Entertainment
Movies of the 1990s
Top 500 films from the 1990s (out of 8,599 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Country↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Dipu Number Two | 1,996 | Morshedul Islam | Adventure, Family | 9.4 | 11 | Bengali | Bangladesh | An adventure story for young boys, Dipu Number Two is the second film of a talented director from Bangladesh who is one of the few who concentrate on quality filmmaking in a country with a rich commercial film industry. The story is taken from a youth-oriented novel in which Dipu, a boy belonging to the educated class, is teased by the school bully but eventually forms a deep relationship with him. The rest is totally escapist in nature, including a scene in which the two youths manage to capture single-handedly an entire group of robbers. |
| Vajont 9 ottobre '63 | 1,997 | Unknown | Documentary, History | 9.2 | 16 | Italian | Italy | |
| Goin' Down to South Park | 1,999 | Richard Spiller | TV Movie, Documentary, Comedy | 9.1 | 18 | English | United States of America | A mockumentary/documentary hybrid which covers the actual making of the show South Park but with a fictional spin, apparently spoofing similar such shows, with the creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, portrayed as arrogant, obnoxious jerks who are only in it for the money. |
| Fatal Mission | 1,990 | George Rowe | War, Action, Adventure | 9 | 35 | English | Philippines | A CIA Agent must rely on reluctant help from a female spy in the North Vietnam jungle in order to pass through enemy lines. |
| The World According to Tippi | 1,997 | Christian Crye | Documentary | 9 | 13 | French | Unknown | Tippi is no ordinary child. She believes that she has the gift of talking to animals and that they are like brothers to her. 'I speak to them with my mind, or through my eyes, my heart or my soul, and I see that they understand and answer me.' Tippi is the daughter of French filmmakers and wildlife photographers, Alain Degre and Sylvie Robert, who have captured her on film with some of Africa's most beautiful and dangerous animals. Tippi shares her thoughts and wisdom on Africa, its people and the animals she has come to know and love. Often her wisdom is beyond her years, and her innocence and obvious rapport with the animals is both fascinating and charming. |
| Godzilla, King of the Monsters | 1,998 | Unknown | Documentary, TV Movie | 9 | 10 | English | United Kingdom | Documentary focusing on the Japanese Godzilla, featuring interviews with such people as Director Jun Fukuda, the wide of the late Ishiro Honda and Alex Cox. This documentary incorporates footage from rare shows like "Ultra Q" and films like "King Kong Escapes". |
| Yu Yu Hakusho: Eizou Hakusho | 1,994 | Noriyuki Abe | Animation | 8.9 | 40 | Japanese | Japan | Two recap specials that focus on Team Urameshi's matches in the Dark Tournament and four separate volumes focusing around one of the main characters; Yusuke, Kurama, Hiei, or Kuwabara. |
| Nirvana: Live And Loud | 1,993 | Beth McCarthy-Miller | Music, Documentary, TV Movie | 8.9 | 11 | English | United States of America | Just under a month after the taping of the legendary 'Unplugged', Nirvana would go on to record a concert for MTV during their 'In Utero' tour........it would be their last. |
| The Visual Bible: Matthew | 1,993 | Regardt van den Bergh | Drama, History | 8.8 | 30 | English | South Africa | The only dramatization using the actual scriptures...word for word from the New International Version (NIV). In Israel, then known as Judea of the Roman Empire, Nazarene Jesus Christ travels around the country with His disciples preaching to the people about God and salvation of their souls. |
| Expendable Assets | 1,996 | Tino Struckmann | Fantasy, Adventure, History | 8.8 | 18 | English | United States of America | |
| The Shawshank Redemption | 1,994 | Frank Darabont | Drama, Crime | 8.7 | 29,765 | English | United States of America | Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope. |
| Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M | 1,999 | Wayne Isham | Music, Documentary | 8.7 | 88 | English | United States of America | Michael Kamen conducts the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in support of metal rockers Metallica in this 1999 concert performance. |
| The Best of the Martial Arts Films | 1,990 | Sandra Weintraub | Documentary, Action | 8.7 | 28 | English | Hong Kong | The most explosive barehanded combat sequences ever filmed. An electrifying video of martial arts mastery and mayhem. This program takes a behind-the-scenes look at the weapons, the mystical eastern philosophy, and the incredible skills that have made martial arts films one of the most popular genres in the world today. |
| Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall | 1,995 | Gavin Taylor | Music | 8.7 | 23 | English | United Kingdom | The top stars from the original London and Broadway productions join together with a 150-voice chorus and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London's venerated Royal Albert Hall for a truly magical gala performance of Les Misérables. You'll watch and listen time and again to the magnificent Tony Award-winning score as sung by stars forever linked to these roles. |
| Monster Planet of Godzilla | 1,994 | Koichi Kawakita | Science Fiction | 8.7 | 14 | Japanese | Japan | A former 3D theme park attraction at Sanrio Puroland. A spaceship called Earth is dispatched to investigate the disappearance of its counterpart on a monster-filled planet beyond our Solar System. Once there, it quickly spots the downed craft, and is promptly attacked by Mothra and Rodan. It spots Godzilla and opens fire on him, giving the Planet enough time to escape. |
| Schindler's List | 1,993 | Steven Spielberg | Drama, History, War | 8.6 | 17,125 | English | United States of America | The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II. |
| Nirvana: Unplugged In New York | 1,993 | Beth McCarthy-Miller | Music | 8.6 | 137 | English | United States of America | A live album by American rock band Nirvana, the album features an acoustic performance recorded at Sony Music Studios in New York City on 18 November 1993, for the television series MTV Unplugged. |
| Michael Jackson: Live in Bucharest - The Dangerous Tour | 1,992 | Andrew Morahan | Music | 8.6 | 126 | English | United States of America | Michael Jackson's "Dangerous Tour" still sets the bar high for every touring artist today. Outdoing himself with the "Bad Tour", which was already considered the ultimate, the gigantic stage setting consisting of 20 trucks and a lavish arsenal of personnel took almost three days to set up - that alone is a logistical superlative for a worldwide tour with 69 concert stops and 3.5 million fans. The highlights of the show included pyrotechnic effects, several stage illusions and a stuntman. True to his aim of spreading love around the world, Jackson donated the proceeds from the tour (over $100 million) to charity. On October 1, 1992, the image and sound recordings that are hotly sought after by Jackson fans around the world were also made. The concert recording, which was broadcast on the HBO channel, picked up in 60 countries and also transmitted by countless radio stations, still inspires people around the globe. |
| Hunter × Hunter Pilot | 1,998 | Noriyuki Abe | Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 8.6 | 38 | Japanese | Japan | The stand-alone pilot OVA which was shown as part of the "Jump Super Anime Tour" of 1998. Shortly before the TV series, a summary is presented of the story of Gon who wants to become a hunter and the friends he makes in the process. |
| Here We Are Waiting for You | 1,999 | Marcelo Masagão | Documentary | 8.6 | 29 | Portuguese | Brazil | A fascinating and poetical collage of countless images from the 20th century with the purpose of revealing matters of life and death during the era and its many social, cultural and political transformations, with the director making several statements on several issues, combining fact and fiction to compose his powerful mosaic of images along with the magnificent music of Wim Mertens. A true work of art that dares to make several questions about the human condition, its contradictions and ironies. |
| Peter Gabriel: Secret World Live | 1,994 | François Girard | Music, Documentary | 8.6 | 24 | English | Italy | Filmed in Modena, Italy across two nights in November 1993 as part of Peter Gabriel's acclaimed Secret World Live tour in support of the Us album, the show is elaborately presented and choreographed with two stages joined by a narrow pier. Peter Gabriel has always been a charismatic live performer with the ability to draw his audience into the onstage world he has created and rarely has this been better captured than on Secret World Live. |
| Depeche Mode: Devotional | 1,993 | Anton Corbijn | Music, Documentary | 8.6 | 15 | English | United Kingdom | This video release by Depeche Mode features almost an entire concert from their 1993-1994 Devotional Tour, filmed in Barcelona, Liévin and Frankfurt. |
| In the Name of God | 1,992 | Anand Patwardhan | Documentary | 8.6 | 12 | Hindi | India | The film explores the campaign waged by the Hindu right-wing organisation Vishva Hindu Parishad to build a Ram temple at the site of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, as well as the communal violence that it triggered. A couple of months after Ram ke Naam was released, VHP activists demolished the Babri Masjid in 1992, provoking further violence. |
| Pulp Fiction | 1,994 | Quentin Tarantino | Thriller, Crime, Comedy | 8.5 | 29,707 | English | United States of America | A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time. |
| Forrest Gump | 1,994 | Robert Zemeckis | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.5 | 29,258 | English | United States of America | A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him. |
| The Green Mile | 1,999 | Frank Darabont | Fantasy, Drama, Crime | 8.5 | 18,867 | English | United States of America | A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution. |
| GoodFellas | 1,990 | Martin Scorsese | Drama, Crime | 8.5 | 14,030 | English | United States of America | The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway. |
| Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge | 1,995 | Aditya Chopra | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.5 | 4,558 | Hindi | India | Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood fiancé. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family. Thus begins a saga. |
| Alice in Chains: MTV Unplugged | 1,996 | Joe Perota | Music | 8.5 | 19 | English | United States of America | Alice In Chains returned to the stage after a three year absence with this live acoustic performance in New York on 10th April 1996. The band performed a 13-song set, including, 'Heaven Beside You', 'Rooster' and 'Would?'. |
| Premeditated Murder | 1,995 | Gorčin Stojanović | Drama | 8.5 | 17 | Serbian | Yugoslavia | Men, women, and war. Jelena Panic is a young woman in Belgrade in the early 1990s, during Serbia's war with Croatia; she's making a book of her grandmother's diaries from the end of World War II. She takes up with Bogdan, a young soldier recovering from war wounds. He helps her with her grandmother's story, a tragic triangle involving her effete and well-educated husband and an uneducated major, a Chekist who has, perhaps, the power to save a political prisoner who is the grandmother's friend. As Jelena wonders which man was her grandfather (the Chekist or the husband), Bogdan recovers from his wounds and must decide whether to return to the front. Jelena pleads; duty calls. |
| Roaring Across the Horizon | 1,999 | Chen Guoxing | Drama, History | 8.5 | 15 | Chinese | China | After the Korean War, General Feng Shi leads a heroic army into the Gobi Desert on a mission from the Central Committee. At the same time, scientist Lu Guangda returns from the U.S. and says goodbye to his wife. As talented individuals from scientific institutions join the effort, they face harsh conditions—scarce resources, outdated technology, and frequent natural disasters—but work together toward a common goal. |
| Selena Live! The Last Concert | 1,995 | Unknown | Music, Documentary | 8.5 | 15 | English | United States of America | The concert was recorded on February 26, 1995, at the “Houston Astrodome” and was televised live on Univision. The singer shared the concert with Tejano singer “Emilio Navaira” and performed to 66,994 people, which broke the previous attendance record held by Selena in the previous year. Selena's performance at the Astrodome became her final televised concert before she was shot and killed on March 31, 1995. The set list mostly included material from her "Amor Prohibido" (1994) album and a medley mashup of disco music songs. |
| Fight Club | 1,999 | David Fincher | Drama, Thriller | 8.4 | 31,469 | English | Germany | A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion. |
| Se7en | 1,995 | David Fincher | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 8.4 | 22,636 | English | United States of America | Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case. |
| Life Is Beautiful | 1,997 | Roberto Benigni | Comedy, Drama | 8.4 | 13,797 | Italian | Italy | A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game. |
| The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert | 1,992 | David Mallet | Music, Documentary | 8.4 | 45 | English | United Kingdom | A live concert in tribute to Freddie Mercury, former lead singer of Queen. Mercury died of AIDS and so some of the proceeds of this concert went to AIDS research. Features performers such as Metallica, Def Leppard, Elton John, Axl Rose, Extreme, George Michael, and many others. Performers alternate between doing their own hits, covering Queen songs, or jamming with the surviving members of Queen. |
| The Private Life of Plants | 1,995 | Unknown | Documentary, TV Movie | 8.4 | 35 | English | Unknown | David Attenborough takes us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, to see things no unaided eye could witness. Each episode in this six-part series focuses on one of the critical stages through which every plant must pass if it is to survive:- travelling, growing, and flowering; struggling with one another; creating alliances with other organisms both plant and animal; and evolving complex ways of surviving in the earth's most ferociously hostile environments. |
| Pearl Jam: MTV Unplugged | 1,992 | Joel Gallen | Music, Documentary, TV Movie | 8.4 | 25 | English | United States of America | A performance by Pearl Jam on MTV’s Unplugged. The band plays acoustic versions of songs from their debut album Ten, including 'Black' and 'Alive', plus 'State Of Love And Trust', which was not included on the original album. |
| Dark Angels | 1,998 | David Wadley | Action, Crime | 8.4 | 16 | English | United States of America | A faith-based action movie about a woman who faces a choice between her abusive, drug-dealing husband and her unborn baby on the way. Her world is full of sex, drugs, money, and power, with violence an ever-present threat. On the mean streets of Atlanta, the expectant mother finds that only spiritual awareness and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse can help her escape the madness. Dark Angels was written, produced, and directed by David Wadley, featuring A.J. Johnson (Friday, Menace II Society). Dark Angels is available on multiple streaming services, including Prime Video and Tubi. |
| El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes | 1,992 | Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón | Comedy, Drama | 8.4 | 16 | Spanish | Spain | Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel. |
| Small things of unquantifiable value | 1,999 | Paolo Genovese | Drama | 8.4 | 13 | Italian | Italy | A police officer records an unusual deposition from a young woman: all her dreams have been stolen. |
| The Lion King | 1,994 | Roger Allers | Family, Animation, Drama, Adventure | 8.3 | 19,385 | English | United States of America | Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchful eye of his father Mufasa; all the while his villainous uncle Scar conspires to take the throne for himself. Amid betrayal and tragedy, Simba must confront his past and find his rightful place in the Circle of Life. |
| The Silence of the Lambs | 1,991 | Jonathan Demme | Crime, Thriller, Drama | 8.3 | 17,585 | English | United States of America | Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out. |
| Léon: The Professional | 1,994 | Luc Besson | Crime, Drama, Action | 8.3 | 15,798 | French | France | Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps. |
| American History X | 1,998 | Tony Kaye | Drama | 8.3 | 12,334 | English | United States of America | Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did. |
| Princess Mononoke | 1,997 | Hayao Miyazaki | Adventure, Fantasy, Animation | 8.3 | 8,774 | Japanese | Japan | Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict. |
| Perfect Blue | 1,998 | Satoshi Kon | Animation, Thriller | 8.3 | 3,066 | Japanese | Japan | Rising pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia. |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion | 1,997 | Hideaki Anno | Animation, Science Fiction, Drama, Fantasy | 8.3 | 1,792 | Japanese | Japan | SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity. |
| A Brighter Summer Day | 1,991 | Edward Yang | Crime, Drama, Romance | 8.3 | 374 | Chinese | Taiwan | A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan. |
| Madonna: Blond Ambition World Tour Live | 1,990 | David Mallet | Music | 8.3 | 22 | English | United States of America | Blond Ambition World Tour Live contains the final tour date recorded in Nice, France. The release had previously been shown and produced by American network HBO as a television special. In 1992, the LaserDisc release won the Best Music Video-Long Form category at the 34th Grammy Awards. The tour reached North America, Europe and Asia. It was a highly controversial tour, mainly for its juxtaposition of Catholic iconography and sexuality. Rolling Stone called it an "elaborately choreographed, sexually provocative extravaganza" and proclaimed it "the best tour of 1990." |
| Nirvana - Unplugged In New York (MTV Version) | 1,993 | Beth McCarthy-Miller | Music | 8.3 | 12 | English | Unknown | Nirvana Unplugged in New York 45min Original MTV Version |
| Yanni: Live at the Acropolis | 1,994 | Unknown | Documentary, Music | 8.3 | 10 | English | Unknown | A concert by contemporary instrumental musician, Yanni, recorded live at the Herodes Atticus Theatre in Athens on 25 Sep 1993. |
| Diagnosis Murder: Diagnosis of Murder | 1,992 | Christopher Hibler | Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie | 8.3 | 10 | English | United States of America | Convinced that his long-time patient Nick Osborn didn't murder his boss, Mark Sloan starts investigating the case himself, supported by a junior doctor and a young female pathologist. |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic | 1,990 | Jack Haley Jr. | Documentary, TV Movie | 8.3 | 10 | English | United States of America | Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of cast and crew members, their families and fans of the film. |
| The Matrix | 1,999 | Lana Wachowski | Action, Science Fiction | 8.2 | 27,397 | English | United States of America | Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth. |
| The Truman Show | 1,998 | Peter Weir | Comedy, Drama | 8.2 | 19,806 | English | United States of America | An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show. |
