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How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the AttemptHow to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt (1991)
Dir. Ana Belen
Feat. Carmen Maura, Antonio Resines
Carmen Maura, the morning–star of many an early Almodovar film, enlivens this slight–ish, breezy comedy of domestic meltdown, having to…
Ripoux Contre RipouxRipoux Contre Ripoux (1991)
Dir. Claude Zidi
Feat. Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Guy Marchand
Sequel to LES RIPOUX reunites the odd couple of petty corrupt cops for another comic round of mischevious errors.
Tatie DanielleTatie Danielle (1991) Recommended
Dir. Etienne Chatiliez
Feat. Tsilla Chelton, Catherine Jacob, Isabelle Nanty
Brilliantly absurd black comedy about an elderly widow who does her best to make life miserable for her relatives. Tsilla Chelton is irresistible as…
Volere VolareVolere Volare (1991)
Dir. Maurizio Nichetti
Feat. Maurizio Nichetti
From the director of THE ICICLE THIEF comes another enjoyable comic fantasy inter–relating real and fictional worlds. Nichetti himself plays a…
Chinese Ghost Story 2Chinese Ghost Story 2 (1990) Recommended
Dir. Ching Siu Tung
Feat. Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Jacky Cheung
The original cast return for another surreal, big–budget fantasy that delivers as much as the first one, with more of a comedic slant. This…
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…

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