Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
White Man's Burden (1995)
- Dir. Desmond Nakano
Feat. John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch
- In an alternative America, blacks are members of social elite, and whites inhabit the urban ghettos. John Travolta plays a humble white factory…
Wild Reeds (Les Roseaux Sauvages) (1995)
- Dir. Andre Techine
Feat. Frederick Gorny, Gael Morel
- Beautifully studied coming–of–age saga set in rural France at the end of the Algerian war, as four young friends on the cusp of adulthood…
Witch Hunt (1995)
- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Dennis Hopper
- Dennis Hopper plays P.I. Philip Lovecraft and becomes embroiled in the murder of a Hollywood producer with supernatural side–effects. Pleasing…
Young Poisoner's Handbook, The (1995)
- Dir. Benjamin Ross
Feat. Hugh O'Conor, Antony Sher, Ruth Sheen…
- A disquieting black comedy about a chemistry student who proceeded to poision his parents and others in the 1960s. Typically British in its portrait…
Zero Kelvin (1995)
- Dir. Hans Petter Moland
Feat. Gard B. Eidsvold, Stellan Skarsgard
- This tale of hardcore cabin fever in the 1930s has the Arctic wasteland as a backdrop for the face off between two romantic idealists – one a…
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Anne Bennent, Lukas Miko, Gabriel Cosmin Urdes
- A radical and virtuoso endpoint to Michael Haneke’s ‘Glaciation Trilogy’, this serves as a template for CODE UNKNOWN in its complex mosaic of…
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…