Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Drama: 1110 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Battle of Shaker Heights, The (2003)
- Dir. Efram Potelle, Kyle Rankin
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Elden Henson, Amy Smart…
- This product of the "Project Greenlight" film–making reality–TV is a a light but engaging story of a young war–reenactment…
Bright Young Things (2003)
- Dir. Stephen Fry
Feat. Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dan Aykroyd…
- Set among the aspirant youth of 1930s Britain, this fresh satirical comedy marks a promising debut for dir. Fry, even if the drama is sliced a little…
Calendar Girls (2003)
- Dir. Nigel Cole
Feat. Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Linda Bassett…
- A group of middle–aged Yorkshire–women decide to disrobe for a charity calender, in an affirmative spin on the FULL MONTY…
Canterbury Tales, The (TV Mini-Series) (2003)
- Feat. James Nesbitt, Julie Walters, Billie Piper…
- A contemporay retelling of six tales from Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval classic, which dispenses with the framing journey to concentrate on the…
Carolina (2003)
- Dir. Marleen Gorris
Feat. Julia Stiles, Shirley Maclaine, Randy Quaid…
- Slightly off–kilter romantic comedy, with the dir. of MRS DALLOWAY injecting a little originality into the normal recipe.
Stiles, projecting…
Easy (2003)
- Dir. Jane Weinstock
Feat. Marguerite Moreau, Brian F O'Byrne, Naveen Andrews…
- A nicely–judged indie riff on some of the perennial dilemmas of modern romance, as experienced by two sisters on the quest to find their…
Fortysomething (TV Series) (2003)
- Feat. Hugh Laurie, Anna Chancellor, Benedict Cumberbatch
- Humorous Britcom starring Hugh Laurie as an anxiety ridden doctor amidst the meltdown of a midlife crisis. With his long–term marriage slowly…
Good Fences (2003)
- Dir. Ernest Dickerson
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Mo'Nique
- Instructive race–relations telemovie about the stresses of prejudice on an upwardly mobile black family in the white, affluent suburb of…
Goodbye Lenin! (2003)
- Dir. Wolfgang Becker
Feat. Daniel Bruhl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova
- This comedy of concealment set around the fall of the Berlin Wall was a justifiable success around the world, with a bittersweet mood of political…