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1. A Rage in Harlem (1991)

R | 115 min | Comedy, Crime

A gangster's girlfriend flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang are on her trail.

Director: Bill Duke | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Robin Givens, Zakes Mokae

Votes: 2,354 | Gross: $10.44M

In Competition

2. Anna Karamazoff (1991)

125 min | Drama

The story of a woman returning from a labor camp. She is looking for a person, on whose denunciation she was arrested, in order to take revenge on him, but having completed her judgment, she realizes that revenge is meaningless.

Director: Rustam Khamdamov | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Elena Solovey, Natalya Leble, Viktor Sibilyov

Votes: 150

In Competition

3. Tsareubiytsa (1991)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, History

Over seventy five years ago Russia's last Tsar and his entire family met their fate at the hands of a murderous assassin. Yet, behind the closed doors of a modern day psychiatric hospital a patient is telling the story of the event.

Director: Karen Shakhnazarov | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Oleg Yankovskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Yuriy Sherstnyov

Votes: 973

In Competition

4. Barton Fink (1991)

R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

69 Metascore

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner

Votes: 128,943 | Gross: $6.15M

In Competition

5. Life on a String (1991)

110 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A blind man's master told him that after he has broken 1000 strings on his Banjo, he can open the Banjo to get a script for his eyes. After 60 years he broke the 1000th string...

Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Zhongyuan Liu, Lei Huang, Qing Xu, Yao Er Ga

Votes: 705

In Competition

6. Bix (1991)

100 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Biopic of troubled jazz musician/composer Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931), who played with the Paul Whiteman band, among others.

Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Bryant Weeks, Emile B. Levisetti, Julia Ewing, Mark Collver

Votes: 167

In Competition

7. Europa (1991)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

69 Metascore

Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.

Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Järegård

Votes: 23,196 | Gross: $1.01M

In Competition

8. Guilty by Suspicion (1991)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama

64 Metascore

Returning to Hollywood 1951 after working in France, a movie director meets McCarthyism head-on.

Director: Irwin Winkler | Stars: Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, George Wendt, Patricia Wettig

Votes: 9,569 | Gross: $9.48M

In Competition

9. Homicide (1991)

R | 102 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

84 Metascore

A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group as a result.

Director: David Mamet | Stars: Joe Mantegna, William H. Macy, Vincent Guastaferro, J.J. Johnston

Votes: 8,169 | Gross: $2.97M

In Competition

10. Out of Life (1991)

97 min | Crime, Drama, War

A French photograher is kidnapped and held hostage in a war-torn Beirut. Slowly but surely his integrity and self-respect is broken.

Director: Maroun Bagdadi | Stars: Hippolyte Girardot, Rafik Ali Ahmad, Hussein Sbeity, Habib Hammoud

Votes: 510

In Competition

11. The Yes Man (1991)

93 min | Comedy, Drama

Cesare Botero (Nanni Moretti) is a young minister well-known to be corrupted and corrupter. He is looking for an appropriate spokesman. He finds the right person in Prof. Luciano Sandulli (... See full summary »

Director: Daniele Luchetti | Stars: Silvio Orlando, Nanni Moretti, Giulio Brogi, Anne Roussel

Votes: 886

In Competition

12. Jungle Fever (1991)

R | 132 min | Drama, Romance

78 Metascore

Friends and family of a married Black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis

Votes: 19,658 | Gross: $32.48M

In Competition

13. La Belle Noiseuse (1991)

Unrated | 238 min | Drama

The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.

Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart, Marianne Denicourt

Votes: 9,366 | Gross: $0.41M

In Competition

14. The Flesh (1991)

90 min | Drama, Romance

A peculiar love story between two weirdos.

Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Francesca Dellera, Philippe Léotard, Farid Chopel

Votes: 928

In Competition

15. The Double Life of Véronique (1991)

R | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music

86 Metascore

Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Irène Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Halina Gryglaszewska, Kalina Jedrusik

Votes: 52,945 | Gross: $2.00M

In Competition

16. The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)

143 min | Drama, Romance

A reporter stuck in a border town with an overcrowding of refugees sees a man he believes to be a long lost politician.

