Subgenre Sampler
      Controversy: 194 Films to Buy & Rent
	  		 
	        
 Intimacy (2000) Intimacy (2000)
- Dir. Patrice Chereau
 Feat. Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Timothy Spall…
- Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox bare their flesh as well as their souls as a separated father–of–two and a married mother who meet weekly for…
 Our Lady of the Assassins (la Virgen de los Sicarios) (2000) Our Lady of the Assassins (la Virgen de los Sicarios) (2000)
- Dir. Barbet Schroeder
 Feat. Anderson  Ballesteros, Juan  David Restrepo
- A middle aged author returns to his native Colombian village to find that it has been overrun by violence and corruption. After his young male lover…
 Audition (1999) Audition (1999) 
- Dir. Takashi Miike
 Feat. Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina
- An almost–masterpiece of the macabre that sets up and sustains itself brilliantly with a restrained pace and jewel of a premise, then careens…
 Romance (1999) Romance (1999)
- Dir. Catherine Breillat
 Feat. Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stevenin
- A schoolteacher's boyfriend loses sexual interest in her, so she embarks on a series of unlikely sexual encounters in search of intimacy and…
 Sex - The Annabel Chong Story (1999) Sex - The Annabel Chong Story (1999) 
- Dir. Gough Lewis
- A sensational yet even–handed insight into the performer (and sicko subculture) behind a famously transgressive sexual act – Ms. Chong’s…
 8mm (1998) 8mm (1998)
- Dir. Joel Schumacher
 Feat. Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini…
- First Hollywood effort at generating thrills from the dubious (and probably mythical) subculture of 'snuff movies', where actors are deliberately…
 American History X (1998) American History X (1998) 
- Dir. Tony Kaye
 Feat. Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Stacy Keach…
- Potent dissertation on generational anger among the skinhead community of Los Angeles' Venice Beach, that though flawed by brushes with cliche, is a…
 Happiness (1998) Happiness (1998)
- Dir. Todd Solondz
 Feat. Lara Flynn Boyle, Dylan Baker, Philip Seymour Hoffman…
- Controversial is the byword for this disturbing trawl through the sad–case lives of various American suburbanites and their families (Lara…
 I Stand Alone (Seul Contre Tous) (1998) I Stand Alone (Seul Contre Tous) (1998)
- Dir. Gaspar Noe
 Feat. Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain…
- Staunch attempt to shake up the “bourgeois” values in French cinema, first–time director Gaspar Noe fleshes out his short film about a…
 Idiots, The (1998) Idiots, The (1998) 
- Dir. Lars Von Trier
 Feat. Bodil Jorgensen, Jens Albinus, Anne Louise Hassing…
- One of the fruits of Dogma 95, this sensationally conceived outing from von Trier will satisfy those with a penchant for the experimental, and…