| Saving Private Ryan | 1,998 | Steven Spielberg | War, Drama, History | 8.2 | 16,889 | English | United States of America | As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home. |
| Good Will Hunting | 1,997 | Gus Van Sant | Drama | 8.2 | 13,534 | English | United States of America | Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him. |
| The Usual Suspects | 1,995 | Bryan Singer | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 8.2 | 11,162 | English | United States of America | Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess. |
| The Legend of 1900 | 1,998 | Giuseppe Tornatore | Drama, Music | 8.2 | 2,400 | Italian | Italy | The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of his life. Years later, the ship may be destroyed, and a former band member fears that 1900 may still be aboard, willing to go down with the ship. |
| Baraka | 1,992 | Ron Fricke | Documentary | 8.2 | 671 | English | United States of America | A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life. |
| Joseph | 1,995 | Roger Young | Adventure, Drama, TV Movie | 8.2 | 219 | English | Germany | Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. Rising to become prime minister of Egypt. Joseph governed the country during a seven year famine, during which his brothers visit Egypt seeking grain, only to encounter their brother, presumed long dead. |
| Red Dawn | 1,990 | Jorge Fons | Drama, Thriller, History | 8.2 | 143 | Spanish | Mexico | On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters. |
| Notre Dame de Paris | 1,999 | Gilles Amado | Music, Drama, Romance | 8.2 | 85 | French | France | A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quadimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier Phoebus. |
| The Scooby-Doo Project | 1,999 | Casper Kelly | Animation, Mystery, Horror, Comedy, TV Movie | 8.2 | 74 | English | United States of America | In the Fall of 1999, four teenage sleuths and their Great Dane got lost in the woods while in search of a mystery. This is their story. |
| Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama | 1,993 | Ram Mohan | Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 8.2 | 50 | English | India | In Ayodhya, the royal palace of Kosala Kingdom in Ancient India, four princes were born to three queens, each of whom grew to great stature. Banished for 14 years due to court intrigue, Prince Rama retreated to the forest with his beautiful wife Sita. When Rama vanquishes the demons of the forest, he invites the wrath of the demon king Ravana, who kidnaps Sita. Based on the Indian epic the Ramayana. |
| El Ruiseñor de América - Julio Jaramillo | 1,995 | Unknown | Music | 8.2 | 45 | Spanish | Unknown | |
| Back to Back, Face to Face | 1,994 | Yang Yazhou | Drama | 8.2 | 36 | Chinese | China | Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director. |
| Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War | 1,993 | Keizo Shimizu | Animation, Science Fiction, War | 8.2 | 36 | Japanese | Japan | Reinhard von Müsel and Yang Wen-li return to their respective homes, one victorious and the other defeated. While Reinhard earns the new name Lohengramm, while Yang and his friends celebrate some welcome news. |
| Sirens | 1,999 | John Sacret Young | Drama, TV Movie | 8.2 | 14 | English | United States of America | Who can you turn to when protectors become predators? Dana Delany, Keith Carradine, and Brian Dennehy star in this moving, suspenseful drama about one woman's courageous battle to bring a rogue cop to justice. Sally Rawlings (Delany), a corporate executive with a bright future, watches her life spin out of control after a policeman, Officer Wexler (Carradine), cold-bloodedly kills her ex-husband before her very eyes. Wexler is acquitted of any wrongdoing, and Sally finds herself standing alone against a shocking police department cover-up. Thwarted at every turn by a system steeped in deceit and corruption, Sally takes the law into her own hands. Hacking into computer files, staking out Wexler and questioning witnesses, Sally will risk everything – including her own life – to expose the truth. |
| A Horse for Danny | 1,995 | Dick Lowry | Drama, Family, TV Movie | 8.2 | 13 | English | United States of America | Danny is a smart little girl. She lives at the track where her uncle is a horse trainer. She knows her uncle needs just one great horse to make his name. |
| Against the Government | 1,992 | Atef El-Tayeb | Drama | 8.2 | 13 | Arabic | Egypt | After being fired by the prosecution office, Mostafa becomes a personal injury lawyer and takes advantage of people's pain for profit. But his life turns upside down when his only son falls victim to a car accident. |
| Godzilla and Other Movie Monsters | 1,998 | Robert Weaver | Documentary | 8.2 | 11 | English | United States of America | They roam the Earth, destroying its cities and crushing its inhabitants. But where did they come from? This documentary traces the history of giant monsters in movies using scenes from sources as varied as Godzilla, King Kong and Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur. Bonus features include "Godzilla Rap," highlights from the 1920s silent classic The Lost World and the famous animated short Bambi Meets Godzilla. |
| Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari | 1,990 | K Raghavendra Rao | Action, Comedy, Fantasy | 8.2 | 11 | Telugu | India | A man finds a ring that gives the bearer great power, but the goddess to whom the ring belongs wants it back to return to her world. |
| Reservoir Dogs | 1,992 | Quentin Tarantino | Crime, Thriller | 8.1 | 15,162 | English | United States of America | A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel. |
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1,991 | James Cameron | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction | 8.1 | 13,963 | English | France | Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse. |
| Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | 1,998 | Guy Ritchie | Comedy, Crime | 8.1 | 7,046 | English | United Kingdom | A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door. |
| La Haine | 1,995 | Mathieu Kassovitz | Drama | 8.1 | 4,432 | French | France | After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police. |
| Bound by Honor | 1,993 | Taylor Hackford | Crime, Action, Drama, Thriller | 8.1 | 1,484 | English | United States of America | Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo. |
| Central Station | 1,998 | Walter Salles | Drama | 8.1 | 1,022 | Portuguese | Brazil | An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew. |
| “The Shorts” by Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo | 1,996 | Arturo Brachetti | Comedy | 8.1 | 358 | Italian | Italy | I Corti ("Shorts") by Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo was the first stage show of the comedy trio, with the participation of Marina Massironi. It was recorded live at the Teatro Nuovo in Ferrara on 28 and 29 March 1996. Produced by Agidi, with the theatre direction of Arturo Brachetti. |
| Satantango | 1,994 | Béla Tarr | Drama | 8.1 | 295 | Hungarian | Germany | Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him. |
| Juan Gabriel en el Palacio de Bellas Artes | 1,990 | Benjamín Estavillo | Music, Documentary | 8.1 | 57 | Spanish | Mexico | Juan Gabriel's historic live concert at the El Palacio de Bellas Artes, recorded on May 9-12th, 1990. |
| Lilies | 1,997 | John Greyson | Drama, Romance | 8.1 | 56 | English | Canada | 1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a prison to hear the confession of Simon, a boyhood friend jailed for murder 40 years ago. However, once there, Bilodeau finds himself forced to watch a play put on by Simon and the other inmates depicting the two men's youths. As the play progresses, the tragic truth of Simon's crime comes to light. |
| Toto Who Lived Twice | 1,998 | Daniele Ciprì | Drama, Comedy | 8.1 | 50 | Italian | Italy | The film has three stories. First is about local village idiot Paletta, who can not afford the services of a whore and so steals a locket from a holy shrine belonging to local mafia don. Second shows the story of betrayal of Pitrinu (who's dead now) by his lover Fefe. Final episode is about lowlife Lazarus. He is killed by mob boss Toto, but raised from the dead by a local messiah, who is also known as Toto (and is played by same actor). |
| Into the Woods | 1,991 | James Lapine | Drama, Music, Fantasy, TV Movie | 8.1 | 50 | English | United States of America | In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch. |
| Rowan Atkinson Live | 1,992 | Thomas Schlamme | Comedy | 8.1 | 46 | English | United Kingdom | Rowan Atkinson and Angus Deayton in Boston doing a live performance of the same styles of humor we've seen in Mr. Bean and Blackadder. Included are lessons on Shakespearean acting, a school headmaster meeting with the father of a boy he's beaten to death, and tips for having a successful date. |
| 2112: The Birth of Doraemon | 1,995 | Yoshitomo Yonetani | Family, Animation | 8.1 | 35 | Japanese | Japan | Acting as a prequel, this short subject shows the life of Doraemon before traveling to the 20th century: how he was made, how he was partially broken, how he lost his ears, how he met the Nobi family and decides to return to the past to help Nobita. |
| Fantasy: Mariah Carey at Madison Square Garden | 1,995 | Lawrence Jordan | Music | 8.1 | 23 | English | United States of America | "Fantasy: Mariah Carey at Madison Square Garden" is Mariah Carey's fourth DVD/home video release. It presents Carey performing live at the Madison Square Garden on October 10, 1995. The home video was originally released in early 1996, and the DVD was released in late 2004. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures. |
| Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee | 1,993 | Toby Russell | Documentary | 8.1 | 21 | English | United States of America | Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee exposes the truth behind Lee's death and the cover-up that ensued. |
| Tatar Ramazan Sürgünde | 1,992 | Melih Gülgen | Drama | 8.1 | 16 | Turkish | Turkey | In the sequel to Tatar Ramazan, the events begin with Ramazan's arrival at the Adana closed prison. Abdurrahman Çavuş, who has established a feudal system in prison for years, and his right-hand man Akseli Bey have oppressed the prisoners. When Tatar Ramazan's reputation reaches the prison, the two worry that the cycle of robbery will come to an end. Their fears are justified. The oppressed prisoners, however, see Ramazan as their savior. |
| Las delicias del poder | 1,999 | Iván Lipkies | Comedy, Drama | 8.1 | 15 | Spanish | Mexico | A political candidate has an accident that will bring her out of the campaign unless her twin sister may be able to supplant her while she recovers. |
| Flash | 1,997 | Simon Wincer | Family, Drama | 8.1 | 15 | English | United States of America | A boy falls in love with a horse named Flash that's for sale. He gets a job to earn the money to buy the horse, but he's forced to sell when the family falls upon hard times. |
| Decisive Engagement: The Liaoxi Shenyang Campaign | 1,991 | Yang Guangyuan | War, History | 8.1 | 15 | Chinese | China | First part of the Decisive Engagement trilogy. Directed by Pingfen Li et al. |
| Bromato de armonio | 1,998 | Jorge Maronna | Comedy | 8.1 | 14 | Spanish | Argentina | Premiered on June 13, 1996 at the Astengo Theater, in Rosario, Argentina and last performance on December 3, 2002, at the Sports Pavilion, in León, Spain, 'Bromato De Armonio' was a show made by the Argentinian comedy-musical group Les Luthiers. The show itself was showcased all around Latin America between 1996 and 2001. PROGRAM: 1. Para Elizabeth (sonata a la carta); 2. La Princesa Caprichosa (pequeña serenata para grandes instrumentos); 3. La Vida es Hermosa (disuacidio); 4. La Hija de Escipión (fragmento de ópera); 5. La Redención del Vampiro (hematopeya); 6. Educación Sexual Moderna (cántico enclausturado); 7. ¿Quién Mató a Tom McCoffee? (música en serie); 8. La Comisión (himnovaciones); 9. Perdónala (bolérolo) The 'Campanófono a martillo' and the 'Cornetas de Asiento' were premiered on this show. Recorded live at the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on June the 27th, 1998. |
| Mariah Carey: Butterfly World Tour - Live at Tokyo Dome | 1,998 | Debbie Allen | Music | 8.1 | 13 | English | Japan | The Butterfly World Tour is the third concert tour by Mariah Carey, visited Asia, Australia and the United States. The four dates at Japan's largest stadium, Tokyo Dome, sold out in under one hour, breaking the previous record she held at the stadium. |
| VH1: Divas Live | 1,998 | Michael Simon | Music, TV Movie | 8.1 | 12 | English | United States of America | The queen of soul, Aretha Franklin, and four of the biggest female hitmakers in contemporary pop, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, and Shania Twain, join forces for this once-in-a-lifetime concert event where they sing their hits and team up for a variety of ensemble performances. The night also includes an appearance by legendary songwriter Carole King. |
| The Corrs: Live at the Royal Albert Hall | 1,998 | Janet Fraser-Crook | Music | 8.1 | 11 | English | United States of America | The Corrs, the Irish sibling supergroup, play a special St. Patrick's Day concert at Britain's famous Royal Albert Hall. |
| The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship | 1,990 | Francis Vose | Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 8.1 | 11 | English | United Kingdom | Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar's daughter. The youngest son of a simple peasant shows up to claim her, and the dumbfounded Tsar quickly has second thoughts, setting several 'impossible" tasks for 'The Fool of the World' and his remarkable friends. |
| Toy Story | 1,995 | John Lasseter | Family, Comedy, Animation, Adventure | 8 | 19,556 | English | United States of America | Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from their owner, the duo eventually learns to put aside their differences. |
| Jurassic Park | 1,993 | Steven Spielberg | Adventure, Science Fiction | 8 | 17,537 | English | United States of America | A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape. |
| American Beauty | 1,999 | Sam Mendes | Drama | 8 | 12,809 | English | United States of America | Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend. |
| Trainspotting | 1,996 | Danny Boyle | Drama, Crime | 8 | 10,223 | English | United Kingdom | Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking. |
| Casino | 1,995 | Martin Scorsese | Crime, Drama | 8 | 6,380 | English | France | In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite. |
| Before Sunrise | 1,995 | Richard Linklater | Drama, Romance | 8 | 4,563 | English | Austria | An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together. |
| Three Men and a Leg | 1,997 | Massimo Venier | Comedy | 8 | 2,145 | Italian | Italy | Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo cross Italy from north to south for Giacomo's wedding: the father of the bride, a despotic magnate who is both their boss and father-in-law—since Aldo and Giovanni have also married into the family not for love but for money, a fate now awaiting Giacomo—has entrusted them with a priceless piece of modern art, one that looks just like a rather unremarkable wooden leg. |
| Chungking Express | 1,994 | Wong Kar-Wai | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 8 | 2,119 | CN | Hong Kong | Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant. |
| Paris Is Burning | 1,991 | Jennie Livingston | Documentary | 8 | 530 | English | United States of America | Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion "houses," from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza. |
| Close-Up | 1,990 | Abbas Kiarostami | Crime, Drama | 8 | 438 | Persian | Iran | This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. |
| To Live | 1,994 | Zhang Yimou | Drama, Romance, War | 8 | 360 | Chinese | China | Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. |
| Ghosts | 1,997 | Stan Winston | Music, Horror | 8 | 268 | English | United States of America | In the town of Normal Valley, an eccentric magician named Maestro entertains the local children every day in his spooky mansion. One stormy night, the town's mayor leads a group of angry citizens to the mansion in an attempt to run Maestro out of town. |
| George Carlin: Jammin' in New York | 1,992 | Rocco Urbisci | Comedy | 8 | 82 | English | United States of America | When George Carlin is asked which HBO concert is his favorite, his answer is always, "Jammin’ In New York." The show, taped at the Paramount Theater in Madison Square Garden and winner of the 1992 CableACE Award, is a perfect blend of biting social commentary and more gently-observed observational pieces. |
| Bill Hicks: Revelations | 1,993 | Chris Bould | Comedy | 8 | 70 | English | United Kingdom | Bill Hicks in the height of his genius. Recorded at the Dominion Theatre in London, Hicks opens our eyes and minds to the hypocrisy and ludicrousness of the world around us. |
| Thalapathi | 1,991 | Mani Ratnam | Action, Crime, Drama | 8 | 58 | Tamil | India | Surya, a courageous man who was raised in the slums, fights for the rights of the poor and befriends Deva, who hires him as his commander and changes his life completely. |
| Mi Querido Viejo | 1,991 | Rafael Villaseñor Kuri | Drama | 8 | 37 | Spanish | Mexico | Luis Fuentes, a singer of Mexican music, comes to know a journalist by the name of Maria Luisa Cortéz and fall madly in love with each other. In time, the couple gets married and come to have a son, Rafael. However, they soon divorce because of Luis's many commitments as a singer. This strains the relationship between Luis and Maria, so much so that Maria, stung by bitterness, teaches her son to despise his father and manages to move from Mexico to the United States to keep Luis from contacting his son. Luis wants nothing more than to regain his lost relationship and affection with his beloved son. Therefore, time after time he visits Maria in hope of winning over his son's affection with little success. Over time, Rafael, now a young man, comes to have a passion for music just like his father despite having a hatred for him. |
| Portishead: Roseland New York | 1,998 | Dick Carruthers | Music, Documentary | 8 | 31 | English | United States of America | Portishead concert in the Roseland Ballroom, New York City, on 24th July 1997 with tracks from the albums "Dummy" and "Portishead" played by the band and a 30 piece orchestra. |
| The Secret of the Wild Child | 1,994 | Linda Garmon | Documentary, TV Movie | 8 | 18 | English | United States of America | A documentary about Genie, who spent the first thirteen years of her life imprisoned in her bedroom by her father, with her arms and legs immobilized. |
| Cabaret | 1,993 | Sam Mendes | Romance, Music, Drama, War | 8 | 18 | English | United Kingdom | Filmed live during the 1993 revival, Sam Mendes' directorial debut takes place at the Donmar Warehouse in London's West End. Jane Horrocks stars as Sally Bowles, Adam Godley as Cliff, and Alan Cumming as the eccentric Emcee. Inside the Kit Kat Club in 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally and the lewd Emcee sound the clarion call to decadence, while outside, the Nazi party grows into a brutal force. |
| Tropical Fish | 1,995 | Chen Yu-hsun | Comedy, Drama | 8 | 17 | Chinese | Taiwan | Young boy, Ah-Jiang, a school failure and day dreamer witnesses the kidnapping of a child. After being taken hostage by a corrupt family, he begins an unusual adventure away from home. |
| Double Platinum | 1,999 | Robert Allan Ackerman | Drama, Music, TV Movie | 8 | 15 | English | United States of America | The story of a mother driven to reach the heights of superstardom at the cost of abandoning her only child. |