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Gregory Patrick Karr, Ilias Logothetis

Votes: 2,751

In Competition

17. Lune froide (1991)

92 min | Drama

Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Simon is living on unemployment benefits in a trailer ... See full summary »

Director: Patrick Bouchitey | Stars: Jean-François Stévenin, Patrick Bouchitey, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Consuelo De Haviland

Votes: 474

In Competition

18. Malina (1991)

125 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A female writer and her relationships with two different men, one joyous and one introverted.

Director: Werner Schroeter | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Lisa Kreuzer, Mathieu Carrière, Can Togay

Votes: 1,212

In Competition

19. Van Gogh (1991)

R | 158 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.

Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq, Gérard Séty

Votes: 3,309 | Gross: $0.14M

In Competition

20. A Captive in the Land (1990)

PG | 96 min | Drama

An American meteorologist spots an aircraft wreckage while flying over the Arctic. When he spots a badly injured Soviet airman, he parachutes down with first aid supplies, but an encroaching storm severely limits their chance of rescue.

Director: John Berry | Stars: Sam Waterston, Aleksandr Potapov, Keir Giles, Victor Ignatyev

Votes: 75

Un Certain Regard

21. Boyz n the Hood (1991)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama

76 Metascore

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.

Director: John Singleton | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Laurence Fishburne, Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II

Votes: 154,585 | Gross: $57.50M

Un Certain Regard

22. In the Alleys of Love (1991)

87 min

We follow a young man reflecting on his life in this thought-provoking tale of childhood. Forced to flee the devastated village of Abadan with his family at the beginning of the war, the ... See full summary »

Director: Khosrow Sinai | Stars: Mehdi Ahmadi, Yousef Jokar, Bahram Zandi, Levon Haftvan

Votes: 28

Un Certain Regard

24. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)

R | 96 min | Documentary

Documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems--nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.

Directors: Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, George Lucas

Votes: 23,223 | Gross: $1.32M

Un Certain Regard

25. Holidays on the River Yarra (1991)

88 min | Drama

Two teenagers get entangled in a criminal coup enterprise but must raise $500 each in order to set sail for Africa.

Director: Leo Berkeley | Stars: Craig Adams, Luke Elliot, Alex Menglet, Tahir Cambis

Votes: 57

Un Certain Regard

26. Ishanou (1990)

94 min

The harmony in a family in the Manipur Valley, is disrupted by the sudden transformation of a gentle, young wife into a violent woman prone to fits of wild visions. She then goes in search ... See full summary »

Director: Aribam Syam Sharma | Stars: Kiranmala, Kangabam, Tomba, Manbi

Votes: 51

Un Certain Regard

27. L'entraînement du champion avant la course (1991)

80 min | Drama

Fabrice is a knacker ;he's got three women in his life: two mistresses and one wife.Fabrice is a right-wing mediocre man even if he is not interested in politics.

Director: Bernard Favre | Stars: Richard Berry, Valérie Mairesse, Mireille Perrier, Jef Odet Sarfati

Votes: 25

Un Certain Regard

28. Treasure Island (1986)

115 min | Adventure, Fantasy

Raúl Ruiz's fabulist modern-day riff on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Vic Tayback, Martin Landau, Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Votes: 258

Un Certain Regard

29. Revenge (1989)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, History

After their daughter is murdered, a couple raises a son to avenge her.

Director: Yermek Shinarbayev | Stars: Aleksandr Pan, Valentina Tyo, Kasym Zhakibayev, Lyubov Germanova

Votes: 730

Un Certain Regard

30. Woman of the Port (1991)

110 min | Drama

Perla is a teenager who has been prostituted by her mother, Tomasa and acts as a dancer in a cabaret-brothel. The pianist who plays at the venue is a romantic singer-songwriter and ... See full summary »

Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Evangelina Sosa, Alejandro Parodi, Damián Alcázar, Patricia Reyes Spíndola

Votes: 236

Un Certain Regard

31. Laada (1991)

80 min | Drama

A richly textured film about contemporary African youth torn between traditional village ways and the promise of an urban future.

