Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Drama: 1093 Films to Buy & Rent
- Dr T and the Women (2000)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett…
- Director Altman's typically offbeat ensemble comedy–drama about a middle–aged gynaecologist's (Richard Gere) midlife crisis, as he's…
- Flawless (2000)
- Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman
- After suffering a stroke that leaves him part–paralyzed, an arch–conservative, retired security guard (Robert De Niro) agrees to let a…
- He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2000)
- Dir. Richard Lowenstein
Feat. Noah Taylor, Sophie Lee, Ian Hughes
- Ramshackle Aussie comedy based on the cult novel, that follows the fortunes of blocked wannabe writer Noah Taylor in a series of flatting…
- Human Remains (TV Series) (2000)
- Feat. Rob Brydon, Julia Davis
- BBC black comedy mockumentary style series centred around six different offbeat couples, one per episode, candidly revealing their kooky home lives.…
- Last of the Blonde Bombshells, The (2000)
- Dir. Gillies MacKinnon
Feat. Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Leslie Caron…
- Charming light drama about a recently–widowed Judi Dench who decides to revive her saxophone playing, eventually getting the idea to reunite…
- Mad Dogs and Englishmen (How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog) (2000)
- Dir. Michael Kalesniko
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Robin Wright, Jared Harris…
- Kenneth Branagh brings a rumpled, harassed charm to his role as a playwright whose career is interrupted by 'writer's block', a condition exacerbated…
- Malena (2000)
- Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Monica Bellucci
- The dir. of CINEMA PARADISO throws an amber–lit glow around a man’s memory of a boyhood infatuation in his hometown in WWII Sicily.…
- Mrs. Caldicot's Cabbage War (2000)
- Dir. Ian Sharp
Feat. Pauline Collins, Peter Capaldi
- Pauline Collins (SHIRLEY VALENTINE) plays an elderly widow who is shunted into a resthome by her money grubbing offspring, who don’t count on her…
- My Family (TV Series) (2000-2006)
- Feat. Zoe Wanamaker, Robert Lindsay
- Sturdy British sitcom with Zoe Wanamaker and Robert Lindsay at the head of middle–class family whose dysfunctions range from the petty…
- My Mother Frank (2000)
- Dir. Mark Lamprell
Feat. Sinead Cusack, Sam Neill, Sacha Horler…
- Sober comedy with an 'it's never too late' theme, is nicely done despite some rather convenient plotting.
Mother and widow Sinead Cusack decides…