Subgenre Sampler
Romance: 1505 Films to Buy & Rent
Head-On (Gegen die Wand) (2004)
- Dir. Fatih Akin
Feat. Birol Unel, Sibel Kekilli
- Set in scungy working–class Hamburg, this constructs an unusual love story around two Turkish immigrants – a drunken janitor (Unel) and a…
In Good Company (2004)
- Dir. Paul Weitz
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson…
- Grappling with the personal dynamics and conflicts of corporate culture in a marketing department, this has a youthful upstart (Grace) promoted over…
Italian Romance, An (L'amore Ritrovato) (2004)
- Dir. Carlo Mazzacurati
Feat. Stefano Accorsi, Maya Sansa, Marco Messeri
- Languid Italian melodrama set in 1936, where a pair of young ex–lovers rediscover one another and have a passionate fling, despite an…
Jersey Girl (2004)
- Dir. Kevin Smith
Feat. Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Jason Biggs…
- Surprising schmaltz from the dir. of CLERKS and CHASING AMY, who supresses (almost) the dick and movie jokes that are his stock–in–trade…
Laws of Attraction (2004)
- Dir. Peter Howitt
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Moore, Parker Posey
- Two divorce lawyers (Brasnan and Moore) feud in court, reconcile, schmooze and get drunkenly hitched, in this screwball comedy of average…
Life I Want, The (Vita che vorrei, La) (2004)
- Dir. Giuseppe Piccioni
Feat. Luigi Lo Cascio, Sandra Ceccarelli
- Intriguing Italian romantic drama about two avid actors cast as lovers who begin to cross over the boundaries of stage–life and reality with an…
Mango Kiss (2004)
- Dir. Sascha Rice
Feat. Daniele Ferraro, Michelle Wolff
- Two recently outed lesbians embark on a new life in San Francisco, assuming various gender roles as queer performance artists while edging closer to…
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2004)
- Dir. Miranda July
Feat. Miranda July, John Hawkes, Brad William Henke
- An intriguing, fine–quality drama from the boundary of art and indie filmmaking, in which two struggling characters – a performance…
Notebook, The (2004)
- Dir. Nick Cassavetes
Feat. Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner…
- An old–fashioned weepie set in a coastal town in 1940's North Carolina, this nostalgic "woman's picture" finds a sure–footed romantic…
P.S. (2004)
- Dir. Dylan Kidd
Feat. Laura Linney, Topher Grace, Gabriel Byrne…
- Nervy and refined sophomore effort from RODGER DODGER dir. Dylan Kidd, here unbuttoning the thirty–something dilemmas of a university…