Subgenre Sampler
: 25139 Films to Buy & Rent
Lost Dinosaurs, The (2002)
- Dir. Bryan Bruce
- The true story of Joan Wiffen who in 1975 discovered dinosaur bones in the remote Mangahuanga Stream (Hawkes Bay, New Zealand). Returning to the…
Lost in La Mancha (2002)
- Dir. Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Feat. Terry Gilliam, Johnny Depp, Jean Rochefort
- A cautionary fable of filmmaking in the mould of HEARTS OF DARKNESS, concerning director Terry Gilliam’s (BRAZIL) attempt to film a version of…
Lost World, The (TV Mini-series) (2002)
- Dir. Stuart Orme
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Peter Falk, James Fox…
- Sterling BBC adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s adventure novel, where an intrepid bunch of Victorians explore the Amazon jungle for dinosaurs…
Love Liza (2002)
- Dir. Todd Louiso
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates
- Freshly widowed after his wife’s suicide, Phillip Seymour Hoffman staggers through and downward in an endearingly wacky yet affecting portrait of…
Madame Sata (2002)
- Dir. Karim Ainouz
Feat. Lazaro Ramos, Marcelia Cartaxo, Felippe Marques…
- The underbelly of 1930s Rio de Janeiro glistens in this atmospheric drama about the celebrated João Francisco dos Santos (Ramos), a flamboyant gay…
Magdalene Sisters, The (2002)
- Dir. Peter Mullan
- Devastatingly sober and straight–forward account of three young women who in 1965 were incarcerated in an Irish Roman Catholic centre for…
Maid in Manhattan (2002)
- Dir. Wayne Wang
Feat. Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins…
- A middling contemporary ‘Cinderella’ romance, based around the dubious onscreen chemistry of Ralph Fiennes and J–Lo.
When…
Making Venus (2002)
- Dir. Gary Doust
- A filmmaking 'horror story' which recounts the saga of Australian indie feature "The Venus Factory", from optimistic inception in 1997 to bedraggled…
Malefique (2002)
- Dir. Eric Valette
Feat. Gérald Laroche, Philippe Laudenbach, Clovis Cornillac
- Imaginative, atmospheric low–budget French horror, set around the discovery of a dusty book of supernatural spells by four convicts in their…
Man Without a Past, The (2002)
- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen
- Another understated, double–take comedy from Finnish dir. Kaurismaki, making perhaps his most cleverly balanced work yet.
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