| Krantiveer | 1,994 | Mehul Kumar | Action, Crime, Drama | 8 | 13 | Hindi | India | Lack-lustred and alcoholic Pratap Narayan Tilak is given a rude awakening when he meets with journalist Megha Dixit, and decides to instill some sense of justice and fair play within his community, and get them to assertively defend their rights and freedom. He is met with strong resistance, both from within his very own community, the police, and some very powerful and influential politicians. Unable to bear the injustice, and frustrated at his community to act proactively, Pratap decides to take the law into his own hands, resulting in chaos, violence, and uncertainty for everyone, and a path to his own grave. |
| In Bad Taste | 1,999 | Steve Yeager | Documentary | 8 | 10 | English | Unknown | A documentary on the career of filmmaker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and fellow film-makers. The life and death of the actor Divine is also discussed. |
| Michael Jackson: HIStory World Tour - Live in Auckland 1996 | 1,996 | Unknown | Music | 8 | 10 | English | New Zealand | Television Broadcast of Michael Jackson's HIStory Tour Live at the Ericsson Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand 1996 |
| Titanic | 1,997 | James Cameron | Drama, Romance | 7.9 | 26,800 | English | United States of America | 101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912. |
| The Sixth Sense | 1,999 | M. Night Shyamalan | Mystery, Thriller, Drama | 7.9 | 12,587 | English | United States of America | Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret. |
| Braveheart | 1,995 | Mel Gibson | Action, Drama, History, War | 7.9 | 10,879 | English | United States of America | Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule. |
| Mulan | 1,998 | Tony Bancroft | Animation, Family, Adventure | 7.9 | 10,269 | English | United States of America | To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process. |
| Heat | 1,995 | Michael Mann | Crime, Drama, Action | 7.9 | 8,088 | English | United States of America | Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence. |
| The Iron Giant | 1,999 | Brad Bird | Animation, Science Fiction, Family, Drama | 7.9 | 6,037 | English | United States of America | In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices. |
| Unforgiven | 1,992 | Clint Eastwood | Western | 7.9 | 4,828 | English | United States of America | William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff. |
| Ghost in the Shell | 1,995 | Mamoru Oshii | Action, Animation, Science Fiction | 7.9 | 3,760 | Japanese | Japan | In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster. |
| A Bronx Tale | 1,993 | Robert De Niro | Drama, Crime | 7.9 | 2,764 | English | United States of America | Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl. |
| Whisper of the Heart | 1,995 | Yoshifumi Kondo | Animation, Drama, Family | 7.9 | 2,220 | Japanese | Japan | Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'. |
| In the Name of the Father | 1,993 | Jim Sheridan | Drama | 7.9 | 1,910 | English | Ireland | A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence. |
| Three Colors: Red | 1,994 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 7.9 | 1,519 | French | France | Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows no concern about the dog, and Valentine decides to keep it. But the two form a bond when she returns to his house and catches him listening to his neighbors’ phone calls. |
| The Postman | 1,994 | Michael Radford | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 | 1,197 | Italian | Belgium | Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice. |
| Raise the Red Lantern | 1,991 | Zhang Yimou | Drama | 7.9 | 780 | Chinese | China | In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained. |
| Children of Heaven | 1,997 | Majid Majidi | Drama, Family | 7.9 | 699 | Persian | Iran | Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits. |
| Farewell My Concubine | 1,993 | Chen Kaige | Drama | 7.9 | 657 | Chinese | China | In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades. |
| Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1,991 | Fax Bahr | Documentary | 7.9 | 401 | English | United States of America | A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola. |
| The Cure | 1,995 | Peter Horton | Drama, Family | 7.9 | 347 | English | United States of America | Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter's life in an eventful summer. |
| Tel chi el telùn | 1,999 | Arturo Brachetti | Comedy | 7.9 | 335 | Italian | Italy | A comedy show. |
| Herod's Law | 1,999 | Luis Estrada | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Drama | 7.9 | 197 | Spanish | Mexico | In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals. |
| Ranma 1/2 the Movie 2: Nihao My Concubine | 1,992 | Iku Suzuki | Action, Comedy, Animation, Adventure | 7.9 | 148 | Japanese | Japan | With the Tendos, the Saotomes, Ryoga, Shampoo and Ukyo misinterpreting Tatewake Kuno's invitation to his two loves, Akane and 'The Pig Tailed Girl', to try his new yacht, a whole new episode of chaos begins in the already unstable lives of the Saotome/Tendo clan. A mysterious shadow kidnaps first Akane's sister Kasumi, then continues on until all the girls disappear. All except everyone's favorite hydrotranssexual. |
| Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie - Black Dream Hole | 1,995 | Hiroki Shibata | Animation, Fantasy, Action, Romance, Comedy | 7.9 | 145 | Japanese | Japan | The wicked Badiyanu has come to capture all Earth's children to gain enough power to absorb the planet in her Black Dream Hole. The Black Dream Hole is in Badiyanu's castle and absorbs the dream energy from children. The more children Badiyanu kidnaps, the larger the dream hole gets. The Sailor Team must save Earth's children and prevent the Black Dream Hole from enveloping the entire planet! |
| Cosy Dens | 1,999 | Jan Hřebejk | Comedy, Drama | 7.9 | 107 | Czech | Czech Republic | Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. The teenage kids think that their fathers are totally stupid, and the fathers are sure that their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say. |
| Pretty Village, Pretty Flame | 1,996 | Srđan Dragojević | Drama, War | 7.9 | 102 | Serbian | Yugoslavia | In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force. |
| Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin | 1,990 | Ken O'Neill | Music | 7.9 | 37 | English | Germany | A global television broadcast of the event in which former Pink Floyd leader singer and composer Roger Waters led an all-star cast in a mammoth benefit performance of his acclaimed concept album, The Wall. Set in Berlin, Germany less than a year after the destruction of the hated Berlin Wall, Waters was accompanied by disparate talents such as Cyndi Lauper, James Galway, Joni Mitchell and Albert Finney in the classic dark musical tale of a rock star's descent into madness and back. |
| Ziggy: Soreyuke! R&R Band | 1,991 | Tsukasa Sunaga | Animation, Music, Action | 7.9 | 32 | Japanese | Japan | Japanese rock band Ziggy comes to London and gets attacked upon arrival at the hotel after a recording session. The musicians barely escape the attack; however, soon they learn that their producer has been murdered, and they are the suspects! Chased by police and some mysterious organization, they find shelter at a local rockers' place and even give a performance there; but it is not too long before their pursuers appear again. |
| The Forgotten Toys | 1,995 | Graham Ralph | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 7.9 | 29 | English | United Kingdom | A festive tale about two lost toys searching for a new home. |
| Sandhesam | 1,991 | Sathyan Anthikad | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7.9 | 27 | Malayalam | India | After his retirement, Raghavan Nair (Thilakan) is back at his home. His long cherished dream to spend his retired life along with his family is thwarted after seeing his two sons brawling each other over their political differences. |
| The Uncut Story of Mewtwo's Origin | 1,999 | Kunihiko Yuyama | Animation, Drama, Fantasy | 7.9 | 25 | Japanese | Japan | The devious leader of Team Rocket Organization, Giovanni, has a fervent ambition to take control of the Pokémon world through both financial and military means. To achieve his military needs, he covets a Pokémon stronger and more adept than any other, a veritable living war weapon, so he enlists a scientist named Doctor Fuji to create this being from the DNA of the ancestor of all Pokémon and most powerful of Pokémon, Mew, which Fuji had found on a previous jungle expedition. Fuji accepts, for he is heavily into the prospect of cloning to create and restore life itself, because of his love for his deceased daughter, Amber. |
| Bottom Live: The Stage Show | 1,993 | Marcus Mortimer | Comedy | 7.9 | 25 | English | Unknown | Richie buys an inflatable doll named Monica as his lover, and he tries to conceal it from Eddie. But it all goes terribly wrong when Richie accidentally super glues Monica to his groin, mistaking Eddie's super glue for Handcream. |
| The Gate of Heavenly Peace | 1,995 | Richard Gordon | Documentary | 7.9 | 22 | English | United States of America | The Gate of Heavenly Peace is a feature-length documentary about the 1989 protest movement, reflecting the drama, tension, humor, absurdity, heroism, and many tragedies of the six weeks from April to June in 1989. The film reveals how the hard-liners within the government marginalized moderates among the protesters (including students, workers and intellectuals), while the actions of radical protesters undermined moderates in the government. Moderate voices were gradually cowed and then silenced by extremism and emotionalism on both sides. |
| Vanaprastham | 1,999 | Shaji N. Karun | Drama | 7.9 | 19 | Malayalam | France | Kunhikuttan, a famous Kathakali dancer, meets Subhadra, a woman from an upper caste family, who falls in love with his character rather than himself. |
| Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock | 1,999 | Chris Hegedus | Music, Documentary | 7.9 | 18 | English | United States of America | Nine o'clock on Monday morning, August 18, 1969: while the work force was starting the day, Jimi Hendrix was taking the stage at Woodstock. While hundreds of thousands had already left, 25,000 people remained to see this incredible performance. Hendrix, along with drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox, offered masterly renditions of the songs of the recently disbanded Experience ("Hey Joe," "Foxey Lady"), and gave a preview of the blues-based Band of Gypsys ("Izabella," "Hear My Train A Comin'"), as well as Jimi's era-defining rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner." Though the weekend had witnessed some landmark performances by other great artists, this performance from Hendrix is regarded by many as the defining moment in a festival ripe with defining moments. |
| Salserin, the First Time | 1,997 | Luis Alberto Lamata | Music, Drama, Comedy | 7.9 | 17 | Spanish | Venezuela | Salserín, la primera vez, candidly recounts a story of teenage love framed in the genesis of a salsa band that was once a musical phenomenon in the mid-nineties. |
| U2: Zoo TV - Live from Sydney | 1,994 | David Mallet | Music, Documentary | 7.9 | 17 | English | Australia | 1. Show Opening 2. Zoo Station 3. The Fly 4. Even Better Than The Real Thing 5. Mysterious Ways 6. One 7. Unchained Melody 8. Until The End Of The World 9. New Year's Day 10. Numb 11. Angel Of Harlem 12. Stay (Faraway, So Close!) 13. Satellite Of Love 14. Dirty Day 15. Bullet The Blue Sky 16. Running To Stand Still 17. Where The Streets Have No Name 18. Pride (In The Name Of Love) 19. Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car 20. Lemon 21. With Or Without You 22. Love Is Blindness 23. Can't Help Falling In Love U2 had been a major entity in the rock music world for many years by the time they released the ACHTUNG BABY album. Yet, it was this album that brought the band from popular rock act to multimedia force as their concerts began to include the video screen as an important part of the show. Following ACHTUNG BABY was the ZOOROPA album and one of U2's most successful tours, the Zoo TV Tour, in which the multimedia experience was expanded upon. |
| Metallica: A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica | 1,992 | Adam Dubin | Documentary, Music | 7.9 | 15 | English | Unknown | A Year And A Half In The Life Of Metallica is a two-part documentary about the process of making the Metallica album (or "The Black Album"), and the following tour. It was produced by Juliana Roberts and directed by Adam Dubin. The second part runs approximately two-and-a-half hours and follows Metallica at the start of their Wherever We May Roam Tour in Europe through to the Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour of 1992. |
| Tess of the D'Urbervilles | 1,998 | Ian Sharp | Drama, Romance, TV Movie | 7.9 | 14 | English | United Kingdom | Thomas Hardy's classic epic remains one of the most popular novels, this TV adaptation vividly depicts the powerful tale of a peasant girl whose life is torn apart by the love and jealousy of two men. Justine Waddell stars as the hapless Child of Nature who is tossed around by the dark forces of fate. Jason Flemyng is the dark and sinister Alec D'Urberville whose relentless pursuit of Tess triggers the heroine's downfall. Oliver Milburn plays the handsome young Angel Clare, the caring rebel who falls deeply in love with Tess. |
| Krzysztof Kieslowski: I'm So-So... | 1,995 | Krzysztof Wierzbicki | Documentary | 7.9 | 13 | Polish | Poland | Director and writer Krzysztof Kieslowski shares his views on life, people, politics, and comments a little about some of his films in a very casual conversation. |
| Mister Pronka | 1,991 | Leonid Nosyrev | Animation | 7.9 | 12 | Russian | Soviet Union | A rich American comes to Russia with a task from the government to convert some Russians to the "American faith". The American finds a ragged man named Pronka in the marketplace and makes a bet with him: he gives Pronka money and the opportunity to trade, and if he does not wash for 15 years, Pronka can take all the income for himself. |
| El último tranvía | 1,990 | Víctor Andrés Catena | Comedy, TV Movie | 7.9 | 12 | Spanish | Spain | |
| Step Across the Border | 1,990 | Werner Penzel | Documentary, Music | 7.9 | 12 | English | France | An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith. |
| Mother Dao, the Turtlelike | 1,995 | Vincent Monnikendam | History, Documentary | 7.9 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | In a span of ninety minutes the film aims to show how the Netherlands administered its colony as a colonial enterprise and what the relations were like at the time. The usual commentary has been omitted and in its place poems and songs in Bahasa Indonesia have been included in a digital sound composition. In Mother Dao the Turtlelike, the viewer sees how the colonial machinery in the 1920s was implanted in a world so different from Western Europe. |
| From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic | 1,999 | Jon Kroll | Documentary, Science Fiction, TV Movie | 7.9 | 10 | English | United States of America | The incredible evolution of George Lucas' special effects dream factory, including an inside look at "Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace." |
| Lord Of East China Sea | 1,993 | Poon Man-Kit | Action, Adventure | 7.9 | 10 | CN | Hong Kong | The story of the rise to prominence of Luk, a Shanghai fruitseller who became one of the most powerful men in China in the first half of the 20th Century. |
| The Big Lebowski | 1,998 | Joel Coen | Comedy, Crime | 7.8 | 11,951 | English | United Kingdom | Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money. |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | 1,993 | Henry Selick | Fantasy, Animation, Family | 7.8 | 10,186 | English | United States of America | Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans. |
| Fargo | 1,996 | Joel Coen | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 | 8,888 | English | United Kingdom | Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha! |
| L.A. Confidential | 1,997 | Curtis Hanson | Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Drama | 7.8 | 5,411 | English | United States of America | Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner. |
| Dances with Wolves | 1,990 | Kevin Costner | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.8 | 4,582 | English | United Kingdom | Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe. |
| Scent of a Woman | 1,992 | Martin Brest | Drama | 7.8 | 3,815 | English | United States of America | Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family. |
| Porco Rosso | 1,992 | Hayao Miyazaki | Family, Comedy, Animation, Adventure, Fantasy | 7.8 | 3,625 | Japanese | Japan | In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso, a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during the war. As he prepares to battle the pirate crew's American ace, Porco Rosso enlists the help of spunky girl mechanic Fio Piccolo and his longtime friend Madame Gina. |
| Carlito's Way | 1,993 | Brian De Palma | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 | 3,389 | English | United States of America | Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld. |
| Awakenings | 1,990 | Penny Marshall | Drama | 7.8 | 2,790 | English | United States of America | Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor. |
| The Dinner Game | 1,998 | Francis Veber | Comedy | 7.8 | 2,028 | French | France | For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings th... |
| The Wrong Trousers | 1,993 | Nick Park | Animation, Comedy, Family | 7.8 | 1,127 | English | United Kingdom | Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno trousers created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal. |
| Ninja Scroll | 1,993 | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Fantasy, Animation, Action | 7.8 | 722 | Japanese | Japan | Jubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, lending his services to those with gold—or a worthy cause. His fearsome abilities have served him well, but a plot to overthrow the government threatens to end his wandering ways—and possibly his life. |
| Godzilla vs. Destoroyah | 1,995 | Takao Okawara | Action, Science Fiction, Horror | 7.8 | 284 | Japanese | Japan | A burning Godzilla, on the verge of meltdown, emerges to lay siege to Hong Kong. At the same time horrifying new organisms are discovered in Japan. These crustacean-like beings are seemingly born of the Oxygen Destroyer, the weapon that killed the original Godzilla. |
| The Kingdom | 1,994 | Lars von Trier | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | 7.8 | 253 | Danish | Denmark | At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin occurring, much to the dismay of its doctors and patients. A ghostly ambulance appears and disappears, the voice of a little girl calls to a patient in an elevator shaft, and a doctor's fetus begins growing at an alarming rate. |
| Love Letter | 1,995 | Shunji Iwai | Drama, Romance | 7.8 | 247 | Japanese | Japan | Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to be called Itsuki Fujii. |
| Eternity and a Day | 1,998 | Theo Angelopoulos | Drama | 7.8 | 210 | Greek | France | Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside home to remember his past. This journey will allow him to wander between the past and the present, and encounter unexpected people, allowing him to collect unforgettable memories in the final moments of his life. |
