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MGM-Pathé Communications was a movie production company that operated in the United States in 1990 and 1992. It was founded and controlled by Italian financier Giancarlo Parretti through his purchase and merger of MGM/UA Communications Co. and Pathé Communications (unrelated to the French studio). The company was overshadowed by Parretti's fraudulent schemes and he found himself ousted from the studio in less than a year.
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(1991)Filmography of MGM-Pathé Communications (6 films)
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Add to a movie listThelma & Louise (1991)
, 2h9Directed by Ridley Scott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Crime
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Transport films, Rape in fiction, LGBT-related films, Films about automobiles, Political films, Road movies, Buddy films, Chase films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Brad Pitt, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald
Two friends, Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis) and Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon), set out for a two-day vacation to take a break from their dreary lives. Thelma is married to a controlling man, Darryl (Christopher McDonald), while Louise works as a waitress in a diner, and is dating a musician who spends most of his time on the road. They head out in Louise's 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible, but their vacation in the mountains quickly turns into a nightmare before they reach their destination.
Liebestraum (1991)
, 1h52Directed by Mike Figgis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime, Romance
Actors Kevin Anderson, Pamela Gidley, Bill Pullman, Kim Novak, Graham Beckel, Karen Sillas
The story follows two affairs, a generation apart. Nick (Kevin Anderson), a professor of architecture in upstate New York, comes to an Illinois town to be with his birth mother (Kim Novak) in the final days of her illness; he was adopted and has never met her before. On the first day, he runs into Paul (Bill Pullman), a college friend, whose construction company is demolishing an old, downtown department store where a murder-suicide happened 30 years before. The building is a beautiful cast-iron construction, so Nick wants to study it before the demolition. Paul introduces Nick to his wife, Jane (Pamela Gidley), a photographer who wants to portray the same building. Over the next four days, Nick and Jane's attraction grows, as Nick explores the old building, attends his mother's bedside, and unravels the truth that links both of them with the developing events in his and Jane's life.
, 1h38Directed by Simon Wincer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Motocyclette, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Mickey Rourke, Don Johnson, Chelsea Field, Daniel Baldwin, Giancarlo Esposito, Tia Carrere
The film is set in the then-future of 1996 in Los Angeles. Harley Davidson (Mickey Rourke) is in a motel in Texas when he hears about a dangerous new street drug named "Crystal Dream" on the radio. The significance of this street drug does not arise again until later in the film. Harley then meets a lifelong friend, a cowboy who is nicknamed The Marlboro Man (Don Johnson) and they later plan a bank robbery to help save their friend's bar from being foreclosed and replaced with a skyscraper. However, after they rob a bank's armored car, they discover the cargo they stole is the designer drug "Crystal Dream", not money. Chance Wilder (Tom Sizemore), who is a bank president involved in drug dealing, demands the return of the drugs. A series of increasingly deadly encounters ensue as heavily armed assassins (who work for the bank) hunt for Harley and Marlboro. Much of it was actually filmed in and around Tucson, Arizona and the "Boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
Quigley Down Under (1990)
, 1h55Directed by Simon Wincer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Ben Mendelsohn, Chris Haywood, Ron Haddrick
Matthew Quigley (Tom Selleck) is a cowboy and sharpshooter from America with a keen eye and a specially modified rifle with which he can shoot accurately at extraordinary distances. Quigley's weapon of choice is a customized 1874 Sharps Buffalo Rifle. He answers a newspaper advertisement that asks for men with a special talent in long-distance shooting with four words, "M. Quigley 900 yards," written on a copy of the advertisement, punctuated by several closely spaced bullet holes.
Death Warrant (1990)
, 1h33Directed by Deran Sarafian
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Crime, Martial arts
Themes Prison films, Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Jean-Claude Van Damme, Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb, Art LaFleur, George Dickerson, Patrick Kilpatrick
Detective Louis Burke (Jean-Claude Van Damme) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from Quebec, confronts the maniac that killed his partner on the force. The villain named Christian Naylor - called the Sandman (Patrick Kilpatrick) is tracked down to an abandoned house in Los Angeles. Although the Sandman nearly kills him, Burke is able to shoot the Sandman several times, but not killing him.
The Russia House (1990)
, 2h2Directed by Fred Schepisi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney, J. T. Walsh
Bartholomew "Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery), the head of a British publishing firm, is on a business trip to Moscow. He attends a writers' retreat near Peredelkino where he speaks of an inevitable New World Order and an end to tensions with the West. Attentively listening is a man called Dante (Goethe in the novel) (Klaus Maria Brandauer), who wants to be convinced that Barley means what he says. It transpires that Dante is in fact a renowned physicist who has secretly written a manuscript detailing the Soviet Union's nuclear missile capabilities.