Best Drama movies of 1990

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Michel Blanc, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Claude Berri,

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who ...

Actors : Alan Rosenberg, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Sondra Locke,

Lottie Mason is a police vice cop who has just the right looks to be a decoy for the whore-mungers on the streets of Los Angeles. She seems to always be where the action is whether it be ...

Actors : Pankaj Kapur, Shabana Azmi, Deepa Sahi, Irrfan Khan,
Directors : Tapan Sinha,

After years of painstaking research at the cost of his domestic pleasure, Dr. Dipankar Roy discovers a vaccine for leprosy. The news is flashed over television and overnight, an ...

Actors : Margaret Anne MacLeod, David Falkenburg, Michael O'Sullivan, Michael Gottli,
Directors : Guy Maddin,

An amnesiac soldier, seeking his lost love, arrives in Archangel in northern Russia to help the townsfolk in their fight against the Bolsheviks, all quite unaware that the Great War ended three months ago.

Actors : Qingfu Pan, Hangcheng Dong, Mark Salzman, Xihong Jiang,
Directors : Shirley Sun,

Mark Salzman always was interested in Kung-Fu and the Chinese culture, claims to have seen every Kung-Fu movie. 1982, with a degree in Chinese literature, he visits a province university in...

Actors : Stellan Skarsgård, Miklós B. Székely, Károly Eperjes, Katharina Thalbach,
Directors : Kjell Grede,

Swedish national Raoul Wallenberg, newcomer to politics and international machinations, travels to German-occupied Budapest during WWII in order to effectively intervene in the fate of ...

Actors : Dermot Mulroney, Sam Shepard, Valerie Perrine, Lili Taylor,
Directors : Michael Fields,

Road-movie from Montana to Wyoming. A gullible, innocent young man (Mulroney) assists a versatile girl (Taylor) on her long quest to get her brother out of jail.

Actors : Gérard Darmon, Natalya Gundareva, Oleg Yankovskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan,
Directors : Georgiy Daneliya,

A case of mistaken identity, by a switched Passport leaves a Georgian man stranded in Israel.

Actors : Jude Alderson, Peter O'Toole, Christopher Lee, Omar Sharif,
Directors : Alejandro Jodorowsky,

A petty crook, in search of the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune.

Actors : Selim Boughedir, Rabia Ben Abdallah, Mohammed Driss, Mustapha Adouani,
Directors : Férid Boughedir,

A coming-of-age comedy/drama set in Tunisia. Twelve-year-old Noura is an impressionable boy who must learn to reconcile two conflicting worlds - the loving world of Muslim women and the ...

Actors : Ewa Dalkowska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Wojciech Pszoniak, Marzena Trybala,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, ...

Actors : Billy Connolly, Kenny Ireland, Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley,
Directors : David Leland,

An unemployed Scottish miner (Liam Neeson) is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.

Actors : Jeff Fahey, Joe Pantoliano, Brian Dennehy, Bill Paxton,
Directors : John Mackenzie,

An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ...

Actors : Pavel Nazarov, Dinara Drukarova, Elena Popova, Valeriy Ivchenko,
Directors : Vitali Kanevsky,

Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour.

Actors : Paul L. Smith, Rick Hearst, Jon Stafford, Vernon Wells,
Directors : Gary Graver,

A rich kid, with a fondness for fast bikes, is blamed when a motorcycle accident puts his best friend in a coma.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Juhi Chawla, Madhavi, Govinda,
Directors : David Dhawan,

Living in a posh mansion named Swarg, this is the story of Sahabji, his wife sister Jyoti, two brothers, and a sister-in-law. Sahabji has a clash of wits with Dhanraj, who successfully ...

Actors : John Bach, Bryan Brown, Terry O'Quinn, George Takei,
Directors : Stephen Wallace,

The island of Ambon in Indonesia, 1945. During the War, the number of Australian POWs on the island had dropped from 1100 to less than 300 due to abuses by their Japanese captors. Capt. ...

Actors : Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Morante, Luigi Montini, Diego Abatantuono,
Directors : Gabriele Salvatores,

Two actors leave on a theatrical tour, but there is a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girl-friend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to...

Actors : Mira Banjac, Branka Pujic, Dragan Jovanovic, Aleksandar Bercek,
Directors : Djordje Kadijevic,

Sveto mesto (A Holy Place, 1990) is based on a literary classic, Nikolai Gogol's 1835 short story, 'Viy'. However, Kadijevic uses it only as a starting point for his own explorations into ...

Actors : Judith Henry, Marie Bunel, Fabrice Luchini, Maurice Garrel,
Directors : Christian Vincent,

There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, ...