Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1991)
- Dir. Tom Stoppard
Feat. Gary Oldman, Tim Roth
- Tom Stoppard films his own play that follows the aimless lives of two incidental characters from HAMLET. Gary Oldman and Tim Roth dazzlingly…
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Winter's End; Skylark) (1991-1999)
- Dir. Glenn Jordan
Feat. Glenn Close, Christopher Walken
- A beloved made–for–TV adaptation of Patricia MacLachlan's famous children's novel. A widowed farmer places an ad for a wife, with a…
Scene at the Sea, A (1991)
- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Kuroudo Maki, Hiroko Oshima, Sabu Kawahara…
- One from dir. Kitano’s (HANA–BI) quieter side, this fable of deaf–mute garbageman’s obsession with surfing is deceptively minimal,…
Shadows and Fog (1991)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, John Malkovich, Kathy Bates…
- Woody, John Malkovich, Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Jodie Foster and Madonna cast their prominent shadows for his droll tale of mystery stranglers,…
Shining Through (1991)
- Dir. David Seltzer
Feat. Melanie Griffith, Michael Douglas
- In wartime New York, Melanie Griffith's fascination with war movies lands her a job as a spy in Germany. Her boss/love interest is Michael Douglas.
Sleepers (TV Series) (1991)
- Feat. Nigel Havers, Warren Clarke
- Absurdist BBC spy comedy set in the post–Glasnost era, where it is discovered that two KGB agents assigned to infiltrate British society in the…
Spotswood (1991)
- Dir. Mark Joffe
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Bruno Lawrence…
- Anthony Hopkins plays an efficiency expert hired to overhaul a cottage moccasin factory, and finds himself endeared to the staff, in this affable…
Stranger, The (1991)
- Dir. Satyajit Ray
Feat. Deepankar Dey, Mamata Shankar
- An absorbing domestic parable from revered film–maker Satyajit Ray, whose last film here explores familial bonds when a long–lost…
Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley Shorts) (1991)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Martin Donovan
- The hour–long 'Surviving Desire' is an earlier Hartley work that focuses on Hartley's world of the 'college–educated slacker' whose…
Swoon (1991)
- Dir. Tom Kalin
Feat. Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester
- A stylised interpretation of the famous Loeb–Leopold murder case of 1924. The fateful gay lovers entwined their clandestine sex life with that…