| Sailor Moon R: The Movie - The Promise of the Rose | 1,993 | Kunihiko Ikuhara | Animation, Romance, Action, Fantasy | 7.8 | 181 | Japanese | Japan | While enjoying the flower gardens, Sailor Moon and friends encounter an old childhood friend of Mamoru's: an alien! He's come back to give Mamoru a special flower but doesn't like Usagi and the rest of the planet's inhabitants. Sailor Moon must defend the earth from the evil Kisenian Flower he's brought back... before the evil vines and blossoms overrun the planet! |
| Comrades, Almost a Love Story | 1,996 | Peter Chan Ho-Sun | Drama, Romance | 7.8 | 171 | CN | Hong Kong | Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other they somehow keep missing out. |
| Lessons of Darkness | 1,992 | Werner Herzog | War, Documentary, TV Movie | 7.8 | 146 | German | France | Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames. |
| The Rose Seller | 1,998 | Víctor Gaviria | Drama, Crime | 7.8 | 144 | Spanish | Colombia | Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her friends, her boyfriend, who sells drugs, and her dignity and pride that makes no concessions to anyone. On Christmas night, like every night, she sells roses to make a living. But life brings her a new appointment with loneliness, poverty, drugs and death. |
| In the Heat of the Sun | 1,995 | Jiang Wen | Drama, Romance | 7.8 | 134 | Chinese | China | Beijing, 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces leaving 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery known as "girls." |
| Food | 1,996 | Jan Švankmajer | Animation, Comedy | 7.8 | 125 | English | Czechoslovakia | Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner. |
| George Carlin: You Are All Diseased | 1,999 | Rocco Urbisci | Comedy, TV Movie | 7.8 | 95 | English | United States of America | Legendary comic Carlin comes back to the Beacon theater to angrily rant about airport security, germs, cigars, angels, children and parents, men, names, religion, god, advertising, Bill Jeff and minorities. |
| Safe Journey | 1,993 | Tony Gatlif | Music, Documentary | 7.8 | 45 | French | France | Latcho Drom is a vista of the music, culture, and journey of the Romani people—from their homeland of India, to Europe and Southwest Asia. |
| Haru | 1,996 | Yoshimitsu Morita | Drama, Romance | 7.8 | 38 | Japanese | Japan | A young Tokyo businessman joins an online movie forum and develops a special bond with one of its members through back and forth e-mails. |
| Kaalapani | 1,996 | Priyadarshan | Action, Drama | 7.8 | 34 | Malayalam | India | Govardhan, a doctor by profession, is wrongly accused of bombing a train and is jailed by the British in Cellular Jail, also known as Kala Pani in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He witnesses sufferings of hundreds of Indian prisoners there. |
| George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy | 1,997 | Rocco Urbisci | Documentary, Comedy, TV Movie | 7.8 | 30 | English | United States of America | George Carlin celebrates 40 years of comedy and here, he presents 2 new standup bits, comedian Jon Stewart gives an interview with him, and we look at his old comedy work through the last 4 decades. |
| Beyond Citizen Kane | 1,993 | Simon Hartog | Documentary | 7.8 | 30 | English | United Kingdom | Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and broadcast on Channel 4. It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group in the Brazilian society, discussing the group's influence, power, and political connections. Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho came in for particular criticism, being compared with fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, created by Orson Welles for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. According to the documentary, Marinho's media group engages in the same Kane wholesale manipulation of news to influence the public opinion. |
| Voices Through Time | 1,997 | Franco Piavoli | Drama, Documentary | 7.8 | 29 | Italian | Italy | Visual ode to contemplative journey through the stages of life and the essence of human existence, set in a timeless backdrop of an Italian village. |
| Incompreso | 1,998 | Enrico Oldoini | Drama | 7.8 | 28 | Italian | Italy | Freely taken from the novel "Misunderstood" by Florence Montgomery, "Incompreso" takes place in the second half of the 1950s in Lucca: Edoardo Quaratesi, an important producer of fine wines, while loving his wife Elisa and his two children, Francesco and Mino, is mainly dedicated to his work. To suffer the most from the absence of Edoardo is the firstborn, Francesco, who pours all his unsatisfied need for love on his mother and little brother. After Elisa's death due to a serious illness, the situation at the Quaratesi home gets complicated, until we reach a dramatic epilogue. |
| Metallica: Cunning Stunts | 1,998 | Wayne Isham | Music | 7.8 | 28 | English | United States of America | Cunning Stunts is a concert video by heavy metal band Metallica, recorded live in Fort Worth, Texas, on 9-10 May 1997. It was released in DVD and VHS formats. The DVD features concert footage, band interviews, a documentary, behind the scenes footage and a photo gallery consisting of approximately 1,000 photos. Three of the performances feature multiple angles. During the performance of the song 'Enter Sandman', the entire stage is set to appear to collapse and explode, with pyrotechnics and a technician (referred to in the extras as the 'Burning Dude') who runs across the stage while on fire, as another technician swings overhead. This is also one of the only Metallica concerts that didn't feature 'Ecstasy of Gold' as an intro. |
| Tatar Ramazan | 1,990 | Melih Gülgen | Drama, Romance | 7.8 | 27 | Turkish | Turkey | In 1942 during the time of war, Tatar Ramazan goes to jail because murder after argument on lands. When he gets out, he finds out that the life outside is much harder. |
| Mother | 1,991 | Henri Verneuil | Drama | 7.8 | 26 | French | France | Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, which he dedicated to his mother and made into this 1991 film with the same name. |
| News from a Personal War | 1,999 | João Moreira Salles | Documentary, Crime | 7.8 | 20 | Portuguese | Brazil | A documentary about urban violence in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. Policemen, drug dealers, and shantytown dwellers get trapped in a daily war that knows no winners. |
| George Carlin: George's Best Stuff | 1,996 | Rocco Urbisci | Comedy, TV Movie, Documentary | 7.8 | 20 | English | United States of America | George's Best Stuff is a compilation of Carlin's legendary routines, including "A Place For My Stuff," "Dogs and Cats," Vitamins," "Baseball and Football," "Losing Things," "Al Sleet the Hippie-Dippie Weather Man," the notorious "Seven Words You Can't Say on Television," and many more. A great collection of some of the best standup comedy ever performed. |
| Dust of Angels | 1,992 | Hsu Hsiao-Ming | Action, Crime, Drama | 7.8 | 19 | Chinese | Taiwan | A-Guo and A-Dou are two teenagers living in an industrial town in Taiwan, who fight, loaf, and cause trouble all day and hang out with Jie, a young gangster. When Jie's gangland patron is gunned down, the trio set out to revenge the killing. As a result, the two teens are forced into hiding. |
| Fermi tutti questo è uno spettacolo, Pinocchio | 1,998 | Maurizio Montagni | Comedy | 7.8 | 16 | Italian | Italy | |
| Videograms of a Revolution | 1,992 | Harun Farocki | Documentary | 7.8 | 16 | German | Germany | A minute-by-minute chronology of the Romanian revolution in December 1989 in Bucharest. This cinematic montage of live footage from the state television company TVR and video taken by numerous amateurs becomes a new media-based form of historiography. |
| Thalayana Manthram | 1,990 | Sathyan Anthikad | Family | 7.8 | 15 | Malayalam | India | A struggling husband falls prey to his wife's insatiable desire for luxury, leading them down a path of deception, debt, and betrayal. |
| Fleetwood Mac: The Dance | 1,997 | Bruce Gowers | Music | 7.8 | 13 | English | United States of America | Recorded live at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, over May 22-24 of 1997, Fleetwood Mac performs their greatest hits – including the classics 'Rhiannon', 'Everywhere', 'Dreams', 'Don't Stop' and 'Landslide' – and several new songs. |
| Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen | 1,992 | Edward Mirzoeff | Documentary | 7.8 | 10 | English | Unknown | Join the BBC cameras as they go behind the glitter of Buckingham Palace and the pomp of Windsor Castle for a close-up look at the minutia of the monarchy. Culled from a year of unprecedented access to Queen Elizabeth II, the documentary trails the queen as she interacts one-on-one with her family, her staff, her public, and international heads of state. Go behind closed doors for Christmas with the royal family, eavesdrop on cocktail chatter with Ron and Nancy Reagan, and catch unguarded moments when the queen pilots her own jeep or romps with her dogs. Elizabeth R. is a once-in-a-lifetime glimpse into the everyday life of a queen. |
| My Sons | 1,991 | Yoji Yamada | Comedy, Romance | 7.8 | 10 | Japanese | Japan | Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, but ultimately wins both the girl and his father's acceptance and support in a touching and refreshing way. |
| Edward Scissorhands | 1,990 | Tim Burton | Fantasy, Drama, Romance | 7.7 | 13,585 | English | United States of America | A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward. |
| Aladdin | 1,992 | John Musker | Animation, Family, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance | 7.7 | 11,843 | English | United States of America | In the boorish city of Agrabah, kind-hearted street urchin Aladdin and Princess Jasmine fall in love, although she can only marry a prince. He and power-hungry Grand Vizier Jafar vie for a magic lamp that can fulfill their wishes. |
| Beauty and the Beast | 1,991 | Gary Trousdale | Romance, Family, Animation, Fantasy | 7.7 | 10,509 | English | United States of America | Follow the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself in the castle of a prince who's been turned into a mysterious beast. With the help of the castle's enchanted staff, Belle soon learns the most important lesson of all -- that true beauty comes from within. |
| Misery | 1,990 | Rob Reiner | Drama, Thriller | 7.7 | 5,104 | English | United States of America | After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off. |
| Philadelphia | 1,993 | Jonathan Demme | Drama | 7.7 | 4,537 | English | United States of America | Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries. |
| What's Eating Gilbert Grape | 1,993 | Lasse Hallström | Romance, Drama | 7.7 | 4,196 | English | United States of America | Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky. |
| Magnolia | 1,999 | Paul Thomas Anderson | Drama | 7.7 | 3,898 | English | United States of America | On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story. |
| Primal Fear | 1,996 | Gregory Hoblit | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 | 3,782 | English | United States of America | Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago. Vail finds himself up against his ex-pupil and ex-lover, but as the case progresses and the Church's dark secrets are revealed, Vail finds that what appeared a simple case takes on a darker, more dangerous aspect. |
| The Bridges of Madison County | 1,995 | Clint Eastwood | Drama, Romance | 7.7 | 2,319 | English | United States of America | Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s. |
| The Straight Story | 1,999 | David Lynch | Drama | 7.7 | 1,742 | English | United States of America | A retired farmer and widower in his seventies named Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey. |
| Fried Green Tomatoes | 1,991 | Jon Avnet | Drama, Comedy | 7.7 | 1,438 | English | United States of America | Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in 1920s Whistle Stop, Alabama. |
| October Sky | 1,999 | Joe Johnston | Drama | 7.7 | 1,389 | English | United States of America | The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes. |
| Selena | 1,997 | Gregory Nava | Drama, Music, History | 7.7 | 1,292 | English | United States of America | In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for her guitarist, Chris Perez, who draws the ire of her father. Seeking mainstream stardom, Selena begins recording an English-language album which, tragically, she would never complete. |
| Fallen Angels | 1,995 | Wong Kar-Wai | Action, Romance, Crime | 7.7 | 1,245 | CN | Hong Kong | An assassin goes through obstacles as he attempts to escape his violent lifestyle despite the opposition of his partner, who is secretly attracted to him. |
| The Celebration | 1,998 | Thomas Vinterberg | Drama | 7.7 | 1,223 | Danish | Denmark | The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial. |
| Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island | 1,998 | Jim Stenstrum | Animation, Mystery, Family, Horror | 7.7 | 825 | English | United States of America | After going their separate ways, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, and Fred reunite to investigate the ghost of Moonscar the pirate on a haunted bayou island, but it turns out the swashbuckler's spirit isn't the only creepy character on the island. The sleuths also meet up with cat creatures and zombies... and it looks like for the first time in their lives, these ghouls might actually be real. |
| Black Cat, White Cat | 1,998 | Emir Kusturica | Comedy, Romance, Crime | 7.7 | 802 | Serbian | France | Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17-year-old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her. |
| Underground | 1,995 | Emir Kusturica | Comedy, Drama, War | 7.7 | 757 | Serbian | Yugoslavia | A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate. |
| Fireworks | 1,997 | Takeshi Kitano | Crime, Drama | 7.7 | 752 | Japanese | Japan | Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt. |
| Taste of Cherry | 1,997 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama | 7.7 | 685 | Persian | Iran | A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide. |
| Lucky and Zorba | 1,998 | Enzo D'Alò | Family, Animation | 7.7 | 631 | Italian | Italy | A seagull is caught by the black tide of a sinking petrol ship. She manages to fly inland and falls down in a garden by a cat. Moribund, she asks the cat to fulfill three promises: that when she lays her egg he must not eat it; that he must take care of it until it hatches; that he would teach the newborn how to fly. |
| Knockin' on Heaven's Door | 1,997 | Thomas Jahn | Comedy, Crime, Action, Drama | 7.7 | 570 | German | Germany | Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box. |
| Dreams | 1,990 | Akira Kurosawa | Fantasy, Drama | 7.7 | 536 | Japanese | Japan | Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature. |
| 12 Angry Men | 1,997 | William Friedkin | Drama, TV Movie | 7.7 | 426 | English | United States of America | During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices. |
| A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella | 1,995 | Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Romance | 7.7 | 255 | CN | Hong Kong | This sequel to "Pandora's Box" continues director Jeffrey Lau's adaptation of the Buddhism saga "Journey to the West". Stranded five centuries in the past, Joker Monkey King must battle a variety of monsters, seductive women and super-powered villains to save the dying Pak Jing-Jing. |
| Life, and Nothing More… | 1,992 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama, Adventure | 7.7 | 167 | Persian | Iran | After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest. |
| Pappa ante Portas | 1,991 | Vicco von Bülow | Comedy | 7.7 | 142 | German | Germany | Heinrich Lohse, a strict and highly efficient purchasing manager at a company bulk-orders 40 tons of mustard and enough typewriting paper for 40 years just to get discount. Heinrich's boss decides it’s time for him to retire early. Heinrich suddenly finds himself with nothing to do—except micromanage his household, much to the dismay of his wife Renate and their son Dieter |
| Innocence | 1,997 | Zeki Demirkubuz | Drama | 7.7 | 122 | Turkish | Turkey | Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten year sentence. Because of unexpected problems at his sister’s house, he finds himself in a cheap hotel where he meets a man, a woman, and a child who will change his life in unexpected ways… |
| Christmas in August | 1,998 | Hur Jin-ho | Drama, Romance | 7.7 | 91 | Korean | South Korea | It's a sweltering summer, but Jung-won, a terminally ill, thirty-something photographer, is already in the winter of his life when he begins a tentative romance with a young traffic cop who doesn't know about his condition. Is their relationship doomed before it even begins? |
| Love & Pop | 1,998 | Hideaki Anno | Drama | 7.7 | 85 | Japanese | Japan | Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring. |
| Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill | 1,999 | Lawrence Jordan | Comedy | 7.7 | 80 | English | United Kingdom | Eddie Izzard takes her show to San Francisco to give a brief history of pagan and Christian religions, the building of Stonehenge, the birth of the Church of England and of Western empires, and the need for a European dream. |
| George Carlin: Back in Town | 1,996 | Rocco Urbisci | Comedy, TV Movie | 7.7 | 75 | English | United States of America | Back in Town is George Carlin's ninth HBO special. It was also released on CD on September 17, 1996. This was also his first of many performances at the Beacon Theater in New York City. He rants about Abortion, The death penalty, prison farms, fart jokes, free floating hostility and words. |
| Gloomy Sunday | 1,999 | Rolf Schübel | Drama, Romance | 7.7 | 66 | German | Germany | Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well. |
| Revival of Evangelion | 1,998 | Masayuki | Action, Animation, Drama, Science Fiction | 7.7 | 60 | Japanese | Japan | Revival of Evangelion is a re-edit of the Neon Genesis Evangelion films , released in 1998. It consists of Evangelion: Death (which was essentially a clip show that summarized the entire regular series) and The End of Evangelion , re-edited together to make a version that tells the entire story of Evangelion. It is considered to be the final form of the Evangelion films. |
| The Kingdom II | 1,998 | Lars von Trier | Mystery, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, Drama | 7.7 | 47 | Danish | Belgium | The mutant fetus is born. Dr. Helmer comes under heavy scrutiny for a botched operation that left a patient braindead, and begins to dabble in the dark arts in order to ward off those seeking an end to his career. Hypochondriac Mrs. Drusse finally does have something bad happen to her medically when an ambulance hits her. |
| Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life | 1,995 | Stephen Quay | Drama | 7.7 | 47 | English | Germany | Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect? |
| India | 1,993 | Paul Harather | Comedy, Drama | 7.7 | 47 | German | Austria | Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who couldn't stand each other initially; a friendship that even overcomes the boundaries of great tragedy. |
| Eddie Izzard: Definite Article | 1,996 | Ed Bye | Comedy | 7.7 | 40 | English | United Kingdom | Eddie arrives on stage through a huge book which opens to reveal herself sitting at the top of a staircase. Then discusses Caesar dog food, 24 hour garages, Latin, and winds her way through James Bond gadgets, Einstein and Pavlov. |