Director: Drissa Toure | Stars: Tidjane Hema, Amadou Koné, Lacina Sanou, Tidjane Sanou

Votes: 9

Un Certain Regard

32. Lebewohl, Fremde (1991)

100 min | Drama, Romance

I don't know, but when I saw this beautiful in the Cannes Festival in 1991, there was French subtitles. If we can find them, it's possible to translate them in English. I search them since many years, but I have not find.

Director: Tevfik Baser | Stars: Grazyna Szapolowska, Müsfik Kenter, Gustav-Peter Wöhler, Badi Uzzaman

Votes: 40

Un Certain Regard

34. Pogrzeb kartofla (1990)

96 min | Drama

Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he ... See full summary »

Director: Jan Jakub Kolski | Stars: Franciszek Pieczka, Adam Ferency, Mariusz Saniternik, Ewa Zukowska

Votes: 152

Un Certain Regard

35. Sango Malo (1990)

93 min | Drama

Sango Malo contrasts two views of education. The traditional headmaster represents a rigid, "Eurocentric." curriculum designed to produce docile colonial administrators. Malo, the radical ... See full summary »

Director: Bassek Ba Kobhio | Stars: Jeanne Abanda, Epaye Monny Akwa, Jean-Pierre Atangana Messi, Daniel Bakang

Votes: 44

Un Certain Regard

36. Fire! (1991)

100 min | Drama

A young forest ranger who sees that his work holds the key to the future of his country is disgusted at the short-sighted, money-grubbing ways of his superiors.

Director: Adama Drabo | Stars: Djeneba Diawara, Mamadou Fomba, Balla Moussa Keita, Diarrah Sanogo

Votes: 36

Un Certain Regard

37. Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema (1990)

PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

During the screening of the film "Daybreak" at the Liberty Cinema, movie characters suddenly come alive and begin to talk to the viewers. The situation surprises communist authorities who send a censor to the theatre.

Director: Wojciech Marczewski | Stars: Janusz Gajos, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Teresa Marczewska, Piotr Fronczewski

Votes: 1,190

Un Certain Regard

38. Ystävät, toverit (1990)

132 min | Drama

Arno Jurmala is an appreciated nickel tycoon. He has an elegant wife and he owns a huge nickel factory somewhere in Northern Finland. When he is celebrating his birthday in the late 1930s, ... See full summary »

Director: Rauni Mollberg | Stars: Mikk Mikiver, Stina Ekblad, Hannu Lauri, Paavo Liski

Votes: 124

Un Certain Regard

39. Yumeji (1991)

Not Rated | 128 min | Drama

Painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) gets involved with a beautiful widow, becoming a rival of her dead husband's ghost and the jealous lover who murdered him.

Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Kenji Sawada, Tomoko Mariya, Masumi Miyazaki, Tamasaburô Bandô

Votes: 743

Un Certain Regard

40. Jacquot of Nantes (1991)

PG | 118 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A boy growing up in Nantes during World War II around his father's auto shop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of his life, reflects on his childhood influences.

Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Brigitte De Villepoix

Votes: 1,997 | Gross: $0.15M

Out of Competition

41. Life Stinks (1991)

PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy

54 Metascore

A filthy rich businessman bets a corporate rival that he can live on the streets of L.A. without the comforts of home or money, which proves to be tougher than he thought.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Stuart Pankin

Votes: 11,313 | Gross: $4.10M

Out of Competition

42. Prospero's Books (1991)

R | 124 min | Drama, Fantasy

The magician Prospero attempts to stop his daughter's affair with an enemy.

Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc, Erland Josephson

Votes: 6,721 | Gross: $1.75M

Out of Competition

43. Rhapsody in August (1991)

PG | 98 min | Drama

Three generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa, Narumi Kayashima

Votes: 7,546 | Gross: $0.52M

Out of Competition

44. Thelma & Louise (1991)

R | 130 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

89 Metascore

Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two women escape for the crimes they committed.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen

Votes: 173,062 | Gross: $45.36M

Out of Competition

45. Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991)

R | 120 min | Documentary, Music

70 Metascore

Documentary following singer Madonna on her controversial Blond Ambition tour in 1990.

