1990 Chronicle of The Cinema

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1. After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

78 Metascore

After he escapes from a mental hospital, a former boxer works for a widow. When she asks him to get involved in a kidnapping, he has second thoughts.

Director: James Foley | Stars: Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern, Rocky Giordani

Votes: 4,192 | Gross: $2.68M

Nova / Film 103

2. An Angel at My Table (1990)

R | 158 min | Biography, Drama

79 Metascore

Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.

Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, Iris Churn

Votes: 8,685 | Gross: $1.05M

Nova / Film 104

3. Avalon (1990)

PG | 128 min | Drama

68 Metascore

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Leo Fuchs, Eve Gordon

Votes: 6,780 | Gross: $15.74M

4. Bullet in the Head (1990)

Not Rated | 136 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.

Director: John Woo | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee, Simon Yam

Votes: 11,662

5. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)

PG | 137 min | Comedy, Drama, History

79 Metascore

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.

Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber

Votes: 25,945 | Gross: $15.14M

OKRU / Film 104

6. Dances with Wolves (1990)

PG-13 | 181 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

72 Metascore

Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.

Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant

Votes: 290,675 | Gross: $184.21M

Nova / Film 103

7. Dick Tracy (1990)

PG | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

68 Metascore

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

Director: Warren Beatty | Stars: Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino, Charlie Korsmo

Votes: 65,742 | Gross: $103.74M

8. Europa Europa (1990)

R | 112 min | Drama, History, War

75 Metascore

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, André Wilms

Votes: 17,477 | Gross: $5.58M

9. The Godfather Part III (1990)

R | 162 min | Crime, Drama

60 Metascore

Follows Michael Corleone, now in his 60s, as he seeks to free his family from crime and find a suitable successor to his empire.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia, Talia Shire

Votes: 424,105 | Gross: $66.67M

10. Goodfellas (1990)

R | 145 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

92 Metascore

The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco

Votes: 1,257,378 | Gross: $46.84M

Nova / Film 104

11. Henry & June (1990)

NC-17 | 136 min | Biography, Drama

62 Metascore

Anaïs Nin meets American writer Henry Miller in Paris in 1931. She keeps a diary of her sexual awakening, which includes Henry and his wife June.

Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros, Richard E. Grant

Votes: 14,193 | Gross: $11.57M

12. The Krays (1990)

R | 115 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

70 Metascore

This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.

Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell

Votes: 9,050 | Gross: $2.06M

13. La Femme Nikita (1990)

R | 117 min | Action, Crime, Drama

65 Metascore

Convicted felon Nikita isn't going to jail; she's given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin.

Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Anne Parillaud, Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana, Alain Lathière

Votes: 76,432 | Gross: $5.02M

14. Metropolitan (1989)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

77 Metascore

A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.

Director: Whit Stillman | Stars: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman, Taylor Nichols

Votes: 12,404 | Gross: $2.94M

Criterion

15. My Father's Glory (1990)

G | 105 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

At the end of the nineteenth century, little Marcel lives with his parents in the Provence countryside. During his holiday, Marcel meets Lili, a local boy who knows all the secrets of the hills, and the two become fast friends.

Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Thérèse Liotard

Votes: 7,047 | Gross: $1.71M

16. My Mother's Castle (1990)

PG | 98 min | Adventure, Biography, Comedy

Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage near Marseilles. During one of these holidays he meets Isabelle, a pretty but conceited girl... Adapted from the cult classic novel from Marcel Pagnol.

Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain

Votes: 5,647 | Gross: $1.48M

17. Pretty Woman (1990)

R | 119 min | Comedy, Romance

51 Metascore

A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.

Director: Garry Marshall | Stars: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Jason Alexander, Laura San Giacomo

Votes: 362,398 | Gross: $178.41M

18. Taxi Blues (1990)

110 min | Comedy, Drama

A comedic love/hate relationship develops between a dour taxi driver and a hapless aspiring musician after the latter stiffs his cab fare.

Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Pyotr Mamonov, Pyotr Zaychenko, Vladimir Kashpur, Natalya Kolyakanova

Votes: 1,997 | Gross: $0.17M

Soviet Movies Online

19. The Grifters (1990)

R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

86 Metascore

A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening, Jan Munroe

Votes: 30,551 | Gross: $13.45M

20. Reversal of Fortune (1990)

R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery

93 Metascore

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.

Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra

Votes: 18,788 | Gross: $15.45M

21. The Field (1990)

PG-13 | 107 min | Drama, Thriller

When a field (which has been farmed by the McCabe family for generations) goes up for auction, the patriarch of the McCabe family will stop at nothing to prevent a rich American from buying it.

Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean, Frances Tomelty

Votes: 6,767 | Gross: $1.41M

22. Awakenings (1990)

PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama

74 Metascore

The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson

Votes: 158,755 | Gross: $52.10M

Nova / Film 103

23. Misery (1990)

R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller

75 Metascore

After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.

Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen

Votes: 235,583 | Gross: $61.28M

24. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)

PG-13 | 126 min | Drama

73 Metascore

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Saundra McClain, Margaret Welsh

Votes: 3,487 | Gross: $7.70M

OKRU / Film 104

25. Postcards from the Edge (1990)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama

71 Metascore

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman

Votes: 19,329 | Gross: $37.96M

26. Ghost (1990)

PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

52 Metascore

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.

Director: Jerry Zucker | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn

Votes: 235,974 | Gross: $217.63M

27. Hamlet (1990)

PG | 135 min | Drama

53 Metascore

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield

Votes: 23,610 | Gross: $20.71M

28. The Hunt for Red October (1990)

PG | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

58 Metascore

In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain violates orders and heads for the U.S. in a new undetectable sub. The American CIA and military must quickly determine: Is he trying to defect or to start a war?

Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill

Votes: 214,754 | Gross: $122.01M

29. Total Recall (1990)

R | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

60 Metascore

When a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Rachel Ticotin

Votes: 354,580 | Gross: $119.39M

30. Ju Dou (1990)

PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Romance

In rural China, the young bride of a tyrannical owner of a silk-dyeing business finds temporary solace in the arms of her husband's nephew, but problems arise when she becomes pregnant.

Directors: Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang | Stars: Gong Li, Wei Li, Baotian Li, Zhang Yi

Votes: 9,019 | Gross: $1.99M

Nova / Film 104

31. Edward Scissorhands (1990)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

74 Metascore

The solitary life of an artificial man - who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands - is upended when he is taken in by a suburban family.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall

Votes: 523,828 | Gross: $56.36M

32. Home Alone (1990)

PG | 103 min | Comedy, Family

63 Metascore

An eight-year-old troublemaker, mistakenly left home alone, must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve.

Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard

Votes: 652,862 | Gross: $285.76M

33. Havana (I) (1990)

R | 144 min | Drama, Romance, War

In 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan Arkin, Tomas Milian

Votes: 8,510 | Gross: $9.24M

34. Young Guns II (1990)

PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Drama, Western

47 Metascore

Billy the Kid and his band of outlaws are pursued across New Mexico territory by Sheriff Pat Garrett, whom the young gunslingers must face-off with if they are to reach the safety of the border.

Director: Geoff Murphy | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater

Votes: 39,043 | Gross: $44.14M

35. Days of Thunder (1990)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Drama, Sport

60 Metascore

A young hot-shot stock car driver gets his chance to compete at the top level.

Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid

Votes: 96,415 | Gross: $82.67M

36. Alice (1990)

PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Romance

67 Metascore

A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, William Hurt, Joe Mantegna, June Squibb

Votes: 15,341 | Gross: $7.33M

37. Green Card (1990)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

58 Metascore

A man wanting to stay in the US enters into a marriage of convenience, but it turns into more than that.

Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell, Bebe Neuwirth, Gregg Edelman

Votes: 25,844 | Gross: $29.89M

38. The Little Gangster (1990)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama

Marc and Nathalie are brother and sister living separately since their parents' separation. Marc decides to visit Nathalie but in order to finance his trip he robs a shop bringing him to the attention of the police.

Director: Jacques Doillon | Stars: Richard Anconina, Gérald Thomassin, Clotilde Courau, Jocelyne Perhirin

Votes: 511

OKRU / Film 104

39. Days of Being Wild (1990)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

93 Metascore

A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau

Votes: 25,492 | Gross: $0.14M

Criterion

40. The Reflecting Skin (1990)

R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

In the 1950s, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighboring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area.

