New area deputy Jack Gales arrives on the island to find that a girl at the local Catholic girls’ school has been found dead. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Flowers of Shanghai / Hai shang hua (1998) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Michiko Hada, Michelle Reis, Drama
In Shanghai in the 1880s there are four elegant brothels (flower houses): each has an auntie (called madam), a courtesan in her prime, older servants, and maturing girls in training. Read More »
Utz (1992) George Sluizer, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brenda Fricker, Peter Riegert, Drama
Fisher, a fine art dealer, goes to Prague after the death of a friend, the Baron von Utz, to see if he can obtain some of the pieces of the Baron’s priceless Meissen porcelain collection. Read More »
Degenerate Art (1993) David Grubin, David McCullough, Sander Gilman, Peter Guenther, Documentary
Narrated by David McCullough, this program examines the infamous Entartete Kunst (degenerate art) exhibition mounted by the Nazis in Munich in 1937 and their far-reaching attacks on avant-garde art in Germany. Read More »
Split Second (1992) Tony Maylam, Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Alastair Duncan, Action, Crime, Horror
In a futuristic London, the rising sea levels mean that large areas are under feet of water. Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature. Now the creature is back and its after him.
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Peter’s Friends (1992) Kenneth Branagh, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Seven friends in an acting troupe graduate from Cambridge University in 1982 and go their separate ways. Read More »
The Cops are Robbers / Good Cops, Bad Cops (1990) Paul Wendkos, Ray Sharkey, Edward Asner, George Kennedy, Crime, Drama
This fun, intriguing action flick tells the tale of a ragtag group of disillusioned Boston police officers who, in 1980, got together and pulled one of the largest bank heists in American history. Read More »
In Between (1991) Thomas Constantinides, Robert Forster, Wings Hauser, Robin Mattson, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Three strangers – two women and one man – find themselves trapped inside an unfamiliar house with no recollection of how they got there. Read More »
Six-String Samurai (1998) Lance Mungia, Jeffrey Falcon, Justin McGuire, Kim De Angelo, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Sci-Fi
A mysterious and powerful hero of the classic kind, Buddy is as skilled with his guitar as he is with his samurai sword. Read More »
Raus aus der Haut / Changing Skins (1997) Andreas Dresen, Susanne Bormann, Fabian Busch, Otto Mellies, Comedy, Drama
Anna and Marcus are in the same class and there are just some weeks left before they get their leaving certification and with it the permission to study. Read More »