Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Remains of the Day (1993)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve…
- Note–perfect adaptation of the Booker–winning novel plays out its key themes of duty and betrayal, love and loss with effortless class,…
Rich in Love (1993)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh, Kyle MacLachlan…
- A knock–out cast bring to life the comic and tragic of a splintered yet tightly knit South Carolinan family.
Rudy (1993)
- Dir. David Anspaugh
Feat. Sean Astin, Jon Favreau, Ned Beatty…
- Unheralded sports movie is one of the genreās best: it dramatizes the true story of an athletically–challenged young man determined to play…
Salt On Our Skin (1993)
- Dir. Andrew Birkin
Feat. Greta Scacchi, Vincent D'Onofrio
- Greta Scacchi and Vincent D'Onofrio duet in this lush, erotically charged (Eu)romance as lovers who are wrong for each other, but happen to sizzle in…
Sarafina! (1993)
- Dir. Darrell James Roodt
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg
- Screen version of the anti–apartheid stage musical posits Whoopi Goldberg as a Soweto school–teacher who liberates an impressionable…
Scent of a Woman (1993)
- Dir. Martin Brest
Feat. Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, Gabrielle Anwar…
- Al Pacino finally method–acts his way to Oscar glory as a blind war veteran who, with the reluctant young chaperone, ventures to New York to…
Scent of Green Papaya, The (1993)
- Dir. Tran Anh Hung
Feat. Tran Nu Yen-Khe, Man San Lu, Thi Loc Truong…
- Drama as crisp and luxuriant as its title observes a wealthy Saigon family over two turbulent decades through the eyes of a peasant servant girl. Its…
Schindler's List (1993)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
- Spielberg deservedly swept the '94 Oscars with this compassionate, consummately–crafted tale of a prominent Nazi's precarious mission to save…
Searching for Bobby Fischer (Innocent Moves) (1993)
- Dir. Steven Zaillian
Feat. Joe Mantegna, Ben Kingsley
- Sensitive film about a nine–year–old boy with a special gift for chess. Some poignant moments about parental expectations and the price…
Second Best (1993)
- Dir. Chris Menges
Feat. William Hurt
- An earnest Irish drama in which William Hurt sports a curly red wig for the role of an ordered and reclusive bachelor whose world is thrown into…