Palme d'Or 1990-1999
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1. The Best Intentions (1992)
Not Rated | 182 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1909, poor theology student Henrik falls in love with Anna, the intelligent daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After marrying Henrik becomes a priest in northern Sweden. Urbane Anna hates living in the county, growing restless.
Director: Bille August | Stars: Samuel Fröler, Pernilla August, Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby
Votes: 3,509 | Gross: $1.25M
2. Farewell My Concubine (1993)
R | 171 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong Li, You Ge
Votes: 33,185 | Gross: $5.22M
3. The Piano (1993)
R | 121 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a farm worker.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin
Votes: 95,213 | Gross: $40.16M
4. Underground (1995)
Not Rated | 167 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Two underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way.
Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac
Votes: 61,280 | Gross: $0.17M
5. Secrets & Lies (1996)
R | 136 min | Comedy, Drama
Following the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London.
Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Claire Rushbrook
Votes: 47,219 | Gross: $13.42M
6. Taste of Cherry (1997)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
An Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolhosein Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi
Votes: 36,813 | Gross: $0.31M
7. Eternity and a Day (1998)
Unrated | 137 min | Drama
Famous writer Alexander is very ill and has little time left to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania, and goes on a journey with him to take the boy home.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Ahilleas Skevis
Votes: 14,445 | Gross: $0.11M
8. Rosetta (1999)
R | 95 min | Drama
Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Stars: Émilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione, Anne Yernaux, Olivier Gourmet
Votes: 15,593 | Gross: $0.26M
9. The Law (1990)
81 min | Drama, Romance
Set in a pre-colonial African past, Tilai is about an illicit love affair and its consequences. Saga returns to his village after an extended absence to discover that his father has taken ... See full summary »
Director: Idrissa Ouedraogo | Stars: Rasmané Ouédraogo, Ina Cissé, Roukietou Barry, Assane Ouédraogo
Votes: 670
10. Daddy Nostalgia (1990)
PG | 105 min | Drama, Romance
A retired English businessman has just been through heart surgery but it has, apparently, done little to relieve his constant pain or improve his long-term survival prospects.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Jane Birkin, Odette Laure, Emmanuelle Bataille
Votes: 847 | Gross: $1.11M
11. Rodrigo D: No futuro (1990)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Rodrigo and his friends are bored teenagers living in Medellin. Rodrigo wants to start a punk band. The youths mainly loaf around the hillside shanty towns and, for kicks, steal a bike or car, or shoot someone.
Director: Víctor Gaviria | Stars: Ramiro Meneses, Carlos Mario Restrepo, Jackson Idrian Gallego, Vilma Díaz
Votes: 1,063
12. White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
PG | 112 min | Adventure, Drama
A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, Charlotte Cornwell, Norman Lumsden
Votes: 13,226 | Gross: $2.32M
13. Come See the Paradise (1990)
R | 138 min | Drama, Romance, War
The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi
Votes: 3,061 | Gross: $0.85M
14. The Sting of Death (1990)
115 min | Drama
Period drama set in the 1950's about a couple isolating themselves from the outside world as they attempt to salvage their faltering marriage, no matter what the costs, after the husband has an affair.
Director: Kôhei Oguri | Stars: Keiko Matsuzaka, Ittoku Kishibe, Midori Kiuchi, Takenori Matsumura
Votes: 382
15. Ju Dou (1990)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Romance
In rural China, the young bride of a tyrannical owner of a silk-dyeing business finds temporary solace in the arms of her husband's nephew, but problems arise when she becomes pregnant.
Directors: Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang | Stars: Gong Li, Wei Li, Baotian Li, Zhang Yi
Votes: 9,022 | Gross: $1.99M
16. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
PG | 137 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber
Votes: 25,959 | Gross: $15.14M
17. Hidden Agenda (1990)
R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller
When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Frances McDormand, Maurice Roëves, Robert Patterson, Bernard Bloch
Votes: 4,608 | Gross: $1.03M
18. Interrogation (1989)
TV-MA | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.
Director: Ryszard Bugajski | Stars: Krystyna Janda, Adam Ferency, Janusz Gajos, Agnieszka Holland
Votes: 3,684
19. Taxi Blues (1990)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
A comedic love/hate relationship develops between a dour taxi driver and a hapless aspiring musician after the latter stiffs his cab fare.
Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Pyotr Mamonov, Pyotr Zaychenko, Vladimir Kashpur, Natalya Kolyakanova
Votes: 1,998 | Gross: $0.17M
20. Captive of the Desert (1990)
96 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A Frenchwoman is taken hostage by an African tribe for months - can she escape ?
