The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Milou en mai / May Fools (1990) Louis Malle, Miou-Miou, Michel Piccoli, Michel Duchaussoy, Comedy, Romance
Like Vanya, in Malle’s last film, Milou never left the family estate. His mother dies during the May 1968 student uprising in Paris. Read More »
On connaît la chanson / Same Old Song (1997) Alain Resnais, Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Odile is looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille just completed her doctoral thesis has fallen in love with an estate agent Read More »
Gulliver’s Travels (1996) Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu Read More »
Wedlock (1991) Lewis Teague, Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, Joan Chen, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot electronically attached to a female prisoner.
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FairyTale: A True Story (1997) Charles Sturridge, Paul McGann, Florence Hoath, Elizabeth Earl, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Based on factual accounts, this is the story of two young girls that, somehow, have the ability to take pictures of winged beings… Read More »
Citizen X (1995) Chris Gerolmo, Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed over 50 victims, mostly under the age of 17. Read More »
Regeneration / Behind the Lines (1997) Gillies MacKinnon, Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Biography, Drama, History, War
Based on Pat Barker’s novel of the same name, ‘Regeneration’ tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Read More »
The Insulted and the Injured / Unizhennye i oskorblyonnye (1991) Andrey Eshpay, Nastassja Kinski, Nikita Mikhalkov, Anastasiya Vyazemskaya, Drama, Romance
Based on the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel about a young woman who leaves her family to live with her lover whose father dead set on keeping them apart. Read More »
Exterior Night (1993) Mark Rappaport, David Patrick Kelly, Mark Arnott, Victoria Bastel, Drama, Short, Experimental
Shot in high-definition video using rear-screen process plates from classic Warner Bros. films noirs. Read More »
Hong ying tao / Red Cherry (1995) Daying Ye, Ke-Yu Guo, Hsiao-Ling Hsu, Vladmill Nizmiroff, Drama, War
It is 1940. Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow, at the International School. Read More »
Shattered Image (1998) Raoul Ruiz, Anne Parillaud, William Baldwin, Lisanne Falk, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Confusing realities surface in this paranoid film dealing with the fragile nature of a young woman (Anne Parillaud) Read More »
Exotica (1994) Atom Egoyan, Bruce Greenwood, Elias Koteas, Don McKellar, Thriller, Drama
This psychological thriller is true to its subjects as well as being complex, dynamic, and overly dramatic. Read More »
Blood Symbol (1992) Maurice Devereaux, Tony Morello, Micheline Richard, Trilby Jeeves, Anne-Marie Leduc, Horror
Centuries ago, the monks of the Cult of the Blood Symbol went searching for their “chosen one” whose blood, they believed, would make them immortal. Read More »
Mad Love (1995) Antonia Bird, Chris O’Donnell, Drew Barrymore, Matthew Lillard, Drama, Romance
The high-school student Matt Leland lives with his twin brother and sister and his father in a house by the lake. Read More »