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Directed by Bertrand BlierOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes La provenceActors Anouk Grinberg,
Marcello Mastroianni,
Myriam Boyer,
Olivier Martinez,
Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Claude BrasseurRating62%
The film follows the life of a young woman in the poor section of Marseille, France. She has to deal with many things, including a drunken father and harassing cliques. Many times she hallucinates the ghosts of dead friends., 1h36
Directed by Kenneth JohnsonOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
CrimeThemes Sherlock Holmes films,
Buddy filmsActors Anthony Higgins,
Debrah Farentino,
Ken Pogue,
Kerry Sandomirsky,
Joy Coghill,
Devon SawaRating62%
Sherlock Holmes is awakened in modern times from suspended animation as a result of an earthquake. He is aided in his recovery by Dr. Amy Winslow (Debrah Farentino), who lives in Baker Street in San Francisco. Holmes pits his wits against the descendants of the Moriarty family, led by James Moriarty Booth. He is also aided by a new group of Baker Street Irregulars led by Zapper (Mark Adair-Rios)., 1h30
Directed by Herbert RossOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Action,
CrimeThemes Spy filmsActors Kathleen Turner,
Dennis Quaid,
Fiona Shaw,
Stanley Tucci,
Obba Babatundé,
Dennis LipscombRating60%
Turner and Quaid play Jane and Jefferson Blue, a wise-cracking couple of spies for an unnamed U.S. covert organization on maternity leave in New Orleans with their baby daughter whom they dote on, though they are unable to agree on whether her name should be Louise Jane or Jane Louise. With the baby's arrival, they have decided to move on to "Chapter Two" of their marriage, retiring from field assignment in an attempt to give their daughter a normal life. However, events continually conspire to draw them back into their old lives, including fruitless attacks by a frustrated mugger (played by Stanley Tucci) while being called back into service to combat a psychotic Czech arms dealer (played by Fiona Shaw)., 1h44
Directed by Vadim Jean,
Gary SinyorOrigin United-kingdomGenres ComedyThemes Films about religion,
Films about Jews and JudaismActors Connie Booth,
Maryam d'Abo,
Janet Suzman,
Mark Frankel,
Gina Bellman,
Vincent RiottaRating56%
Jewish estate agent Leon Geller, who lives in London, discovers his father is not actually local businessman Sidney Geller but Yorkshire Dales pig farmer Brian Chadwick.Freaked (1993)
on 11 september 1993 , 1h20
Directed by Alex Winter,
Tom SternOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Comedy,
Horror,
Comic science fictionThemes Comedy science fiction films,
Comedy horror filmsActors Alex Winter,
Michael Stoyanov,
William Sadler,
Megan Ward,
Mr. T,
Brooke ShieldsRating62%
Skye (Brooke Shields) is interviewing beloved former child star Ricky Coogin (Alex Winter). Rather bluntly, Skye asks how Ricky so quickly went from one of America's sweethearts to a name that makes children scream in terror., 2h19
Directed by Wayne WangOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Feminist films,
Films about sexuality,
Political filmsActors Ming-Na Wen,
Rosalind Chao,
Lauren Tom,
France Nuyen,
Tamlyn Tomita,
Kieu ChinhRating76%
The Joy Luck Club was formed by four women in San Francisco: Lindo Jong (Tsai Chin), Ying-Ying St. Clair (France Nuyen), An-Mei Hsu (Lisa Lu), and Suyuan Woo (Kieu Chinh). The members have mainly played mahjong and told each other's stories over the years. They emigrated from their native country, China, remarried, and gave birth to children in America. Suyuan's daughter June (Ming-Na Wen) replaced her when Suyuan died four months before the time the film is set. The mothers have high hopes for their daughters' success, but the daughters struggle through "anxieties, feelings of inadequacy, and failures." Throughout the film, the mothers and daughters bond by learning to understand each other and by overcoming their conflicts., 1h38
Directed by Kevin TenneyOrigin USAGenres HorrorThemes Ghost filmsActors Ami Dolenz,
Laraine Newman,
John Gatins,
Timothy Gibbs,
Marvin KaplanRating50%
Paige (Ami Dolenz), a beautiful artist moves into a new apartment. She starts receiving messages through a Ouija board, claiming to be from the former occupant of her apartment, Susan Sydney. The former tenant claims she's been murdered, but there's no record of a murder or even her death. Paige sets out to solve the murder and as she gets closer to solving Susan's death, the death toll rises. Paige soon fears she might be next., 2h21
Directed by Roger SpottiswoodeOrigin USAGenres Drama,
ComedyThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
Documentary films about health care,
Films about viral outbreaks,
LGBT-related films,
Sida et LGBT,
HIV/AIDS in film,
LGBT-related filmActors Matthew Modine,
Alan Alda,
Patrick Bauchau,
Anjelica Huston,
Lawrence Monoson,
Richard GereRating77%
In a prologue set in 1976, American epidemiologist Don Francis arrives in a village on the banks of the Ebola River in Zaire and discovers many of the residents and the doctor working with them have died from a mysterious illness later identified as Ebola hemorrhagic fever. It is his first exposure to such an epidemic, and the images of the dead he helps cremate will haunt him when he later becomes involved with HIV/AIDS research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention., 2h1
Directed by Tony ScottOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Action,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Mafia films,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Transport films,
Road movies,
Gangster filmsActors Christian Slater,
Patricia Arquette,
Dennis Hopper,
Val Kilmer,
Gary Oldman,
Brad PittRating78%
Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) watches a Sonny Chiba triple feature at a Detroit movie theater on his birthday where he meets Alabama Whitman (Patricia Arquette). They go to a diner and flirt with each other. At Clarence's apartment they have sex. She confesses that she is a call girl hired by Clarence's boss as his birthday present. Each claims to have fallen in love and they marry and express their commitment with one another by getting tattoos. An apparition of Elvis Presley (Val Kilmer) tells Clarence that killing her pimp will make the world a better place., 1h45
Directed by Russell MulcahyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Heist films,
Gangster films,
EscroquerieActors Kim Basinger,
Val Kilmer,
Terence Stamp,
Gailard Sartain,
Raynor Scheine,
Andrew StahlRating55%
Karen McCoy (Kim Basinger) is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcerated Karen was the bank robber of her time, but now she wishes for nothing more than to settle down and start a new life., 1h40
Directed by Ramón MenéndezOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Action,
CrimeActors John Cusack,
Debi Mazar,
Michael Madsen,
Benicio del Toro,
Michael Rapaport,
Philip Seymour HoffmanRating56%
Joey (John Cusack) is an unemployed longshoreman who finds a bag full of money that fell out of the back of an armored car. Joey forces his friend Kenny Kozlowski (Michael Rapaport) to drive Kenny's car in the lake to hide the tire tracks. Unknown to them, a local boy witnesses them doing the crime. Joey tells Kenny that he's not going to turn the money in and will keep it for himself. Joey refuses to tell his family about it. The police are investigating the missing money and the local boy tells them about the car. The police find the car in the lake and trace it back to Kenny's house. Later, the police head to Kenny's house. During that, Kenny's dad beats his son with a belt and Kenny tells the police that Joey took the money. The neighbors overhear this and word spreads around the city that Joey took the money. Joey and his girlfriend head to the airport to leave the country, until they get arrested.