, 1h39 Directed byMark Peploe OriginFrance GenresDrama, Romance ActorsWillem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Rufus Sewell, Irène Jacob, Jean Yanne, Irm Hermann Rating61% Through a business misadventure, the European Axel Heyst (Willem Dafoe) ends up living on an island in what is now Indonesia with a Chinese assistant Wang (Ho Li). Heyst visits a nearby island when a female band is playing at a hotel owned by Mr. Schomberg. Schomberg attempts to force himself sexually on one of the band members, Alma (Irene Jacob). Alma is about to be sold to Schomberg by the corrupt leader/director of the band who has enslaved the women for prostitution. She begs Heyst to help her. Having sworn-off close relationships because of his past, he is challenged by her request, but accedes to help her. He escapes from the island with Alma, and they go back to his island and eventually become lovers. Schomberg seeks revenge by attempting to frame Heyst for the "murder" of a man who had died of natural causes and later by sending three desperadoes Pedro, Martin Ricardo (Rufus Sewell), and Mr. Jones (Sam Neill) to Heyst's island with a lie about treasure hidden on the island. Upon their arrival at the island, much intrigue ensues. Jones kills Pedro and then Martin in a climactic scene in which Alma is also shot and soon dies in the arms of Axel. After burning his compound and burying Alma, Axel disappears from the island but is rumored to have later been seen as a drifter in San Francisco and other ports of call. Alma's victory, in death, is having saved Axel's life in that he has again made connections with others.
, 1h39 Directed byMark Peploe OriginFrance GenresDrama, Romance ActorsWillem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Rufus Sewell, Irène Jacob, Jean Yanne, Irm Hermann Rating61% Through a business misadventure, the European Axel Heyst (Willem Dafoe) ends up living on an island in what is now Indonesia with a Chinese assistant Wang (Ho Li). Heyst visits a nearby island when a female band is playing at a hotel owned by Mr. Schomberg. Schomberg attempts to force himself sexually on one of the band members, Alma (Irene Jacob). Alma is about to be sold to Schomberg by the corrupt leader/director of the band who has enslaved the women for prostitution. She begs Heyst to help her. Having sworn-off close relationships because of his past, he is challenged by her request, but accedes to help her. He escapes from the island with Alma, and they go back to his island and eventually become lovers. Schomberg seeks revenge by attempting to frame Heyst for the "murder" of a man who had died of natural causes and later by sending three desperadoes Pedro, Martin Ricardo (Rufus Sewell), and Mr. Jones (Sam Neill) to Heyst's island with a lie about treasure hidden on the island. Upon their arrival at the island, much intrigue ensues. Jones kills Pedro and then Martin in a climactic scene in which Alma is also shot and soon dies in the arms of Axel. After burning his compound and burying Alma, Axel disappears from the island but is rumored to have later been seen as a drifter in San Francisco and other ports of call. Alma's victory, in death, is having saved Axel's life in that he has again made connections with others.
, 2h3 Directed byBernardo Bertolucci OriginItalie GenresDrama, Historical ThemesFilms about religion, Films about Tibet, Films about Buddhism ActorsKeanu Reeves, Bridget Fonda, Chris Isaak, Jo Champa, Bhisham Sahni, Anupam Shyam Saikia Rating61% Tibetan Buddhist monks from a monastery in Bhutan, led by Lama Norbu (Ruocheng Ying), are searching for a child who is the rebirth of a great Buddhist teacher, Lama Dorje (Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen). Lama Norbu and his fellow monks believe they have found a candidate for the child in whom Lama Dorje is reborn: an American boy named Jesse Conrad (Alex Wiesendanger), the young son of an architect and a teacher who live in Seattle. The monks come to Seattle in order to meet the boy.
, 2h18 Directed byBernardo Bertolucci OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, Adventure, Romance ThemesFilms set in Africa, Le désert ActorsDebra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott, Jill Bennett, Timothy Spall, Éric Vu-An Rating66% Three Americans from New York arrive in Tangier in 1947. Port Moresby (John Malkovich) and his wife Kit (Debra Winger) are accompanied by their friend George Tunner (Campbell Scott) on a trip that will take them deep into the Sahara Desert. Tunner observes, "We're probably the first tourists they've had since the war" to which Kit replies, "We're not tourists. We're travelers." While Tunner plans to return home in a few weeks, Port and Kit plan on staying for a year or two.
, 1h30 Directed byClare Peploe OriginUnited-kingdom GenresComedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance ThemesSeafaring films, Transport films ActorsJacqueline Bisset, James Fox, Irène Papas, Kenneth Branagh, Lesley Manville, Robert Stephens Roles Writer Rating53% Katherine (Jacqueline Bisset) is an English photographer who, with her husband Patrick (James Fox), came to live at a coastal town on Rhodes before the tourists discovered it. Their thirteen-year-old daughter Chloe (Ruby Baker) grew up there, and even though Kath and Patrick have separated, they have both stayed on. He supports himself through his sculpture pieces, which Kath despises, and she, by her photography books featuring antiquities and peasant life, which he finds fuddy-duddy.
, 1h50 Directed byRené Clément OriginFrance GenresThriller, Crime ActorsMaria Schneider, Sydne Rome, Vic Morrow, Robert Vaughn, Renato Pozzetto, Nadja Tiller Rating54% A Rome, Michelle et Anne sont colocataires depuis deux mois. Michelle fait de la sculpture moderne et aussi du baby-sitting pour arrondir ses fins de mois. Anne fait du cinéma, des tout petits rôles. Elle entre en conflit avec l'équipe de tournage, ne désirant plus tourner nue depuis un récent accident de voiture. En même temps Henderson l'homme d'affaire du richissime Cyrus Franklin s'intéresse à elle.