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Guilty by SuspicionGuilty by Suspicion (1991) Recommended
Dir. Irwin Winkler
Feat. Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro portrays a film–maker victimised by the communist witch–hunts of the '50s. A powerful examination of the dilemma faced by…
JFKJFK (1991) Recommended
Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Oliver Stone, Kevin Costner
Oliver Stone's gripping, technically dazzling opus is both convincing propaganda and marvellous entertainment, with Kevin Costner leading a large and…
Let Him Have ItLet Him Have It (1991) Recommended
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…
Paris TroutParis Trout (1991)
Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal
Feat. Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey
In 1949, crazed hick Dennis Hopper manifests his full–blooded rascism when he murders the young sister of a negro who has renegged on his car…
Prisoner of HonourPrisoner of Honour (1991)
Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Oliver Reed, Peter Firth
Fact–based story of a military official Alfred Dreyfuss who was wrongly convicted of espionage in the French army c1900. Richard Dreyfuss (no…
Class ActionClass Action (1990)
Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
A lawyer becomes forced to prosecute a case in which his estranged daughter will act for the defence. Courtroom ethics are violated in style by Gene…
Close-UpClose-Up (1990) Recommended
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Feat. Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf
A uniquely–devised work intermingling life and art, documentary and fiction, born of a real life incident in which an unemployed film buff is…
Presumed InnocentPresumed Innocent (1990)
Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raul Julia
Scott Turow's best seller is faithfully adapted here with Harrison Ford cast as the D.A. who finds himself accused of the rape and murder of a…
Reversal of FortuneReversal of Fortune (1990)
Dir. Barbet Schroeder
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver
In his best performance, Jeremy Irons won an Oscar for portraying Claus Von Bulow, a European émigré who was accused of trying to poison his wife…
A Dry White SeasonA Dry White Season (1989)
Dir. Euzhan Palcy
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Susan Sarandon, Marlon Brando
Enraged by the brutal, senseless murder of his black gardener’s son by a racist ‘special policeman’, a South African schoolteacher (Sutherland)…

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