Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Let Him Have It (1991)
- Dir. Peter Medak
Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins
- Riveting re–creation of events pre–empting the tragic 1952 hanging of a simple teenager, whose only crime was to ambiguously utter “Let…
Liebestraum (1991)
- Dir. Mike Figgis
Feat. Kevin Anderson, Pamela Gidley, Kim Novak
- The dir.'s followup to INTERNAL AFFAIRS is an art–thriller about an architect drawn into a noir–ish puzzle of murder, fate and…
Life On a String (1991)
- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Zhongyuan Liu, Lei Huang, Qing Xu
- A richly poetic chronicle of a blind man who devotes himself to music. Like the director's subsequent FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE, some messages may be…
Life Stinks (1991)
- Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor…
- Promising, but finally undistinguished comedy with Mel Brooks playing a millionaire developer who takes a bet that he can't survive homelessness on…
Linguini Incident, The (1991)
- Dir. Richard Shepard
Feat. David Bowie, Rosanna Arquette, Eszter Balint…
- A largely forgotten, but mildly quirky comedy about an odd couple: a waitress (Arquette) who wants to be an escape–artist and a British barman…
Little Man Tate (1991)
- Dir. Jodie Foster
Feat. Jodie Foster, Dianne Wiest
- A super–intelligent child is the central figure of a tug–of–war between mother Jodie Foster and child psychologist Dianne Wiest.…
London Kills Me (1991)
- Dir. Hanif Kureishi
Feat. Justin Chadwick, Stephen Mackintosh, Emer McCourt
- MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE writer Kureishi directs a young ensemble for his glossy depiction of drug–dealing squatters in London's Notting Hill.…
Long Walk Home, The (1991)
- Dir. Richard Pearce
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg
- Set in 1955 Alabama during the civil rights bus boycott, this portrays the impact of change on two families, with Sissy Spacek as an uppercrust…
Lovers (1991)
- Dir. Vincente Aranda
Feat. Victoria Abril
- Almodovar–regular Victoria Abril brings her sultry star presence to this smouldering tale of illicit lovers who conspire to a horrendous crime…
Lunatics: A Love Story (1991)
- Dir. Josh Becker
Feat. Ted Raimi, Deborah Foreman, Bruce Campbell
- A Sam Raimi–produced twisted rom–com with brother Ted Raimi as a paranoid, aspiring poet who, after an accidental phone conversation with…