Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Burnt By the Sun (1994)
- Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
Feat. Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite
- Oscar–winning drama contrasts sunlit Chekhovian lyricism with the dark undercurrents of Stalinist Russia during the "Great Purge", when…
Cadfael (TV Series) (1994-1996)
- Dir. Graham Theakston
Feat. Derek Jacobi, Sean Pertwee, Peter Copley…
- Derek Jacobi stars as Brother Cadfael, a former soldier, sailor and crusader turned botanist monk who often finds himself solving baffling murders…
Captives (1994)
- Dir. Angela Pope
Feat. Julia Ormond, Tim Roth
- Working in a tough British prison, young dentist Julia Ormond becomes intimate with violent inmate Tim Roth, and too becomes a helpless captive as…
Claire of the Moon (1994)
- Dir. Nicole Conn
Feat. Trisha Todd, Karen Trumbo, Faith McDevitt
- An awkward sexual initiation plays out between an odd couple of women at a writing retreat. Lo–fi production lends the intimate affair an…