Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Drama: 1090 Films to Buy & Rent
- Rice Rhapsody (Hainan ji fan) (2004)
- Dir. Kenneth Bi
Feat. Sylvia Chang, Mélanie Laurent, Maggie Q
- Light, good–natured familial farce about a sturdy single mother who, fearing a drought of grandchildren, plots to ‘straighten’ the…
- Shameless (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. David Threlfall, Elliot Tittensor, Gerard Kearns…
- The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits – and humor – on a rough…
- She Hate Me (2004)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin…
- Another well–packed 'joint' from Spike Lee, has a corporate whistle–blower (Mackie) fired from his job and recruited to impregnate…
- Sideways (2004)
- Dir. Alexander Payne
Feat. Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen…
- Reserve quality odd–couple comedy–drama from the consistent talent behind ELECTION and ABOUT SCHMIDT, about two middle–aged friends…
- Silver City (2004)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Chris Cooper, Danny Huston, Daryl Hannah…
- Oddly tangled satire of Bush–era American politics in which a George Dubya soundalike (Cooper) goes on the campaign trail in Colorado, while…
- Spanglish (2004)
- Dir. James L. Brooks
Feat. Adam Sandler, Paz Vega, Tea Leoni…
- A Mexican maid (Vega) is inducted into the Bel Air household of a celebrity chef (Sandler) and his dysfunctional family, in this cheerfully sour…
- Thunderstruck (2004)
- Dir. Darren Ashton
Feat. Sam Worthington
- Bittersweet comedy has a group of young heavy–metal musicians make a pact to reunite, should one of them die, so as to bury the body next to…
- Upside of Anger, The (2004)
- Dir. Mike Binder
Feat. Kevin Costner, Joan Allen, Erika Christensen…
- After being deserted by her husband, a resentful suburban Mom (Allen) turns to the bottle and the arms of her neighbour (Costner), an…
- Vanity Fair (2004)
- Dir. Mira Nair
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rhys Ifans…
- Sumptuous and intelligent adaptation of William Thackeray's novel, about the rise of an unscrupulous orphan lass to the aristocracy in Britain during…
- A Foreign Affair (2 Brothers and a Bride) (2003)
- Dir. Helmut Schleppi
Feat. David Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson, Emily Mortimer
- An underrated dramatic satire in which two American farmboys enrol in a 'romance tour' of Russia when their mother dies.
As they tour the clubs…