Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Ox, The (1992)
- Dir. Sven Nykvist
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, Ewa Froling, Lennart Hjulstrom
- During the famine years of Sweden in the 1860s, a peasant family slaughter their employer's ox, then reap the consequences. Directed by Ingmar…
Passion Fish (1992)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Mary MacDonnell, Alfre Woodard, David Strathairn
- After a debilitating accident, soap–opera super–bitch Mary MacDonnell returns to Louisiana and finds an unlikely soulmate in her black…
Peter's Friends (1992)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie…
- British stiff–upper–lip spin on the BIG CHILL with Kenneth Brannagh and friends. They come across as something of a lacklustre lot,…
Picket Fences (TV Series) (1992)
- Feat. Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Costas Mandylor…
- Small–town drama from the creator of BOSTON LEGAL and ALLY MCBEAL in which Sheriff Jimmy Brock (Tom Skerritt) investigates dark goings on…
Plague, The (1992)
- Dir. Luis Puenzo
Feat. John Hurt, Robert Duvall, Raul Julia…
- William Hurt, Robert Duvall and Raul Julia star in this truncated adaptation of Albert Camus's complex novel. Bubonic plague besieges a modern South…
Playboys, The (1992)
- Dir. Gillies MacKinnon
Feat. Robin Wright, Aidan Quinn, Albert Finney
- Robin Wright and travelling player Aidan Quinn attempt to consummate their passions in the face of religion, geography and Albert Finney's drunkard…
Player, The (1992)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg…
- A glittering Tinseltown satire that manages to be an intricate, clever, surprising and entertaining thriller all at the same time, with a cast of…
Power of One, The (1992)
- Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Stephen Dorff
- From Bryce Courtney's best–seller, an oppressed English orphan in Africa finds a father figure in prison inmate Morgan Freeman, who teaches him…
Quiet Days in Clichy (1992)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Nigel Havers, Andrew McCarthy
- From Henry Miller's novel, Nigel Havers and Andrew McCarthy are hedonistic literary foreigners cavorting in turn–of–the–century…
Red Curtain Trilogy (Strictly Ballroom; Romeo and Juliet; Moulin Rouge) (1992-2001)
- Dir. Baz Luhrmann
- Australian dir. Baz Luhrmann's three visionary modern musicals given a lavish box–set presentation.