Subgenre Sampler
: 25134 Films to Buy & Rent
Phantom of the Opera, The (2004)
- Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Gerard Butler, Minnie Driver, Miranda Richardson…
- An opulently kitschy version of the amazingly successful Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, in which the shadowy, disfigured 'phantom' (Butler) tries to…
Phil the Alien (2004)
- Dir. Rob Stefaniuk
Feat. Rob Stefaniuk, Boyd Banks
- One of the more original satires to emerge from Canada, this proffers the tale of a humanoid alien who crashlands his saucer in the backwoods of…
Piccadilly Jim (2004)
- Dir. John McKay
Feat. Sam Rockwell, Frances O’Connor, Brenda Blethyn…
- Adapted from P.G. Wodehouse’s comic novel, this tells the tale of an American scoundrel who flails about and fails on both sides of the Atlantic in…
Pixies, The (2004)
- Alternative rock band The Pixies, staples of the 80s goth scene, are presented in all their angular glory in this excellent compilation.
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Place Promised in Our Early Days, The (2004)
- Dir. Makoto Shinkai
- Evocative and measured anime, which bases its sci–fi storyline around a future Japan divided by civil war into two islands separated by…
Polar Express, The (2004)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Tom Hanks
- Expertly animating the childrens' book by Chris Van Allsburg, this makes a Christmas Eve excursion into mythical childhood fantasies of Santa Claus…
Poster Boy (2004)
- Dir. Zak Tucker
Feat. Karen Allen, Michael Lerner, Jack Noseworthy…
- A campaigning right–wing senator conscripts his closeted gay son to play happy families for the public, but the stakes are raised when the son…
Power of Nightmares, The (2004)
- Dir. Adam Curtis
- Another provocative documentary from dir. Curtis, this time out he examines how political parties have created and used fears in order to maintain…
Power Shift: Energy and Sustainability (2004)
- Dir. Kirk Bergstrom
Feat. Cameron Diaz
- A brief study of how energy is produced and used in Western society, and how we might create more aware and efficient means of using it in the era of…
Premonition (Yogen) (2004)
- Dir. Norio Tsuruta
Feat. Hiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai
- Competent J–Horror entry posits the intriguing, if unrealised premise of a man whose premonitions foresee the murderous acts of a killer,…