Bill Nighy
- Solid British drama takes the post–AIDS–revelation scenario and couples it with an interesting setting – a crisis in a…
All Over Me (1997)
- Dir. Alex Sichel
Feat. Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Cole Hauser…
- A lesbian festival hit that has 'crossover' hit written all over it, as it persuasively pinpoints some of the universal, intense emotions of…