Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Nobody's Fool (1994)
- Dir. Robert Benton
Feat. Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy…
- An unassuming American ballad that falls between arthouse independent and Hollywood sentiment. Paul Newman ages gracefully as a stubborn old salt…
Oleanna (1994)
- Dir. David Mamet
Feat. Debra Eisenstadt, William H. Macy
- David Mamet brings his penetrating tete–a–tete about sexual agendas from the stage to screen in purely theatrical form. Stay with its…
Once Were Warriors (1994)
- Dir. Lee Tamahori
Feat. Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Julian Arahanga…
- As sensational as it is important, Lee Tamahori's adaptation managed to transform Alan Duff's relentlessly down–beat novel about domestic…
Only the Brave (1994)
- Dir. Ana Kokkinos
Feat. Elena Mandalis, Dora Kaskanis, Maud Davey
- Gritty portrait of a bleak rite–of–passage for two Greek girls in the wasteland of suburban Melbourne. Succinct feature possesses a…
Out of Darkness (1994)
- Dir. Larry Elikann
Feat. Diana Ross, Beah Richards, Carl Lumbly
- Diana Ross gives an impressively committed performance as a medical student diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, who tries to integrate back into…
Party of Five (TV Series) (1994-2000)
- Feat. Matthew Fox, Neve Campbell, Lacey Chabert
- Accessible youth drama about a family of five orphaned siblings who, after their parents are killed in a car accident, are left to fend for…
Picture Bride (1994)
- Dir. Kayo Hatta
Feat. Youki Kudoh, Akira Takayama
- A young Japanese woman emigrates to Hawaii as a 'picture bride', but finds it less than paradise – firstly misled by a photograph taken during…
Pie in the Sky (TV Series) (1994)
- Feat. Richard Griffiths
- Brit crime series following a retirement age detective hanging up his mystery solving hat to fulfil a goal of owning his own restaurant, but it seems…
Postcards From America (1994)
- Dir. Steve McLean
Feat. James Lyons, Michael Tighe, Olmo Tighe
- Important film of the New Queer Cinema is a fierce, impressionistic drama inspired by the writings of performance artist David Wojnarowicz, who died…
Pret-a-Porter (1994)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Sophia Loren…
- Director Altman's take on the Paris fashion industry hasn't the edgy sarcasm or the incisiveness of his THE PLAYER and SHORT CUTS, but is…