| Emilie Muller | 1,993 | Yvon Marciano | Comedy, Drama | 7.7 | 40 | French | France | At her first audition, a young woman is asked by the casting director to talk about what is inside her handbag. |
| The Godfather Family: A Look Inside | 1,990 | Jeff Werner | Documentary, TV Movie | 7.7 | 40 | English | Unknown | A documentary on the making of the three Godfather films, with interviews and recollections from the film makers and cast. This feature also includes the original screen tests of some of the actors for "The Godfather" film, and some candid moments on the set of "The Godfather: Part III." |
| The Yellow Mercedes | 1,993 | Tunç Okan | Comedy, Action, Drama | 7.7 | 39 | Turkish | Switzerland | The film is based on 'Fikrimin Ince Gulu', a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation gurbetci/guest-worker returning home. It covers his land journey in short bursts from Germany to the Turkey's west border - and extensively from thereon to his village close to Ankara - capital of Turkey. He begins his journey purchasing a second hand yellow Mercedes - possibly his first car - using his meager savings working as a laborer. Offering deep insight into the mind of a manual laborer Bayram (Ilyas Salman) making his first trip back home, resorting to flashbacks in highlighting Bayram's motivation and experiences from his childhood right up to the events leading to his first departure from Turkey to Germany. |
| Sopyonje | 1,993 | Im Kwon-taek | Drama | 7.7 | 37 | Korean | South Korea | A former pansori performer travels across South Korea in search of the student he studied with. |
| Terrorism and Kebab | 1,992 | Sherif Arafa | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.7 | 34 | Arabic | Egypt | Ahmed heads to Tahrir compound to extract papers to move his son to another school. There he clashes with the administrative obstacles. He suddenly finds himself involved in carrying a weapon and taking hostages at the government building and becomes a terrorist in the process. |
| George Carlin: Personal Favorites | 1,997 | Rocco Urbisci | Comedy, TV Movie, Documentary | 7.7 | 24 | English | United States of America | After starring in a dozen or so HBO Special Presentations, comedian George Carlin has amassed a substantial body of work in the cable channel's vaults. Personal Favorites is a greatest-hits package, a selection of some of Carlin's best moments on HBO from 1977 to 1998 and, not coincidentally, some of his most enduring comic routines from any medium. |
| Anne Frank Remembered | 1,995 | Jon Blair | Documentary | 7.7 | 23 | English | Netherlands | Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this Academy Award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully-rounded portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust. |
| Totally Bill Hicks | 1,998 | Rupert Edwards | Comedy, Documentary | 7.7 | 20 | English | United Kingdom | Consisting of two parts: ‘Revelations’, Bill Hicks’ last live performance in the United Kingdom made at the Dominion Theatre; and a documentary about Hicks’ life ‘Just a Ride’ featuring interviews with friends, admirers, and family. |
| Second Chances | 1,998 | James Fargo | Drama, Family | 7.7 | 19 | English | United States of America | A little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after an accident claims her father and her spirit. |
| The Story Behind 'Toy Story' | 1,996 | Unknown | Documentary | 7.7 | 19 | English | United States of America | The documentary short of Toy Story of why and how the feature length blockbuster sleeper movie became a success and helps to boost Pixar's popularity of making one of the few animation movie production companies in the world today, especially in North America. |
| Nobody's Business | 1,996 | Alan Berliner | Documentary | 7.7 | 16 | English | United States of America | Director Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this affecting and graceful study of family history and memory. Ultimately this complex portrait is a meeting of the minds -- where the past meets the present, where generations collide and where the boundaries of family life are stretched, torn and surprisingly, at times, also healed. Berliner has transformed a story of a troubled man who has sealed himself off from life's pain into a work of universal resonance. |
| Janet Jackson: The Velvet Rope Tour | 1,998 | David Mallet | Music | 7.7 | 15 | English | United States of America | Janet Jackson performs live at New York City’s Madison Square Garden for the final stop of her “The Velvet Rope” tour. |
| Il viaggio della sposa | 1,997 | Sergio Rubini | Romance, Comedy, Drama, Adventure | 7.7 | 15 | Italian | Italy | 17th-century noblewoman Porzia leaves the cloister she was raised in to marry, but an ambush leaves her with only humble coachman Bartolo by her side. While venturing into dangerous and unknown lands, the two grow increasingly close despite their opposite backgrounds. |
| Narcos | 1,992 | Giuseppe Ferrara | Drama | 7.7 | 15 | Italian | Italy | Three drug traffickers become worried when the realize they may have outlived their usefulness to their boss. |
| Fires of Kuwait | 1,992 | David Douglas | Documentary | 7.7 | 14 | English | Kuwait | After Saddam Hussein had the Kuwait Oil wells lit up, teams from all over the world fought those fires for months. They had to save the oil resources, as well as reduce air pollution. The different teams developed different techniques of extinguishing the fires. Man's emergency creativity can be seen at it's best. |
| Redhat and Cousin | 1,994 | Iraj Tahmasb | Comedy, Family, Music | 7.7 | 13 | Persian | Iran | Kolah Ghermezi is a naughty school boy. His playfulness gets him expelled from school and he fails to find a job. He sees a program on TV which attracts his attention and he goes to Tehran. With the help of Pesarkhaleh, he goes to the TV program he had seen and finds the reporter. He likes the reporter so much that he decides to help him overcome the obstacles he faces for getting married, but instead causes troubles. |
| Requiem | 1,998 | Alain Tanner | Drama | 7.7 | 12 | French | France | In Lisbon, French author Paul meets various people from his past who uncover forgotten memories. |
| Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth | 1,998 | Robert B. Weide | Comedy, Documentary | 7.7 | 12 | English | Unknown | In 1948, Lenny Bruce was just another comic who couldn't get arrested. By 1961, all that would change. |
| « Art » | 1,998 | Yves-André Hubert | Comedy | 7.7 | 12 | French | France | |
| She's Alive! Creating 'The Bride of Frankenstein' | 1,999 | David J. Skal | Documentary | 7.7 | 12 | English | United States of America | Documentary about the making of 1935's "The Bride of Frankenstein." |
| 'Bullitt': Steve McQueen's Commitment to Reality | 1,998 | Ronald Saland | Documentary | 7.7 | 11 | English | United States of America | A behind the scenes look at the making of the movie Bullitt with a strong focus on the attention to details taken. It features some of the preparations made before shooting began, but is mostly focused on the onsite filming locations which brings a strong amount of reality to the film as the title suggests. |
| Living the Utopia | 1,997 | Juan A. Gamero | Documentary, History | 7.7 | 11 | Spanish | Spain | A retrospective look at the anarcho-syndicalist and anarcho-communist experience in Spain from 1930 until the end of the Civil War in 1939. |
| Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember | 1,997 | Anna Maria Tatò | Documentary | 7.7 | 11 | Italian | Italy | In 1996, Marcello Mastroianni talks about life as an actor. It's an anecdotal and philosophical memoir, moving from topic to topic, fully conscious of a man "of a certain age" looking back. He tells stories about Fellini and De Sica's direction, of using irony in performances, of constantly working (an actor tries to find himself in characters). He's diffident about prizes, celebrates Rome and Paris, salutes Naples and its people. He answers the question, why make bad films; recalls his father and grandfather, carpenters, his mother, deaf in her old age, and his brother, a film editor; he's modest about his looks. In repose, time's swift passage holds Mastroianni inward gaze. |
| Bill Bailey: Cosmic Jam | 1,997 | John Kaye Cooper | Comedy | 7.7 | 11 | English | United Kingdom | One night from his 1996 Cosmic Jam tour at the Bloomsbury in London in which Bill explains the seminal influence of cockney knees-up music upon classical composers through the ages and takes a shot at Bryan Adams. |
| Signal Left, Turn Right | 1,996 | Huang Jianxin | Comedy, Drama | 7.7 | 10 | Chinese | China | Journalist Gou Yujia (played by Niu Zhenhua), laid-off female worker Cheng Fen (played by Ding Jiali), individual business owner Lv Dou (played by Wang Jinsong), and wealthy man Lao Cha (played by Ju Hao) are members of Class 1025 at the driving school, practicing under the guidance of Coach Hou, a retired soldier. As time passes, they gradually understand each other's habits. This period of time at the driving school is filled with twists and turns, but all challenges are overcome, and the covert and overt struggles among the five end with the smooth passage of the exams. The experiences at the driving school bring out the joys and sorrows of these five individuals, and besides learning the rules of driving, it seems they have also learned the rules of survival. |
| No Smoking | 1,993 | Alain Resnais | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7.7 | 10 | French | France | Two actors play eighteen different roles in a story that asks the question: would my life have been different if I hadn't lit a cigarette? |
| Toy Story 2 | 1,999 | John Lasseter | Animation, Comedy, Family | 7.6 | 14,651 | English | United States of America | Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps Woody. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz Lightyear meets his match and Woody has to decide where he and his heart truly belong. |
| The Fifth Element | 1,997 | Luc Besson | Science Fiction, Action, Adventure | 7.6 | 11,454 | French | France | In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity. |
| Twelve Monkeys | 1,995 | Terry Gilliam | Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery | 7.6 | 8,931 | English | United States of America | In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son of a famous virus expert who may hold the key to the Army of the 12 Monkeys; thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease. |
| 10 Things I Hate About You | 1,999 | Gil Junger | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 7.6 | 8,759 | English | United States of America | On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own. |
| Groundhog Day | 1,993 | Harold Ramis | Romance, Fantasy, Comedy | 7.6 | 8,685 | English | United States of America | A cynical TV weatherman, along with his idealistic producer and his sardonic cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over. |
| The Game | 1,997 | David Fincher | Drama, Thriller, Mystery | 7.6 | 7,170 | English | United States of America | In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins. |
| Gattaca | 1,997 | Andrew Niccol | Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery, Romance | 7.6 | 6,783 | English | United States of America | Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. |
| Anastasia | 1,997 | Don Bluth | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Adventure | 7.6 | 5,540 | English | United States of America | Ten years after she was separated from her family, an eighteen-year-old orphan with vague memories of the past sets out to Paris in hopes of reuniting with her grandmother. She is accompanied by two con men, who intend to pass her off as the Grand Duchess Anastasia to the Dowager Empress for a reward. |
| Girl, Interrupted | 1,999 | James Mangold | Drama | 7.6 | 4,074 | English | United States of America | Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside. |
| Sleepers | 1,996 | Barry Levinson | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 | 3,773 | English | United States of America | Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes. |
| Thelma & Louise | 1,991 | Ridley Scott | Drama, Crime, Adventure | 7.6 | 3,771 | English | United Kingdom | Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the strength of their bond and their newfound resilience. |
| Boogie Nights | 1,997 | Paul Thomas Anderson | Drama | 7.6 | 3,463 | English | United States of America | Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality. |
| Tombstone | 1,993 | George P. Cosmatos | Western, Action | 7.6 | 2,376 | English | United States of America | Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town. |
| JFK | 1,991 | Oliver Stone | Drama, Thriller, History | 7.6 | 2,339 | English | United States of America | Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison. |
| Boyz n the Hood | 1,991 | John Singleton | Crime, Drama | 7.6 | 2,189 | English | United States of America | In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. During these times, Furious tries to raise his son ... |
| All About My Mother | 1,999 | Pedro Almodóvar | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 | 2,025 | Spanish | Spain | Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun. |
| Three Colors: Blue | 1,993 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama | 7.6 | 1,847 | French | France | The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected. |
| Geri's Game | 1,997 | Jan Pinkava | Animation, Comedy, Family | 7.6 | 1,193 | English | United States of America | An aging codger named Geri plays a daylong game of chess in the park against himself. Somehow, he begins losing to his livelier opponent. But just when the game's nearly over, Geri manages to turn the tables. |
| Mediterraneo | 1,991 | Gabriele Salvatores | Comedy, Romance, War | 7.6 | 1,050 | Italian | Italy | Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there. |
| A Little Princess | 1,995 | Alfonso Cuarón | Drama, Family, Fantasy | 7.6 | 1,023 | English | United States of America | When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self-worth. |
| A Close Shave | 1,996 | Nick Park | Family, Animation, Comedy | 7.6 | 906 | English | United Kingdom | Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot. |
| Happy Together | 1,997 | Wong Kar-Wai | Drama, Romance | 7.6 | 776 | CN | Hong Kong | A couple travels from Hong Kong to Argentina to revive their relationship but experience turbulence when both men's lives drift in separate directions. |
| Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku | 1,990 | Mitsuo Hashimoto | Animation, Action, Science Fiction, Drama, Fantasy | 7.6 | 758 | Japanese | Japan | Bardock, Son Goku's father, is a low-ranking Saiyan soldier who was given the power to see into the future by the last remaining alien on a planet he just destroyed. He witnesses the destruction of his race and must now do his best to stop Frieza's impending massacre. |
| Secrets & Lies | 1,996 | Mike Leigh | Drama | 7.6 | 708 | English | United Kingdom | After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman. |
| Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks | 1,993 | Yoshihiro Ueda | Animation, Action, Science Fiction | 7.6 | 587 | Japanese | Japan | It has been thirteen years since the Androids began their killing rampage and Son Gohan is the only person fighting back. He takes Bulma's son Trunks as a student and even gives his own life to save Trunks's. Now Trunks must figure out a way to change this apocalyptic future |
| Eat Drink Man Woman | 1,994 | Ang Lee | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.6 | 389 | Chinese | Taiwan | Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each daughter encounters a new man in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes. |
| Gladiator | 1,992 | Rowdy Herrington | Drama | 7.6 | 382 | English | United States of America | Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight, he's noticed and quickly falls into the world of illegal underground boxing — where punches can kill. |
| Hoop Dreams | 1,994 | Steve James | Documentary | 7.6 | 325 | English | United States of America | Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white suburban school well-known for the excellence of its basketball program. Gates and Agee dream of NBA stardom, and with the support of their close-knit families, they battle the social and physical obstacles that stand in their way. This acclaimed documentary was shot over the course of five years. |
| Bullet in the Head | 1,990 | John Woo | Action, Crime, Thriller, War | 7.6 | 305 | CN | Hong Kong | Three childhood friends from the slums of Hong Kong flee to war-time Saigon after accidentally murdering a gang leader, but their troubles only escalate. |
| A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box | 1,995 | Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Romance | 7.6 | 298 | CN | Hong Kong | When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to attain immortality), the Monkey King is reincarnated as the Joker. He now spends his time chasing two jealous women. When one of them is dying, the Joker goes back in time in an attempt to save her. |
| American Movie | 1,999 | Chris Smith | Documentary, Comedy | 7.6 | 265 | English | United States of America | American Movie documents the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man's quest for the American Dream. |
| Microcosmos | 1,996 | Claude Nuridsany | Documentary | 7.6 | 251 | French | France | A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching. |
| La Classe américaine | 1,993 | Dominique Mézerette | Comedy, TV Movie | 7.6 | 242 | French | France | George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.) |
| Drifting Clouds | 1,996 | Aki Kaurismäki | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 | 197 | Finnish | Finland | The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope. |
| Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills | 1,996 | Bruce Sinofsky | Documentary, Crime | 7.6 | 195 | English | United States of America | A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence. |
| The Color of Paradise | 1,999 | Majid Majidi | Family, Drama | 7.6 | 183 | Persian | Iran | Mohammad joyfully returns to his tiny village on summer vacation from the Institute for the Blind, unaware of his widowed father's intentions to disown him in order to win the hand—and dowry—of a local woman. With the wedding swiftly approaching, Mohammad's future hangs precariously in the balance as his father struggles against his destiny, unable to see the wonder of life and love that's so clear to his son. |
| More | 1,998 | Mark Osborne | Animation, Science Fiction | 7.6 | 171 | English | United States of America | A factory worker in a dark, gray world assembles devices that promise happiness. In his spare time he tinkers to create something better, and finally succeeds in perfecting his invention, which allows people to see life through rose-colored glasses, but he has to pay a price for his success. |
| Killer | 1,997 | Juliusz Machulski | Comedy, Action, Crime | 7.6 | 168 | Polish | Poland | An innocent cab driver is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs a "killer" for a few more jobs. |
| The Old Man and the Sea | 1,999 | Aleksandr Petrov | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 7.6 | 164 | Russian | Russia | An old fisherman makes the biggest catch of his life. |
| Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie | 1,999 | Morio Asaka | Fantasy, Animation, Adventure | 7.6 | 161 | Japanese | Japan | Sakura Kinomoto, a Card Captor, wins a game of chance and is awarded a trip to Hong Kong, along with her best friend Tomoyo and her rival, Syaoran Li. It turns out that the ancient rival of Clow Reed, the creator of the mysterious and powerful Clow Cards, summoned them, and she's out for revenge. A battle ensues, and secrets are revealed about Clow Reed's shady past and Sakura's connection to him. |
| The Long Walk Home | 1,990 | Richard Pearce | Drama, History | 7.6 | 153 | English | United States of America | Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King. |
| Sailor Moon S the Movie: Hearts in Ice | 1,994 | Hiroki Shibata | Animation, Fantasy, Action, Romance, Comedy | 7.6 | 152 | Japanese | Japan | As Usagi and her friends enjoy Christmas vacation, an unusual and fierce snowstorm hits town... The evil Snow Queen Kaguya has returned to claim Earth as her own. Crucial to Queen Kaguya's plan is a magical crystal from outer space, approaching Earth disguised as a comet. Once she gets hold of the crystal, she will have the power to suck away all life energy and cover the Earth in ice. Will Sailor Moon find the crystal before Queen Kaguya? Will her powers be enough to save the Earth from permanent winter? All hope lies with the Legendary Ultimate Scout Power! |
| A Moment of Innocence | 1,997 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Drama, Comedy | 7.6 | 107 | Persian | Iran | A semi-autobiographical account of an incident in Makhmalbaf's life when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends. |
| Gigantic | 1,999 | Sebastian Schipper | Drama, Comedy | 7.6 | 97 | German | Germany | The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants. All three are in their early twenties and are dreaming of another life when Floyd suddenly takes a job on a freighter going to Singapore. |
| The Stolen Children | 1,992 | Gianni Amelio | Drama | 7.6 | 95 | Italian | Italy | Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends. |
| Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media | 1,992 | Mark Achbar | Documentary | 7.6 | 93 | English | Australia | A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda. |
| Ranma 1/2: Team Ranma vs. the Legendary Phoenix | 1,994 | Junji Nishimura | Animation, Comedy, Action, Adventure | 7.6 | 76 | Japanese | Japan | Kuno purchases a strange egg, believing that the mysterious powers of the legendary Phoenix will help him defeat Ranma. But when the egg hatches on his head, the bird goes out of control and wreaks havoc all over Tokyo. Ranma and the gang must use any means necessary to get the Phoenix to leave Kuno's head and fly away. |
| My Voyage to Italy | 1,999 | Martin Scorsese | Documentary | 7.6 | 69 | Italian | United States of America | World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema. |
| Bill Hicks: Relentless | 1,992 | Chris Bould | Comedy | 7.6 | 67 | English | United Kingdom | Bill Hicks tells us how he feels about non-smokers, blow-jobs, religion, war and peace, and drugs and music. |
| Baasha | 1,995 | Suresh Krissna | Action | 7.6 | 66 | Tamil | India | Auto rickshaw driver Manickam avoids violence at all costs. When some thugs begin to intimidate Manickam's family, it triggers the revival of Manickam's old self. |
| The Old Lady and the Pigeons | 1,997 | Sylvain Chomet | Animation, Comedy | 7.6 | 65 | French | Canada | A starving gendarme, wasting away from hunger, is reduced to grabbing castoff snacks from fat American tourists. When he sees as old woman feeding ... |
| Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie - Poltergeist Report | 1,994 | Masakatsu Iijima | Animation, Fantasy, Action | 7.6 | 62 | Japanese | Japan | When the Spirit World is flooded due to an unusual rainfall which overflows the River Sanzu (aka the River Styx), Lord Koenma senses an extremely powerful enemy. He entrusts Death God Botan, to deliver to Spirit Detective Yusuke, a mysterious item which must be protected from the invading enemy. However, by the time Botan finds Yusuke, she's too weak to explain the situation. Yusuke and his friends are left in the dark about the new enemy, but not for long. Soon it is a battle for Earth between mere Spirit Detectives and the almighty king of the Netherworld. |
| The Stranger | 1,991 | Satyajit Ray | Drama | 7.6 | 60 | Bengali | India | A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world. |
| We Are Not Angels | 1,992 | Srđan Dragojević | Comedy, Romance | 7.6 | 56 | Serbian | Yugoslavia | Angel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant. |
| Postmen in the Mountains | 1,999 | Huo Jianqi | Drama | 7.6 | 55 | Chinese | China | An old postman has spent his whole life delivering mail to the mountain of Hunan and is about to retire, his only son due to take over his duties. |
| Flow | 1,996 | Quentin Lee | Drama, Comedy, Horror, Crime | 7.6 | 55 | English | Canada | A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films. |
| 35 Up | 1,991 | Michael Apted | Documentary | 7.6 | 55 | English | United Kingdom | Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years. |
| 42 Up | 1,999 | Michael Apted | Documentary | 7.6 | 53 | English | United Kingdom | Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years. |
| George Carlin: Doin' It Again | 1,990 | Rocco Urbisci | TV Movie, Comedy, Documentary | 7.6 | 51 | English | United States of America | George Carlin brings his comedy back to New Jersey and this time talks about Offensive Language, Euphemisms, They're Only Words, Dogs, Things you never hear, see or wanna hear, Some people are stupid, Cancer, Feminists, Good Ideas, Rape, Life's moments, and organ donors. |
| Waco: The Rules of Engagement | 1,997 | William Gazecki | Documentary | 7.6 | 47 | English | United States of America | In one of the most tragic face-offs in the history of law enforcement, the deadly debacle at Waco pitted the Branch Davidian sect against the FBI in an all-out war. This documentary makes the most of footage and recordings to examine how the events that led to the tragedy of April 19, 1993, unfolded, and how the FBI's unrelenting approach made what was already a bad situation much worse. |
| Stolen Women, Captured Hearts | 1,997 | Jerry London | Western, Drama, Romance, TV Movie | 7.6 | 46 | English | United States of America | Kansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brewster-Morgan and her friend Sarah White are on this wagon train too. When Tokalah noticed a terrified Anna with a Bible, he thinks this is an omen. Despite killing the other passengers of the wagon train, only Anna and Sarah may continue their voyage. The next day Anna and Sarah are kidnapped by Tokalah. At first terrified of her captors, the unhappily married Anna eventually falls in love with the noble, honorable Tokalah. After a year's captivity, Sarah is returned to her own people. Anna now must choose between her new life with Tokalah and her previous existence as the wife of farmer Daniel Morgan. |
| Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald | 1,997 | Koki Mitani | Comedy | 7.6 | 43 | Japanese | Japan | A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone among the crew insists on changing various parts of the play to their liking. |
| Yoddha | 1,992 | Sangeeth Sivan | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Action | 7.6 | 36 | Malayalam | India | Fate brings a young man from rural Kerala to be the protector of a young Lama in Nepal, who is being chased by a dangerous cult. |
| Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary | 1,997 | S.R. Bindler | Documentary | 7.6 | 34 | English | United States of America | Filmmaker S.R. Bindler profiles Texas contestants trying to win a truck by keeping one hand on it longer than everyone else. |
| Lotus Lantern | 1,999 | Chang Guangxi | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Family | 7.6 | 31 | Chinese | China | A young boy named Chen Xiang uses a magical lotus lantern to search for and rescue his mother, a goddess, from the cruel punishment she received from her brother, the king of the gods, for falling in love with a mortal man. |
| The Stork's Mistake | 1,993 | María Elena Velasco | Adventure, Comedy | 7.6 | 27 | Spanish | Mexico | India María raises a kidnapped newborn and is pursued by criminals who want the boy. |
| Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour | 1,995 | Dominic Brigstocke | Comedy | 7.6 | 24 | English | Unknown | Queen Elizabeth is attending a parade in Hammersmith and Richie and Eddie plans on inviting the Queen to join them for supper. But their plan goes wrong. |
| Mother | 1,990 | Ali Hatami | Drama | 7.6 | 23 | Persian | Iran | The film progresses along two distinct but interwoven series of events. The first series involves young members of a family who have gathered round their old mother and revive their common childhood memories. the second line focuses on the old woman's preparations for her last journey and her joyous cooperation in arranging for the ceremonies that are to be observed after her death. |
| The Mad Phoenix | 1,997 | Clifton Ko Chi-Sum | Drama | 7.6 | 20 | CN | Hong Kong | A Cantonese librettist enjoys immense popularity over the course of decades, followed by decline. |
| Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery | 1,998 | Simon Wincer | Mystery, Comedy, Family, TV Movie | 7.6 | 20 | English | United States of America | A small-town cat-and-dog detective duo investigate a new neighbor who they believe may have committed a murder, but the snag is, locals are attempting to pair him off with their owner. |
| Cirque du Soleil: Quidam | 1,999 | David Mallet | Documentary, Music | 7.6 | 20 | English | United States of America | A young girl has already seen everything there is to see and her world has lost all meaning. Her anger shatters her world and she finds herself in the universe of QUIDAM, where she is joined by a playful companion, as well as another mysterious character who attempts to seduce her with the marvelous, the unsettling and the terrifying. |
| Summer in Bethlehem | 1,998 | Sibi Malayil | Drama, Comedy | 7.6 | 19 | Malayalam | India | Ravishankar and Dennis live on Dennis’s estate in the hills. When Colonel Menon arrives with his daughters, Ravishankar wonders which one of them has been sending him amorous letters. Meanwhile, Dennis is attracted to the enigmatic Abhirami, but what does Abhirami want? |
| Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land | 1,992 | Stan Lai | Drama, Comedy | 7.6 | 19 | Chinese | Taiwan | Two drama companies happened to share one auditorium for rehearsal. Friction was inevitable. One of them played 'Peach Blossom', a comedy in medieval costume. Another played 'Secret Love', a sad story with contemporary setting. Though unreconciled in all aspects, they find themselves telling the same story: the story of Chinese people forced to leave home. |
| Mannar Mathai Speaking | 1,995 | Mani C Kappan | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 | 17 | Malayalam | India | The hilarious trio from 'Ramji Rao Speaking' faces a new trouble when the heroine of their drama group quits. |
| Kalle Blomkvist Lives Dangerously | 1,996 | Göran Carmback | Family, Mystery | 7.6 | 17 | Swedish | Sweden | The story is about a boy named Kalle Blomkvist who with his friends solves crimes. But also play the battle between the red rose and the white rose with his rival friends. But everything changes when Kalle Blomkvists friend finds a dead man in a cabin and then must his friends and he find the murdurer. |
| Truman | 1,995 | Frank Pierson | Drama, TV Movie | 7.6 | 16 | English | United States of America | Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan, and subsequent election as the US' post-war President. |
| It's All True | 1,993 | Bill Krohn | Documentary | 7.6 | 16 | English | France | A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America. |
| Mathilukal | 1,990 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Romance, Drama | 7.6 | 16 | Malayalam | India | Mathilukal ('Walls') is a free adaptation of the novelette of the same name, written by the celebrated Malayalam writer, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. Autobiographical in character, it is set against the background of India’s freedom struggle in the ’40s when he was serving a term of imprisonment in the Trivandrum Central Jail. When the film opens, we see Basheer in a police lock-up, quite at home in the company of a few petty criminals. He has been languishing there for more than a year now without a trial. |
| Marshal Tito's Spirit | 1,999 | Vinko Brešan | Comedy | 7.6 | 15 | Croatian | Croatia | Stipan is a policeman who comes to small Adriatic island off the Croatian coast in order to investigate reported strange phenomena that had frightened the whole population. At first, nobody wants to co-operate with him, but he finally finds that the island is being allegedly haunted by the ghost of Josip Broz Tito, Communist leader of former Yugoslavia. For Luka, the mayor, this is the opportunity to turn entire island into Tito-themed amusement park. Tito's WW2 veterans, on the other hand, don't believe in ghosts; for them, the apparition is actually Tito himself, who had returned in order to lead them into a new revolution which would restore Communism. Written by Anonymous |
| ABC of a Strike | 1,990 | Leon Hirszman | Documentary | 7.6 | 15 | Portuguese | Brazil | ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouched until after the death of highly-regarded director Leon Hirszman in 1987, by which time the material had a new relevance. The gripping film captures the negotiations between the labor unions and the factory bosses and shows the birth of the region’s Worker’s Party, as well as the emergence of its charismatic leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Rising from extreme poverty, Lula gained national prominence as a union activist during the late 70s and early 80s. After being jailed during his time as a union leader, he eventually becomes Brazil’s president from 2003 to 2010. |
| Meleparambil Aanveedu | 1,993 | Rajasenan | Family, Comedy | 7.6 | 14 | Malayalam | India | A young man marries a Tamil girl, and fearing his family, he brings her to the house as a servant. Problem starts when his elder brothers falls for her too. |
| Pocahontas | 1,995 | Ryszard Słapczyński | Animation | 7.6 | 13 | English | Australia | Set in Colonial America, Pocahontas has become a story of historical value known and loved internationally, among children of all ages. The film tells the story of the first English settlers in Virginia and the Native Americans who lived there. It highlights the very different values of the two civilisations and particularly their attitude and respect for the land. It's a culture shock story and, on a personal level, a love story |
| Aguner Poroshmoni | 1,995 | Humayun Ahmed | Drama, War | 7.6 | 12 | Bengali | Bangladesh | A middle-class family shelters a freedom fighter in war-torn Dhaka. |
| Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict | 1,993 | Akira Inoue | Action, Thriller | 7.6 | 12 | Japanese | Japan | A noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target of a plot by the evil Yagyu Clan to take away his position and replace him with a member of their own family. When his wife is murdered and evidence is produced that he was plotting against the Shogun the Code of Bushido calls for him and his son to commit sepuku. Instead he defies the Shogun's orders and takes up arms against his enemies, becoming an assassin for hire. |
| Chizuko's Younger Sister | 1,991 | Nobuhiko Obayashi | Drama, Fantasy | 7.6 | 12 | Japanese | Japan | The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter Mika is suddenly in a dangerous situation, Chizuko returns as a ghost to save her; reunited with her sister, Mika begins spending time with Chizuko again. |
| The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr. | 1,996 | Brett Thompson | Documentary | 7.6 | 11 | English | United States of America | Often called the worst director in the history of cinema, Ed Wood is nevertheless a beloved figure among cult-film aficionados for his oddball productions. This documentary takes a look back at Wood's unique career at the margins of 1950s Hollywood, speaking to those who loved him and hated him. Bela Lugosi Jr. discusses his father's work in the abysmal "Plan 9 From Outer Space," while a Baptist reverend recalls how he was tricked into financing the film. |
| Nabbie's Love | 1,999 | Yuji Nakae | Comedy, Romance | 7.6 | 10 | Japanese | Japan | Nanako returns to her hometown on the tiny island of Aguni to meet her grandmother Nabbie. However, when Nanako's ferry arrives, it is also carrying Nabbie's former lover, who has returned to Aguni after a long absence. |
| Life According To Agfa | 1,992 | Assi Dayan | Drama | 7.6 | 10 | Hebrew | Israel | The film takes place in Tel Aviv, much of it in a fictitious local pub called Barbie, a satirical nickname for a famous Israeli mental health institution. The pub's name hints at the characters and the events which occur in the pub and which befall its owner (Daliah), the employees and customers. The plot unfolds with a streak of violence which takes a surprising turn. |
| The Mind's Eye | 1,990 | Jan Nickman | Animation | 7.6 | 10 | English | United States of America | The Mind's Eye is a compilation of experimental computer animations from when such technology was in its early infancy. The animations are from various studios, having been arranged in a sort of "2001" evolution-timeline theme, and set to synthesized music. These pioneering CGI projects later gave rise to films such as Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Antz, and Shrek. |
| Home Alone | 1,990 | Chris Columbus | Comedy, Family | 7.5 | 12,295 | English | United States of America | Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. When thieves try to break into his home, he puts up a fight like no other. |
| Back to the Future Part III | 1,990 | Robert Zemeckis | Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction | 7.5 | 11,311 | English | United States of America | The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen. |
| Pretty Woman | 1,990 | Garry Marshall | Romance, Comedy | 7.5 | 8,833 | English | United States of America | While on a business trip in Los Angeles, Edward Lewis, a millionaire entrepreneur who makes a living buying and breaking up companies, picks up a prostitute, Vivian, while asking for directions; after, Edward hires Vivian to stay with him for the weekend to accompany him to a few social events, and the two get closer only to discover there are significant hurdles to overcome as they try to bridge the gap between their very different worlds. |
| Hercules | 1,997 | John Musker | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 7.5 | 7,823 | English | United States of America | Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus, a flying horse, and Phil, a personal trainer, Hercules is tricked by the hilarious, hotheaded villain Hades, who's plotting to take over Mount Olympus! |
| Eyes Wide Shut | 1,999 | Stanley Kubrick | Drama, Thriller, Mystery | 7.5 | 6,841 | English | United Kingdom | After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head. |
| The Devil's Advocate | 1,997 | Taylor Hackford | Drama, Mystery, Horror | 7.5 | 6,613 | English | Germany | Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned. |
| Apollo 13 | 1,995 | Ron Howard | Drama, History | 7.5 | 5,759 | English | United States of America | The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy. |
| Donnie Brasco | 1,997 | Mike Newell | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.5 | 4,760 | English | United States of America | An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one. |
