Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Romance: 844 Films to Buy & Rent
Traps (1993)
- Dir. Pauline Chan
Feat. Saskia Reeves, Jacqueline McKenzie
- An English journalistic couple travel to pre–war South Vietnam to rejuvenate their floundering marriage, but falter on the shifting ground of a…
Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
- Dir. John Duigan
Feat. Karina Lombard, Rachel Ward, Michael York
- Polished screen adaptation of Jean Rhys' novel of erotic obsession between a English aristocrat and a Island beauty in 19th Century Jamaica.
Absent Without Leave (1992)
- Dir. John Laing
Feat. Craig McLauchlan
- Craig McLauchlan from Neighbours stars as a love–struck newly–wed on the run from the army during WW2. Slight nostalgia with lots of…
Adam Bede (1992)
- Dir. Giles Foster
Feat. Iain Glen, Patsy Kensit, James Wilby
- BBC adaptation of George Eliot's passionate tale of love and betrayal, set in 1799 rural England. Tells the story of a pretty dairy maid seduced from…
Bodyguard, The (1992)
- Dir. Mick Jackson
Feat. Whitney Houston, Kevin Costner
- A perfect exercise in Hollywood cliche that rises above the ordinary thanks to Whitney Houston in a commendable acting debut and Kevin Costner as the…
Conte D'hiver (A Winter's Tale) (1992)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Charlotte Very, Frederic Van Den Driessche
- A whirlwind romance ends abruptly for a young woman when she accidentally gives her lover a wrong address. Four years pass and she remains possessed…
Crazy in Love (1992)
- Dir. Martha Coolidge
Feat. Holly Hunter, Gena Rowlands
- Romantic complications ensue for three generations of women – especially Holly Hunter – whose worries about her 'perfect' husband's…
Howards End (1992)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter
- Merchant/Ivory's E.M. Forster adaptation is so exquisite it pales their previous efforts. Forster's usual themes of class injustice and emotional…
Last Days of Chez Nous, The (1992)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Kerry Fox
- Kerry Fox seduces the French husband of her sister who's away trying to resolve her relationship with her father. Like SWEETIE, it's beautifully…
Lover, The (1992)
- Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Feat. Jane March, Tony Leung (Kar-fai)
- Exotic adaptation of Marguerite Duras' autobiographical novel charting an illicit affair between a 15–year–old French school–girl…