Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Drama: 1093 Films to Buy & Rent
- Dogs (Dogs: The Rise and Fall of an All-Girl Bookie Joint) (1996)
- Dir. Eve Annenburg
Feat. Pam Columbus, Pam Gray, Melody Beal…
- Four Brooklyn women opt for a life of running an illegal bookie joint, over the dead–end, unemployed lifestyle of the local area. In her debut,…
- Emma (1996)
- Dir. Douglas McGrath
Feat. Gwyneth Paltrow, James Cosmo, Greta Scacchi…
- A clued up reworking of Jane Austen's classic, set in 19th century England, about a congenial young lady's well–intentioned but misjudged…
- Emma (Jane Austen's Emma) (1996)
- Dir. Diarmuid Lawrence
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Dominic Rowan, Mark Strong…
- Released the same year as the fanfared Gwyneth Paltrow version, this modest made–for–TV version of Jane Austen's matchmaker rom–com…
- Go Now (1996)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Juliet Aubrey, James Nesbitt…
- Scotsman Robert Carlyle faces terminal illness with the support of family, his lover and a rich line in crude male banter from his mates. Not often…
- Jane Austen Collection, The (1996-2007)
- Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Billie Piper, Samantha Morton…
- Collection of three of Austen's greatest stories; Emma, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park, brought to life by prestigious British casts.
Emma…
- Jerry Maguire (1996)
- Dir. Cameron Crowe
Feat. Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger, Cuba Jr. Gooding
- The (then) thinking person's Tom Cruise movie, with Hollywood's biggest star actually getting to act in this insightful comic–drama about…
- Late Bloomers (1996)
- Dir. Gretchen Dyer, Julia Dyer
Feat. Connie Nelson, Dee Hennigan
- A lonely, ageing geometry teacher has a blossoming affair with the principal’s married secretary, setting off a chorus of disapproval among the…
- Lust and Revenge (1996)
- Dir. Paul Cox
Feat. Nicholas Hope, Claudia Karvan
- An unlikely creative partnership between the solemn, prolific Dutch–Aussie director Paul Cox (MAN OF FLOWERS, A WOMAN'S TALE) and John Clarke…
- Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
- Dir. Sadjan Dragojevic
Feat. Dragan Bjelorgrlic, Nikola Kojo
- Seen in flashback from a ward in triage, the Bosnian war is portrayed in a riveting counter–play of nihilism and theatre, as a band of Serbian…
- Summer in La Goulette (1996)
- Dir. Ferid Boughedir
Feat. Sonia Mankai, Ava Cohen-Jonathan, Sarah Pariente…
- Three families of disparate cultures enjoy harmony in Tunisian paradise, until three of their beautiful daughters flirt with losing their virginity,…