Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8108 Films to Buy & Rent
House of Cards, The (TV Series) (1990-1993)
- Dir. Paul Seed
Feat. Ian Richardson
- A sardonic and blackly humourous look at British politics, with a reptilian Ian Richardson plotting and blackmailing his way into power in three…
Impromptu (1990)
- Dir. James Lapine
Feat. Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin…
- Splendid frolic with Chopin, Liszt, Delacroix, George Sand and friends gathered at a French country villa. Hilarious and moving, Judy Davis leads a…
Incident, The / Incident In A Small Town (1990-1994)
- Dir. Delbert Mann, Joseph Sargent
Feat. Walter Matthau, Harry Morgan
- Enjoyable made for television murder mystery set during the Second World War sees a characteristically gruff Matthau play Harmon Cobb, a small town…
Ju Dou (1990)
- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Gong Li
- Immaculately composed fable about a village girl who conducts an illicit affair with the nephew of the bitter factory owner she has been forced to…
Julia Has Two Lovers (1990)
- Dir. Bashar Shbib
Feat. Daphna Kastner, David Duchovny
- A simple wrong number turns into a marathon phone conversation and 'relationship' between a doubtful bride–to–be (Daphna Kastner) and a…
King's Whore, The (1990)
- Dir. Axel Corti
Feat. Timothy Dalton, Valeria Golino
- Easy–on–the–eye historical drama has Italian King Timothy Dalton becoming obsessed by Valeria Golino, the off–limits object…
Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Martin Scorsese
- Opinions vary wildly over this sequence of eight re–enactments of Akira's very own dreams – stunning photography and subtle use of…
Lambada (1990)
- Dir. Joel Silberg
Feat. J. Eddie Peck, Melora Hardin, Adolfo Quinones
- A "dance–ploitation" drama produced by the gloriously low–brow Cannon Films to cash in on the suggestive South American Lambada dance…
Life and Nothing But (1990)
- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azema
- Philippe Noiret plays a Missing–in–Action chief officer whose obsession to account for the anonymous casualties of WW1 draws him to a…
Life Is Sweet (1990)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Alison Steadman, Timothy Spall, Jane Horrocks…
- Life is always bittersweet in a Mike Leigh film, but never so funny. Naturalism and caricature harmonise is this domestic black comedy thanks to his…