attempt to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Eve of Destruction (1991) Duncan Gibbins, Gregory Hines, Renée Soutendijk, Michael Greene
Eve is a robot, modelled on “her” creator. Eve’s armoury includes a nuclear bomb, which for unexplained reasons is on-board during Eve’s testing. Read More »
Criminal Passion (1994) Donna Deitch, Joan Severance, Tony Denison, John Allen Nelson
What does it take to trust? Melanie Hudson is an L.A. police officer, a loner on the trail of a serial killer who slits the throats of beautiful women just after they have made love. Read More »
The Adventurers (1995) Ringo Lam, Andy Lau, Rosamund Kwan, Chien-Lien Wu
Andy was a child when his parents murdered by a double agent in Vietnam, Ray Liu. Read More »
The Victim (1999) Ringo Lam, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Ching Wan Lau, Amy Kwok
A computer engineer is kidnapped and tortured. Since then, his girlfriend senses he’s no longer the same person Read More »
Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1992) Stefan Schwartz, Peter Capaldi, Frances Barber, Catherine Russell
Eight years ago, Gavin artistic son of an Scots/Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children’s books. Read More »
The Untold Story (1993) Danny Lee, Herman Yau, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Danny Lee, Emily Kwan
In 1978 in Hong Kong, a grisly murder takes place. Eight years later, on a Macao beach, kids discover the severed hands of a fresh victim. Read More »
Inside/Out (1997) Rob Tregenza, Stefania Rocca, Frédéric Pierrot, Bérangère Allaux
Against the barren wintry backdrop of a psychiatric hospital, inpatients and authority figures drift through turgid psychological states. Read More »
Ebola Syndrome (1996) Herman Yau, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Yeung-Ming Wan, Fui-On Shing
Hong Kong 1986: A restaurant employee murders his boss and mutilates his wife, he escapes to South Africa where he rapes a Zulu-girl, who is infected with the ebola virus. Read More »
Moving (1993) Shinji Sômai, Kiichi Nakai, Junko Sakurada, Tomoko Tabata
Renko, a girl in the sixth grade, is at first unperturbed by her parents’ decision to separate. Read More »
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? (1994) Kidlat Tahimik
A unique collaboration between Tahimik and his eldest son Kidlat Gottlieb Kalayaan, Why is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? Read More »
Big Night (1996) Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Marc Anthony
Primo and Secondo are two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to open an Italian restaurant in America. Read More »
Owls Castle (1999) Masahiro Shinoda, Kiichi Nakai, Mayu Tsuruta, Riona Hazuki
As the great military commander Nobunaga Oda was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins Read More »
The Wall (1991) Jürgen Böttcher
A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. Read More »
Leaf on a Pillow (1998) Garin Nugroho, Sarah Azhari, Deni Christantra, Christine Hakim
The Indonesian society is seen through a middle-aged lady’s eyes in her daily encounters with the street children who work and live off the harsh and sleazy world of adults. Read More »