Subgenre Sampler
Female-centric: 788 Films to Buy & Rent
Holy Smoke (1999)
- Dir. Jane Campion
Feat. Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel
- An adventurous attempt to fuse psychological thriller, broad caricature and Eastern spirituality has guru–besotted Kate Winslet being lured…
Joan of Arc (The Messenger) (1999)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich…
- The French heroine gets the big–budget splurge with a religiously inspired Milla Jovovich leading the French peasantry against the Brits, only…
Madonna - The Ultimate Collection (1999)
- Feat. Madonna
- A double DVD set featuring the ‘Immaculate Collection’ (1990) of music videos with the more recent ‘Video Collection’.
The ‘Immaculate…
Soft Fruit (1999)
- Dir. Christina Andreef
Feat. Jeanie Drynan, Linal Haft, Russell Dykstra…
- From NZ short film dir. Christina Andreef comes this ripely entertaining comic drama about the ties that separate and bind as four Aussie siblings…
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (1999)
- Dir. Rodrigo Garcia
Feat. Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter…
- A quietly impressive portmanteau film, portraying the interior lives of five Los Angeles women in crisis, this was unfairly shelved after its…
Tumbleweeds (1999)
- Dir. Gavin O'Connor
Feat. Janet McTeer, Gavin O'Connor, Kimberly J Brown
- Exceptional mother–daughter drama that won British actress Janet McTeer an Oscar nomination for her dedicated portrait of a sassy, impetuous…
Venus Beauty Institute (Venus Beauty) (1999)
- Dir. Tonie Marshall
Feat. Nathalie Baye, Audrey Tautou
- A modest beauty salon is the setting for this wry ensemble piece about the vagaries of womanhood, with an engagingly eccentric collection of clients…
An Autumn Tale (1998)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Marie Riviere, Beatrice Romand, Alain Libolt
- Completing his suite of films based on the four seasons, dir. Rohmer provides another mellow, seemingly unplotted comedy, in which Rhone valley…
Charmed (TV Series) (1998-2005)
- Feat. Shannen Doherty, Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs
- A career–reviving hit for Doherty and Milano, as two of a trio of sisters who discover they have the supernatural powers of witches. This…
Destiny of Her Own, A (Dangerous Beauty) (1998)
- Dir. Marshall Herskovitz
Feat. Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell
- Historical romance that profits from a sensuous 16th century Venetian setting, as the low–prospect Catherine McCormack opts for the tradeoffs…