Against the barren wintry backdrop of a psychiatric hospital, inpatients and authority figures drift through turgid psychological states. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
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 »
Cop-Out (1991) Lawrence L. Simeone, Dave Buff, Kathryn Luster, Dan Ranger
When his brother is framed for murder, a detective quits the force and breaks all the rules in pursuit of the real killers. Read More »
Shandra: The Jungle Girl (1999) Cybil Richards, Nenna Quiroz, Mia Zottoli, Drake Tatum
Shandra’s attacks come only by the light of the full moon – and they’re always fatal. Read More »