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Berkeley in the SixtiesBerkeley in the Sixties (1990) Recommended
Dir. Mark Kitchell
A lively, dense study of 1960s counter–culture in microcosm, this chronicles the rise and fall of the student movement in a Californian campus…
Gravy Train, The (TV Mini-series)Gravy Train, The (TV Mini-series) (1990-1991)
Dir. David Tucker, James Cellan Jones
Feat. Ian Richardson, Alexei Sayle, Francesca Annis
Intriguing political TV Mini–series based around a scheming Director of European Economic Community and his naive assistant travelling across…
House of Cards, The (TV Series)House of Cards, The (TV Series) (1990-1993) Recommended
Dir. Paul Seed
Feat. Ian Richardson
A sardonic and blackly humourous look at British politics, with a reptilian Ian Richardson plotting and blackmailing his way into power in three…
Maria's Story Maria's Story (A Portrait Of Love And Survival In El Salvador's Civil War) (1990)
Dir. Monona Wali, Pamela Cohen
Roger and MeRoger and Me (1990) Aro Favourite
Dir. Michael Moore
Feat. Michael Moore
A brilliantly irreverant personal odyssey by the film–maker who, equipped with a mic and a camera, endeavours to extract comment from General…
BlazeBlaze (1989)
Dir. Ron Shelton
Feat. Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Richard Jenkins
Paul Newman plays flamboyant Southern governor Earl Long, who was scandalized over a love affair with an exotic dancer (Lolita Davidovich, in a…
Cat ChaserCat Chaser (1989)
Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Peter Weller, Kelly McGillis, Charles Durning
The director atypically sidesteps controversy in adapting Elmore Leonard's political novel about a Miami hotel owner who courts danger when he…
Clarke and DaweClarke and Dawe (The Full Catastrophe) (1989-2009) Recommended
Feat. John Clarke, Bryan Dawe
Comprehensive compilation of mock interviews from Aussie comic Bryan Dawe and true–blue Kiwi John Clarke (aka Fred Dagg), whose collective…
Eight Men OutEight Men Out (1989)
Dir. John Sayles
Feat. John Cusack, Michael Rooker, Christopher Lloyd
True story of the Chicago White Sox baseball team who conspired with gamblers to lose the World Series in 1919. Finely detailed topical drama with an…
Fellow TravellerFellow Traveller (1989)
Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Ron Silver, Hart Bochner
A classy political thriller concerning the traumas of a blacklisted writer exiled in London during the McCarthy era.

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