1991-2000

  • Nikos Kornilios – To athoo soma AKA Desert Sky (1997)

    1991-2000ArthouseGreeceNikos KorniliosSci-Fi
    To athoo soma (1997)
    To athoo soma (1997)

    Synopsis
    The few survivors of a deserted city, sometime in the near future, are left with no water or food but somehow manage to survive. In a hospital, a lonely scientist, Foteini, is helping a patient with amnesia to recover. She also meets an actor named Aias (Ajax) – who often visits his sick sister – and becomes romantically involved with him. Foteini is swept away by love; Aias, however, is unprepared for such strong emotions. Their separation brings Foteini to the house of the amnesiac, and he takes care of her, up to the moment that she discovers a photo of hers among his things. In the meantime, Aias brings his sister back home from the hospital. While it is getting darker, with clouds gathering in the sky, Foteini and Aias wander the city and meet in the rain.
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  • Péter Forgács – The Danube Exodus (1998)

    1991-2000DocumentaryExperimentalHolocaust HistoryHungaryPéter Forgács
    The Danube Exodus (1998)
    The Danube Exodus (1998)

    Quote:
    He is primarily interested in the way in which these films seem to depict only happy moments, but on closer consideration they also appear to tell a hidden history, which can be brought back to the surface by the recycling filmmaker.

    In the travelogue The Danube Exodus, he documents the Jewish exodus from Slovakia just before the beginning of World War II. In two boats, a group of nine hundred Slovak, Austrian Jews tried to reach the Black Sea via the river Danube, in order to get to Palestine from there. Forgács based his film on the amateur films of Captain Nándor Andrásovits, the captain of one of the boats.
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  • S. Shankar – Jeans (1998)

    1991-2000ComedyDramaIndiaS. Shankar
    Jeans (1998)
    Jeans (1998)

    Vishu and Ramu are a pair of Indian twins living in America with their father, Rajamani. When Madhumita (Aishwarya Rai) and her brother come to America to get medical treatment for their ailing grandmother, Vishu and Ramu end up meeting them at the airport. Vishu falls in love with Madhumita, and the couple has everyone’s blessing, except for Rajamani, who is estranged from his own twin brother. He only wants his sons to marry twin sisters, so Madhumita pretends to have a twin in order to please him. As Madhumita puts on a charade by creating Vaishnavi, all goes well, until Ramu falls in love with Vaishnavi. Now the truth must come out, before Madhumita has to marry both of Rajamani’s twin sons.
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  • Helke Misselwitz – Herzsprung (1992)

    1991-2000DramaGermanyHelke Misselwitz
    Herzsprung (1992)
    Herzsprung (1992)

    Quote:
    In the little town of Herzsprung – whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts – almost nothing has changed since German unification, except a rise in unemployment. Johanna, a young mother and widow, becomes one of the unemployed and lives on welfare. To make matters worse, she falls in love with a dark-skinned, roving adventurer and the whole village starts talking about it.Read More »

  • John Waters – Cecil B. DeMented (2000)

    John Waters1991-2000CampComedyUSA
    Cecil B. DeMented (2000)
    Cecil B. DeMented (2000)

    Roger Ebert
    August 18, 2000

    My best guess is that John Waters produced the talent shows in his high school. There’s always been something cheerfully amateurish about his more personal films–a feeling that he and his friends have dreamed up a series of “skits” while hanging out together.

    “Cecil B. Demented” takes this tendency to an almost unwatchable extreme, in a home movie that’s like a bunch of kids goofing off.Read More »

  • Peter Schrøder – Det forsømte forår AKA Stolen Spring AKA The Lost Spring (1993)

    1991-2000ComedyDenmarkDramaPeter Schrøder
    Det forsømte forår (1993)
    Det forsømte forår (1993)

    At their 25th high-school anniversary some bourgeois citizens remember their time in school as a happy one. In reality it was quite the contrary. The school was a madhouse in which the teachers, especially Blomme, tormented the students. As a result one of them became a murderer. Written by Allan SimonsenRead More »

  • Fred Olen Ray – Inner Sanctum II (1994)

    Fred Olen Ray1991-2000DramaHorrorUSA
    Inner Sanctum II (1994)
    Inner Sanctum II (1994)

    After a traumatized woman kills her rich husband in self defense, his family and friends show up to secure a piece of the inheritance for themselves even if it means driving the poor woman insane – or worse.Read More »

  • Hans-Christian Schmid – Crazy (2000)

    Hans-Christian Schmid1991-2000ArthouseDramaGermany
    Crazy (2000)
    Crazy (2000)

    On his fifth attempt at boarding school, young Benni has one last
    chance to prove to his parents he can function in the academic world, and, most importantly, pass math. But Benni has other concerns; he is partially paralyzed and struggling with typical teenage issues – making friends, falling in love and having sex. When his mother decides to move him to yet another school, Benni must decide whether to make a stand for what truly matters to him. Based on an autobiographical novel by Benjamin Lebert, Crazy has earned Schmid great praise for its honest portrait of teenage life.
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  • Ildikó Enyedi – Büvös vadász aka The Magic Hunter (1994)

    Ildikó Enyedi1991-2000ArthouseDramaHungary
    Büvös vadász (1994)
    Büvös vadász (1994)

    From Amazon:
    Magic Hunter begins as a fairy tale told by a mother to her frightened daughter during a World War II air raid and then shifts into the contemporary story of Max, a police marksman (British actor Gary Kemp, dubbed in Hungarian) who loses his nerve when he wounds an innocent hostage. He manages to pass his annual shooting test only when a sinister colleague lends him three magic bullets that won’t fail to miss their target; to get a new supply, Max will have to strike a deal with the devil.Read More »

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