Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8108 Films to Buy & Rent
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
- Dir. Jacques Rivette
Feat. Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Beart
- Rivette's four–hour portrait of an artist as an old man explores the process and politics of a retired artist painting a nude model. Subtle,…
Last Butterfly, The (1991)
- Dir. Karel Kachyna
Feat. Tom Courtenay, Brigitte Fossey, Freddie Jones
- Another worthy drama based on facts surrounding Nazi death camps, stage mime Tom Courtenay is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for…
Let Him Have It (1991)
- Dir. Peter Medak
Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins
- Riveting re–creation of events pre–empting the tragic 1952 hanging of a simple teenager, whose only crime was to ambiguously utter “Let…
Life On a String (1991)
- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Zhongyuan Liu, Lei Huang, Qing Xu
- A richly poetic chronicle of a blind man who devotes himself to music. Like the director's subsequent FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE, some messages may be…
Little Man Tate (1991)
- Dir. Jodie Foster
Feat. Jodie Foster, Dianne Wiest
- A super–intelligent child is the central figure of a tug–of–war between mother Jodie Foster and child psychologist Dianne Wiest.…
London Kills Me (1991)
- Dir. Hanif Kureishi
Feat. Justin Chadwick, Stephen Mackintosh, Emer McCourt
- MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE writer Kureishi directs a young ensemble for his glossy depiction of drug–dealing squatters in London's Notting Hill.…
Long Walk Home, The (1991)
- Dir. Richard Pearce
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg
- Set in 1955 Alabama during the civil rights bus boycott, this portrays the impact of change on two families, with Sissy Spacek as an uppercrust…
Madame Bovary (1991)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Francois Balmer, Christophe Malavoy…
- Chabrol remains faithful to the text of this oft–filmed classic of French literature, with Isabelle Huppert bringing a glacial refinement to…
Mambo Kings, The (1991)
- Dir. Arne Glimcher
Feat. Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas
- Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas play sibling Mambo freaks who spin out of the fast lane en route to the American Dream. The dance sequences are…
Man in the Moon, The (1991)
- Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Gail Strickland…
- A bittersweet tale of sexual awakening set in 1950s Louisiana. A 14–year–old girl struggles to draw the amorous attentions of her dream…