Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8101 Films to Buy & Rent
Clockwatchers (1997)
- Dir. Jill Sprecher
Feat. Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow…
- Four office temps band together in an oppressive (and outdated?) corporate environment – too bad they're caricatures: Toni Collette is…
Dance of the Wind (1997)
- Dir. Rajan Khosa
Feat. Ami Arora, Roshan Bano, Kitu Gidwani
- Set in contemporary Delhi, this drama concerns the responses of classical Hindi singer Kitu Gidwani to her mother’s death. Steeped in a particular…
Donnie Brasco (1997)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen…
- Riveting, true–life tale of an FBI agent's perilous infiltration of the New York Mafia in the 70s. A knife–edge dramatic tension is…
Dream with the Fishes (1997)
- Dir. Finn Taylor
Feat. David Arquette, Brad Hunt, Cathy Moriarty
- Two mismatched loners on the ultra–hip road to oblivion or redemption – whichever comes first. The excursion is more perceptive and…
Duggan (TV Series) (Death in Paradise, Sins of the Fathers) (1997-1998)
- Dir. Yvonne MacKay
Feat. John Bach
- Detective inspector John Bach heads up these made–for–TV policiers as a recluse drawn into a murder cases near his Marlborough Sounds…
Education of Little Tree, The (1997)
- Dir. Richard Friedenberg
Feat. Joseph Ashton, James Cromwell, Mika Boorem…
- Smoky Mountains set family drama adapted from the best–selling novel about a small Cherokee orphan sent to live with his grandparents in the…
Eel, The (1997)
- Dir. Shohei Imamura
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu
- After doing eight years for killing his wife, an inhibited man (Yakusho Koji of SHALL WE DANCE) sets himself up at a quiet riverside barbershop, the…
End of Violence, The (1997)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Bill Pullman, Gabriel Byrne, Andie MacDowell
- After a 5yr hiatus dir. Wim Wenders proffered this elliptical tale of alienation and desires for omniscience, this time enacted in sunswept,…
Eve's Bayou (1997)
- Dir. Kasi Lemmons
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Vondie Curtis Hall
- A sassy, old–fashioned Southern melodrama quite unlike how we've seen it before – this is affluent African–American life in 60s…
Female Perversions (1997)
- Dir. Susan Streitfeld
Feat. Tilda Swinton
- Based on the Freudian texts of noted psychoanalyst Louise Kaplan, this serious–minded, erotically charged and stylish film probes several…