Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems. A glitch in the time machine changes their destination to 1976. Still believing themselves to be in 1776, the time travellers attempt to study this “ideal” civilization. 70’s jokes, props and stars abound.
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Tag Archives: 1990s
Matters of the Heart (1990) Michael Ray Rhodes, Jane Seymour, Chris Gartin, James Stacy, Drama, Romance
In a Vermont small-town, talented Steven Harper dreams of nothing less than a concert pianist career. His father, Glenn, a wheelchair Vietnam vet, would rather he take over the hardware store he runs with uncle Frank.
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Red Room: The Forbidden King Game (1999) Daisuke Yamanouchi, Hiroshi Kitasenju, Sheena Nagamori, Mayumi Ookawa, Horror, Thriller, Exploitation
How low would you go to win a million dollars? Just how desperate are you for the cash? Desperate enough to enter the Red Room? In this latest and most vicious game show to emerge from the Japanese underground, four contestants (a husband and wife on the edge of divorce, and two sisters) are locked in the Red Room to draw cards in the “king game.”
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Intimate Nights (1998) Jay Madison, J. Cynthia Brooks, Chris Johnston, Jim Stevens, Thriller, Erotic
Both love and larceny threaten a woman’s safety in this erotic thriller. Tina Tudor (J. Cynthia Brooks), an exotic dancer, finds her life in great danger when she’s the sole witness to a murder.
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Prospero’s Books (1991) Peter Greenaway, John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc, Drama, Fantasy
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the ‘The Tempest’.
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La captive du désert / Captive of the Desert (1990) Raymond Depardon, Sandrine Bonnaire, Dobi Koré, Fadi Taha, Drama
Based on the ordeal of Francoise Claustre, who was taken hostage by the Toubous, a nomadic tribe in the African desert.
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Arrebatos (1998) Jesús Mora, Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Documentary
Making-of documentary about Spanish auteur Iván Zulueta’s arthouse cult masterpiece “Arrebato” (1980) by Jesus Mora featuring interviews with cast and crew.
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Buried Alive (1990) Frank Darabont, Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Atherton, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Clint is an every day working man whose wife Joanna is having an affair with a doctor. They plot to kill him and get the insurance money.
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Orfeu (1999) Carlos Diegues, Toni Garrido, Patrícia França, Murilo Benício, Crime, Drama, Music
In a dangerous but human Rio de Janiro’s slum, rises the love affair between Orfeu, a famous composer, and Eurídice, a simple but pretty brunette, provoking jealousy and violence in times of carnival. A kind of Brazilian Romeo and Juliet, full of samba.
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Jerry and Tom (1998) Saul Rubinek, Joe Mantegna, Sam Rockwell, Maury Chaykin, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business, and their attitude toward their profession differs a lot. It shows when Tom is required to kill his old friend Karl.
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