The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend

1991

English

6.8

♡ 9

79%

Frank C. Schroeder Director

Millie Perkins as Helen Maravich

Tom Lester as Pete

Nick Cardona as Postman

Nick Benedict as Press Maravich

A story about the great basketball player "Pistol" Pete Maravich when he was in the eighth grade. He plays on the varsity basketball team at Daniel High School but has some very difficult obstacles standing in his way of playing. The only support he has is from his father, retired basketball pro Press Maravich.

The Resurrected

1991

English

6.2

♡ 13

spontaneous combustion

Dan O'Bannon Director

Chris Sarandon as Charles Dexter Ward / Joseph Curwen

Deep Roy as Main Monster

Paul Jarrett as Town Father #1

Philip Maurice Hayes as Uniform Cop

Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.

Riff-Raff

1991

English

♡ 11

90%

Ken Loach Director

Maureen Carr as Ellen

Peter Mullan as Jake

Ricky Tomlinson as Larry

Robert Carlyle as Stevie

Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.

Shock 'Em Dead

1991

English

4.9

♡ 10

48%

Mark Freed Director

Christopher Maleki as Dustin

Suzanne Ager as Groupie #3

Frank Gallagher as Production Manager

Aldo Ray as Tony

Martin is a total loser, who nobody cares for. When he fails to get a position as guitar player in Lindsay's band and loses his job on the way, he makes a deal with a Voodoo priestess. She promises him the fulfillment of all his dreams if he swears obedience to her. He becomes a rock star and has many women - but to stay alive, he has to kill other people.

Mannequin: On the Move

1991

English

4.5

♡ 28

12%

Stewart Raffill Director

Meshach Taylor as Hollywood Montrose / Doorman

William Ragsdale as Jason Williamson / Prince William

Cynthia Harris as Mom / Queen

Wendy Worthington as Tour Guide

Although Jason works as a department store clerk, he is also a reincarnated prince. Long ago, his beloved Jessie was snatched away from him by an evil wizard who used his powers to transform her into wooden statue. Now Jessie is in Jason's department store as a mannequin. When he encounters her, she awakens from her thousand-year sleep. They quickly revive their romance, but the evil wizard has been reincarnated as well, and he's up to no good.

Edward II

1991

English

6.8

♡ 17

100%

75%

14th century

Action

based on play or musical

Drama

History

husband wife relationship

Derek Jarman Director

Roger Hammond as Bishop

Tilda Swinton as Isabella

Andrew Tiernan as Piers Gaveston

Chris McHallem as Thug

England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobility. The cold and jealous Queen Isabella conspires with the evil Mortimer to get rid of Gaveston, overthrow her husband and take power…

Class Action

1991

English

6.4

♡ 21

78%

father daughter conflict

lawyer

Thriller

Michael Apted Director

Jonathan Silverman as Brian

Joanna Merlin as Estelle Ward

Wood Moy as Mr. Minh

Laurence Fishburne as Nick Holbrook

A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.

Blonde Fist

1991

English

4.7

♡ 5

Frank Clarke Director

Jake Abraham as Eric Crane

Ken Hutchison as John O'Dowd

Julie Graham as Sylvie

Stephen Graham as Young Boy

A woman attempts to escape her domestic problems by fleeing to New York in search of her father. She finds him, and also new problems, some friendship, a romance, and an unexpected career as pro-boxer, to make ends meet.

Not Without My Daughter

1991

English

6.5

♡ 27

50%

Brian Gilbert Director

Sally Field as Betty Mahmoody

Sheila Rosenthal as Mahtob

Alfred Molina as Moody

Sarah Badel as Nicole

An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.

Blue Note

1991

French

6.2

♡ 9

Andrzej Zulawski Director

Clément Harari as Demogorgon

Féodor Atkine as Eugène Delacroix

Marie-France Pisier as George Sand

Sophie Marceau as Solange Sand

A look at the last few days of in the life of composer Frédéric Chopin's professional life.

The Indian Runner

1991

English

6.9

♡ 23

76%

80%

1960s

Action

brother brother relationship

Sean Penn Director

Patricia Arquette as Dorothy

Viggo Mortensen as Frank Roberts

Valeria Golino as Maria

Charles Bronson as Mr. Roberts

Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things which his brother desperately tries to point out to him.

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

1991

English

6.1

♡ 49

29%

los angeles, california

Thriller

Western

Simon Wincer Director

Mickey Rourke as Harley Davidson

Giancarlo Esposito as Jimmy Jiles

Tia Carrere as Kimiko

Chelsea Field as Virginia Slim

It's the lawless future, and renegade biker Harley Davidson and his surly cowboy buddy, Marlboro, learn that a corrupt bank is about to foreclose on their friend's bar to further an expanding empire. Harley and Marlboro decide to help by robbing the crooked bank. But when they accidentally filch a drug shipment, they find themselves on the run from criminal financiers and the mob in this rugged action adventure.

Cast a Deadly Spell

1991

English

6.4

♡ 18

58%

Martin Campbell Director

David Warner as Amos Hackshaw

Julianne Moore as Connie Stone

Clancy Brown as Harry Bordon

Ritch Brinkley as Owl Wagon Manager

In a fantastical 1940s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.

Yumeji

1991

Japanese

6.9

♡ 6

83%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Kimiko Yo as

Michiyo Yasuda as Owner of a hotel

Yoshio Harada as Wakiya

Kenji Sawada as Yumeji Takehisa

Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

The Elementary School

1991

Czech

7.7

♡ 14

93%

Jan Sverák Director

Jan Tríska as Igor Hnizdo

Libuse Safránková as Mrs. Souckova

Rudolf Hrusínský as Schoolmaster

Václav Chalupa as Stavinoha

The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict – but also very fair. His weakness though, is his interest in young women.

The Inland Sea

1991

English

7.0

♡ 3

Lucille Carra Director

Donald Richie as Narrator

Keijo Hasegawa as Self - buddhist Priest

Akira Hamada as Self - Calligraphy Writer

Tasuya Hatanaka as Self - Young Fisherman

In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan’s Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a traditional way of life as well as his own journey of self-discovery. Twenty years later, filmmaker Lucille Carra undertook a parallel trip inspired by Richie’s by-then-classic book, capturing images of hushed beauty and meeting people who still carried on the fading customs that Richie had observed. Interspersed with surprising detours—a visit to a Frank Sinatra-loving monk, a leper colony, an ersatz temple of plywood and plaster—and woven together by Richie’s narration as well as a score by celebrated composer Toru Takemitsu, The Inland Sea is an eye-opening voyage and a profound meditation on what it means to be a foreigner.

London Kills Me

1991

English

6.0

♡ 5

59%

Action

Comedy

Drama

Hanif Kureishi Director

Tony Haygarth as Burns

Sean Pertwee as German Tourist

Brad Dourif as Hemingway the Restaurant Manager

Rowena King as Melanie

For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible" pair of shoes, an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him.

35 Up

1991

English

8.0

♡ 6

94%

Michael Apted Director

Lynn Johnson as Herself

Nicholas Hitchon as Himself

Neil Hughes as Himself

Michael Apted as Interviewer

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

Do or Die

1991

English

4.4

♡ 22

39%

Andy Sidaris Director

Dona Speir as Donna Hamilton

James Lew as Lew

William Bumiller as Lucas

Erik Estrada as Richard 'Rico' Estevez

Asian crime boss Kaneshiro captures two voluptuous undercover federal agents, Donna and Nicole. But instead of liquidating them, he gives the busty duo a head start in a deadly cat-and-mouse game involving six other assassin teams. The heated action takes them from Hawaii to Las Vegas and Louisiana.