Only the Lonely

1991

English

6.4

♡ 22

67%

Chris Columbus Director

John Candy as Danny Muldoon

Marvin J. McIntyre as Father Strapovic

Maureen O'Hara as Rose Muldoon

Bert Remsen as Spats

Danny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna, whose father owns the local funeral parlour. Naturally, his mother objects to the relationship, and Danny and Theresa must either overcome her objections or give up the romance.

Madame Bovary

1991

French

♡ 9

63%

60%

adultery

based on novel or book

Claude Chabrol Director

Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as (as Louis de Lancquesaing)

Dominique Zardi as Blind Man

Isabelle Huppert as Emma Bovary

Christophe Malavoy as Rodolphe Boulanger

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.

The Efficiency Expert

1991

English

6.2

♡ 7

67%

Mark Joffe Director

Ben Mendelsohn as Carey

Anthony Hopkins as Errol Wallace

Russell Crowe as Kim Barry

Toni Collette as Wendy Robinson

Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.

Shattered

1991

English

6.5

♡ 22

40%

san francisco, california

Thriller

wife

Wolfgang Petersen Director

Tom Berenger as Dan Merrick

Theodore Bikel as Dr. Berkus

Corbin Bernsen as Jeb Scott

Debi A. Monahan as Nancy Mercer

Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet shop owner and part time private detective Gus Klein who has supposedly done some work for him prior to the accident. Klein helps Merrick to find out more...

Defenseless

1991

English

5.5

♡ 9

37%

Martin Campbell Director

Jay O. Sanders as Bull Dozer

Christine Elise as Cindy Bodeck

Sandy Martin as Judge

Sheree North as Mrs. Bodeck

A Los Angeles lawyer defends her former college roommate, whose husband — her lover — has been slain.

Shoot for the Contents

1991

English

6.1

♡ 1

Action

Documentary

woman director

T. Minh-ha Trinh Director

Reflecting on Mao's famous saying, "Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend," Trinh T. Minh-ha's film — whose title refers in part to a Chinese guessing game — is a unique excursion into the maze of allegorical naming and storytelling in China.

In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas

1991

English

6.4

♡ 3

Dick Lowry Director

Michael Gross as Agent Richard Mayberly

Ray McKinnon as Bob Cheshire

Michael Dolan as Earl Mackie

Lonnie R. Smith Jr. as Jim Hall

From the "In the Line of Duty" made-for-television movie series, Manhunt in the Dakotas is based on the true story of cop-killer/white supremacist Gordon Kahl.

House Party 2

1991

English

5.3

♡ 16

27%

Doug McHenry Director

Martin Lawrence as Bilal

Christopher Michael as Cop #1

Tisha Campbell-Martin as Sidney

Whoopi Goldberg as The Professor

Kid'N'Play leave their neighborhood and enter the world of adulthood and higher education. Play attempts to get rich quick in the music business while Kid faces the challenges of college.

Queen of the Underworld

1991

Cn

5.3

♡ 7

14%

Sherman Wong Director Ray Lui

Ray Lui as

Lung Fei as

Pak-Kwong Ho as

Dennis Chan as

Popular Hong Kong actress Amy Yip plays Sister Har -- a seminal figure in 1960s and '70s Hong Kong nightlife -- in this biographical film that follows the scenester's rise and fall from the upper echelons of society to the glamour and excess of Hong Kong's teeming underworld. A truly fascinating portrait of the allure and excess that were part of the fabric of Asia's favorite playground.

Legend of the Brothers

1991

Cn

6.8

♡ 2

Action

Crime

Drama

Siu-Hung Chung Director

Kenneth Tsang as

Mark Houghton as

Stephen Chang as

Nina Li Chi as Movie Star

Chronicles the rise of two brothers from their start in the 1940'sas illegal immigrants from China to the 1970's when they became the heads of the most powerful triad group in Hong Kong. Kent Cheng is the wise brother who must constantly help out his rash younger brother, Ray Lui. Another one of these true-life stories that seems to glorify triad life. Predictable at best.

Tricky Brains

1991

Cn

7.0

♡ 10

80%

Action

Comedy

Romance

Jing Wong Director

Andy Lau as Chi Man-Kit

Stephen Chow as Koo Jing / Chi Man-Jing

Rosamund Kwan as Lucy Ching

Waise Lee as Macky Kam

A trickster-for-hire, known as the Tricky Expert, is hired to ruin the lives of a father and son by making them think that he's a part of the family.

