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Tag Archives: 1990s
Noises Off… (1992) Peter Bogdanovich, Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Denholm Elliott, Comedy

Lloyd Fellowes is the director of a theatre company. He’s desperately trying to get his production together, despite the best efforts of the cast, the crew, and Lady Luck. Read More »
Taxi Blues (1990) Pavel Lungin, Pyotr Mamonov, Pyotr Zaychenko, Vladimir Kashpur, Comedy, Drama

Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Read More »
Fires Within (1991) Gillian Armstrong, Jimmy Smits, Greta Scacchi, Vincent D’Onofrio, Drama, Thriller

Released after years as a political prisoner, a Cuban rejoins his wife and daughter in Miami. Read More »
Going All the Way (1997) Mark Pellington, Jeremy Davies, Ben Affleck, Amy Locane, Comedy, Drama

Korean War vets Sonny Burns (Jeremy Davies) and Gunner Casselman (Ben Affleck) find themselves becoming best buds after returning to their Indianapolis hometown in 1954. Read More »
Already Dead (1998) Olivier Dahan, Romain Duris, Benoît Magimel, Zoé Félix, Crime, Drama

An ambitious young woman meets a group of affluent and feckless guys and together they plan to break into the pornographic industry with her as their star. Read More »
Blues Harp (1998) Takashi Miike, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Seiichi Tanabe, Saori Sekino

Ambitious yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Read More »
Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997) George Miller, Corbin Bernsen, Julianne Phillips, Gregg Henry, Drama

When brutal tidal waves suddenly destroy many coastal communities in a short period of time, John Wahl, a nobel prize winner Read More »
Dead Girl (1996) Adam Coleman Howard, Anne Parillaud, Adam Coleman Howard, Amanda Plummer, Comedy

Ari Rose, an unsuccessful actor, falls for a beautiful woman named Helen-Catherine but strangles her when she rejects him. Read More »
Tombstone (1993) George P. Cosmatos, Kevin Jarre, Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Western

After success cleaning up Dodge City, Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone, Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. Read More »