Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Drama: 1115 Films to Buy & Rent
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1991)
- Dir. Tom Stoppard
Feat. Gary Oldman, Tim Roth
- Tom Stoppard films his own play that follows the aimless lives of two incidental characters from HAMLET. Gary Oldman and Tim Roth dazzlingly…
Sleepers (TV Series) (1991)
- Feat. Nigel Havers, Warren Clarke
- Absurdist BBC spy comedy set in the post–Glasnost era, where it is discovered that two KGB agents assigned to infiltrate British society in the…
Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley Shorts) (1991)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Martin Donovan
- The hour–long 'Surviving Desire' is an earlier Hartley work that focuses on Hartley's world of the 'college–educated slacker' whose…
Woman, Her Men and Her Futon, A (1991)
- Dir. Mussef Sibay
Feat. Jennifer Rubin, Grant Show
- A woman juggles her career in the film industry with her love life as she tries to find the perfect lover and partner. The star presence of Jennifer…
Antonia and Jane (1990)
- Dir. Beeban Kidron
Feat. Saskia Reeves, Imelda Staunton
- Whimsical portrait of friendship will tickle the fancy of women in particular. Insecurities abound for long–time chums – attractive…
Dancin' Thru the Dark (Dancing Through the Dark) (1990)
- Dir. Mike Ockrent
Feat. Peter Beckett, Angela Clarke, Julia Deakin…
- An engaged couple's stag and hen parties wind up at the same nightclub, with a mixed reception! Writer Willy (SHIRLEY VALENTINE) Russell again forges…
Gravy Train, The (TV Mini-series) (1990-1991)
- Dir. David Tucker, James Cellan Jones
Feat. Ian Richardson, Alexei Sayle, Francesca Annis…
- Intriguing political TV Mini–series based around a scheming Director of European Economic Community and his naive assistant travelling across…
Guy Maddin Collection, The (Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, The Heart of the World, Archangel) (1990-2000)
- Dir. Guy Maddin
Feat. Michael Gottli, David Falkenburg, Michael O’Sullivan…
- Three films from Canada's silent movie alchemist, all deliciously dreamlike examples of the cult filmmaker's brilliant oeuvre.
Twilight of the Ice…
Impromptu (1990)
- Dir. James Lapine
Feat. Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin…
- Splendid frolic with Chopin, Liszt, Delacroix, George Sand and friends gathered at a French country villa. Hilarious and moving, Judy Davis leads a…
Life Is Sweet (1990)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Alison Steadman, Timothy Spall, Jane Horrocks…
- Life is always bittersweet in a Mike Leigh film, but never so funny. Naturalism and caricature harmonise is this domestic black comedy thanks to his…