Subgenre Sampler
Female-centric: 788 Films to Buy & Rent
Basic Instinct (1992)
- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas
- Sharon Stone leapt into fame, fortune and notoriety with her raunchy portrayal of the sultry crime novelist who may or may not be living out her…
Body of Evidence (1992)
- Dir. Uli Edel
Feat. Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna…
- Madonna does the femme fatale thing. Willem Dafoe does the lawyer whose penis clouds his judgement thing. Did she bonk the old geyser to death for…
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1992)
- Dir. Dan Hoskins
Feat. Jamie Rose, Catherine Carlen, Lycia Naff
- Hit–and–miss parody of zombie and biker flicks with a feminist–revenge kick. An improvement from the dreaded 'Troma' label.
Crazy in Love (1992)
- Dir. Martha Coolidge
Feat. Holly Hunter, Gena Rowlands
- Romantic complications ensue for three generations of women – especially Holly Hunter – whose worries about her 'perfect' husband's…
Crush (1992)
- Dir. Alison Maclean
Feat. Marcia Gay Harden
- A downbeat analysis of female personal politics, with Marcia Gay Harden, an American vixen in Rotorua who neglects her dear friend recently paralysed…
Dragon Inn (New Dragon Gate Inn) (1992)
- Dir. Tsui Hark
Feat. Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung (Kar-fai)…
- Gory Ming Dynasty–set epic in which forces of good and evil clash swords over the fate of feudal China. An extravagant climax, featuring…
Enchanted April (1992)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, Polly Walker…
- A gentle, lucid ensemble piece about four women who escape the constrictions of Edwardian London for a month in a castle on the Riviera.
Forbidden Love (1992)
- Dir. Aerlyn Weissman, Lynne Fernie
- A wonderful collection of vignettes that celebrates the experiences and defiance of a dazzlingly diverse bunch of Canadian lesbians who came out in…
League of Their Own, A (1992)
- Dir. Penny Marshall
Feat. Geena Davis, Madonna, Tom Hanks…
- Good–natured comedy centres around the female baseball league that formed while the men were off fighting in WW2.
Leaving Normal (1992)
- Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Christine Lahti, Meg Tilly
- Post–THELMA AND LOUISE female–bonding drama with the ever–likeable Christine Lahti and Meg Tilly, who abandon their lives of…