Subgenre Sampler
Independent: 834 Films to Buy & Rent
Rapture, The (1991)
- Dir. Michael Tolkin
Feat. Mimi Rogers
- Mimi Rogers, in a tour–de–force performance, trades in her lurid sex romps for spiritual ecstasy. Her rocky road from sin to redemption…
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…
Delusion (1990)
- Dir. Carl Colpaert
Feat. Jim Metzler, Jennifer Rubin, Kyle Secor…
- Quirky cousin of ROADSIDE PROPHETS and HIGHWAY 61 adds a suspense element to its road–bound trio of odd–balls; a computer nerd with a…
Horseplayer (1990)
- Dir. Kurt Voss
Feat. Brad Dourif, Sammi Davis, Max Perlich
- Interesting item stars the incomparably strange Brad Dourif as a loner being manipulated by bored neighbours. Unfortunately for them, Brad turns out…
Julia Has Two Lovers (1990)
- Dir. Bashar Shbib
Feat. Daphna Kastner, David Duchovny
- A simple wrong number turns into a marathon phone conversation and 'relationship' between a doubtful bride–to–be (Daphna Kastner) and a…
King of New York (1990)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, Wesley Snipes…
- A ruthless drug lord (Walken) is determined to resume his throne as the king of New York's underworld after five years behind bars. A vicious crime…
To Sleep With Anger (1990)
- Dir. Charles Burnett
Feat. Danny Glover, Mary Alice, Carl Lumbly…
- Accomplished style–piece about African–American life in a Los Angeles suburb, where family calm is disturbed by the arrival of a…
Trust (1990)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Edie Falco…
- A blackly comic examination of suburban neuroses with Adrienne Shelly returning for the director as a college drop–out who befriends an equally…
Do the Right Thing (1989)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Danny Aiello, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis…
- Spike Lee's tour–de–force of racial friction and personal politics, forged his status as the most important black director in history.…
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham…
- A stylised yet vivid journey into the lives of a group of sympathetic, drug–addicted youths in the early '70s.
A high point in the career…