Director: Raymond Depardon | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Dobi Koré, Fadi Taha, Dobi Wachinké
Votes: 213
21. Everybody's Fine (1990)
PG-13 | 118 min | Drama
Matteo decides to take a trip across Italy to go visiting his five children.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan, Valeria Cavalli, Marino Cenna
Votes: 4,438 | Gross: $1.75M
22. New Wave (1990)
89 min | Drama
Composed entirely by literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, Godard's film works as an allegory on film. The loose narrative tells about a ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Alain Delon, Domiziana Giordano, Jacques Dacqmine, Christophe Odent
Votes: 1,600
23. Mat (1990)
200 min | Drama, History
Based on Maxim Gorky's novel about a woman torn between her loyalties to husband and son in the years of the Revolution.
Director: Gleb Panfilov | Stars: Inna Churikova, Viktor Rakov, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Aleksandr Shishonok
Votes: 193
24. The Ear (1970)
94 min | Drama, Thriller
After coming home from a Party gathering one night, a Czech official becomes convinced that he is about to be the subject of a political purge and tries to do damage control, while also dealing with his turbulent marriage.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Jirina Bohdalová, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Gustav Opocenský, Miroslav Holub
Votes: 3,311
25. V gorode Sochi tyomnye nochi (1989)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Romance
Vehicle for Little Vera star Natalya Negoda, here a young student who meets a 50 year old con artist (he'd tried to dupe her mother into a fake apartment swap) and lands up in a Black Sea hotel room with him and the corpse of a policeman.
Director: Vasili Pichul | Stars: Aleksey Zharkov, Natalya Negoda, Aleksandr Mironov, Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Votes: 90
26. Ostatni prom (1989)
88 min | Drama
Events are set in December of 1981: mobs of buyers descend on an already depleted supermarket. Most of the film happens on a ship carrying Poles on a cruise. Most passengers, however, have ... See full summary »
Director: Waldemar Krzystek | Stars: Krzysztof Kolberger, Agnieszka Kowalska, Dorota Segda, Ewa Wencel
Votes: 142
27. Freeze Die Come to Life (1990)
105 min | Drama
Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour.
Director: Vitali Kanevsky | Stars: Dinara Drukarova, Pavel Nazarov, Elena Popova, Valeriy Ivchenko
Votes: 933
28. Chyornaya roza - emblema pechali, krasnaya roza - emblema lyubvi (1990)
131 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In fact, people who then appear around Mitya are all unique, eccentric and the space of the apartment house begins to have an unrealistic character as a miniature of unstable society in the end of Soviet Union.
Director: Sergey Solovyov | Stars: Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Abdulov, Mikhail Rozanov, Aleksandr Zbruev
Votes: 764
29. Song of the Exile (1990)
100 min | Drama
After the Sino-Japanese War, Kwei Dz, one of the family members of Japanese soldiers accepted a Chinese officer's proposal and remained in China. Later they had a daughter named Ann. The ... See full summary »
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Maggie Cheung, Siu-Kwong Chung, Tan Lang Jachi Tian, Waise Lee
Votes: 559
30. Het sacrament (1989)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
The Heylen family's annual get-together to commemorate their mother derails completely.
Director: Hugo Claus | Stars: Ann Petersen, Carl Ridders, Jan Decleir, Hugo Van Den Berghe
Votes: 278
31. The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A couple retreat to Venice to work on their relationship, but an encounter with a stranger leads them into a world of intrigue - where their darkest desires are in reach.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Helen Mirren
Votes: 6,359 | Gross: $1.24M
32. Korczak (1990)
Unrated | 118 min | Biography, Drama, War
The last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Dr. Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Wojciech Pszoniak, Ewa Dalkowska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Marzena Trybala
Votes: 1,598
33. 'Non', ou A Vã Glória de Mandar (1990)
110 min | Drama, History, War
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Miguel Guilherme, Luís Lucas
Votes: 982
34. Cry-Baby (1990)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Musical
In 1950s Baltimore, a bad boy with a heart of gold wins the love of a good girl, whose boyfriend sets out for revenge.
Director: John Waters | Stars: Johnny Depp, Ricki Lake, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell
Votes: 64,853 | Gross: $8.27M
35. Dreams (1990)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Fantasy
A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.
