Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
God of Gamblers (1990)
- Dir. Wong Jing
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat
- Chow Yun–Fat plays a gambling king who is de–throned by amnesia, then embraced by a petty hustler who discovers he can trigger his memory…
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)
- Dir. Kjell Grede
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, Karoly Eperjes
- Swedish WWII film starring Stellan Skarsgard as Raoul Wallenberg, a businessman who saved over 60000 Hungarian Jews by helping them to acquire…
Holy Virgin vs. the Evil Dead (1990)
- Dir. Chun-Yeung Wong
Feat. Sonny Chang, Kathy Chow, Hei Man Chui
- In taking advantage of the relaxation of some Asian countries regarding nudity, this comic horror mixes erotic fantasy into a tale of a wimpish…
Ju Dou (1990)
- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Gong Li
- Immaculately composed fable about a village girl who conducts an illicit affair with the nephew of the bitter factory owner she has been forced to…
Kid from Tibet, A (1990)
- Dir. Yuen Biao
Feat. Biao Yuen, Michelle Reis, Wah Yuen
- Amiable, energetic actioner stars the director as a young monk who must avenge a friend's death using Tibetan magic, pyrotechnics and a host of…
Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Martin Scorsese
- Opinions vary wildly over this sequence of eight re–enactments of Akira's very own dreams – stunning photography and subtle use of…
Life and Nothing But (1990)
- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azema
- Philippe Noiret plays a Missing–in–Action chief officer whose obsession to account for the anonymous casualties of WW1 draws him to a…
Little Gangster, The (Le Petit Criminel) (1990)
- Dir. Jacques Doillon
Feat. Gerald Thomassin, Richard Anconina, Clotilde Courau
- Jacques Doillon (PONETTE) combines his eye for youthful naturalism with technical and storytelling assurance in this neatly formed movie about a…