Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8101 Films to Buy & Rent
Homicide - The Movie (1996)
- Dir. Jean De Segonzac
Feat. Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer…
- A special movie–length episode of the cult TV crime series "Homicide – Life on the Streets", which was probably the grittiest and…
Horseman on the Roof (1996)
- Dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Feat. Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez
- Strapping melodrama in the old–fashioned Errol Flynn milieu set during the cholera epidemic of 1800s France. A tale of chivalry, loyalty and…
Hound of the Baskervilles, The / Canterville Ghost, The (1996-2000)
- Dir. Sydney MacCartney, Rodney Gibbons
Feat. Matt Frewer, Jason London, Neve Campbell…
- Made for television productions of these two classic tales are pretty standard fare, though with some notable faces, namely MAX HEADROOM in an…
How to Make an American Quilt (1996)
- Dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse
Feat. Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn…
- Pleasurable, star–domed female–stitching movie has Winona Ryder sorting out her personal foibles with an ear for the mixed–fortuned…
I Love You I Love You Not (1996)
- Dir. Billy Hopkins
Feat. Claire Danes, Jeanne Moreau, Jude Law
- Jewish student Claire Danes and grandmother Jeanne Moreau share romantic and tragic stories of their lives, linked by anti–Semitism. A gently…
I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
- Dir. Mary Harron
Feat. Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Martha Plimpton
- Both an absorbing time capsule of Warhol's 'factory' ultra–decadence and a gutsy portrait of extremism and delusion. Lili Taylor is a dynamo of…
If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
- Dir. Nancy Savoca, Cher
Feat. Cher, Demi Moore, Sissy Spacek
- Cher, Demi Moore and Sissy Spacek examine issues and attitudes surrounding abortion in three separate stories spread over 40 years. Strong…
In Cold Blood (1996)
- Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Sam Neill, Anthony Edwards, Eric Roberts
- Mini–series adaptation of Truman Capote's novel about the real–life murders of a family in a sleepy Kansas town. Solid but not a patch on…
In Love and War (1996)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Chris O'Donnell, Sandra Bullock, Margot Steinberg
- Semi–biographical account of the young, manful Ernest Hemingway's WWI romance/Florence Nightingale complex, based on Agnes von Kurowsky's…
Infinity (1996)
- Dir. Matthew Broderick
Feat. Matthew Broderick, Patricia Arquette, Peter Riegert…
- Biopic about the romantic life of Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman, directed by and starring Matthew Broderick. Set in the 20's and…