Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Showgirls (1995)
- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon
- The BASIC INSTINCT team reprise with another sexploitation film that sent most critics in howls of derision.
Lack of plot and oversaturation of…
Sister, My Sister (1995)
- Dir. Nancy Meckler
Feat. Julie Walters, Joely Richardson, Jodhi May
- Two sibling maids flirt with incest, madness and a homicidal tendencies toward their employer. Bleak melodrama builts to a haunting finale, though it…
Starmaker, The (1995)
- Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Sergio Castellitto, Tiziana Lodato, Franco Scaldati
- The director of CINEMA PARADISO reprises another movie–enchanted tale. An endearing con–man tours the countryside, posing as a studio…
Stars Fell On Henrietta (1995)
- Dir. James Keach
Feat. Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn, Frances Fisher…
- Robert Duvall is a vagrant claiming to be a former oil man who persuades a down–on–their–luck couple that their fields contain oil…
Stealing Beauty (1995)
- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Liv Tyler, Jeremy Irons
- Bertolucci is at home on the range of rural Tuscany for his most accessible and fanciful outing.
Much like every character in the film, its hard…
Streetcar Named Desire, A (TV mini-series) (1995)
- Dir. Glenn Jordan
Feat. Alec Baldwin, Jessica Lange, John Goodman…
- Telemovie version of Tennesse Williams riveting play that plays it truer to the original script than the Brando version. The cast also do a good job…
Sugartime (1995)
- Dir. John N. Smith
Feat. John Turturro, Mary-Louise Parker, Elias Koteas…
- Charts the infamous, real–life romance between Chicago mobster Sam Giancana (John Turturro) and whitebread songstress Phyllis McGuire…
Sun Valley (1995)
- Dir. He Ping
Feat. Feng Gu, Xueqi Wang
- A vengeful Chinese warrior drifts into a small village on the Silk Road, where he is destined for a climactic showdown with a rival suitor of a young…
Total Eclipse (1995)
- Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis
- Voraciously dueling bohemians of late 19th century Paris, Leonardo Di Caprio and David Thewlis impersonate Rimbaud and Verlaine – French poet…
Trick of the Light, A (Brothers Skladanowsky) (1995)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Udo Kier
- Quirky, pseudo–documentary in the tradition of FORGOTTEN SILVER recreates through faux interviews and found footage the exploits of the…