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La Estrategia del Caracol (English: The Strategy of the Snail) is a 1993 Colombian comedy-drama film directed and produced by Colombian filmmaker and director Sergio Cabrera. The film is starred by Frank Ramirez, Florina Lemaitre, Humberto Dorado, Fausto Cabrera and Carlos Vives. The film is a winner of the Berlin International Film Festival and the Biarritz Film Cinema Festival of Latin America. The film deals with the hardships of low income class families in Bogota. The breach between rich and poor and their interactions in a highly stratified social system.Read More »
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Sergio Cabrera – La estrategia del caracol AKA Strategy of the Snail (1993)
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Yonfan – Mei shao nian zhi lian AKA Bishonen (1998)
1991-2000DramaHong KongQueer Cinema(s)RomanceYonfanQuote:
Jet is the star gigolo in Hong Kong. Arrogant, sexy, everyone falls in love with him, but he falls in love with no one… until one day he meets Sam, the hunkiest policeman to ever pound a beat on Hollywood Road. From then on, Jet changes himself into somebody he is not: innocent, sweet, clean, pure. It’s way of setting a trap to catch Sam. But unknowingly Jet falls into the trap himself. Things begin to get out of control when it turns out that Sam’s past is part of Jet’s present.Read More » -
Andriy Donchik – Kisnevij Golod AKA Oxygen Starvation (1992)
Drama1991-2000Andriy DonchikUkraineWarSoviet army was one the worst for human dignity places to be. The task of the army was to turn freethinkers into normal dumb Soviet people. An intelligent Ukrainian guy refuses to obey.Read More »
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Christine Pascal – Adultère, mode d’emploi (1995)
France1991-2000Christine PascalComedyRomanceSynopsis:
Twenty-four hours in the life of a couple, engulfed in the harsh world of a big city. At the end of these twenty-four hours, Bruno and Fabienne may have touched on the possible solution to the eternal misunderstanding arising from man’s quest for sex and woman’s quest for love…Read More » -
Mustafa Altioklar – Asansör AKA Elevator (1999)
1991-2000DramaMustafa AltioklarTurkeyPlot
The images reflected on the screen come from a camera that Namik is carrying, a camera that is forgotten. The young man running in a hospital corridor is looking for his wife, Nurcan, who is a nurse. He finds her and takes the trigger of his gun. And then he decides on his own life and all this is recorded in the camera. Can goes to an address he never met to meet a woman he met on the internet and would see for the first time in the physical environment. The apartment is an old, renovated and abandoned look. Can is in the elevator. When the 4th floor comes, the elevator stops. As the interior doors slammer and make noise, the cabin falls half a meter down. When you are shouting in the panic, the door to the apartment opposite the cabin opens. A woman is seen. From this moment on, the 4-day slavery in Can’s cabin begins.Read More » -
Pawel Pawlikowski – The Stringer (1998)
1991-2000ActionDramaPawel PawlikowskiUnited KingdomVadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies. He falls in love with the beautiful Helen, an English media executive, and subsequently they must contend with the barriers that their different backgrounds present.Read More »
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Marcel Hanoun – Les amants de Sarajevo AKA Lovers of Sarajevo (1994)
1951-1960FranceMarcel HanounShort FilmSynopsis
Film-poem in homage to this young Bosnian couple killed on the Freedom Bridge in the summer of 1993 by an anonymous gunman as they fled besieged Sarajevo.Read More » -
Spike Lee – Crooklyn (1994)
1991-2000ComedyDramaSpike LeeUSA

From Spike Lee, the legendary director of Do the Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, Malcolm X, Clockers and BlacKkKlansman, comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973. Make yourself at home with the Carmichael family as they experience one very special summer in their Brooklyn neighborhood that they’ve affectionately nicknamed Crooklyn. Lee fashions a bold, flavorful picture of family life starring the wonderful Alfre Woodard as Carolyn, a loving, but fiercely independent mother who, along with her musician husband Woody (Delroy Lindo), struggles to raise their family in difficult but often wonderful circumstances. Complemented by an energizing, vintage R&B soundtrack, this tender and colorful film was beautifully shot by Arthur Jafa (Daughters of the Dust). The strong supporting cast includes Spike Lee, David Patrick Kelly, Zelda Harris, Isaiah Washington, José Zúñiga and Vondie Curtis-Hall.Read More »
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Ah Nian – Love in the City (1997)
Drama1991-2000Ah NianChina

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Embodies the historical views and values of young people born in the 1960s. The Cultural Revolution, a very special and extremely embarrassing era in Chinese history, experienced reform and opening up during its adolescence, but also faced a wave of commodities during its maturity period. On the whole, they are a generation that has not been well developed. The film bureau considered the original title “City Love 1997” to be ambiguous, and proposed to change it to “Winter Love” or “Love in the City.” Since then, the film has undergone nearly a year of modification and waiting. The reflection of the Cultural Revolution is one of the main parts requested by the film bureau. The film was changed again and again, but was not approved, and then the director made a copy of the film privately, and participated in the 45th Spanish San Sebastian Film Festival without obtaining the “Film Release License.”Read More »