Director: Philip Ridley | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper, Sheila Moore

Votes: 9,348

41. Uranus (1990)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, History

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Jean-Pierre Marielle

Votes: 1,484 | Gross: $0.34M

NYA

42. Wild at Heart (1990)

R | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

52 Metascore

Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, J.E. Freeman

Votes: 100,970 | Gross: $14.56M

Nova / Film 104

43. Come See the Paradise (1990)

R | 138 min | Drama, Romance, War

The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi

Votes: 3,054 | Gross: $0.85M

OKRU / Film 104

44. Daddy Nostalgia (1990)

PG | 105 min | Drama, Romance

A retired English businessman has just been through heart surgery but it has, apparently, done little to relieve his constant pain or improve his long-term survival prospects.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Jane Birkin, Odette Laure, Emmanuelle Bataille

Votes: 847 | Gross: $1.11M

OKRU - No Sub

45. Hidden Agenda (1990)

R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller

When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth.

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Frances McDormand, Maurice Roëves, Robert Patterson, Bernard Bloch

Votes: 4,604 | Gross: $1.03M

Nova / Film 104

46. The King's Whore (1990)

R | 115 min | Drama, History, Romance

Set in the seventeenth century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.

Director: Axel Corti | Stars: Valeria Golino, Robin Renucci, Paul Crauchet, Amy Werba

Votes: 876

NYA

47. The Sting of Death (1990)

115 min | Drama

Period drama set in the 1950's about a couple isolating themselves from the outside world as they attempt to salvage their faltering marriage, no matter what the costs, after the husband has an affair.

Director: Kôhei Oguri | Stars: Keiko Matsuzaka, Ittoku Kishibe, Midori Kiuchi, Takenori Matsumura

Votes: 382

OKRU / Film 104

48. White Hunter Black Heart (1990)

PG | 112 min | Adventure, Drama

66 Metascore

A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, Charlotte Cornwell, Norman Lumsden

Votes: 13,217 | Gross: $2.32M

Nova / Film 103

49. The Law (1990)

81 min | Drama, Romance

Set in a pre-colonial African past, Tilai is about an illicit love affair and its consequences. Saga returns to his village after an extended absence to discover that his father has taken ... See full summary »

Director: Idrissa Ouedraogo | Stars: Rasmané Ouédraogo, Ina Cissé, Roukietou Barry, Assane Ouédraogo

Votes: 669

OKRU / Film 104

50. Rodrigo D: No futuro (1990)

93 min | Crime, Drama, Music

Rodrigo and his friends are bored teenagers living in Medellin. Rodrigo wants to start a punk band. The youths mainly loaf around the hillside shanty towns and, for kicks, steal a bike or car, or shoot someone.

Director: Víctor Gaviria | Stars: Ramiro Meneses, Carlos Mario Restrepo, Jackson Idrian Gallego, Vilma Díaz

Votes: 1,063

OKRU - No Sub

51. Mat (1990)

200 min | Drama, History

Based on Maxim Gorky's novel about a woman torn between her loyalties to husband and son in the years of the Revolution.

Director: Gleb Panfilov | Stars: Inna Churikova, Viktor Rakov, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Aleksandr Shishonok

Votes: 192

You Tube

52. Chyornaya roza - emblema pechali, krasnaya roza - emblema lyubvi (1990)

131 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In fact, people who then appear around Mitya are all unique, eccentric and the space of the apartment house begins to have an unrealistic character as a miniature of unstable society in the end of Soviet Union.

Director: Sergey Solovyov | Stars: Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Abdulov, Mikhail Rozanov, Aleksandr Zbruev

Votes: 764

53. The Death King (1990)

Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Horror

Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.

Director: Jörg Buttgereit | Stars: Hermann Kopp, Heinrich Ebber, Michael Krause, Eva-Maria Kurz

Votes: 2,852

54. The Palermo Connection (1990)

PG-13 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A candidate for the Mayor of New York City promises to legalize drugs. The mafia, making insane money on illegal drug trade, is about to dissuade him - at all cost.

Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Jim Belushi, Mimi Rogers, Joss Ackland, Philippe Noiret

Votes: 570

55. Freeze Die Come to Life (1990)

105 min | Drama

Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour.

