Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Above the Rim (1994)
- Dir. Jeff Pollack
Feat. Duane Martin, Tupac Shakur
- Cautionary basketballing drama in which an NBA–aspiring hot–shot has his dreams soured by an opportunistic dope–dealer.
An Awfully Big Adventure (1994)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman
- After FOUR WEDDINGS, Hugh Grant and director Newell reteamed for this unlikely follow–up – a bleak backstage comedy charting a young…
An Unforgettable Summer (Un été inoubliable) (1994)
- Dir. Lucian Pintilie
Feat. Kristin Scott Thomas, Claudiu Bleont
- Spare, well–realized drama taking place in 1925 on the Romanian/Bulgarian border, where Capitaine Petre Dumitriu (Bleont) and his wife…
Angie (1994)
- Dir. Martha Coolidge
Feat. Geena Davis, Stephen Rea
- Geena Davis brings real authenticity to her role as an expectant mother who, after meeting flamboyant Irishman Stephen Rea, discovers there's is more…
Barcelona (1994)
- Dir. Whit Stillman
Feat. Taylor Nichols, Chris Eigeman, Mira Sorvino
- The director's METROPOLITAN was an acquired taste with its esoteric subject and unusual tone, and this will just as likely delight or infuriate.…
Battlers, The (TV Mini-series) (1994)
- Dir. George Ogilvie
Feat. Gary Sweet, Jacqueline McKenzie
- Fairly sensitive teledrama about life on the backroads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between…
Being Human (1994)
- Dir. Bill Forsyth
Feat. Robin Williams, Robert Carlyle, John Turturro…
- An episodic comic–drama in which Robin Williams plays five men named Hector, who each search for their place in their own historical period…
Blue Sky (1994)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones
- Jessica Lange won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as a flighty mother–of–two whose publicly turbulent marriage to army officer…
Blush (1994)
- Dir. Shaohong Li
Feat. Ji Wang, Zhiwen Wang, Caifei He…
- A sensual historical epic that follows the fortunes of two prostitutes who escape the Chinese revolution by fleeing their brothel in 1949 Shanghai.…
Browning Version, The (1994)
- Dir. Mike Figgis
Feat. Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine
- Elegant modern version of Terrence Rattigan's play stars Albert Finney as the retiring schoolmaster embittered with regret and marriage problems, but…