A cop on the run from his mob boss “in-laws” tries to start a new life on a deserted farm with his two children. But things are not that easy.Read More »
1990s
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Vincent McEveety – Stranger at My Door (1991)
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Bill Condon – Deadly Relations (1993)
Drama1991-2000Bill CondonCrimeUSALeonard Fagot has four daughters and loves them so much, that he usurps his control over them. He lets them know how he feels about the men they date. And if he disapproves of them, he probably will have them killed to get them out of his daughters’ life.Read More »
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David Mamet – Homicide (1991)
1991-2000CrimeDavid MametThrillerUSAJoe Mantegna stars as Bobby Gold, a detective with a gift for negotiation who, along with his partner Tim Sullivan (William H. Macy), accidentally stumbles upon a crime scene — the murder of an elderly Jewish woman in her corner store. When it turns out that the victim was politically well-connected and Jewish, Bobby’s superiors assign him the case because he’s also Jewish.Read More »
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Alan Rudolph – Afterglow (1997)
1991-2000Alan RudolphComedyDramaUSASet in the city of Montreal, Alan Rudolph’s romantic comedy-drama “AFTERGLOW” paints a wryly comic portrait of two modern marriages drifting toward the rocks.
Lucky (Nick Nolte) is a contractor whose business owes its success in equal measure to his skill at repair work and to his amorous attentions to the lonely women who hire him. His marriage, however, has fallen on hard times– his wife Phyllis (Julie Christie), began to shut Lucky out of her heart years ago when a bitter argument violently disrupted their home. A former B-movie actress, Phyllis now passes her time in a nostalgic haze, watching her old movies and remembering happier days. She turns a blind eye to Lucky’s infidelities, but resists his attempts to bring romance back into their life together. “The hardest part is finding out too late that none of it lasts,” she tells him, resigning herself to her disillusionment.Read More »
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Lee Tamahori – Mulholland Falls (1996)
1991-2000CrimeDramaLee TamahoriUSAThis film is about the adventures of a 1940’s special anti-gangster police squad in Los Angeles, the infamous ‘Hat Squad.’ The four members of this squad are big, tough, no-nonsense cops who don’t hesitate to break the law, if it suits their purposes. When a local woman is murdered, their investigation turns up the fact that she had been romantically linked to several prominent men and had secret films taken of her liaisons. Since one of those men is the powerful U.S. Army General at the head of the then-new Atomic Energy Commission and another is the (married) leader of the Hat Squad, complications ensue. The FBI even gets involved in an attempted cover-up.Read More »
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Arturo Ripstein – El evangelio de las Maravillas (1998)
1991-2000Arturo RipsteinCultDramaMexico“La Nueva Jerusalem” is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio (Rabal) and Mamá Dorita (Jurado). They’re waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they’ve abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa (Gurrola) the signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in “La Nueva Jerusalem”.Read More »
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Zeph E. Daniel – Dementia (1999)
USA1991-2000ThrillerZeph E. DanielAn heiress who is being treated for a mental breakdown becomes attracted to her nurse, who seems to be similarly inclined. The nurse’s ex-husband shows up and demonstrates his capacity for all things sadistic and psychotic, even murder.Read More »
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Hiroyuki Oki – Ekusutashi no namida: Chiin AKA Tears of Ecstacy (1995)
1991-2000EroticaExperimentalHiroyuki OkiJapanA conceptual pinku film which is conceived of 60 shots which all are 60 seconds long and represent an absurdist take on the narrative and stylistic schemes of erotic cinema.Read More »
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Yee-Hung Lam – Pang foo AKA My Better Half (1993)
1991-2000CrimeEroticaHong KongYee-Hung LamA set of three stories, each concerning a woman’s difficulty with her husband. Story 1 is set in 1940, in a brothel fallen on hard times. Their star attraction is Flora, but she marries a local fishseller, only to kill him with too much sex on their wedding night, then he comes back as a jealous ghost. Story 2 is possibly in the 1960s, regarding a poor family where the husband is very ill with TB and the wife has to work overtime. A chicken seller lusts after her, and helps pay for the husband’s operation. But when he finds out…… Story 3 concerns a paranoid former nightclub hostess, “Beautiful Ho”, who marries Robert (a client) on a whim, then drives herself mad (or madder) suspecting him of wooing girls. She is seen telling her story in a police station, where she is being held for chopping up and cooking her husband.Read More »









