Subgenre Sampler
Female-centric: 796 Films to Buy & Rent
Anywhere But Here (1999)
- Dir. Wayne Wang
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman
- Creating a credible array of intelligent female characters, the dir. of THE JOY–LUCK CLUB deals honestly with the plight of flaky Mum Susan…
Aristocrats (TV Mini-series) (1999)
- Dir. David Caffrey
Feat. Sian Phillips, Alun Armstrong, Ben Daniels…
- BBC costumer set in 18th–century England and Ireland tells the story of four beautiful, privileged sisters who are the…
Bad Girls (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Simone Lahbib, Mark Pegy, Jack Ellis
- Top rating and dramatically juicy ITV series set in a British women’s prison, which directly confronts bisexuality, female violence, drugs and the…
Cooler Climate, A (1999)
- Dir. Susan Seidelman
Feat. Sally Field, Judy Davis
- Exploring the emotional climate between newly–separated Sally Field and her new boss, rich–bitch Judy Davis, this small–scale drama…
Girl (1999)
- Dir. Jonathan Kahn
Feat. Dominique Swain
- Hybrid of the teen–flick with grunge–rock movie, starring Dominique Swain (LOLITA) as a brainy virgin who decides to fall in with some…
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
- Dir. James Mangold
Feat. Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie
- Winona Ryder flies over the cuckoo's nest as the confused middle–class waif of Susanna Kaysen's 60s counterculture memoir, who's persuaded by…
Holy Smoke (1999)
- Dir. Jane Campion
Feat. Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel
- An adventurous attempt to fuse psychological thriller, broad caricature and Eastern spirituality has guru–besotted Kate Winslet being lured…
Joan of Arc (The Messenger) (1999)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich…
- The French heroine gets the big–budget splurge with a religiously inspired Milla Jovovich leading the French peasantry against the Brits, only…
Madonna - The Ultimate Collection (1999)
- Feat. Madonna
- A double DVD set featuring the ‘Immaculate Collection’ (1990) of music videos with the more recent ‘Video Collection’.
The ‘Immaculate…
Soft Fruit (1999)
- Dir. Christina Andreef
Feat. Jeanie Drynan, Linal Haft, Russell Dykstra…
- From NZ short film dir. Christina Andreef comes this ripely entertaining comic drama about the ties that separate and bind as four Aussie siblings…