1991-2000

  • Isao Yamada – Anmonaito no sasayaki wo kiita AKA I’ve Heard the Ammonite Murmur (1992)

    1991-2000ArthouseDramaIsao YamadaJapan

    Synopsis:
    A fantasy story based on the relationship between Kenji Miyazawa and his younger sister Toshi. This is the first 35mm film written and directed by Isao Yamada, who has created a unique world with his 8mm and 16mm short films. Tomohiro Aso is in charge of photography, and Simon Turner of “The Garden” is in charge of the music.Read More »

  • Fernando Trueba – Belle epoque AKA The Age of Beauty (1992)

    1991-2000ComedyFernando TruebaRomanceSpain

    Synopsis:
    In 1931, a young soldier (Fernando) deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner (Manolo) due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters (Rocio, Violeta, Clara and Luz). Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.Read More »

  • Jim Wynorski – Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure (1995)

    1991-2000DramaEroticaJim WynorskiUSA

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    Simon Mitchell was a successful and powerful criminal defense attorney, the kind of man accustomed to having a jury or a woman see things his way. Then sex psychologist Dr. Claire Archer (Shannon Tweed) walks into his office, accused of murder. To his surprise, he’s strongly attracted to his new client. Powerless to resist her, he’s rapidly drawn into an ever-tightening web of obsession, lust and betrayal. Now, with both his marriage and career on the rocks, he may have to give up something more valuable. Because saving the life of this sexual predator could easily cost him his own.Read More »

  • Takahisa Zeze – Honban rezu: Hazukashii taii AKA Angel in September (1994)

    1991-2000DramaExploitationJapanTakahisa Zeze

    One day, Hitomi observes her classmate Eriko stealing lipstick in a drugstore and follows her home. The two young women get to know and love each other. While the withdrawn Hitomi believes herself and Eriko to be reincarnations of angel warriors who once fought demon armies, her emancipated and apathetic friend wanders through life between sex contacts with older men and fear of falling into a boring bourgeois existence. The different futures of the two soon lead to tensions.Read More »

  • György Fehér – Szürkület AKA Twilight (1990)

    1991-2000CrimeGyörgy FehérHungary

    Quote:
    Friedrich Dürrenmatt had written a film script entitled Es geschah am hellichten Tag (It Happened in Broad Daylight). Not happy with the ending he had devised for the first version, he decided to write a new one. This time he chose the novel format, completely changing the epilogue and the morals implied in the story as he had originally conceived it. In the first version, the events are resolved with sort of a conventional closure, with the main character proved successful, not leaving much space for any further reflection; in the subsequent novel (Das Versprechen, also known as The Pledge in English) the author exploits the story to explore the mechanics of detective fiction and the metaphysics of evil. In Das Versprechen, Dürrenmatt not only changed the ending of the story, he also moved the point of view on the events to another character.Read More »

  • Robert Rodriguez – El Mariachi (1992)

    1991-2000ActionCrimeMexicoRobert Rodriguez

    Rodriguez’ Sundance Award-winning feature length indie debut. A traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.Read More »

  • Tinto Brass – Trasgredire (2000)

    1991-2000ComedyEroticaItalyTinto Brass

    Synopsis:
    While scouting out apartments in London for her Venetian boyfriend, Carla rents an apartment that overlooks the Thames. There she meet the lesbian hyper-horny real estate agent Moira.Read More »

  • Paul McGuigan – The Acid House (1998)

    1991-2000ComedyFantasyPaul McGuiganUnited Kingdom

    Irvine Welsh adapts three stories from his ‘Acid House’ collection for the screen. In ‘The Granton Star
    Cause’, Boab Coyle (Stephen McCole) is happy playing for his local football team and dating girlfriend
    Evelyn. When he loses both, however, along with his job and home, he turns to drink – only to meet God
    (Maurice Roëves) in a pub. ‘A Soft Touch’ tells the story of Johnny (Kevin McKidd), an easily
    manipulated man who loses his girlfriend to violent and psychotic neighbour Larry (Gary McCormack).
    In ‘The Acid House’, raver Coco (Ewen Bremner) finds that he has swapped places with Tom, newborn
    baby of middle class couple Rory (Martin Clunes) and Jenny, after an acid trip.Read More »

  • Toshiharu Ikeda – Kagi AKA The Key (1997)

    Toshiharu Ikeda1991-2000DramaEroticaJapan

    Toshiharu Ikeda’s adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki’s often filmed novel.Read More »

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