Director: Vitali Kanevsky | Stars: Dinara Drukarova, Pavel Nazarov, Elena Popova, Valeriy Ivchenko

Votes: 933

56. Blue Steel (1990)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama

54 Metascore

A rookie in the police force must engage in a cat-and-mouse game with a pistol-wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña

Votes: 17,774 | Gross: $8.22M

57. Red Dust (1990)

94 min | Drama, Romance, War

A talented lady novelist falls in love with a Chinese traitor working with the Japanese during the WWII.

Director: Ho Yim | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Han Chin, Maggie Cheung, Josephine Koo

Votes: 686

Nova

58. Narrow Margin (1990)

R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

53 Metascore

A Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney is sent to protect a woman who accidentally witnessed a Mafia murder.

Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James Sikking, J.T. Walsh

Votes: 10,372 | Gross: $10.87M

59. Vincent & Theo (1990)

PG-13 | 138 min | Biography, Drama

65 Metascore

The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent painted.

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Adrian Brine, Jean-François Perrier

Votes: 4,207 | Gross: $2.23M

60. The Juniper Tree (1990)

Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, Fantasy

86 Metascore

Margit and her older sister, Katla, flee their homeland after their mother is killed for practicing witchcraft. Needing a place to stay, Katla casts a spell over a young farmer named Jóhann which makes him fall in love with her.

Director: Nietzchka Keene | Stars: Björk, Bryndis Petra Bragadóttir, Valdimar Örn Flygenring, Guðrún Gísladóttir

Votes: 2,589

MUBI

61. Captive of the Desert (1990)

96 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A Frenchwoman is taken hostage by an African tribe for months - can she escape ?

Director: Raymond Depardon | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Dobi Koré, Fadi Taha, Dobi Wachinké

Votes: 213

Rare Filmm / Film 101

62. Song of the Exile (1990)

100 min | Drama

After the Sino-Japanese War, Kwei Dz, one of the family members of Japanese soldiers accepted a Chinese officer's proposal and remained in China. Later they had a daughter named Ann. The ... See full summary »

Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Maggie Cheung, Siu-Kwong Chung, Tan Lang Jachi Tian, Waise Lee

Votes: 556

Film 101

63. 'Non', ou A Vã Glória de Mandar (1990)

110 min | Drama, History, War

Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily ... See full summary »

Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Miguel Guilherme, Luís Lucas

Votes: 982

Film 101

64. New Wave (1990)

89 min | Drama

Composed entirely by literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, Godard's film works as an allegory on film. The loose narrative tells about a ... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Alain Delon, Domiziana Giordano, Jacques Dacqmine, Christophe Odent

Votes: 1,598

Rare Filmm / Film 101

65. Archangel (1990)

Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

68 Metascore

An amnesiac soldier, seeking his lost love, arrives in Archangel in northern Russia to help the townsfolk in their fight against the Bolsheviks, all quite unaware that the Great War ended three months ago.

Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Michael Gottli, David Falkenberg, Michael O'Sullivan, Margaret Anne MacLeod

Votes: 1,628 | Gross: $0.03M

Rare Filmm

66. Perfectly Normal (1990)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Musical

A shy young man with a passion for opera has his world turned upside down by a con artist who really does have a heart of gold.

Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Michael Riley, Deborah Duchene, Eugene Lipinski

Votes: 320

Rare Filmm

67. Les noces de papier (1990 TV Movie)

95 min | Drama

A woman agrees to a marriage of convenience with a refugee.

Director: Michel Brault | Stars: Geneviève Bujold, Manuel Aranguiz, Dorothée Berryman, Monique Lepage

Votes: 168 | Gross: $0.23M

Rare Filmm / Film 101

68. The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)

R | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Antoine has always been fascinated by a hairdresser's delicate touch, the beguiling perfume and the enticing figure of a woman with an opulent bosom. After all, he always knew he would marry one, completing his idealised love fantasy.

Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena, Roland Bertin, Maurice Chevit

Votes: 10,363 | Gross: $1.16M

Nova / Film 103

69. Twilight (1990)

105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

82 Metascore

When a schoolgirl is found murdered in the woods, a retiring detective tries to find her murderer.

