Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Radiance (1997)
- Dir. Rachel Perkins
Feat. Rachel Maza, Deborah Mailman, Trisha Morton-Thomas
- An Aboriginal mother's funeral brings disparities among the surviving daughters into vibrant relief.
Adapted from Louis Nowra's play, this…
Rebecca (1997)
- Dir. Jim O'Brien
Feat. Charles Dance, Diana Rigg, Emilia Fox…
- Late–90s British televisation of the classic Daphne Du Maurier gothic romance, with Charles Dance as the widowed aristocrat whose remarriage to…
Regeneration (Behind the Lines) (1997)
- Dir. Gillies MacKinnon
Feat. Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller…
- An exploration of the mental trauma of trench–warfare in WWI, adapted from the novel by Pat Barker and set in a Scottish Hospital where…
Rosewood (1997)
- Dir. John Singleton
Feat. Ving Rhames, Jon Voight, Don Cheadle…
- A black community in 1920s Florida is plagued by mobs of local rednecks in this impassioned melodrama from Dir. John Singleton's ('Boyz in the…
Sarabande (1997)
- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Lori Singer, Don McKellar
- The dramatic entry in the 'Inspired by Bach' series in which renowned cellist Yo Yo Ma collaborates with an artist in another medium. Finding perfect…
Saving Grace (1997)
- Dir. Costa Botes
Feat. Kirsty Hamilton, Jim Moriarty
- A kind of Jesus of Upper Cuba Street, this adaptation of Duncan Sarkies' stageplay ambitiously hammers a drama of poverty in inner–city…
Second Civil War, The (1997)
- Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Denis Leary, James Earl Jones, James Coburn
- Fairly realistic speculation of an American Civil War, occurring when present–day Idaho cedes from the Union, painted over with the lighter…
Secrets of the Heart (Secretos del Corazon) (1997)
- Dir. Montxo Armendariz
Feat. Andoni Erburu, Inigo Garces
- A subdued drama that views rural Spain through the childs' eye of its protaganist, a young boy whose curiosity leads him into a haunted house…
Selena (1997)
- Dir. Gregory Nava
Feat. Jennifer Lopez, Edward James Olmos
- Worthy biopic of the Latin–American pop star who on the verge of crossing over into the American market was tragically murdered.
Serpent's Kiss, The (1997)
- Dir. Phillip Rousseklot
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Greta Scacchi, Richard E. Grant…
- Ambitious period drama follows a renowned Dutch landscape gardener (McGregor) to England where he finds himself coiled in the intrigues of various…