Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Drama: 1111 Films to Buy & Rent
This is Not a Love Story (2001)
- Dir. Keith Hill
Feat. Stephen Lovatt, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
- Exploring the dynamics of a love–triangle between a soap–opera actor and two women, this local 'DV drama' from debuting dir. Hill catches…
Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps (TV Series) (2001)
- Feat. Will Mellor, Sheridan Smith, Natalie Casey
- Brit sitcom following a group of five 20 somethings in Cheshire who regularly meet at the local pub to discuss the trials and tribulations of life.…
Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too!) (2001)
- Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna
- Acclaimed universally (and here in NZ beset with censorship wrangles), this Mexican joyride, taken by two teenage boys and an older woman, is indeed…
101 Reykjavik (2000)
- Dir. Baltasar Kormakur
Feat. Baltasar Kormakur, Victoria Abril
- An endearingly skewed yet unexpectedly poignant sex comedy moored in the 30–below temperatures of the Icelandic winter, about a…
Aberdeen (2000)
- Dir. Tony Spataro, Hans Petter Moland
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, Lena Headey, Jean Anderson
- Bleakly funny dysfunctional family drama set in Aberdeen, Scotland, where a dying mother (Charlotte Rampling) enlists the help of her daughter to…
At Home With The Braithwaites (TV Series) (2000)
- Feat. Amanda Redman, Peter Davison, Sarah Smart…
- A self–consciously offbeat domestic drama revolving around the dysfunctional minefield of the Braithwaite household, familial relations that…
Better than Sex (2000)
- Dir. Jonathan Teplitzky
Feat. David Wenham, Susie Porter
- Better than sex is the open possibility of something ‘more’ between ships–in–the–night David Wenham and Susie Porter, whose two…
Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns (Fovou tous Ellines) (2000)
- Dir. John Tatoulis
Feat. Lakis Lazopoulos, Zoe Carides
- A warm Greek–Australian rom–com following the exploits of a school teacher from Crete who is sent to Australia to avenge the family name…
Chocolat (2000)
- Dir. Lasse Hallstrom
Feat. Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin…
- Light and fluffy ‘food–comedy’ of international mien in which, after a shaky start, Juliette Binoche gets into the heart of an crusty…
Coyote Ugly (2000)
- Dir. David McNally
Feat. Piper Perabo, Andy Garcia, Melanie Lynskey
- A young 'Jersey' girl (Piper Perabo) sets off to the Big Apple to follow her dreams of becoming a successful songwriter, but winds up shaking her…