Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8101 Films to Buy & Rent
Up Close and Personal (1996)
- Dir. Jon Avnet
Feat. Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert Redford
- Small–town weather girl Michelle Pfeiffer ascends to ambitious journalist and finally star TV reporter under the auspice of boss and lover…
Vacant Possession (1996)
- Dir. Margot Nash
Feat. Pamela Rabe
- Pamela Rabe grapples with some disturbing family secrets on returning to her childhood home in Botany Bay. Beautifully shot drama also confronts…
Vanity Fair (TV Mini-series) (1996)
- Dir. Marc Munden
Feat. Natasha Little, Nathaniel Parker, Frances Grey
- BBC adaptation of William Thackery's 19th century satire of class snobberies in which social–climbing Natasha Little socially negotiates the…
Victory (1996)
- Dir. Mark Peploe
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Irene Jacob, Sam Neill…
- Adventure film set in 1913 and based on the novel of the same name by Joseph Conrad. After attempting to rape a woman, a man living in Dutch occupied…
Watermelon Woman, The (1996)
- Dir. Cheryl Dunye
Feat. Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner
- Unusual and amusing story of a young, black lesbian would–be film–maker whose life, involving a ‘controversial’ romance with…
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996)
- Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Heather Matarazzo, Victoria Davis
- Winner of the grand prize at Sundance '96, this is a blackly comic portrait of a dreaded kind of coming–of–age. Teenage persecution and…
When Saturday Comes (1996)
- Dir. Maria Giese
Feat. Sean Bean, Emily Lloyd, Pete Postlethwaite
- Sean Bean balances the prospect of football greatness with the consumption of much lager in a mining town of North England. It's…
When the Cat's Away (1996)
- Dir. Cedric Klapisch
Feat. Garance Clavel, Zinedine Soualem
- A movie for cat lovers and young romantics alike, this Latino–tinged, funky, yet alluringly modest French film follows the dowdy–cute…
Whole Wide World, The (1996)
- Dir. Dan Ireland
Feat. Vincent D'Onofrio, Renee Zellweger
- Biopic based on a romantic memoir of pulp fantasy writer Robert E. Howard, creator of CONAN THE BARBARIAN and RED SONJA. A beefed–up Vincent…
Will It Snow for Christmas? (1996)
- Dir. Sandrine Veysset
Feat. Dominique Reymond, Daniel Duval
- Not a seasonal film 'for the whole family', rather a slow–paced evocation of hard–won, rural life for an impoverished French family of…