| The Fugitive | 1,993 | Andrew Davis | Action, Thriller, Drama | 7.5 | 4,672 | English | United States of America | Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name. |
| The Crow | 1,994 | Alex Proyas | Fantasy, Action, Thriller | 7.5 | 4,422 | English | United States of America | Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven, watched over by a hypnotic crow, returns from the grave to exact revenge. |
| A Few Good Men | 1,992 | Rob Reiner | Drama | 7.5 | 4,028 | English | United States of America | When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep. |
| True Romance | 1,993 | Tony Scott | Action, Crime, Romance | 7.5 | 2,980 | English | United States of America | Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it. |
| Lost Highway | 1,997 | David Lynch | Drama, Thriller, Mystery | 7.5 | 2,870 | English | France | A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell. |
| Ed Wood | 1,994 | Tim Burton | Comedy, Drama, History | 7.5 | 2,472 | English | United States of America | The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful. |
| The Insider | 1,999 | Michael Mann | Drama, Thriller | 7.5 | 2,003 | English | United States of America | A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco. |
| Malcolm X | 1,992 | Spike Lee | Drama, History | 7.5 | 1,839 | English | United States of America | A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride. |
| Barton Fink | 1,991 | Joel Coen | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 7.5 | 1,833 | English | United Kingdom | A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood. |
| My Cousin Vinny | 1,992 | Jonathan Lynn | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 | 1,799 | English | United States of America | Two carefree pals traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who has just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South! |
| A Perfect World | 1,993 | Clint Eastwood | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 7.5 | 1,796 | English | United States of America | A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal. |
| That's Life | 1,998 | Massimo Venier | Comedy | 7.5 | 1,377 | Italian | Italy | While on the run from the police, an unlikely companionship blossoms between a funny con man who just broke out of jail, the bumbling cop whose car he seized at gunpoint, and a nitpicking civilian he unwittingly took hostage. |
| Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy | 1,994 | Alain Berbérian | Comedy | 7.5 | 1,324 | French | France | A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown. |
| The Sandlot | 1,993 | David Mickey Evans | Family, Comedy, Drama | 7.5 | 1,285 | English | United States of America | During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team and their leader becomes a legend by confronting the terrifying mystery beyond the right field wall. |
| Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | 1,993 | Bruce Timm | Action, Animation, Crime, Mystery, Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 1,218 | English | United States of America | Andrea Beaumont leaves her father to return to Gotham, rekindling an old romance with Bruce Wayne. At the same time, a mysterious figure begins to hunt down Gotham's criminals, wrongly implicating Batman in the murders. Now on the run from the law, Batman must find and stop the culprit, while also navigating his relationship with Andrea. |
| Open Your Eyes | 1,997 | Alejandro Amenábar | Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction | 7.5 | 1,155 | Spanish | Spain | Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison. |
| Breaking the Waves | 1,996 | Lars von Trier | Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 1,089 | Danish | Denmark | In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another. |
| Night on Earth | 1,991 | Jim Jarmusch | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 | 1,014 | English | United States of America | A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night. |
| A Grand Day Out | 1,990 | Nick Park | Family, Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction, Adventure | 7.5 | 978 | English | United Kingdom | Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese. |
| Thesis | 1,996 | Alejandro Amenábar | Horror, Thriller | 7.5 | 913 | Spanish | Spain | While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either. |
| Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn | 1,995 | Shigeyasu Yamauchi | Animation, Action, Science Fiction | 7.5 | 907 | Japanese | Japan | Not paying attention to his job, a young demon allows the evil cleansing machine to overflow and explode, turning the young demon into the infamous monster Janemba. Goku and Vegeta make solo attempts to defeat the monster, but realize their only option is fusion. |
| Hard Boiled | 1,992 | John Woo | Action, Thriller, Crime | 7.5 | 900 | CN | Hong Kong | A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them. |
| The Double Life of Véronique | 1,991 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, Fantasy | 7.5 | 873 | French | France | Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to Véronique, though the two are not related. The film follows both women as they contend with the ups and downs of their individual lives, with Véronique embarking on an unusual romance with Alexandre Fabbri, a puppeteer who may be able to help her with her existential issues. |
| Menace II Society | 1,993 | Allen Hughes | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 7.5 | 864 | English | United States of America | A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life. |
| Sling Blade | 1,996 | Billy Bob Thornton | Drama | 7.5 | 842 | English | United States of America | Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, he is deemed fit to be released into the outside world. |
| Cure | 1,997 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Crime, Thriller, Horror, Mystery | 7.5 | 733 | Japanese | Japan | A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo. |
| Sonatine | 1,993 | Takeshi Kitano | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.5 | 672 | Japanese | Japan | Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions. |
| Fist of Legend | 1,994 | Gordon Chan | Action | 7.5 | 587 | Chinese | Hong Kong | Chen returns to his school when he finds out that his martial arts teacher has died. When he learns that his school students are harassed by some hooligans, he gears himself up to save them. |
| Kikujiro | 1,999 | Takeshi Kitano | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 | 583 | Japanese | Japan | Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a wide array of surprises and unique characters along the way. |
| Memories | 1,995 | Katsuhiro Otomo | Fantasy, Animation, Science Fiction | 7.5 | 545 | Japanese | Japan | Three back-to-back anime films by three different directors make up this sci-fi trilogy three years in the making. |
| Brother | 1,997 | Aleksei Balabanov | Drama, Crime | 7.5 | 445 | Russian | Russia | Danila goes to his successful brother, Victor, in Petersburg to start a new life. Unknown to Danila, Victor is a contract killer, but is in hiding after asking for too much money to assassinate a Chechen mob boss. To avoid exposure, Victor convinces Danila to kill the boss instead. |
| Kuch Kuch Hota Hai | 1,998 | Karan Johar | Romance, Drama, Comedy | 7.5 | 421 | Hindi | India | Per her mother's last wish, an 8 year old girl sets out to reunite her father with his college best friend who was in love with him. |
| Buena Vista Social Club | 1,999 | Wim Wenders | Documentary, Music | 7.5 | 366 | English | Germany | In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native city of Havana. The result is a spectacular compilation of concert footage from the group's gigs in Amsterdam and New York City's famed Carnegie Hall, with director Wim Wenders capturing not only the music -- but also the musicians' life stories. |
| Crumb | 1,995 | Terry Zwigoff | Documentary | 7.5 | 274 | English | United States of America | This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother, two brothers, wife, ex-wife and ex-girlfriends, as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art, we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one man's subconscious mind. |
| When We Were Kings | 1,996 | Leon Gast | Documentary, TV Movie, History, Music | 7.5 | 246 | English | United States of America | It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America's top black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King. |
| Bang, Boom, Bang | 1,999 | Peter Thorwarth | Crime, Action, Comedy | 7.5 | 223 | German | Germany | Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sitting around doing nothing after he just lost all their money. A fast paced comedy from German director Peter Thorwarth. |
| The Road Home | 1,999 | Zhang Yimou | Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 222 | Chinese | China | Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback. |
| Reservoir Dogs | 1,991 | Quentin Tarantino | Crime, Drama | 7.5 | 201 | English | United States of America | Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film. |
| Flirting Scholar | 1,993 | Lee Lik-Chi | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7.5 | 191 | Chinese | Hong Kong | A scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich family in order to pursue the ravishing servant girl who has stolen his heart. |
| Not One Less | 1,999 | Zhang Yimou | Drama | 7.5 | 188 | Chinese | China | Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students. |
| The Mission | 1,999 | Johnnie To | Action, Crime, Drama | 7.5 | 175 | CN | Hong Kong | Triad boss Lung, who has just escaped being killed in an assassination attempt hires the killers Curtis, James, Mike, Roy and Shin for his protection. |
| Everything's Gonna Be Great | 1,998 | Ömer Vargı | Family, Drama, Comedy, Adventure | 7.5 | 160 | Turkish | Turkey | When Altan swipes prescription drugs from his brother Nuri's pharmacy, they soon find themselves on a dangerous but funny road trip to get rid of the stuff and escape the mafiosi Altan tried to double-cross. Along the way, the brother who are compete opposites finally bond. |
| Darkness, Light, Darkness | 1,990 | Jan Švankmajer | Animation, Comedy | 7.5 | 155 | Czech | Czechoslovakia | A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where. |
| The Power of One | 1,992 | John G. Avildsen | Drama | 7.5 | 149 | English | France | PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel teaches him how to box with the motto “fight with your fists and lead with your heart”. As he grows to manhood, PK uses these words to take on the system and the injustices he sees around him - and finds that one person really can make a difference. |
| La Vie de Bohème | 1,992 | Aki Kaurismäki | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 143 | French | France | Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise. |
| Four Days in September | 1,997 | Bruno Barreto | Thriller, Drama, History | 7.5 | 132 | Portuguese | Brazil | Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life. |
| Made in Hong Kong | 1,997 | Fruit Chan | Crime, Drama | 7.5 | 119 | CN | Hong Kong | Hong Kong 1997, where young people dream of love and death, suicide and murder. Moon is a cynical young debt collector, smitten by Ping, a young woman dying of kidney disease. A suicide note from a student they don't know ends up intertwining their fates. |
| Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish | 1,999 | Liz Holzman | Animation, Music, Comedy, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy | 7.5 | 115 | English | Japan | The Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister) go on a quest to find a fallen wishing star to help Dot with her illness. Unfortunately the rest of the town, including an evil king, also hear about the star and want to get to it first to have their own wishes come true. It's a race against time and it's up to the three zany siblings to get there first. |
| The White Balloon | 1,995 | Jafar Panahi | Drama, Family | 7.5 | 103 | Persian | Iran | Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with. |
| Martin (Hache) | 1,997 | Adolfo Aristarain | Drama | 7.5 | 102 | Spanish | Argentina | After having a nearly fatal drug overdose, 19-year-old Argentine Martin is sent to Madrid, where his film director father lives with his new, younger lover, Alicia, and his bisexual actor friend, Dante. |
| The Last Days | 1,998 | James Moll | Documentary, History | 7.5 | 96 | English | United States of America | Five Jewish Hungarians, now US citizens, tell their stories: before March 1944, when Nazis began to exterminate Hungarian Jews, months in concentration camps, and visiting childhood homes more than 50 years later. An historian, a Sonderkommando, a doctor who experimented on Auschwitz prisoners, and US soldiers who were part of the liberation in April 1945. |
| Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm | 1,999 | Robert B. Weide | Comedy, TV Movie | 7.5 | 95 | English | United States of America | Mock documentary about Seinfeld writer Larry David featuring contributions from his friends and colleagues. Larry makes a return to stand-up comedy and prepares to film a television special for HBO. This is the original special that gave birth to the long-running award-winning HBO series. |
| Little Dieter Needs to Fly | 1,997 | Werner Herzog | Documentary | 7.5 | 94 | English | Germany | Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers. |
| Digimon Adventure | 1,999 | Mamoru Hosoda | Animation, Adventure, Action, Fantasy | 7.5 | 90 | Japanese | Japan | Two children receive a strange egg that hatches into their very first Digimon, leading to the night that would change their lives forever. |
| Manichitrathazhu | 1,993 | Fazil | Horror, Comedy, Mystery | 7.5 | 89 | Malayalam | India | A young couple, Ganga and Nakulan, arrives at the ancestral home called Madampalli of the latter. Hailing from a family that follows tradition and superstitions, Nakulan's uncle Thampi objects to the couple's idea of moving into the allegedly haunted mansion, which Nakulan ignores. The couple moves in anyway following which seemingly supernatural events begin to happen. |
| Candy Candy: The Movie | 1,992 | Hiroshi Shidara | Drama, Romance, Animation | 7.5 | 62 | Japanese | Japan | A young girl named Candice White who was left on the doorstep of the "Pony Home", an orphanage, when she was just a baby. The sisters took her first name from a doll she had in her basket, with the name "Candy" on it, and her last name from the snowstorm she was rescued from. Life is quiet and happy.. or.. as quiet as life can be with Candy around. She has a penchant for getting into trouble, climbing trees and tussling with the best of them. However, tragedy begins to strike. |
| Jacquot | 1,991 | Agnès Varda | Drama | 7.5 | 61 | French | France | Jacquot Demy, the son of a garage owner and a hairdresser, is fascinated by cinema and decides to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker by any means necessary. |
| Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows | 1,998 | Paul Jay | Documentary, TV Movie | 7.5 | 57 | English | Canada | This documentary follows superstar Bret Hart during his last year in the WWF. The film documents the tensions that resulted in The Montreal Screwjob, one of the most controversial events in the history of professional wrestling, in which Vince McMahon, Shawn Micheals, and others, legitimately conspired behind the scenes to go against the script and remove Bret Hart as champion. |
| Hornblower: The Even Chance | 1,998 | Andrew Grieve | War, Adventure, TV Movie | 7.5 | 57 | English | United Kingdom | Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a feud with a shipmate causes complications. |
| Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express | 1,996 | Tsutomu Shibayama | Animation, Science Fiction, Action, Family, Adventure | 7.5 | 54 | Japanese | Japan | Doraemon went missing for 3 days. But it turns out later that he went to the 22nd century to buy a mystery galactic express train ticket whose destination is a secret until the passengers arrive there and see for themselves. |
| Jim Carrey: Unnatural Act | 1,991 | Michael French | Comedy, TV Movie, Documentary | 7.5 | 54 | English | Canada | Jim explores multiple aspects of life including religion, marriage and his own sanity. This stand-up special was taped at Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, Canada, in front of a live audience. |
| Moving | 1,993 | Shinji Sōmai | Drama | 7.5 | 43 | Japanese | Japan | Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity. |
| Frank and Ollie | 1,995 | Theodore Thomas | Documentary | 7.5 | 40 | English | United States of America | Before computer graphics, special effects wizardry, and out-of-this world technology, the magic of animation flowed from the pencils of two of the greatest animators The Walt Disney Company ever produced -- Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. Frank and Ollie, the talent behind BAMBI, PINOCCHIO, LADY AND THE TRAMP, THE JUNGLE BOOK, and others, set the standard for such modern-day hits as THE LION KING. It was their creative genius that helped make Disney synonymous with brilliant animation, magnificent music, and emotional storytelling. Take a journey with these extraordinary artists as they share secrets, insights, and the inspiration behind some of the greatest animated movies the world has ever known! |
| Kilukkam | 1,991 | Priyadarshan | Comedy, Family | 7.5 | 39 | Malayalam | India | Nandini is an illegitimate child who comes to Ooty in search of her father. She meets Joji, a tourist guide, and pretends to be mentally unstable in order to get shelter in his house. |
| Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! | 1,994 | Kevin Kerslake | Documentary, Music | 7.5 | 36 | English | United States of America | Nirvana's frontman Kurt Cobain worked on compiling this collection of performances, interviews, and touring clips from 1991 to 1993 but did not finish it before his death in 1994. Bandmembers Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic completed it with the help of director Kevin Kerslake. |
| A Confucian Confusion | 1,994 | Edward Yang | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 35 | Chinese | Taiwan | Over the course of a few days, the paths of a group of young friends, lovers, and acquaintances in Taipei intersect, prompting them to arrive at realizations about their lives. |
| Thenmavin Kombath | 1,994 | Priyadarshan | Comedy, Family | 7.5 | 33 | Malayalam | India | Sreekrishnan unknowingly falls in love with the woman his best friend, Manikyan, loves. Though Sreekrishnan tries his best to woo her, she resists, leading to a battle that ensues between the friends. |
| Godfather | 1,991 | Lal | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7.5 | 33 | Malayalam | India | A retelling of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", the film revolves around the rivalry between two families, the Anjooran and Anappara houses, and the consequences faced when two members of the families fall in love. |
| Eddie Izzard: Unrepeatable | 1,994 | John Gordillo | Comedy | 7.5 | 30 | English | United Kingdom | Recorded one night at the Albert Theatre in March 1994, when Eddie Izzard was playing a limited seven week sold-out run of her celebrated stand-up show. |
| Cabaret Balkan | 1,998 | Goran Paskaljević | Drama, Thriller | 7.5 | 28 | Serbian | France | 20 people's paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade. |
| The Endless Summer II | 1,994 | Bruce Brown | Documentary | 7.5 | 25 | English | United States of America | Bruce Brown, king of surfing documentaries, returns after nearly thirty years to trace the steps of two young surfers to top surfing spots around the world. Along the way we see many of the people and locales Bruce visited during the filming of Endless Summer (1966). |
