Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Secret Garden, The (1993)
- Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Feat. Maggie Smith, Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse…
- A splendid, lavish update of Francis Hodgson Burnett's beloved classic in which a troubled orphan visits her domineering aunt's mansion, befriends…
Secrets (1993)
- Dir. Michael Pattinson
Feat. Noah Taylor, Willa O'Neill
- During the Beatles' Melbourne tourdate of 1964, four Beatle–maniacs and an Elvis fan find themselves trapped together in a hotel basement,…
Shadowlands (1993)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger
- Anthony Hopkins is terrific as academic and children's author C.S. Lewis, who discovers a well of unfathomable emotion when his American divorcee…
Sharpe (TV Series) (1993-1998)
- Dir. Tom Clegg
Feat. Sean Bean, Brian Cox
- Various teledramas adapting Bernard Cornwall's famous novels about the adventures of an officer in the 19th century British Army. In perhaps his best…