Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Adjuster, The (1991)
- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Elias Koteas, Arsinee Khanjian, Maury Chaykin
- Eliptical and seductive fifth feature from one of cinema's most original talents. Two 'adjusters' – an insurance assessor, and his wife, a film…
Amants Du Pont Neuf, Les (1991)
- Dir. Leos Carax
Feat. Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant
- Extravagant production breathes fire into this unusual epic love story of two young Paris street punks. Through the ebbs and the flows, Carax adjusts…
American Friends (1991)
- Dir. Tristram Powell
Feat. Michael Palin, Connie Booth, Trini Alvarado
- Subdued yet engaging period drama with Ex–Monty Pythoner Michael Palin, but expect few laughs from him as a scrupulous Oxford tutor whose vow…
Arizona Dream (1991)
- Dir. Emir Kusturica
Feat. Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, Lili Taylor
- A young Inuit dreamer is called to Arizona for his uncle's wedding, where he is bewitched by a neurotic mother–daughter team.
An eccentric…
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
- Dir. Hector Babenco
Feat. Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah…
- Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Darryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn, Kathy Bates and Tom Waits endured the two–year location shoot of Peter Matthiessen's…
Babe, The (1991)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. John Goodman
- John Goodman portrays Babe Ruth, the outsized baseball legend who rose from the ashes of ridicule to become one of America's all–time sporting…
Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
- Dir. Simon Callow
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Rod Steiger…
- Backwoods America sets the peculiar scene for an uneasy romance between Vanessa Redgrave and Keith Carradine that evolves into a visceral…
Barton Fink (1991)
- Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis
- The Coen Bros' striking if enigmatic account of a brilliant scribe hampered with writer's block and a strange hotel companion in mid 1940s Hollywood.…
Billy Bathgate (1991)
- Dir. Robert Benton
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Bruce Willis
- Tempers flare as loyalties are betrayed in this solid gangland tale concerning the indoctrination of a teenager into the mob.
Black Robe (1991)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young
- A Jesuit priest attempts to convert Shamanist Indians in the Canadian wilderness of 1643. A heady mix of explicit savagery and incomparable beauty.