Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
You Can Count On Me (2000)
- Dir. Kenneth Lonergan
Feat. Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Kieran Culkin…
- Winner of Best Picture at Sundance 2000, this bittersweet comedy, woven around the smalltown reunion of long–separated siblings Laura Linney…
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
- Dir. Gil Junger
Feat. Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles
- Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew is shrink–wrapped as '90s high–school hi–jinks.
A protective Dad forbids his nubile daughter…
20 Dates (1999)
- Dir. Myles Berkowitz
- Queasily, both a documentary and 'mockumentary'; the director set out to make a movie and find himself a girlfriend at the same time, organising 20…
24 Hour Woman (1999)
- Dir. Nancy Savoca
Feat. Rosie Perez, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Diego Serrano…
- An incisive, often hilarious film about a very real dichotomy – how does parenthood fit into the life of a modern career woman?
In a…
28 Days (1999)
- Dir. Betty Thomas
Feat. Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen, Diane Ladd…
- Fun–loving NY journalist Sandra Bullock doesn't know when to say 'when' and gets slapped with a month in rehab after a drink driving incident.…
42 Up (1999)
- Dir. Michael Apted
- The sixth part of the extraordinary television documentary series that documents the attitudes, personalities and lives of 14 Britishers of different…
6ixtynin9 (Sixtynine; Ruang talok 69) (1999)
- Dir. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Feat. Lalita Panyopas
- Second feature film by the Thai writer–director Pen–Ek Ratanaruang (LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE), following a woman who is laid off during…
8 1/2 Women (1999)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. John Standing, Matthew Delamare, Vivian Wu…
- The indefatiguable provocateur of English cinema makes a perverse 'tribute' to Federico Fellini's 1963 masterpiece 8 1/2, with this tale of a rich…
A Christmas Carol (1999)
- Dir. David Hugh Jones
Feat. Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Joel Grey…
- Fine adaptation of the Dickens classic this time with Patrick Stewart as the miserly Scrooge.
A Map of the World (1999)
- Dir. Scott Elliot
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn…
- A somewhat overlooked drama with Weaver giving a tour–de–force performance as a slightly prickly woman, uncomfortable with her life, who…