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Subgenre Sampler
Basic Instinct (1992)- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas - Sharon Stone leapt into fame, fortune and notoriety with her raunchy portrayal of the sultry crime novelist who may or may not be living out her…
Lover, The (1992)- Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Feat. Jane March, Tony Leung (Kar-fai) - Exotic adaptation of Marguerite Duras' autobiographical novel charting an illicit affair between a 15–year–old French school–girl…
Man Bites Dog (1992)- Dir. Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde
Feat. Benoit Poelvoorde - Disturbing black comedy unravels itself as a media satire but its barbaric humour won't tickle everyone's funnybone. Staged as a documentary, a film…
Manufacturing Consent (1992)
- Dir. Achbar, Peter Wintonick
Feat. Noam Chomsky - Important film presents the theories of Noam Chomsky on the media and its mainstream bias which may have a far–reaching political agenda. What…
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)- Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn… - Celebrated adaptation of Thomas Harris' novel follows the hunt of a gruesome serial killer by a rookie cop (Jodie Foster), 'aided' by an incarcerated…
Wild at Heart (1990)- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd… - Disturbing, provocative and always stylish, the director parodies himself and many other great film–makers in this mother of all road movies.…
Do the Right Thing (1989)- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Danny Aiello, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis… - Spike Lee's tour–de–force of racial friction and personal politics, forged his status as the most important black director in history.…
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (Atame!) (1989)- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril - A mental patient kidnaps his sexy B–movie idol in the hope that she will fall in love with him. Teasingly politically unsound, Almodovar…
Ghosts of the Civil Dead (1988)
- Dir. John Hillcoat
Feat. Nick Cave - Despite the uncompromising, raw depiction of brutal prison life, this film is a non–exploitative essay that ultimately indicts the future of…
Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988)- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey… - Brave, earnest film controversial for its assumption that Christ suffered from mortal doubt when chosen to carry God's message. Willem Dafoe plays…
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