Subgenre Sampler
Epic: 201 Films to Buy & Rent
- Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
- Dir. Theo Angelopoulos
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern
- Returning from exile in America, Yugoslavian filmmaker Harvey Keitel quests after rare film footage in the wartorn Balkans. Shot under conditions…
- Underground (1995)
- Dir. Emir Kusturica
Feat. Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic
- Palme D'Or–winning epic covering fifty years of Balkan history in fantastical, magic–realist style. While the brash satire may be too…
- Waterworld (1995)
- Dir. Kevin Reynolds
Feat. Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn…
- Most famous as a production fiasco, Kevin Costner made a painful public bellyflop with this MAD MAX on water.
His film has many things to…
- Queen Margot (La Reine Margot) (1994)
- Dir. Patrice Chereau
Feat. Isabelle Adjani, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi…
- A bodice–ripping yarn of treachery and forbidden passions between warring Catholic and Protestant factions in late 1500s France. Isabelle…
- Little Buddha (1993)
- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda
- In truest Bertolucci fashion, this is a spiritual chronicle by way of history and spectacle. Time–frame is split between modern LA and 600 B.C.…
- Temptation of a Monk (1993)
- Dir. Clara Law
Feat. Joan Chen, Zhang Fenyi
- Graphic chronicle of blood–letting by a fierce warrior general in 7th century China, that hews to the visual traditions of the classic Japanese…
- Black Robe (1991)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young
- A Jesuit priest attempts to convert Shamanist Indians in the Canadian wilderness of 1643. A heady mix of explicit savagery and incomparable beauty.
- Dances with Wolves (1990)
- Dir. Kevin Costner
Feat. Kevin Costner
- Kevin Costner's finest few hours. He plays an estranged cavalry officer who befriends and learns the survivalist culture of the native Sioux. Winner…
- Mahabharata, The (1990)
- Dir. Peter Brook
Feat. Erika Alexander, Maurice Benichou, Amba Bihler
- This 'great story of mankind' forms the basis of Indian religion and mythology. Some 15 times the length of the bible, stage maestro Peter Brook has…
- Mountains of the Moon (1990)
- Dir. Bob Rafelson
Feat. Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant…
- Ambitious saga details the quest of Sir Richard Burton to discover the source of the Nile river. Compelling personal story remains focused amid the…