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Tag Archives: 1990s
Priyatel pokoynika / Friend of the Deceased (1997) Leonid Boyko, Vyacheslav Krishtofovich, Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund, Aleksandr Lazarev, Anzhelika Nevolina, Comedy, Drama
Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquantance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Read More »
Le Confessionnal (1995) Robert Lepage, Lothaire Bluteau, Patrick Goyette, Jean-Louis Millette, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The year is 1952, in Quebec City. Rachel, 16, unmarried, and pregnant, works in the church. Read More »
Duo luo tian shi / Fallen Angels (1995) Kar-Wai Wong, Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Crime, Drama, Romance
A disillusioned killer embarks on his last hit but first he has to overcome his affections for his cool, detached partner. Read More »
Red Spirit Lake (1993) Charles Pinion, Annabelle Davies, Holly Adams, Rick Hall, Horror
A girl gets a house by a lake when a relative is murdered. Her friends show up and start having (graphic) sex then get killed by some crazy perverts. Read More »
Curtain Call (1998) Peter Yates, James Spader, Polly Walker, Michael Caine, Comedy, Fantasy
A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself Read More »
Ondt blod / The Bad Seeds (1996) Carsten Fromberg, Thomas Bo Larsen, Jens Okking, Anders Nyborg, Drama
Policeman Lasse rehabilitates young prisoners by taking them on survival course in the Swedish wasteland. And before he has to retire due to illness, he arranges one last trip. Read More »
Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1995) Nick Broomfield, Nina Xining Zuo, Madam Alex, Documentary, Biography
A documentary crew from the BBC arrives in L.A. intent on interviewing Heidi Fleiss, a year after her arrest for running a brothel but before her trial. Read More »
Les grands ducs / The Grand Dukes (1996) Patrice Leconte, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Comedy
Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.
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JFK (1991) [Director’s Cut] Oliver Stone, Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Jack Lemmon, Drama, History, Thriller
On November 22, 1963, president John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the crime and subsequently shot by Jack Ruby, supposedly avenging the president’s death. Read More »
Little Boy Blue (1997) Antonio Tibaldi, Ryan Phillippe, Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Drama
Living in the rural Texas panhandle is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that’s left him impotent Read More »
Wo ai chu fang / Kitchen (1997) Ho Yim, Jordan Chan, Yasuko Tomita, Kar-Ying Law, Drama, Romance
The lives of Louis (Jordan Chan), a hairdresser women, and transgender “mother” (Law Kar-ying) inevitably change with the arrival of a beautiful orphan who will stay at home (Yasuko Tomita). Read More »
Trilogy of Terror II (1996) Dan Curtis, Lysette Anthony, Geraint Wyn Davies, Matt Clark, Horror, Thriller
Three tales of terror: in “The Graveyard Rats” lovers murder the woman’s older husband and encounter horror when they attempt to rob his grave Read More »
Keiner liebt mich / Nobody Loves Me (1994) Doris Dörrie, Maria Schrader, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Michael von Au, Comedy, Drama
On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing up on her. Read More »
Destroying Angel (1990) Arne Mattsson, Debra Beaumont, Norman Bowler, Fiona Curzon, Comedy
A romantic comedy, entreing around a feuding but very wealthy married couple, who are planning their divorce while relaxing at luxury hotels in Yugoslavia. Read More »