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At Play in the Fields of the LordAt Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
Dir. Hector Babenco
Feat. Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah
Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Darryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn, Kathy Bates and Tom Waits endured the two–year location shoot of Peter Matthiessen's…
Closet LandCloset Land (1991)
Dir. Radha Bharadwaj
Feat. Madeleine Stowe, Alan Rickman
Madeleine Stowe and Alan Rickman comprise the entire cast of this dramatic exercise that consists solely of an alleged subversive children's author…
December BrideDecember Bride (1991)
Dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Feat. Saskia Reeves
A rain–soaked melodrama set in '30s rural Ireland in which Saskia Reeves endures Catholic prejudice after giving birth out of wedlock. This is…
StoryvilleStoryville (1991)
Dir. Mark Frost
Feat. James Spader, Joanne Whalley, Jason Robards Jr.
The directing debut from TWIN PEAKS' co–creator. Upstart political candidate James Spader becomes involved in illicit activity. A gumbo of red…
Berkeley in the SixtiesBerkeley in the Sixties (1990) Recommended
Dir. Mark Kitchell
A lively, dense study of 1960s counter–culture in microcosm, this chronicles the rise and fall of the student movement in a Californian campus…
Cat ChaserCat Chaser (1989)
Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Peter Weller, Kelly McGillis, Charles Durning
The director atypically sidesteps controversy in adapting Elmore Leonard's political novel about a Miami hotel owner who courts danger when he…
Fellow TravellerFellow Traveller (1989)
Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Ron Silver, Hart Bochner
A classy political thriller concerning the traumas of a blacklisted writer exiled in London during the McCarthy era.
Open DoorsOpen Doors (1989)
Dir. Gianni Amelio
Feat. Gian Maria Volente, Ennio Fantastichini, Renato Carpentieri
A resonant political drama set in corrupt fascist Italy about a juror's attempt to save a political murderer from the gallows.
World Apart, AWorld Apart, A (1988)
Dir. Chris Menges
Feat. Barbara Hershey
True account of a teenage girl's isolated upbringing in aparteid–torn South Africa, whose obsessed mother is jailed for political activism in…
T. Dan SmithT. Dan Smith (1987)
Dir. Amber Film Collective
Docu–drama chronicles of events leading to the imprisonment of a maverick Newcastle councillor. Made in collaboration with Smith himself, it…

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