1990 Movies

British TV-special with Barry Humphries, AKA Dame Edna

Twenty-one years (1968 - 1989) in the life of violinist Jan, whose life and social situation forced him to make compromises and personal concessions.

The Hans Christian Andersen classic is given present-day relevance and an upbeat ending in this story of Angela, a homeless child who sells...

Stretching across the canvas of the Sino-Japanese War of the 30s, the subsequent Japanese surrender in 1945, and the onslaught of Communism, this...

Middle class parents, who already have three kids, take in their four orphaned nephews.

This one is a collage of Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s and 1960s, filmed directly from the television set. The constantly recurring motifs of...

1926. The Chinese Civil War. Drifter Ted Beaubien is captured and forced to witness his girlfriend's execution. He finally escapes and vows to avenge...

Set in Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1938, about two children who play together and who are great friends. However their days of friendship are...

Humpty was an overgrown, misunderstood egg. But one day, he ended up in the right place at the right time and his luck changed. When he overheard...

"The Crown Bride" - Kersti, Mats fiancee, has given birth to their illegitimate son with the help of an old midwife. Kersti and Mats are about to get...

A man obsessed with crossword puzzles ignores his wife's desire for intimacy

The story of Mebrure, who came to Istanbul to search for her father, who went missing after the Greek occupation..

Spies force two British con men to pose as look-alike scientists peddling cheap-energy fusion.

Just after he turns sixteen, Robert finds out that he is adopted. His parents find to their horror that he was kidnaped from his real parents. They...

Logan Blade is a tough police officer who has to confront a gang led by ruthless Colonel Walsh.

The film constructs a strongly conventionalised and symbolic world out of the diary fragments of a man who underwent an alcohol detoxification...

The CIA and the KGB both pursue a former operative (Dennehy) who seemingly has become unstable.

A respected actor (David Steinberg) provides the voice for a dog on a sitcom.

This special has the band hiring a slick-talking new manager in an attempt to make a comeback. Under his guidance, the Raisins try their hand at...

An alien visits Earth during World War III, learns English by absorbing a dictionary, and meets good and bad earthlings.

This BBC documentary tells the history of the Python group, allowing a few glimpses at the works of its predecessors (At Last the 1948 Show, Do Not...

Tourfilm (1990) is a documentary-style concert film by American rock band R.E.M. The film chronicles the band's 1989 Green tour of North America....

Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders offers the most penetrating insights and the best...

A beautiful artist stumbles onto a murder just as the killer is leaving. After he levels a brutal blow to her head, she wakes up blind, and the only...

Following the trail of a samurai ancestor, two Japanese businessmen on a quest for spiritual fulfillment arrive in Africa with a group of tourists,...

Two security van personnel plan to rob a bank in an attempt to raise enough cash to mount a rescue mission when a dictator invades the Falklands.

A group of schoolchildren sets up a police force to stand up to the school bullies, but things soon get out of hand..

Behind the scenes of the documentary series The Trials Of Life showing how some of the footage was captured and interviews with the experts that...

Longtime San Francisco filmmaker Dominic Angerame turns the classical city symphony on its head by focusing on demolition rather than...

This made-for-TV documentary introduces the layperson to concepts and technologies that were emerging in computer interface design in the late 1980s...

In this remake of the Oscar-winning film, "Three Coins in the Fountain," three vacationing American women find fun and romance during their visit to...

Bronx Cheers is a 1991 short film directed by Raymond De Felitta. It follows Danny who returns to the Bronx after serving in World War II. He dreams...

Unsold TV pilot about two young race car drivers compete on and off the track.

Teens on a study program abroad have to learn survival techniques when they crash on an uncharted Malaysian island.