Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Jake's Progress (TV Mini-series) (1995)
- Feat. Robert Lindsay, Julie Walters
- Oddly masterful Alan Bleasdale drama stars G.B.H's Robert Lindsay as a failed musician who learns from a fortune teller that he'll die shortly after…
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Thandiwe Newton
- Thomas Jefferson's sabbatical in revolutionary Paris with Nick Nolte in the central role. Merchant Ivory's period detail is of course faultless, but…
Kicking and Screaming (1995)
- Dir. Noah Baumbach
Feat. Josh Hamilton, Eric Stoltz, Elliott Gould…
- Several college grads flounder in love and with prospects of the future. Dialogue–intensive comedy borrows its philosophical vantage and acting…
Kids (1995)
- Dir. Larry Clark
Feat. Leo Fitzpatrick, Sarah Henderson, Justin Pierce…
- Cult photographer Larry Clark's debut, 24hrs of New York streetkid life, attracted immediate controversy. The unblinking depictions of sex, drugs and…
La Haine (Hate) (1995)
- Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Said Taghmaoui…
- A distinctive French urban crime drama in which the idle hands of male youth form fisticuffs on mean urban streets. A whole lot punchier, intelligent…
Land of Milk and Honey (1995)
- Dir. Joseph Destein
Feat. Lumi Cavazos, Richard Panebianco
- A hired man plumbs the secrets of a Spanish–American family on a remote Californian coastal farm, in this stark, brooding melodrama. Stars…
Last Good Time, The (1995)
- Dir. Bob Balaban
Feat. Armin Mueller-Stahl, Olivia d'Abo, Maureen Stapleton…
- Affecting tale of complementary opposites – a young woman takes refuge in the apartment of a longtime widower (Armin Mueller–Stahl),…
Late Shift, The (1995)
- Dir. Betty Thomas
Feat. Kathy Bates, John Michael Higgins, Bob Balaban…
- Searing, insightful fact–based drama that charts the jostle for late–night supremacy between David Letterman and Jay Leno after the…
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
- Dir. Mike Figgis
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue
- Staggering 'downward–spiral' drama set on a Las Vegas strip of neon lights, broken dreams and drunken oblivion. Nicolas Cage drinks himself to…
Les Miserables (1995)
- Dir. Claude Lelouch
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Widely considered the definitive screen version of this granddaddy of French literary staples. Few concessions have been allowed in staging a…