Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3364 Films to Buy & Rent
Cinema Paradiso (1990)
- Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Antonella Attili, Enzo Cannavale, Isa Danieli…
- Enchanting, achingly sweet film in which young Toto falls into a lifelong adoration of movies at the village theatre and its grumpy old…
Close to Eden (Urga) (1990)
- Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
Feat. Badema , Bayaertu , Vladimir Gostyukhin
- The vanishing ancient culture of Mongolia is offered spellbinding yet humourous insight through a herdsman's family whose simple life is threatened…
Close-Up (1990)
- 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…
Cup Final (1990)
- Dir. Eran Riklis
Feat. Moshe Ivgy, Mohamed Bakri, Salim Dau
- An engaging Israeli film about a soccer player whose dreams of representing his country at the World Cup in Spain are shattered by war. He is…
Cyrano De Bergerac (1990)
- Dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez…
- Rostand's classic play filmed in its native tongue, with the man born to play the poet with the outsized hooter, Gerard Depardieu. Little expense has…
Doctor Petiot (1990)
- Dir. Christian De Chalonge
Feat. Michel Serrault, Pierre Romans, Berangere Bonvoisin
- A dark, expressionistic account of a depraved physician who, in occupied Paris, used his practise to facilitate emigration for hopeful Jews, only to…
Elegant Criminel, L' (1990)
- Dir. Francis Girod
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Jean Poiret, Jaques Weber
- Daniel Auteuil stars in this irreverent and witty biography of suave petty thief and condemned killer Pierre Lacenaire, whose brief flame burned…
Elementary School, The (1990)
- Dir. Jan Sverak
Feat. Jan Triska, Zdenek Sverak, Libuse Safrankova
- Sly comedy in which a class of badly behaved Czech schoolboys drive away their timid teacher and learn to love her uniformed, baton–weilding…
Erotic Ghost Story (1990)
- Dir. Lam Ngai Kai
Feat. Amy Yip
- Buxom starlet Amy Yip lets it all hang out with other 'foxes' in this Eastern spin on the WITCHES OF EASTWICK. Generous nudity and dry ice steam up…
Everybody's Fine (Stanno Tutti Bene) (1990)
- Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni
- Marcello Mastroianni plays a fiercely proud but distanced father who embarks unwittingly on a voyage of discovery when he sets out on a surprise…