Directors: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baishô, Toshie Negishi, Mieko Harada
Votes: 29,205 | Gross: $1.96M
36. The Plot Against Harry (1989)
81 min | Comedy, Crime
When a former big shot in the Jewish Mafia is released from prison, his ex-wife and family try to set him straight.
Director: Michael Roemer | Stars: Martin Priest, Ben Lang, Maxine Woods, Henry Nemo
Votes: 450 | Gross: $0.27M
37. Night Sun (1990)
Unrated | 113 min | Drama, Romance
Young nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king's mistress, leaves Naples in disgust to become a monk. But his quest for perfect solitude is ... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Massimo Bonetti, Margarita Lozano
Votes: 885
38. Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces (1990)
Unrated | 98 min | Drama, Comedy
Noura struggles to reconcile two worlds, Muslim women and men, while also dealing with his own sexuality.
Director: Férid Boughedir | Stars: Selim Boughedir, Mustapha Adouani, Rabiah Ben-Abdullah, Mohamed Driss
Votes: 2,070
39. Margarit i Margarita (1989)
92 min | Drama
Margarit and Margarita are high school senior students. They are madly in love. And so proud and independent that they are often in trouble with their parents and teachers. They quit school... See full summary »
Director: Nikolay Volev | Stars: Irini Jambonas, Hristo Shopov, Rashko Mladenov, Vassil Mihajlov
Votes: 576
40. Paper Mask (1990)
R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.
Director: Christopher Morahan | Stars: Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe, Frederick Treves, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 739
41. December Bride (1990)
88 min | Drama
At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, she refuses to reveal the name of the father.
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Stars: Donal McCann, Saskia Reeves, Ciarán Hinds, Patrick Malahide
Votes: 365 | Gross: $0.07M
42. The Reflecting Skin (1990)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
In the 1950s, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighboring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area.
Director: Philip Ridley | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper, Sheila Moore
Votes: 9,352
43. The Guardian Angel (1990)
108 min | Drama
In a fictional country, around 1912, student are rioting. There are cries for democracy and to overthrow of the old regime. The revolt is brutally downcast by the regime's forces. The leader of the rebellion is arrested.
Director: Suzanne Osten | Stars: Pia Bäckström, Malin Ek, Etienne Glaser, Hanna Hartleb
Votes: 150
44. To Sleep with Anger (1990)
PG | 102 min | Drama
A charismatic old acquaintance drifts into town, stirring up trouble for a mild-mannered family.
Director: Charles Burnett | Stars: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, DeVaughn Nixon, Mary Alice
Votes: 2,918 | Gross: $1.16M
45. Warsaw Bridge (1990)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
A female professor, a writer, and an orchestra conductor -three characters, two couples- attend a grand literary cocktail party. The writer has just won the prize for his book "Warsaw ... See full summary »
Director: Pere Portabella | Stars: Carme Elias, Francisco Guijar, Jordi Dauder, Josep Maria Pou
Votes: 344
46. Tsareubiytsa (1991)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, History
Over seventy five years ago Russia's last Tsar and his entire family met their fate at the hands of a murderous assassin. Yet, behind the closed doors of a modern day psychiatric hospital a patient is telling the story of the event.
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Oleg Yankovskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Yuriy Sherstnyov
Votes: 974
47. La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
Unrated | 238 min | Drama
The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart, Marianne Denicourt
Votes: 9,373 | Gross: $0.41M
48. The Double Life of Véronique (1991)
R | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Irène Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Halina Gryglaszewska, Kalina Jedrusik
Votes: 52,992 | Gross: $2.00M
49. Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
Returning to Hollywood 1951 after working in France, a movie director meets McCarthyism head-on.
Director: Irwin Winkler | Stars: Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, George Wendt, Patricia Wettig
Votes: 9,578 | Gross: $9.48M
50. Bix (1991)
100 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Biopic of troubled jazz musician/composer Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931), who played with the Paul Whiteman band, among others.
Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Bryant Weeks, Emile B. Levisetti, Julia Ewing, Mark Collver
Votes: 167
51. Anna Karamazoff (1991)
125 min | Drama
The story of a woman returning from a labor camp. She is looking for a person, on whose denunciation she was arrested, in order to take revenge on him, but having completed her judgment, she realizes that revenge is meaningless.
