Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Independent: 590 Films to Buy & Rent
Calendar (1993)
- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Atom Egoyan, Arsinee Khanjian
- Dir. Atom Egoyan and his real–life wife Arsinee Khanjian play a romantic–professional couple whose photographic calendar assignment in…
Clean, Shaven (1993)
- Dir. Lodge Kerrigan
Feat. Peter Greene
- Cult actor Peter Green followed his great work in LAWS OF GRAVITY with this difficult but startling independent feature as a violent schizophrenic…
Combination Platter (1993)
- Dir. Tony Chan
Feat. Jeffrey Lau, Colleen OBrien, Lester Chit-Man Chan…
- A drama exploring the life of a young undocumented Chinese immigrant in Flushing, Queens, New York. Working at a Szechuan restaurant for low pay, he…
From the Island (As an Eilean) (1993)
- Dir. Mike Alexander
Feat. Ken Hutchison, Iain MacLeod
- A teenager comes to terms with the parochial and insular way of life in his village on a remote Scottish island. A vivid sense of landscape and local…
Go Fish (1993)
- Dir. Rose Troche
Feat. Guinevere Turner, V.S Brodie
- A free–wheeling and revealing study of things lesbian with all its inherent prejudices and dilemmas. Not a 'coming–out' movie, but rather…
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1993)
- Dir. Leslie Harris
Feat. Ariyan Johnson
- This cautionary tale from the Brooklyn streets lacks technical polish, but its heart–felt enthusiasm paints a geniune picture of what it is to…
Malcolm X (1993)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Denzel Washington
- Epic bio of the black–American minister and human rights activist from his beginnings as a Harlem crook to his 1965 assassination. Breezes…
Music of Chance, The (1993)
- Dir. Philip Haas
Feat. James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, Charles Durning…
- Impressively cast against type, James Spader's slimy card shark entices broken family man Mandy Patinkin to accept a poker challenge by two eccentric…
Short Cuts (1993)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Waits…
- Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason–Leigh, Tom Waits and Jack Lemmon lead 18 other stars in this extraordinary observation of the ordinary. Several of…
What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993)
- Dir. Lasse Hallstrom
Feat. Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio…
- An off–beat delight that's quirky take on tin–pot America is never at the expense of its truthfulness or poignancy.
The ballad of the…