Director: György Fehér | Stars: Péter Haumann, János Derzsi, Judit Pogány, Kati Lázár

Votes: 992

Rare Filmm / Film 101

70. December Bride (1990)

88 min | Drama

At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, she refuses to reveal the name of the father.

Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Stars: Donal McCann, Saskia Reeves, Ciarán Hinds, Patrick Malahide

Votes: 365 | Gross: $0.07M

Film 101

71. Open Doors (1990)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama

A principled judge faces a case that society demands capital punishment for.

Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Ennio Fantastichini, Renato Carpentieri, Tuccio Musumeci

Votes: 1,001 | Gross: $0.12M

Film 101

72. Everybody's Fine (1990)

PG-13 | 118 min | Drama

Matteo decides to take a trip across Italy to go visiting his five children.

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan, Valeria Cavalli, Marino Cenna

Votes: 4,433 | Gross: $1.75M

Rare Filmm / Film 101

73. Cellini: A Violent Life (1990)

118 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy, whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes.

Director: Giacomo Battiato | Stars: Wadeck Stanczak, Max von Sydow, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Ben Kingsley

Votes: 128

Film 101

74. The Long Walk Home (1990)

PG | 97 min | Drama, History

73 Metascore

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.

Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames

Votes: 4,847 | Gross: $4.80M

Nova

75. Buried Alive (1990 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A husband finds out that his wife and her lover are trying to kill him.

Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Atherton, Hoyt Axton

Votes: 5,138

Nova

76. The Last Island (1990)

101 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Five men and two women, marooned survivors of an air crash, discover that they may be the only survivors of a world disaster.

Director: Marleen Gorris | Stars: Paul Freeman, Shelagh McLeod, Patricia Hayes, Kenneth Colley

Votes: 178

Film 102

77. Journey of Hope (1990)

PG | 105 min | Adventure, Drama

The story of a poor Turkish family who try to emigrate illegally to Switzerland.

Director: Xavier Koller | Stars: Necmettin Çobanoglu, Nur Sürer, Emin Sivas, Erdinç Akbas

Votes: 2,249 | Gross: $0.26M

Film 103

78. Decay (1990)

103 min | Drama

1986. Chernobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.

Director: Mikhail Belikov | Stars: Sergey Shakurov, Tatyana Kochemasova, Stanislav Stankevich, Georgiy Drozd

Votes: 263

Rare Filmm / Film 103

79. The Nasty Girl (1990)

PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, History

When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.

Director: Michael Verhoeven | Stars: Lena Stolze, Hans-Reinhard Müller, Monika Baumgartner, Elisabeth Bertram

Votes: 2,759 | Gross: $2.28M

Rare Filmm / Film 103

80. Hush-a-Bye Baby (1990)

72 min | Romance

A pregnant Irish girl tries to contact her boyfriend in British prison but her letters are not allowed through to him because she writes in Irish.

Director: Margo Harkin | Stars: Emer McCourt, Michael Liebmann, Cathy Casey, Julie Marie Reynolds

Votes: 120

Film 103

81. Screenplay (1986–1993)
Episode: Antonia and Jane (1990)

R | 71 min | Drama

Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest friend Antonia McGill knows about ... See full summary »

Director: Beeban Kidron | Stars: Saskia Reeves, Imelda Staunton, Patricia Leventon, Alfred Hoffman

Votes: 340 | Gross: $1.00M

Film 103

82. Eminent Domain (1990)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Thriller

A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.

Director: John Irvin | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Anne Archer, Jodhi May, Paul Freeman

Votes: 536 | Gross: $0.15M

Film 103

83. The Exorcist III (1990)

R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

48 Metascore

A police lieutenant uncovers more than he bargained for as his investigation of a series of murders, which have all the hallmarks of the deceased Gemini serial killer, leads him to question the patients of a psychiatric ward.

Director: William Peter Blatty | Stars: George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Brad Dourif, Jason Miller

Votes: 38,869 | Gross: $26.10M

Film 103

84. The Hot Spot (1990)

R | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

55 Metascore

Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities - and the local women - after he robs a bank.

Director: Dennis Hopper | Stars: Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith

Votes: 13,515 | Gross: $1.29M

Film 103

85. Pump Up the Volume (1990)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

77 Metascore

Mark runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens.