Director: Rustam Khamdamov | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Elena Solovey, Natalya Leble, Viktor Sibilyov
Votes: 151
52. Lune froide (1991)
92 min | Drama
Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Simon is living on unemployment benefits in a trailer ... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Bouchitey | Stars: Jean-François Stévenin, Patrick Bouchitey, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Consuelo De Haviland
Votes: 474
53. Europa (1991)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Järegård
Votes: 23,203 | Gross: $1.01M
54. The Flesh (1991)
90 min | Drama, Romance
A peculiar love story between two weirdos.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Francesca Dellera, Philippe Léotard, Farid Chopel
Votes: 929
55. Out of Life (1991)
97 min | Crime, Drama, War
A French photograher is kidnapped and held hostage in a war-torn Beirut. Slowly but surely his integrity and self-respect is broken.
Director: Maroun Bagdadi | Stars: Hippolyte Girardot, Rafik Ali Ahmad, Hussein Sbeity, Habib Hammoud
Votes: 511
56. Homicide (1991)
R | 102 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group as a result.
Director: David Mamet | Stars: Joe Mantegna, William H. Macy, Vincent Guastaferro, J.J. Johnston
Votes: 8,175 | Gross: $2.97M
57. Life on a String (1991)
110 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A blind man's master told him that after he has broken 1000 strings on his Banjo, he can open the Banjo to get a script for his eyes. After 60 years he broke the 1000th string...
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Zhongyuan Liu, Lei Huang, Qing Xu, Yao Er Ga
Votes: 705
58. Van Gogh (1991)
R | 158 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq, Gérard Séty
Votes: 3,310 | Gross: $0.14M
59. The Yes Man (1991)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Cesare Botero (Nanni Moretti) is a young minister well-known to be corrupted and corrupter. He is looking for an appropriate spokesman. He finds the right person in Prof. Luciano Sandulli (... See full summary »
Director: Daniele Luchetti | Stars: Silvio Orlando, Nanni Moretti, Giulio Brogi, Anne Roussel
Votes: 887
60. Jungle Fever (1991)
R | 132 min | Drama, Romance
Friends and family of a married Black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis
Votes: 19,670 | Gross: $32.48M
61. Malina (1991)
125 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A female writer and her relationships with two different men, one joyous and one introverted.
Director: Werner Schroeter | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Lisa Kreuzer, Mathieu Carrière, Can Togay
Votes: 1,213
62. A Rage in Harlem (1991)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Crime
A gangster's girlfriend flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang are on her trail.
Director: Bill Duke | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Robin Givens, Zakes Mokae
Votes: 2,356 | Gross: $10.44M
63. The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)
143 min | Drama, Romance
A reporter stuck in a border town with an overcrowding of refugees sees a man he believes to be a long lost politician.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Gregory Patrick Karr, Ilias Logothetis
Votes: 2,753
64. Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema (1990)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
During the screening of the film "Daybreak" at the Liberty Cinema, movie characters suddenly come alive and begin to talk to the viewers. The situation surprises communist authorities who send a censor to the theatre.
Director: Wojciech Marczewski | Stars: Janusz Gajos, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Teresa Marczewska, Piotr Fronczewski
Votes: 1,192
65. Pogrzeb kartofla (1990)
96 min | Drama
Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Jakub Kolski | Stars: Franciszek Pieczka, Adam Ferency, Mariusz Saniternik, Ewa Zukowska
Votes: 152
66. Ystävät, toverit (1990)
132 min | Drama
Arno Jurmala is an appreciated nickel tycoon. He has an elegant wife and he owns a huge nickel factory somewhere in Northern Finland. When he is celebrating his birthday in the late 1930s, ... See full summary »
Director: Rauni Mollberg | Stars: Mikk Mikiver, Stina Ekblad, Hannu Lauri, Paavo Liski
Votes: 124
67. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
R | 96 min | Documentary
Documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems--nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.
Directors: Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, George Lucas
Votes: 23,242 | Gross: $1.32M
68. Revenge (1989)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, History
After their daughter is murdered, a couple raises a son to avenge her.
Director: Yermek Shinarbayev | Stars: Aleksandr Pan, Valentina Tyo, Kasym Zhakibayev, Lyubov Germanova
Votes: 732
69. Woman of the Port (1991)
110 min | Drama
Perla is a teenager who has been prostituted by her mother, Tomasa and acts as a dancer in a cabaret-brothel. The pianist who plays at the venue is a romantic singer-songwriter and ... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Evangelina Sosa, Alejandro Parodi, Damián Alcázar, Patricia Reyes Spíndola
Votes: 236
70. Yumeji (1991)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama
Painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) gets involved with a beautiful widow, becoming a rival of her dead husband's ghost and the jealous lover who murdered him.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Kenji Sawada, Tomoko Mariya, Masumi Miyazaki, Tamasaburô Bandô
Votes: 744
71. Rhapsody in August (1991)
PG | 98 min | Drama, War
Three generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa, Narumi Kayashima
Votes: 7,557 | Gross: $0.52M
72. Sam & Me (1991)
R | 94 min | Drama
23-year-old Nikhil comes to Canada from India to find his fortune and is convinced by his uncle to work as a companion and care-giver to Sam, an elderly Jewish man. An unlikely friendship ensues, which gives both men new insight into life.
