Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Wife, The (1994)
- Dir. Tom Noonan
Feat. Julie Hagerty, Tom Noonan, Wallace Shawn…
- An adult drama to be savoured – director Tom Noonan adapts his own stageplay for the screen, matching the wit and intelligence of his text with…
Woody Allen Collection, The (Bullets Over Broadway, Deconstructing Harry, Mighty Aphrodite, Everyone Says I Love You, Celebrity, Sweet and Lowdown, Small Time Crooks, Curse Of The Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending, Wild Man Blues) (1994-2002)
- Dir. Woody Allen
- Nine Woody Allen features from the mid–nineties/early–noughties (several, previously unavailable on DVD), plus Barbara Kopple's…
Wycliffe (TV Series) (1994)
- Dir. Jack Shepherd
Feat. Bill Nighy, Jack Shepherd
- Edgy novel based detective drama following the feats of a conventional trench coat clad superintendent investigating small town crime. Effectively…
Yvonne's Perfume (1994)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Jean-Pierre Marielle, Hippolyte Girardot, Sandra Majani
- A deserter from the Algerian war falls for the charms of a beautiful actress and her gay companion at a lakeside hotel for pensioners. The director…
Advocate, The (Hour Of the Pig) (1993)
- Dir. Leslie Megahey
Feat. Colin Firth, Donald Pleasence, Nicol Williamson…
- Polished, wry and most unusual medieval fact–based tale. Colin Firth plays a lawyer summonsed to act for the defence a pig (yes, an animal) for…
Age of Innocence, The (1993)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder
- Scorsese's adaptation of the novel by Edith Wharton is a extravagant period costumer that makes Merchant–Ivory look downright paltry. Stellar…
Amy Fisher Story, The (1993)
- Dir. Andy Tennant
Feat. Drew Barrymore
- Telemovie depiction of the notorious Long Island high–school student whose activities as a violent criminal and teenage prostitute climaxed…
And the Band Played On (1993)
- Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Richard Gere, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin…
- The story of the AIDS epidemic from a medical viewpoint and their immediate patients is satisfying once it cuts through laboratory double–talk.
Backbeat (1993)
- Dir. Iain Softley
Feat. Stephen Dorff, Sheryl Lee, Ian Hart
- A fascinating insight into the enigma that was the 'fifth' Beatle, Stuart Sutcliffe, who threw in the musical towel to pursue art and love.…
Bad Behaviour (1993)
- Dir. Les Blair
Feat. Stephen Rea, Sinead Cusack, Phil Daniels…
- Middle life and class are sliced from the Leigh/Loach mould, but with more improvisation and less cynicism. Stephen Rea plays a town planner at the…