1990s

  • Takehiro Nakajima – Okoge AKA Fag Hag (1992)

    1991-2000ArthouseDramaJapanQueer Cinema(s)Takehiro Nakajima

    Takehiro Nakajima directs this romantic drama about a love triangle between two men and a young woman. The film centers on Sayoko (Misa Shimizu of Unagi fame) who works as a voice-over artist for television cartoons. One day she happens upon a lithe young man and his middle-aged lover in mid-kiss. Something about the incident fascinates her, and soon she’s frequenting gay bars until she finds the couple once again. The young man is a designer named Go (Takehiro Murata) while the older man is married and named Terasaki (Takeo Nakahara). When Sayoko learns that Go’s ailing mother has moved in with him, disrupting the couple’s usual tryst, she offers them the services of her place. For a while, things go beautifully. As the two guys go at it upstairs, Sayoko merrily thumbs through art books. Then Terasaki’s wife gets wind of her husband’s extramarital activities and storms Sayoko’s pad. Terasaki is forced to dump Go and the lad consequently goes into a deep funk. In an attempt to cheer him up, she tries to set him up with a hunky former sailor. Instead, the sailor rapes and impregnates Sayoko. Years later, the three meet again.Read More »

  • Kensaku Watanabe – Pupu no monogatari AKA The Story of Pupu (1998) (HD)

    1991-2000ComedyJapanKensaku Watanabe

    Fu and Suzu are two pretty anarchist girls, who take to the road. They are off to visit the tomb of a small pig named PUPU. On the way, they meet Suzu’s ex-lover, a gay couple, and a golf player; always getting in trouble. But whenever trouble comes, ‘TrunkMan’ the hero appears to save them. All changes, though, when one of the girls falls in love with TrunkMan.Read More »

  • Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro – La Cité des enfants perdus AKA The City Of Lost Children (1995)

    1991-2000FantasyFranceJean-Pierre JeunetMarc CaroSci-Fi

    Set in a dystopian society, someone is kidnapping the children. Krank and his band of clones are using the children to harvest their dreams. Then they kidnap Denree, the brother of One, a fairground strongman. One sets out to find his brother.Read More »

  • Roberto Leoni – Favola crudele (1991)

    1961-1970DramaItalyRoberto Leoni

    It is the story of a terrorist who manages to escape during a transfer by sea and lands on a remote desert island where there is a large mansion inhabited by a little girl about 9 years old a girl of 18 and their housekeeper.Read More »

  • Masud Kimiai – Dandan-e-mar AKA Snake Fang (1990)

    1981-1990IranMasud KimiaiWar

    Reza, the veteran worker of a print house whose sight is adversely affected because of his job, loses his mother. Finding the gloom reigning over the home beyond bearing, he departs to overcome his sorrows. He ends up at a hostel where he shares his room with a southern guy called Ahmad who has a group of orphan war-stricken children under his wing. After the initial inkling gives way to the friendship, Reza discovers that Ahmad’s patron plies his trade in black-market. At the same time, Reza’s sister is constantly beaten and humiliated by her husband for being infertile…Read More »

  • Francis Leroi – Rêves de cuir 2 aka Leather Dreams 2 (1993)

    1991-2000EroticaFranceFrancis LeroiThriller

    “DREAMS OF LEATHER 2” has met the challenge of being a love, mistery, violence and sex thriller. Each shot of this picture that has won countless awards breaks the every taboo possible and will free your most perverse impulses.
    A film you’ll never forget !Read More »

  • Tom DiCillo – Living in Oblivion (1995)

    1991-2000ComedyDramaTom DiCilloUSA

    This ultimate tribute to all independent filmmakers takes place during one day on the set of a non-budget movie.Read More »

  • João Botelho – Aqui na Terra AKA Here on Earth (1993)

    1991-2000ArthouseCultJoão BotelhoPortugal

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    Miguel is a successful economist until his father’s death plunges him into a strange obscure world of fears, strange sounds and psychological isolation. He quits his job, drifts away from his wife and initiates a process of physical disintegration. He will reach the bottom before he starts seeing the light. As an echo to his journey, we follow, faraway in the countryside, the story of a crime and its redemption, the story of Antonio and Cecilia. From death to the miracle of life, here on earth.Read More »

  • Amos Gitai – Kadosh (1999)

    1991-2000Amos GitaiDramaIsrael

    Set in the Mea Sherim quarter of Jerusalem, an enclave of the ultra-Orthodox, Kadosh explores a hermetic world almost never seen on the screen. Here, for ten years, the pious Rivka (Yael Abecassis) has devoted herself to her husband Meir (Yoram Hattab), but their marriage remains childless. Presumed barren, she is rejected by her community, which prizes children above all else.

    The story that follows relates the harrowing fate of Rivka, and also here beloved sister Malka (Meital Barda), in love with a young man who has fled the community to lead a secular life.Read More »

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