Director: Deepa Mehta | Stars: Ranjit Chowdhry, Peter Boretski, Om Puri, Heath Lamberts
Votes: 140
73. The Adjuster (1991)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A family with the lack of sincerity faces a crisis.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose
Votes: 3,763 | Gross: $0.40M
74. Jacquot of Nantes (1991)
PG | 118 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A boy growing up in Nantes during World War II around his father's auto shop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of his life, reflects on his childhood influences.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Brigitte De Villepoix
Votes: 1,999 | Gross: $0.15M
75. Liquid Dreams (1991)
R | 92 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Eve Black finds a job as a dancer in a shady night club to find out more about the mysterious death of her sister, who danced there before she died. The club is using girls for a strange drug experiment, so she asks a cop for help.
Director: Mark Manos | Stars: Candice Daly, John Doe, Mark Manos, Karen Dahl
Votes: 251
76. Young Soul Rebels (1991)
R | 105 min | Drama, Music
Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.
Director: Isaac Julien | Stars: Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy, Frances Barber
Votes: 626
77. The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez (1991)
111 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat who mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
Director: Peter Sellars | Stars: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Joan Cusack, Peter Gallagher, Ron Vawter
Votes: 194
78. Life Stinks (1991)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy
A filthy rich businessman bets a corporate rival that he can live on the streets of L.A. without the comforts of home or money, which proves to be tougher than he thought.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Stuart Pankin
Votes: 11,317 | Gross: $4.10M
79. Danzón (1991)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama
Julia (Rojo) is a phone operator in Mexico City who divides her time between her job, her daughter and the danzon: a cuban dance very popular in Mexico and Central America. Every wednesday ... See full summary »
Director: María Novaro | Stars: María Rojo, Carmen Salinas, Tito Vasconcelos, Margarita Isabel
Votes: 688 | Gross: $0.36M
80. The Indian Runner (1991)
R | 127 min | Drama
A Vietnam vet comes home to his small town and finds himself in conflict with rules that his brother has vowed to uphold.
Director: Sean Penn | Stars: David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Valeria Golino, Patricia Arquette
Votes: 9,807 | Gross: $0.19M
81. Proof (1991)
R | 86 min | Drama, Romance
The life of a blind photographer who is looked after by a housekeeper is disrupted by the arrival of an agreeable restaurant worker.
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot, Russell Crowe, Heather Mitchell
Votes: 7,127 | Gross: $0.52M
82. Rebro Adama (1991)
79 min | Comedy, Drama
In a small urban flat, grandma, mom, and two daughters live in partial harmony. Grandma is bed-ridden and mute, but rings a bell above her head. Her daughter Nina, a museum docent, misses ... See full summary »
Director: Vyacheslav Krishtofovich | Stars: Inna Churikova, Yelena Bogdanova, Svetlana Ryabova, Mariya Golubkina
Votes: 391 | Gross: $0.24M
83. Riff-Raff (1991)
Unrated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of construction-worker Stevie and his unemployed pop-singer girlfriend shows the living conditions of the British poor class.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jim R. Coleman, George Moss
Votes: 4,891 | Gross: $0.30M
84. Une histoire inventée (1990)
100 min | Drama
An irresistible woman, Florence, dragging her last 50 disconsolate lovers behind her. A trumpet in the end of his career, loved by Florence and the only one who had refuse her. An amateur ... See full summary »
Director: André Forcier | Stars: Jean Lapointe, Louise Marleau, Charlotte Laurier, Marc Messier
Votes: 159
85. Toto the Hero (1991)
PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Thomas believed he was switched at birth with Alfred. Feeling cheated, Thomas spent his life plotting revenge against Alfred, his perceived lifelong adversary who he felt stole the privileged life that should have been his.
