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Elementary School, TheElementary School, The (1990) Recommended
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…
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…
Match Factory Girl, TheMatch Factory Girl, The (1990)
Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Kati Outinen, Elina Salo
Aki Kaurismaki concludes his "Proletariat Trilogy" with this bleakly ironic fable following the drab fortunes of a factory–worker (Kati…
Nasty Girl, TheNasty Girl, The (1990)
Dir. Michael Verhoeven
Feat. Lena Stolze, Hans-Reinhard Muller, Monika Baumgartner
Poignant comedy about an essay prize–winning scholar who creates community havoc when she decides to write about her home town during the Third…
Skinny Tiger Fatty DragonSkinny Tiger Fatty Dragon (Shou hu fei long) (1990)
Dir. Liu Chia Liang
Feat. Sammo Hung, Liu Chia Liang, Carrie Ng
Amusing action spoof starring the incomparable Samo Hung as one of a pair of bumbling cops who go on the hunt for drug traffickers in Hong Kong, but…
A World Without PityA World Without Pity (Un Monde Sans Pitie) (1989)
Dir. Eric Rochant
Feat. Hippolyte Girardot, Mireille Perrier, Yvan Attal
A young Parisian slacker falls in love with an ambitious, bright student but finds the tables turning on his egocentric existence. Rochant's debut…
I Want To Go HomeI Want To Go Home (1989)
Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Linda Lavin, Laura Benson
Satirical French comedy focused on a washed–up American comic artist who reluctantly visits France for an exhibition, only to run into his…
Icicle Thief, TheIcicle Thief, The (1989) Recommended
Dir. Maurizio Nichetti
Feat. Maurizio Nichetti
Italy's answer to Woody Allen directs and stars in this zany love story–cum–media satire using the film–within–a–film…
Leningrad Cowboys Go AmericaLeningrad Cowboys Go America (Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses, Total Balalaika Show) (1989) Recommended
Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Jim Jarmusch
Laconic, often funny road movie follows an awful Soviet rock group with outlandish hairstyles across backwater USA. Director is Europe's answer to…

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