Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Reef, The (Passion's Way) (1996)
- Dir. Robert Allan Ackerman
Feat. Timothy Dalton, Sela Ward, Leslie Caron
- Unrequited love is the theme of this adaptation from Edith Wharton, as young lovers Timothy Dalton and Sela Ward are repeatedly separated by…
Rhodes (TV Mini-series) (1996)
- Dir. David Drury
Feat. Martin Shaw, Frances Barber, Joe Shaw
- Lengthy but worth–it biopic telling the story of Cecil Rhodes, the 19th–Century businessman who was sent to Africa to die, but came back…
Richard III (1996)
- Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jnr.…
- Transposed to a fascist 1930s Britain, Shakespeare's classic tale of power politics easily renews its timeless appeal. Ian McKellen commands every…
Safe (1996)
- Dir. Todd Haynes
Feat. Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman, Xander Berkeley…
- This subtly gripping and rewarding portrait of neurosis stars Julianne Moore as a fragile '80s LA housewife who takes refuge at a health compound in…
Secrets and Lies (1996)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Claire Rushbrook…
- Winner of the Palm D'or at Cannes '96, and surprise box–office smash thanks to good old word of mouth.
A dramatic tour–de–force…
Self Made Hero, A (1996)
- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Mathieu Kassovitz
- Mattieu Kassovitz (director of LA HAINE) proves to be no slouch actor here as a WW2 idler who swats up and cheekily ascends the ranks of the…
Shine (1996)
- Dir. Scott Hicks
Feat. Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor
- Geoffrey Rush's upset win of the Best Actor Oscar was the jewel in the crown of this little Oz movie's incredibly charmed life. A moving recital…
Sleepers (1996)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Dustin Hoffman
- Based on a purportedly fact–based novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra, a disastrous prank lands four schoolboys in a borstal where they suffer…
Small Faces (1996)
- Dir. Gillies MacKinnon
Feat. Iain Robertson, Joseph McFadden
- An anti–nostalgic hark back to the mean streets of late '60s Glasgow into which a wee spotty lad becomes unwittingly drawn. Eschewing the…
Snow White in the Black Forest (A Tale of Terror) (1996)
- Dir. Michael Cohn
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill
- A Brothers Grimm fairytale more grim than fairy–ish. Sigourney Weaver steps into the wicked–stepmother robes for a nice little bedtime…