Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand (1999)
- Dir. St. Clair Bourne
- Documentary exploring the life and career of Paul Robeson, the singer, actor and political activist whose distinctive bass baritone is heard on some…
Pecker (1999)
- Dir. John Waters
Feat. Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Lili Taylor…
- Edward Furlong is niftily cast as Pecker, an innocent teen amateur photographer who unwittingly becomes the toast of the art world, thereby inviting…
People Like Us (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Chris Langham
- Another excellent deadpan British comedy, this time the mockumentary adventures of an unseen reporter interviewing and commenting upon supposedly…
Picking Up the Pieces (1999)
- Dir. Alfonso Arau
Feat. Sharon Stone, Woody Allen, Cheech Marin…
- When the pieces of a dismembered Sharon Stone are dumped on the Mexican border one of her hands goes astray and is soon being worshiped by the locals…
Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
- Dir. Martyn Burke
Feat. Anthony Michael Hall, Noah Wyle
- History of the PC–computer revolution gets the telemovie treatment, with Bill Gates (Anthony Michael Hall) and Apple founder Steve Jobs (Noah…
Planets, The (1999)
- Suitably ambitious 8–part TV series on the planets and other aspects of our solar system, including its history, space explorations and the sun…
Playing by Heart (1999)
- Dir. Willard Carroll
Feat. Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, Gillian Anderson…
- Ambitious multi–character film along the lines of SHORT CUTS, likewise set in the varying social strata of Los Angeles, but infused with…
Plunkett and Macleane (1999)
- Dir. Jake Scott
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Liv Tyler, Jonny Lee Miller
- A pair of highwaymen (of indeterminate vintage) lighten the purses of the undefended of Merry Old Blighty. Robert Carlyle and Liv Tyler barely stay…
Pocahontas 2 - Journey to a New World (1999)
- Disney's Native–American heroine returns for voyage to the Old World with animal hangers–on Meeko, Percy and Flit. Romance looms, then…
Pop and Me (1999)
- Dir. Chris Roe
- A 'real life' documentary with a distinctive twist – would–be film–maker Chris Roe convinces his affluent divorcee father to not…