Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Drama: 1112 Films to Buy & Rent
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,…
August (1995)
- Dir. Anthony Hopkins
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Leslie Phillips, Leslie Burton
- Anthony Hopkins directs and takes the lead role in this variation on Chekhov's oft–filmed drama Uncle Vanya, setting it in his native Wales…
Blue Juice (1995)
- Dir. Carl Prechezer
Feat. Sean Pertwee, Ewan McGregor, Catherine Zeta-Jones
- Sean Pertwee is the surf–king of a Cornish(!) town, prolonging adolescence with his loutish mates but fearing an inevitable tide of…
Brothers Mcmullen, The (1995)
- Dir. Edward Burns
Feat. Edward Burns
- Filmed on weekends over two years at his family home, Ed Burns' DIY romantic comedy went on to win the Grand Prize at the 1995 Sundance Festival.…
Catherine Cookson Collection (TV Mini-series) (1995-2000)
- Feat. Nigel Havers, Clare Higgins, Emily Mortimer…
- Various collections of the prolific Catherine Cookson's mini–series adapted from her widely read novels.
Vol. 1 contains: The Cinder Path,…
Disappearance of Kevin Johnson, The (1995)
- Dir. Francis Megahy
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, James Coburn, Dudley Moore…
- Fact–based movie movie about the perils of the Hollywood machine, in which a would–be film producer apparently runs afoul of the…
Edie and Pen (1995)
- Dir. Matthew Irmas
Feat. Stockard Channing, Jennifer Tilly, Scott Glenn…
- Unhappily–marrieds Stockard Channing and Jennifer Tilly cut out to Reno to dispense with husbands, bad luck and sobriety. Bittersweet comedy…
Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, The (1995)
- Dir. Christopher Monger
Feat. Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney…
- In 1917, much ado ensues at a Welsh village. When the local hill falls just short of qualifying for the official map, the locals set about building…
Hamish MacBeth (TV series) (1995-1997)
- Feat. Robert Carlyle
- The town of Lochdubh in the Scottish Highlands forms a droll and scenic setting for this smalltown policier set around the put–upon local…