The Unborn

1991

English

4.8

♡ 8

25%

Rodman Flender Director

Janice Kent as Cindy DeWitt

Lisa Kudrow as Louisa Krelm

K Callan as Martha Wellington

Brooke Adams as Virginia Marshall

Joy turns to horror when a pregnant mother discovers the nightmarish truth behind her doctor's unexpected success in helping her conceive.

Tora-san Confesses

1991

Japanese

6.4

♡ 5

Action

Comedy

Drama

Yôji Yamada Director

Takashi Sasano as Fisherman

Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo

Mari Natsuki as Reiko

Hideko Yoshida as Seiko

When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But Izumi unexpectedly meets Tora-san.

The Tantana

1991

Cn

5.2

♡ 2

Sammo Kam-Bo Hung Director Ken Lo

Ken Lo as Against-Nature Boy Ma Wu

Ma Wu as Chek-Fai

Sammo Kam-Bo Hung as Gai-Lap

Ching-Ying Lam as Mud-Yuet

A Buddhist lama and an evil wizard battle for the Palace of Heaven.

North of Vortex

5.5

Constantine Giannaris Director

Valda Z. Drabla as Jackie

Kevin Graal as Narrator

Stavros Zalmas as The Poet

Howard Napper as The Sailor

A gay poet heads west from New York City in his convertible. He picks up a muscular sailor who's bisexual; then Jackie, a waitress at a diner, joins them. Jackie is attracted to the poet who rebuffs her romantic gestures; rejection fuels her continued interest in him. The sailor and the poet are bonded by sex, but the sailor's frank advances to Jackie make him uninteresting to her. The sailor can get violent, the poet is passive, Jackie is glamorous and detached. The landscape changes, they stop in cities and in the desert. They reach a lake. Who will be left out of a final pairing?

Queen of Diamonds

1991

English

6.0

100%

50%

Drama

woman director

Nina Menkes Director

Shannon Alexander as

Andrew Schierow as

Holly Erickson as

Gerardo Gaxiola as

Firdaus is a Blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape juxtaposed between glittering casino lights and the deteriorating desert oasis. Negotiating a missing husband and neighboring domestic violence, Firdaus’ world unfolds as a fragmented interplay between repetition and repressed anger.

Rue du Bac

4.6

Gabriel Aghion Director

René Ripert as Alice's lover

Andrée Gabriel as Femme Octave

Edith Scob as Judith

Geneviève Bujold as Marie Aubriac

Simon lives in an affluent intellectual environment, headed by his mother Alice. Raphael, his cousin, belongs to the poor branch of the family, but Simon adores him. So he decides to help him become a writer.

Center Stage

1991

Cn

7.4

♡ 7

Stanley Kwan Director

Daisy Tian Dai as Hsiao-Yu

Carina Lau as Lily Li / Self

Waise Lee as Li Min-wei

Maggie Cheung as Ruan Ling-yu / Self

Based on the tragic true story of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu, chronicling her rise to fame as a movie actress in Shanghai during the 1930s.

Night of the Warrior

1991

English

3.7

♡ 6

71%

Rafal Zielinski Director

Bill Erwin as Coco

Robin Antin as Dancer

James Lew as Hector Sabatei

Ken Foree as Oliver

A kickboxer has an accounting problem with the mobster (Anthony Geary) who lent him money for a nightclub.

Le jour des rois

1991

French

6.3

♡ 1

Action

Comedy

Drama

Marie-Claude Treilhou Director

Robert Lamoureux as Albert

Micheline Presle as Germaine et Marie-Louise

Jean Roquel as Hervé

Manuela Gourary as Mme Azaro, la voisine

Three old sisters get together every Sunday. For Epiphany Sunday, the program is busy: eating at the Chinese restaurant, drawing the kings and finally going to see, reluctantly, the show of the fourth sister, the extravagant one, the scandalous one, who is part of a comic troupe of the third age...

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Only the Lonely

Madame Bovary

The Efficiency Expert

Shattered

Defenseless

Shoot for the Contents

In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas

House Party 2

Queen of the Underworld

Legend of the Brothers

Tricky Brains

The Unborn

Tora-san Confesses

The Tantana

North of Vortex

Queen of Diamonds

Rue du Bac

Center Stage

Night of the Warrior

Le jour des rois