Director: Alek Keshishian | Stars: Madonna, Donna DeLory, Niki Haris, Luis Camacho

Votes: 10,033 | Gross: $15.01M

Special Screenings

46. Le film du cinéma suisse (1991)

312 min | Documentary

Thirteen Swiss filmmakers, each from their own point of view, chronicle and reconstruct the narrative of Swiss cinema, from its beginning to the present day, and in doing so, retrace the history of the country.

Directors: Jean-François Amiguet, Ernest Ansorge, Renato Berta, Bernhard Giger, Jürg Hassler, Markus Imhoof, Federico Jolli, Alain Klarer, Thomas Koerfer, Fredi M. Murer, Augusta Riva, Daniel Schmid, Michel Soutter, Jacqueline Veuve

Special Screenings

47. Young Soul Rebels (1991)

R | 105 min | Drama, Music

Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

Director: Isaac Julien | Stars: Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy, Frances Barber

Votes: 625

International Critics' Week

48. La vie des morts (1991)

54 min | Drama

A large family, traumatized by tragic deaths, reunites to wait for news about one of their cousins who is in hospital after a suicide attempt

Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Thibault de Montalembert, Roch Leibovici, Marianne Denicourt, Bernard Ballet

Votes: 463

International Critics' Week

49. Laafi - Tout va bien (1991)

98 min | Drama

After obtaining their Secondary School diplomas, some young people plan to continue their education but are not sure which area to choose.

Director: S. Pierre Yameogo | Stars: Yolande Belem, Laure Kaho, Cheick Kone, Denis Yameogo

Votes: 22

International Critics' Week

50. Robert's Movie (1992)

A bisexual foreign photojournalist arrives in Istanbul, where he believes he will be safe, after he took some photos of military action which could endanger his life. In a bar, he meets Gogo, a violent and secretive androgynous pop singer.

Director: Canan Gerede | Stars: Asli Altan, Patrick Bauchau, John Kelly, John Kelly

Votes: 23

International Critics' Week

51. Diably, diably (1991)

86 min | Drama

A film set in a small Polish village in the '60s that deals with a young girl's awakening sexuality. Mala, about 13, lives with her unmarried mother and has a boyfriend of her own age. The ... See full summary »

Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska | Stars: Danuta Szaflarska, Monika Niemczyk, Jerzy Lapinski, Krzysztof Plewka

Votes: 125

International Critics' Week

52. Trumpet #7 (1991)

89 min | Drama

A washed-up trumpet player isolates himself in his downtown apartment, much to the chagrin of his frustrated girlfriend.

Director: Adrian Velicescu | Stars: Ian MacRae, Cheryl Bianchi, Joe Baiza, Michael Moorman

Votes: 11

International Critics' Week

53. Sam & Me (1991)

R | 94 min | Drama

23-year-old Nikhil comes to Canada from India to find his fortune and is convinced by his uncle to work as a companion and care-giver to Sam, an elderly Jewish man. An unlikely friendship ensues, which gives both men new insight into life.

Director: Deepa Mehta | Stars: Ranjit Chowdhry, Peter Boretski, Om Puri, Heath Lamberts

Votes: 140

International Critics' Week

54. Liquid Dreams (1991)

R | 92 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

Eve Black finds a job as a dancer in a shady night club to find out more about the mysterious death of her sister, who danced there before she died. The club is using girls for a strange drug experiment, so she asks a cop for help.

Director: Mark Manos | Stars: Candice Daly, John Doe, Mark Manos, Karen Dahl

Votes: 251

International Critics' Week

55. Annabelle partagée (1991)

84 min | Drama, Romance

A girl unhappy in a relationship with a much older man decides to try having an affair with a male friend of her best girlfriend.