| It's a Long Road | 1,998 | Pantelis Voulgaris | Drama | 7.5 | 24 | Greek | Greece | Three stories dealing with three men and their stance towards life, given their personal background. All stories are held in Northern Greece (Macedonia and Thrace), covering all the spectrum from urban to rural settings. |
| The Dog of Flanders | 1,997 | Yoshio Kuroda | Animation, Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 23 | Japanese | Japan | Nello Tarth is a poor but happy orphan who lives with his grandfather Jehan and his dog Patrasche in a little village near Antwerp. He spends his days drawing and delivering milk. When Nello decides to enter an art contest, he experiences firsthand the ignorance and cruelty of the villagers of the town. Nonetheless, with the help of his beloved dog, Nello perseveres to achieve his dream. |
| The Village | 1,993 | Mark Baker | Animation | 7.5 | 23 | English | United Kingdom | A village is ruled by the church, but is filled with hypocritical sinners who constantly spy on each other. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008. |
| 47 Ronin | 1,994 | Kon Ichikawa | Action, Drama | 7.5 | 22 | Japanese | Japan | Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death. |
| Friends | 1,999 | Siddique | Romance, Comedy, Drama | 7.5 | 21 | Malayalam | India | The threesome who lend reason to the title are Aravindan (Jayaram), Chandu (Mukesh) and Joy (Sreenivasan). They value friendship over everything else, even family, and for this reason, Chandu resists the advances of Aravindan's sister Uma (Divya Unni). When the trio take up a painter's job at a mansion, Aravindan falls in love with Padmini (Meena), who lives there and Padmini's jealous cousin makes him believe that his overtures are reciprocated. When the truth is revealed and Padmini rejects him outright, Chandu stands up for his friend and speaks ill of her. This makes her swear to separate the friends. |
| The Secret Path | 1,999 | Bruce Pittman | Drama, TV Movie | 7.5 | 21 | English | United States of America | 14-year-old Jo Ann Foley lives in squalor in a rural Southern community during World War II. Abused by her bootlegging grandfather Hank, Jo Ann has, like her mother Marie, been forced into a life of prostitution. Periodically escaping her miserable existence, Jo Ann finds comfort, security, and genuine love with a poor but proud African American couple: Honey and Too Tall. |
| 100 Years at the Movies | 1,994 | Chuck Workman | Documentary | 7.5 | 21 | English | United States of America | Commemorates the centennial of American movies with a montage of clips and music scores from the most important movies of the century. |
| Love Is Love | 1,990 | Tommy Leung Ga-Shu | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 21 | CN | Hong Kong | Shui and Ti elope off, against the wishes of Ti's father. They live the life of a struggling young couple. Shui finds a job at a jewelry importer and his hard work is noticed by the boss lady. As Shui moves up the corporate ladder, the chasm between Shui and Ti starts to widen, and the bond between Suki and Shui tightens. |
| Song of the Exile | 1,990 | Ann Hui | Drama | 7.5 | 21 | CN | Hong Kong | Set in the early 1970s, it tells the story of a Chinese-Japanese student who returns to her native Hong Kong after graduating from a university in London. Once she arrives back home, she and her family begin to fight, largely due to cultural and societal conflicts between her mother and herself. |
| 2/Duo | 1,997 | Nobuhiro Suwa | Drama | 7.5 | 20 | Japanese | Japan | The slow collapse of the relationship between an out-of-work actor and his girlfriend. |
| Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump | 1,994 | Peyton Reed | Documentary | 7.5 | 20 | English | United States of America | A look behind the scenes of Robert Zemeckis' 1994 Oscar-winning film, 'Forrest Gump'. |
| Soda Stereo: MTV Unplugged Comfort and music to fly | 1,996 | Milton Lage | Music | 7.5 | 20 | Spanish | United States of America | The recording was not made exactly under the MTV Unplugged standards because the band was 'Plugged', but includes a great Andrea Echeverri's performance in the track «En la Ciudad de la Furia» and also they used samplers in 2 tracks: 'Cementerio Club' from Luis Alberto Spinetta used on «Té para Tres» and 'Chrome Waves' from the English band Ride used on «Un Misil en mi Placard» |
| Madonna: The Girlie Show - Live Down Under | 1,993 | Mark Aldo Miceli | Music | 7.5 | 20 | English | United States of America | Filmed at Sydney Cricket Ground on November 19, 1993, Live from Down Under showcases Madonna’s brilliant fourth concert tour, The Girlie Show. |
| The Money Masters | 1,996 | Bill Still | History, Documentary | 7.5 | 19 | English | United States of America | A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. |
| Damini | 1,993 | Rajkumar Santoshi | Drama, Crime | 7.5 | 19 | Hindi | India | The theme revolves around the character Damini who represents truth and innocence. After her marriage in renowned wealthy family, Damini happens to see a cruel act done by her brother-in-law. She wants the victim to get justice, but the family including her husband oppose her, which leads her to leave the house. Soon she is helped by a drunkard, an ex-advocate, who helps her in all respect to reach to her aim and therefore justice |
| TuttoBenigni 95/96 | 1,996 | Roberto Benigni | Comedy | 7.5 | 18 | Italian | Italy | One laugh after another, a sparkle of jokes. In the live performance of the 95/96 season Benigni presents the program of his "Partito del Pinzimonio". A torrent of joy. From the Electoral Reform to the reform of the Ten Commandments until Benigni becomes God, gets angry looking at Italy and proclaims the anticipated Last Judgement. No one can miss the roll call: Berlusconi, Craxi, D'Alema, Prodi, Ferrara, Bossi, Fini, Sgarbi, Buttiglione... Benigni's is a terrible God, except that at each of his judgements all humanity gathered in the valley of Giosafat bursts into a thunderous laughter. Justice is done! |
| Sex | 1,992 | Fabien Baron | Documentary | 7.5 | 18 | English | United States of America | Silent documentary footage of Madonna's photo shoots for the infamous 'Sex' book. |
| Hovering Over the Water | 1,993 | João César Monteiro | Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 18 | Portuguese | Portugal | Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert drifting in the surf on a rubber raft. She takes him home, and, after he is revived, learns his story. As they talk, their mutual attraction grows, until a group of armed men suddenly arrive looking for Robert. |
| Hard Grit | 1,998 | Richard Heap | Drama, Action, Documentary | 7.5 | 17 | English | United Kingdom | Hard Grit (1998) is a climbing film produced by Slackjaw Film, featuring climbing on gritstone in the North of England. It has won ten international film festival awards. |
| Johnnie Waterman | 1,994 | Jan Jakub Kolski | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 | 17 | Polish | Poland | On the road wandering minstrel finds a mare, which, upholstered and sickly, is dying. He buries mare and casts a curse in the village where the animal was tortured. In the village lives Jańcio, a philosopher, a man loving life and his young wife, Weronka. Jańcio lives in harmony with God and is not expecting that he will be put to the test by him. He is convinced he has the power to make miracles. He leaves his pregnant wife, and goes to see the world, promising to return before the due date. |
| Chenkol | 1,993 | Sibi Malayil | Action, Drama | 7.5 | 17 | Malayalam | India | Sethumadhavan accidentally kills a criminal to save his life and is sent to prison. After completing his term, he tries to lead a happy life, but his past makes it all the more difficult. |
| Midhunam | 1,993 | Priyadarshan | Drama | 7.5 | 16 | Malayalam | India | Midhunam movie is all about Sethumadhavan (Mohanlal) who has plans to start a biscuit factory near his house. But the bureaucracy and the corruption of the officials are the hurdles in front of him. Along with that he has to solve the problems in his family, which his brother (Innocent) and brother-in-law (Jagathy Sreekumar) creates. he marries his long-term fiancée Sulochana (Urvashi) who always cribs that he doesn't have love towards her, which he had shown before their marriage. How sethumadhavan succeeds in his life beating all the odds against him forms the rest of the story. |
| Samowolka | 1,993 | Feliks Falk | Drama | 7.5 | 16 | Polish | Poland | New recruits go to the army and experience nothing but humiliation, cruelty and pure sadism from older soldiers. |
| Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration | 1,993 | Gavin Taylor | Music | 7.5 | 16 | English | United States of America | On October 16, 1992, an impressive and eclectic group of artists gathered at Madison Square Garden in New York City for the purpose of celebrating the music of Bob Dylan on the occasion of his 30th anniversary of recording. Bringing together musical greats as far-flung as Johnny Cash and Eddie Vedder, The Clancy Brothers and Lou Reed, the four-hour show celebrated a truly remarkable lifetime of songs in front of a sold-out audience of over 18,000. Warmly dubbed the Bobfest by participant Neil Young, the show was broadcast around the world and featured a cast of musical notables performing carefully chosen and often surprising selections from the incomparable Dylan songbook. At evening's end, the man of honor himself appeared on stage and gracefully brought it all back home again. In a world where all-star celebrity gatherings have become commonplace, the Bob Dylan celebration stood out as, first and foremost, a legitimately memorable musical event. |
| Zakhm | 1,998 | Mahesh Bhatt | Drama | 7.5 | 15 | Hindi | India | Amidst religious riots, a son deals with his mother's life-threatening injuries, and her last request. |
| The Periwig-Maker | 1,999 | Steffen Schäffler | Animation, Drama | 7.5 | 15 | German | Germany | Europe; the plague years. A wigmaker, locked in his shop, observes the events and writes about them in his journal. Mostly, we see shrouded bodies, and a young girl who lives in the tavern across the way that gets progressively sicker. |
| His Highness Abdullah | 1,990 | Sibi Malayil | Drama, Music | 7.5 | 15 | Malayalam | India | The story follows Abdullah (Mohanlal) who is hired by the members of a wealthy royal family to assassinate the family head Maharaja Udayavarma (Nedumudi Venu). Abdullah comes into the royal palace under the disguise Ananthan Namboothiri, a classical singer, and tries to use this mask to softly kill the Maharaja. |
| Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester | 1,995 | Vincent McEveety | Mystery, TV Movie, Crime | 7.5 | 14 | English | United States of America | Attorney Bill McKenzie takes the case when his niece is framed for the murder of a popular and demanding sitcom star. |
| Unen canto con humor | 1,999 | Carlos López Puccio | Comedy | 7.5 | 13 | Spanish | Argentina | Premiered on June 9, 1994 at the Astengo Theater, in Rosario, Argentina. Last performance on January 31, 1999, at the Auditorium Theater, in Mar del Plata, Argentina. PROGRAM: 1 - El regreso del indio 2 - Manuel Darío 3 - Así hablaba Sali Baba 4 - El negro quiere bailar 5 - San Ictícola de los peces 6 - A la playa con Mariana 7 - Perdónala 8 - Fronteras de la ciencia 9 - Vote a Ortega Instruments premiered on this show: Bajo Barríltono Ferrocalíope. Recorded at the Auditorium Theater, Mar del Plata, Argentina, January 30, 1999. |
| Vidheyan | 1,994 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Drama | 7.5 | 13 | Malayalam | India | Thommy is the loyal servant of Bhaskara Pattelar, a ruthless tyrant. He struggles between obedience and morality. |
| Sathi Leelavathi | 1,995 | Balu Mahendra | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 | 13 | Tamil | India | Arun, a married man, has an affair with Priya as he dislikes his wife Leelavathi, who is plain-looking and overweight. When she discovers Arun's affair, she plots with Dr. Sakthivel to win Arun back. |
| Metallica: Live Moscow - Monsters of Rock | 1,991 | Wayne Isham | Music | 7.5 | 13 | English | Unknown | September 28, 1991, at Tushino Airfield in Moscow, was described as "the first free outdoor Western rock concert in Soviet history" and had a crowd estimated between 150,000 and 500,000 people, with some unofficial estimates as high as 1,600,000. |
| The Decline of the Century: Testament L.Z. | 1,994 | Lordan Zafranović | Documentary | 7.5 | 12 | Croatian | Austria | An epic documentary of rise and fall of Ustasha regime in Croatia. |
| The Dark Knight's First Night | 1,992 | Bruce Timm | Animation, Action | 7.5 | 12 | English | United States of America | The Dark Knight's first night marks the beginning, the first time the Caped Crusader fought crime, which ultimately led to the greatest superhero cartoon of all time: Batman: The Animated Series. Experience it, experience the beginning. |
| Jonny's Golden Quest | 1,993 | Don Lusk | Animation, Adventure, Family, Mystery, TV Movie | 7.5 | 12 | English | Unknown | In the first feature-length animated movie based on the Hanna-Barbera series, Jonny Quest fans get to meet the women behind the adventurous men. Joining scientist Benton Quest, his plucky son Jonny, bodyguard Race Bannon and Jonny's young pal Hadji are Benton's biologist wife Rachel, Race's ex-wife Jade and young 12-year-old Jessie, who harbors a big secret. Throughout, Team Quest battles the evil schemes of modern-day alchemist Dr. Zin, who has cloned himself and created an army of mutant reptiles in the Peruvian rain forest. The clash there results in a tragedy that changes Jonny's life forever - and later leads to a worldwide pursuit of Zin that includes examining rare Leonardo da Vinci documents in Paris, exploring the Roman catacombs and a final confrontation in the Australian outback. |
| The Mutants | 1,998 | Teresa Villaverde | Drama | 7.5 | 11 | Portuguese | Portugal | Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer. |
| Beyond the Mind's Eye | 1,992 | Michael Boydstun | Animation, Music | 7.5 | 11 | English | United States of America | BEYOND integrates the latest in computer animation technology and artistry with original music from renowned composer Jan Hammer. The Mind's Eye, Miramar's first computer animation odyssey, has been described as a "modern Fantasia" - this video steps BEYOND. |
| The Cart Boy | 1,995 | Mike Clattenburg | Comedy | 7.5 | 10 | English | Unknown | Two mall security guards confront the mysterious "Cart Boy" who has been stealing shopping carts from the mall's parking lot. |
| Pat and Margaret | 1,994 | Gavin Millar | Drama, Comedy, TV Movie | 7.5 | 10 | English | United Kingdom | Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent. |
| Nico Icon | 1,995 | Susanne Ofteringer | Documentary | 7.5 | 10 | English | Germany | A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to glamorous diva of the Velvet Underground, to cult item, junkie and hag. Many faces for the same woman, whom, you realize, just couldn't bring herself to care enough to live. |
| Slap-Jack | 1,992 | Péter Tímár | Comedy | 7.5 | 10 | Hungarian | Hungary | The story happens in 1989 in the suburbs of Budapest, where the neighbor maintains an underground worker's guard training base, while the youngsters fall victim to a mistakenly posted letter. |
| Takeshi: Childhood Days | 1,990 | Masahiro Shinoda | Drama | 7.5 | 10 | Japanese | Japan | A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the schoolyard bully. When his cousin comes to stay with his family to avoid bombing raids, Takeshi at first treats him well, then begins bullying him too. Takeshi eventually loses his position of leadership. |
| Scream | 1,996 | Wes Craven | Crime, Horror, Mystery | 7.4 | 7,695 | English | United States of America | A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game. |
| Tarzan | 1,999 | Chris Buck | Family, Adventure, Animation, Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 7,200 | English | United States of America | Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane... |
| Jackie Brown | 1,997 | Quentin Tarantino | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.4 | 6,808 | English | United States of America | Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself. |
| The Godfather Part III | 1,990 | Francis Ford Coppola | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.4 | 6,706 | English | United States of America | In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing. |
| Interview with the Vampire | 1,994 | Neil Jordan | Horror, Drama, Fantasy | 7.4 | 6,303 | English | United States of America | A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter. |
| Bram Stoker's Dracula | 1,992 | Francis Ford Coppola | Romance, Horror | 7.4 | 5,646 | English | United States of America | Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker's fiancée, Mina, the spitting image of his dead wife, he imprisons him and sets off for London to track her down. |
| Meet Joe Black | 1,998 | Martin Brest | Fantasy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 5,642 | English | United States of America | Bill Parrish has it all - success, wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday, he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger, Joe Black, who soon reveals himself as Death. In exchange for extra time, Bill agrees to serve as Joe's earthly guide. But will he regret his choice when Joe unexpectedly falls in love with Bill's beautiful daughter Susan? |
| Contact | 1,997 | Robert Zemeckis | Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery | 7.4 | 4,861 | English | United States of America | A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality. |
| Being John Malkovich | 1,999 | Spike Jonze | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 7.4 | 4,689 | English | United States of America | One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body. |
| As Good as It Gets | 1,997 | James L. Brooks | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7.4 | 4,038 | English | United States of America | A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery. |
| Falling Down | 1,993 | Joel Schumacher | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.4 | 3,993 | English | United States of America | An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them. |
| The Hunt for Red October | 1,990 | John McTiernan | Action, Thriller | 7.4 | 3,546 | English | United States of America | A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on! |
| The Last of the Mohicans | 1,992 | Michael Mann | Action, History, Romance, War | 7.4 | 3,335 | English | United States of America | In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue. |
| Office Space | 1,999 | Mike Judge | Comedy | 7.4 | 3,294 | English | United States of America | A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers. |
| The Thin Red Line | 1,998 | Terrence Malick | Drama, History, War | 7.4 | 3,218 | English | United States of America | The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived. |
| A Time to Kill | 1,996 | Joel Schumacher | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.4 | 2,863 | English | United States of America | A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK. |
| Legends of the Fall | 1,994 | Edward Zwick | Drama, Western, Romance, War, Action | 7.4 | 2,789 | English | United States of America | In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga. |
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