Director: Allan Moyle | Stars: Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Anthony Luke Lucero, Andy Romano

Votes: 31,164 | Gross: $11.54M

Film 103

86. To Sleep with Anger (1990)

PG | 102 min | Drama

A charismatic old acquaintance drifts into town, stirring up trouble for a mild-mannered family.

Director: Charles Burnett | Stars: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, DeVaughn Nixon, Mary Alice

Votes: 2,916 | Gross: $1.16M

OKRU

87. The Russia House (1990)

R | 123 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

67 Metascore

A British publisher is sent a manuscript detailing Soviet Union nuclear missile capabilities. British Intelligence intercept it and recruit him to investigate the author's editor, a beautiful Russian woman he claims never to have met.

Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox

Votes: 17,545 | Gross: $23.00M

Nova / Film 103

88. Flatliners (1990)

R | 115 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

55 Metascore

Five medical students experiment with "near death" experiences, until the dark consequences of past tragedies begin to jeopardize their lives.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin

Votes: 93,444 | Gross: $61.49M

NOVA

89. Berkeley in the Sixties (1990)

Not Rated | 117 min | Documentary, History

A documentary about militant student political activity in the University of California-Berkely in the 1960's.

Director: Mark Kitchell | Stars: Jentri Anders, Joan Baez, Frank Bardacke, Stokely Carmichael

Votes: 776

Film 103

90. Desperate Hours (1990)

R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama

33 Metascore

An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.

Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Anthony Hopkins, Mimi Rogers, Lindsay Crouse

Votes: 8,430 | Gross: $2.74M

Los Movies

91. Jacob's Ladder (I) (1990)

R | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

62 Metascore

Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.

Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven

Votes: 117,890 | Gross: $26.12M

Film 103

92. The Two Jakes (1990)

R | 137 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

56 Metascore

The sequel to Chinatown (1974) finds J.J. "Jake" Gittes investigating adultery and murder, and the money that comes from oil.

Director: Jack Nicholson | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe

Votes: 15,494 | Gross: $10.01M

93. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

69 Metascore

The Gremlins are back, and this time, they've taken control of a New York City media mogul's high-tech skyscraper.

Directors: Joe Dante, Chuck Jones | Stars: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Howie Mandel, Tony Randall

Votes: 112,848 | Gross: $41.48M

94. Bride of Re-Animator (1990)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

54 Metascore

Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain discover the secret to creating human life and proceed to create a perfect woman from dead tissue.

Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones, Fabiana Udenio

Votes: 17,582

Nova

95. May Fools (1990)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Romance

During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.

Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Miou-Miou, Michel Piccoli, Michel Duchaussoy, Marcel Bories

Votes: 3,412 | Gross: $1.58M

Los Movies

96. The Big Steal (1990)

99 min | Comedy

To impress a girl a shy teenaged boy buys a used Jaguar.

Director: Nadia Tass | Stars: Ben Mendelsohn, Claudia Karvan, Marshall Napier, Damon Herriman

Votes: 1,461

Nova

97. Tremors (1990)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Horror

65 Metascore

Natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground creatures which are killing them one by one.

Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross

Votes: 150,542 | Gross: $16.67M

98. Nightbreed (1990)

R | 102 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

40 Metascore

A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer is looking for a patsy.

Director: Clive Barker | Stars: Craig Sheffer, David Cronenberg, Anne Bobby, Charles Haid

Votes: 26,423 | Gross: $8.86M

99. Tôkyô jôkû irasshaimase (1990)

109 min | Drama

A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death.

Director: Shinji Sômai | Stars: Kiichi Nakai, Riho Makise, Tsurube Shôfukutei, Takatoshi Takeda

Votes: 126

Rare Filmm / Nova / Film 103 - Tokyo Heaven

100. Heaven and Earth (1990)

PG-13 | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In 16th century Japan, two samurai engage in massive battles across the countryside, one attempting to conquer and the other attempting to defend his land while repressing his love for a woman after taking a vow of celibacy.

Director: Haruki Kadokawa | Stars: Takaaki Enoki, Masahiko Tsugawa, Atsuko Asano, Naomi Zaizen

Votes: 1,141 | Gross: $0.31M

Nova



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