Director: Jaco Van Dormael | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Mireille Perrier, Jo De Backer, Thomas Godet
Votes: 6,346 | Gross: $1.23M
86. A Stranger Among Us (1992)
PG-13 | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Emily, a tough NYPD cop, is sent to an orthodox Jewish community to investigate a missing person plus $720,000 in missing diamonds. To solve what becomes a murder case, she has to join the community.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Melanie Griffith, Eric Thal, John Pankow, Tracy Pollan
Votes: 4,233 | Gross: $12.28M
87. Dark at Noon (1992)
100 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Come to the Village of the Dogs, it's easy to find. Just follow the avenue of crutches and the prosthetic legs hanging from the trees. It's where the Virgin Mary keeps appearing in the sky,... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: John Hurt, Didier Bourdon, Lorraine Evanoff, David Warner
Votes: 148
88. An Independent Life (1992)
TV-MA | 97 min | Drama
Little Valerka has become a real teenager. He discovers love.
Director: Vitali Kanevsky | Stars: Pavel Nazarov, Dinara Drukarova, Toshihiro Vatanabe, Elena Popova
Votes: 205
89. Dream of Light (1992)
133 min | Documentary, Biography
The artist Antonio López tries to capture the sunlight hitting his quince tree all autumn, but the struggle seems futile.
Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Antonio López, María Moreno, Enrique Gran, María López
Votes: 2,126
90. Crush (1992)
Unrated | 97 min | Drama
On the way to interview a novelist, Lane and Christina are involved in a car crash which leaves literary critic Christina brain-damaged. Lane undertakes the assignment and becomes attracted... See full summary »
Director: Alison Maclean | Stars: Marcia Gay Harden, Donogh Rees, Caitlin Bossley, William Zappa
Votes: 564 | Gross: $0.11M
91. The Journey (1992)
R | 150 min | Adventure, Drama
Follows the journey taken by 17-year-old Martin through Latin America - by bicycle - from his snow-frozen school in Tierra del Fuego in search of his 'real' father, a cartoonist turned anthropologist believed to be in the Amazon jungle.
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Walter Quiroz, Soledad Alfaro, Ricardo Bartis, Christina Becerra
Votes: 829
92. Hyenas (1992)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty | Stars: Mansour Diouf, Ami Diakhate, Mamadou Mahourédia Gueye, Djibril Diop Mambéty
Votes: 1,343 | Gross: $0.02M
93. Leolo (1992)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The story of a young Canadian boy who tries to escape mentally from his disturbed family thanks to his fantasy and imagination.
Director: Jean-Claude Lauzon | Stars: Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno, Gilbert Sicotte, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 7,336 | Gross: $0.61M
94. Simple Men (1992)
R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Dennis is a handsome & bookish college student. His brother, Bill, is a roughhewn ladies' man & thief. Together they search for their dad, confront their expectations of each other, themselves, & their attitudes towards women.
Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Martin Donovan, Karen Sillas
Votes: 4,796 | Gross: $0.14M
95. The Sentinel (1992)
139 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A medical student returning to France finds himself mixed up in a dark affair of espionage between the Eastern and Western blocs, involving agents of the DGSE (French foreign intelligence service).
Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Emmanuel Salinger, Thibault de Montalembert, Jean-Louis Richard, Valérie Dréville
Votes: 910 | Gross: $0.01M
96. Of Mice and Men (1992)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Western
A nomadic farm worker looks after his dimwitted, gentle-giant friend during the Great Depression.
Director: Gary Sinise | Stars: John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko
Votes: 47,316 | Gross: $5.10M
97. Paris Trout (1991 TV Movie)
R | 100 min | Drama
In a small Georgia town in the 1950s, bigoted store owner Paris Trout kills a young black girl when his brother refuses to pay his debts.
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris, Ray McKinnon
Votes: 1,650
98. The Return of Casanova (1992)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly, because he was a fugitive when he left.
Director: Edouard Niermans | Stars: Alain Delon, Fabrice Luchini, Elsa Lunghini, Wadeck Stanczak
Votes: 575
99. Luna Park (1992)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama
Andrei leads a group of nationalist skinheads. They've taken over a Luna Park depot. They indulge in violence and racketeering against Jews, homosexuals and the marginalized.
Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Oleg Borisov, Andrei Gutin, Natalya Egorova, Nonna Mordyukova
Votes: 527
100. The Long Day Closes (1992)
PG | 85 min | Biography, Drama
A lyrical reverie about a young Liverpool boy coming of age in the 1950s among his loving family and the austere Catholic Church as he enters the rigors of school, nurtures a bedazzled love of the movies and longs for companionship.
Director: Terence Davies | Stars: Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates, Anthony Watson, Nicholas Lamont
Votes: 4,002 | Gross: $0.16M
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