Tag Archives: 1990s

La bûche / Season’s Beatings (1999) Danièle Thompson, Sabine Azéma, Emmanuelle Béart, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Comedy, Drama

La buche (1999)
Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette’s husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba’s pregnancy, Sonia’s crumbling marriage, Stanislas’s overtures to Yvette, and Milla’s attraction to the man who’s her father’s rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?
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The End of Violence (1997) Wim Wenders, Traci Lind, Rosalind Chao, Bill Pullman, Drama, Thriller

The End of Violence (Wim Wenders, 1997)
Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him. Suddenly Mike is kidnapped by two bandits, but escapes and hides out with his Mexican gardener’s family for a while. At the same time, surveillance expert Ray Bering is looking for what happens in the city, but it is not clear what he wants. The police investigation for Max’s disappearance is led by detective Doc Block, who falls in love with actress Cat who is playing in ongoing Max’s production.
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Little Miss Curious (1991) Fred J. Lincoln, Alicyn Sterling, April Rayne, Ashley Lauren, Adult

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You can look, but you’d better not touch this petite powerhouse! Ashley Lauren turns a sleepy trailer park into sin city on wheels as she breaks every rule in the book! From tantalizingly teasing every man within a five-mile radius, to being caught in the sack with her cousin’s boyfriend, she covers all the bases! But, she’s got higher aspirations and winds up showing them off in national men’s magazine, making her a real bicoastal tease.
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Foreign Affairs (1991) Scotty Fox, Melanie Moore, Stacey Nichols, Tracey Wynn, Adult

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Imagine yourself a foreign emissary in the midst of a politico-sexual uprising; a sort of coup d’ tatas if you will. The threats. The deals. The intrigue. The quickies in the broom closet with an attachment from Moldavia. And you thought that all those dignitaries banged was their shoe on the table! Enter the dark but hilarious world of high-stakes espionage and low-cut colletage. But look both ways; someone’s after your top-secret briefs.
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The Erotic Adventures Of Marco Polo (1995) Joe D’Amato, Luca Damiano, Rocco Siffredi, Tabitha Cash, Julia Chanel, Adult

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An epic journey, deep into the mysterious, sensual orient… A world of sexual secrets and exotic pleasures unknown to western civilization, a world filled with danger, decadence and delicious females whose only desire is the pleasure of men… Enter Marco, who falls head over heels into the waiting arms…and legs of Asia’s wildest beauty, Lila (Tabitha Cash) the daughter of the Sultan Ragoon. And so begins an orgy of sexual abandon and exotic pleasures that take Marco to the limits of his legendary endurance.
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Mangekyô / Kaleidoscope (1999) Naomi Kawase, Shinya Arimoto, Mika Mifune, Machiko Ono, Documentary

Manguekyo (Naomi Kawase, 1999)
Naomi Kawase collaborates with Shinya Arimoto, a Taiyo award-winning photographer she knows from university, to create a photo album of Machiko Ono (who Kawase scouted for her previous feature film Moe no Suzaku) and Mika Mifune (daughter of famous actor Toshiro Mifune) with the idea to contrast these two aspiring actresses, Ono coming from the rural Nara and Mifune from Tokyo. Kawase documents the photo shooting and interviews Arimoto, Ono and Mifune as the work progresses, while the tension between her and Arimoto increases over disagreement on the direction of the project.
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Malina (1991) Werner Schroeter, Isabelle Huppert, Lisa Kreuzer, Mathieu Carrière, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Malina (Werner Schroeter, 1991)
A complex and enigmatic plot that evokes the life of Bachmann. The story develops around an unusual triangular relationship, a threesome between a woman of unknown name, a man named Malina and a Hungarian, Ivan, with whom she falls in love. Ivan will be his last great love, but their need for exclusivity in love is so strong that it can not be understood or matched. Malina is a struggle, a confrontation between two worlds strange and hostile.
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