1990 Movies

British TV-special with Barry Humphries, AKA Dame Edna

Norman Law directed this Hong Kong gangster film about siblings joined by a common enemy. Tao is a ruthless loan shark, whose brother, Fu Sai Hang,...

A woman walks through an arid and desert-like place. She seems to have come out of nowhere. Her journey is punctuated with chance meetings and many...

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....

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...

A comedy in four acts by Branislav Nusic adapted for TV audience. First published in 1906, it tells about small town mentality.

Suzy, a beautiful woman, is coming back to Paris to attend the funeral of her lover, a married man. Cecile, his wife, is holding Suzy responsible for...

Humpty was an overgrown, misunderstood egg. But one day, he ended up in the right place at the right time and his luck changed. When he overheard...

This Cold War dramatic thriller tells the passionate story of three people caught in a murderous web of deceit and revenge on both sides of the...

Contains more than 50 separate scenes of blood-chilling horror, none of which have ever been seen by the public, depicting a cremation, an...

A lonely schoolteacher has a strange experience on her walking holiday. It haunts her and threatens to wreck her growing romance with a colleague.

Two symbiotic sociopaths play obscurely deviant mind games with each other while engaging in perversely brutal acts of violence against victims...

Rickard, a young man, helps to illegally transport a medieval icon from Germany to Sweden. The icon possesses remarkable forces. Strange things...

Shiva, a fresher at VAC College, is forced to stand up against the students' union president and a group of gangsters who have made the college...

In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard. Once the capsule is opened, more...

A woman is plagued by dreams of being buried alive while her adulterous husband, steeped in gambling debts, hatches a scheme to drive her mad and...

Theatrical recording of the play from "Black Blood": 1917 was the year during the Great War that nearly led to a revolution in France. At that time,...

An hour long special from the British political satire The New Statesman. After surviving an attempt on his life, Alan B’Stard returns to...

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leonardo Da Vinci (John Glover) create their...

Movie star Barbara Jenkins arrives in Cannes to host an auction of her costumes, under protection of Tom Lepski. She is under surveillance of a...

16 mm film painted and refilmed on a virtual image bench for the ballet Shazam by the DCA Philippe Decouflé company. It was projected onto a...

At a café, a woman fantasizes about a man and also ponders what the reality of the situation would be.

Richard Nixon — one of the most controversial and enduring figures on the American political landscape — is the subject of this profile...

"Jazz Comedian" Franklyn Ajaye brings his urban brand of humour to Melbourne, Australia in his first SHOWTIME special FRANKLYN AJAYE: UPSIDE...

A California metal sculptor becomes a suspect after someone kills his gallery-owner lover.

A youth abandoned by his family joins a group of homeless people.

In an experimentally compiled film review, Danielle Jaeggi, Paule Baillargeon and Claudia von Alemann reflect on their work as filmmakers and life as...

A wandering samurai is plagued by visions of a beautiful woman killed by his own blade.

The Mozart opera, directed by Peter Sellars, and set in modern Harlem. Sellars cast twin brothers to sing Leporello and Giovanni.

Psychology professor Elliott Fauman, Ph.D., in researching the lives and personalities of prostitutes, finds his "statistical architype" in actress...

When pop star Anna Bell retreats to her country cottage for a much-needed respite, she soon finds herself entangled in a web of manipulation and...

A comedy special starring Steven Wright before an audience in Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre.

Ex-mobster Keaton, now living in a retirement home, narrowly misses being the target of a mob hit. Policemen Jake, an old friend of Keaton's, and...

Samuel the Lamanite preaches of the birth of Jesus Christ and the sign of His coming but wicked Nephites drive Samuel from their city. Some Nephites...

Documentary on the Ramones, including archival footage, interviews and music videos, this was first released on VHS in 1990 and later re-released on...

It's New Year's Eve. Ed is out of work, seeing himself as a man descending. He sees his wife Victoria as hopeful, still ascending.

The cloak and dagger antics of a girl alone at home on a diet - weighing raisins, fiddling the scales, changing the definition of 'fruit' and blaming...

This investigative documentary follows the life and mysterious death of Elvis Presley. Since the late 1980's fans and researchers are puzzled by some...

Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders offers the most penetrating insights and the best...

Directed by Pauline Chan