Director: Francesca Comencini | Stars: Delphine Zingg, François Marthouret, Jean-Claude Adelin, Florence Thomassin

Votes: 25

Directors' Fortnight

56. Caldo soffocante (1991)

101 min | Drama

On June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cup is taking place in Italy, Rome is ... See full summary »

Director: Giovanna Gagliardo | Stars: Christine Boisson, Ennio Fantastichini, Fiorenza Marchegiani, Maurizio Fardo

Votes: 31

Directors' Fortnight

57. Poussière de Diamant (1991)

100 min | Drama

The story of an old man who is losing his grip on reality, fighting to keep his memory in spite of the fast moving society in which he lives.

Directors: Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud, Fadhel Jaïbi | Stars: Gamil Ratib, Jalila Baccar, Fethi Haddaoui, Arona Maaouia

Votes: 20

Directors' Fortnight

58. Danzón (1991)

PG-13 | 120 min | Drama

Julia (Rojo) is a phone operator in Mexico City who divides her time between her job, her daughter and the danzon: a cuban dance very popular in Mexico and Central America. Every wednesday ... See full summary »

Director: María Novaro | Stars: María Rojo, Carmen Salinas, Tito Vasconcelos, Margarita Isabel

Votes: 687 | Gross: $0.36M

Directors' Fortnight

59. És mégis... (1991)

95 min | Drama

Leaving his family behind after a conflict with his colleagues, a leading editor at Hungary's state television network travels alone to his country house in the Badacsony region, and reflects on his past, his guilt and the old compromises.

Director: Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács | Stars: András Kozák, László Mensáros, Lili Monori, Irén Bordán

Directors' Fortnight

60. Lost in Siberia (1991)

Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, Romance

A political drama about Stalin's prison-camp system in Russia.

Director: Aleksandr Mitta | Stars: Anthony Andrews, Vladimir Ilin, Elena Mayorova, Irina Mikhalyova

Votes: 358

Directors' Fortnight

61. O drapetis (1991)

105 min | Drama

In early 1950s Athens, an idealist shadow player, after forty years of dedicated work, witnesses the end of an era and the demise of his once popular art with the arrival of cinema.

Director: Lefteris Xanthopoulos | Stars: Giorgos Ninios, Kostas Kazakos, Dora Masklavanou, Stratos Tzortzoglou

Votes: 85

Directors' Fortnight

62. Ovo malo duse (1987 TV Movie)

78 min | Drama

A bitter coming-of-age story about boy who grows up in a remote Bosnian village shortly after the WW II.

Director: Ademir Kenovic | Stars: Branko Djuric, Boro Stjepanovic, Zaim Muzaferija, Sasa Petrovic

Votes: 789

Directors' Fortnight

63. Paris Trout (1991 TV Movie)

R | 100 min | Drama

In a small Georgia town in the 1950s, bigoted store owner Paris Trout kills a young black girl when his brother refuses to pay his debts.

Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris, Ray McKinnon

Votes: 1,650

Directors' Fortnight

64. Proof (1991)

R | 86 min | Drama, Romance

The life of a blind photographer who is looked after by a housekeeper is disrupted by the arrival of an agreeable restaurant worker.

Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot, Russell Crowe, Heather Mitchell

Votes: 7,124 | Gross: $0.52M

Directors' Fortnight

65. Rebro Adama (1991)

79 min | Comedy, Drama

In a small urban flat, grandma, mom, and two daughters live in partial harmony. Grandma is bed-ridden and mute, but rings a bell above her head. Her daughter Nina, a museum docent, misses ... See full summary »

Director: Vyacheslav Krishtofovich | Stars: Inna Churikova, Yelena Bogdanova, Svetlana Ryabova, Mariya Golubkina

Votes: 391 | Gross: $0.24M

Directors' Fortnight

66. Riff-Raff (1991)

Unrated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama

The story of construction-worker Stevie and his unemployed pop-singer girlfriend shows the living conditions of the British poor class.

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jim R. Coleman, George Moss

Votes: 4,886 | Gross: $0.30M

Directors' Fortnight

67. The Adjuster (1991)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama

A family with the lack of sincerity faces a crisis.

Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose

Votes: 3,757 | Gross: $0.40M

Directors' Fortnight

68. The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez (1991)

111 min | Drama, Music, Mystery

Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat who mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.

Director: Peter Sellars | Stars: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Joan Cusack, Peter Gallagher, Ron Vawter

Votes: 194

Directors' Fortnight

69. The Indian Runner (1991)

R | 127 min | Drama

56 Metascore

A Vietnam vet comes home to his small town and finds himself in conflict with rules that his brother has vowed to uphold.

Director: Sean Penn | Stars: David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Valeria Golino, Patricia Arquette

Votes: 9,801 | Gross: $0.19M

Directors' Fortnight

70. Toto the Hero (1991)

PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Thomas believed he was switched at birth with Alfred. Feeling cheated, Thomas spent his life plotting revenge against Alfred, his perceived lifelong adversary who he felt stole the privileged life that should have been his.

Director: Jaco Van Dormael | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Mireille Perrier, Jo De Backer, Thomas Godet

Votes: 6,342 | Gross: $1.23M

Directors' Fortnight

71. Une histoire inventée (1990)

100 min | Drama

An irresistible woman, Florence, dragging her last 50 disconsolate lovers behind her. A trumpet in the end of his career, loved by Florence and the only one who had refuse her. An amateur ... See full summary »

Director: André Forcier | Stars: Jean Lapointe, Louise Marleau, Charlotte Laurier, Marc Messier

Votes: 159

Directors' Fortnight

73. Cheb (1991)

79 min | Drama

Drama about a young Algerian man who studied in Paris, France. After school he returns to his native country - Algeria. But nobody wants to know him, meet him, nobody understands him nor his mother.

Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Mourad Bounaas, Nozha Khouadra, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Boualem Benani

Votes: 108

Perspectives du Cinéma Français

74. Faux frère (1991 TV Movie)

95 min | Drama

Pascal is a runaway teen who wants a new identity, a new family, a new life, but cannot really escape who he is. He's living his teens between his true soul and pretended self, acting like someone else when he does not even know who he is.

Director: Vincent Martorana | Stars: Emmanuel Montes, Carlos, Emmanuelle Lepoutre, Marie Dubois

Perspectives du Cinéma Français

75. Jealousy (1991)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Pierre is a womanizing photographer, with a slight mean streak. For whatever reason, Camille, an artist in her own right, finds him entrancing and easily succumbs to his devious efforts to ... See full summary »

Director: Kathleen Fonmarty | Stars: Lio, Christian Vadim, Odette Laure, Véronique Delbourg

Votes: 37

Perspectives du Cinéma Français

76. Le coup suprême (1991)

90 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Emile Michel, Lapland, orphan, is obliged to bring back within the tribe the ancestral totem: a gold plumb line "borrowed" formerly by his grandfather Raymond Michel. His quest will take ... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Pierre Sentier | Stars: Philippe Clévenot, Charlotte Maury-Sentier, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Yves Tual

Votes: 20

Perspectives du Cinéma Français

79. We Called Him the Ugly King (1988)

Documentary

"We Called Him the Ugly King" is a mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney, shot three years after the filmmaker's death. It's also a political portrait of 20th century Turkey.

Director: Claude Weisz | Stars: Yilmaz Güney, Fatos Güney, Kerim Afsar, Tarik Akan

Votes: 24

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80. Out 1 (1971)

Not Rated | 776 min | Drama, Mystery

87 Metascore

Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.

Directors: Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman | Stars: Michèle Moretti, Hermine Karagheuz, Karen Puig, Pierre Baillot

Votes: 1,554 | Gross: $0.03M

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81. Rendez-vous of the Docks (1955)

75 min | Drama

Marseille, 1953. Robert Fournier, a docker, wants to live with Marcelle, employed in a biscuit factory. But the apartments are inaccessible to the finances of the young couple. To get a home easier, Robert will reduce his union activities.

Director: Paul Carpita | Stars: André Maufray, Jeanine Moretti, Roger Manunta, Rose Dominiquetti

Votes: 63

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