Movie Listings by Genre

Director: Akira Kurosawa    More Info
Starring: Akira Terao, Martin Scorsese, Chishu Ryu, Mieko Harada, Mitsuko Baisho, Chosuke Ikariya, Toshie Negishi, Mitsunori Isaki, Toshihiko Nakano, Yoshitaka Zushi

 Famed writer-director Akira Kurosawa put together a number of his dreams and presents a sequence of incidents exploring the relationship of human beings to their environments.

Director: Takeshi Kitano    More Info
Starring: Yurei Yanagi, Takeshi Kitano, Yuriko Ishida, Gadanukanaru Taka, Dankan, Hitoshi Ozawa, Shinobu Tsuruta, Kengakusha Akiyama, Yurei Yanagi, Bannai Matsuo

 Gang warfare mixes with baseball in this Takeshi Kitano action/comedy offering. When baseball player and car wash attendant Masaki (Yurei Yanagi) is punished by a gang member for not washing his car correctly, he seeks revenge. Masaki and his team mate Kazuo (Dankan) go to Okinawa to buy a gun. Many adventures occur along way as they join forces with other gangsters to confront the gang.

Director: John Woo    More Info
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee, Simon Yam, Fennie Yuen, Yolinda Yam, Chung Lam, Shek Yin Lau, John Woo

 The Vietnam War was raging in 1967, and John Woo uses this setting for another of his epic productions. Three friends in Hong Kong are not only on the run but feel stifled by the archaic Hong Kong rule. Thus, they flee to Vietnam where they intend to make money on the crime scene. Instead, they become involved with wartime events that challenge their friendship and lives.

Director: Lucio Fulci    More Info
Starring: Lucio Fulci, David L. Thompson, Jeoffrey Kennedy, Malisa Longo, Ria De Simone, Brett Halsey, Sacha Darwin, Robert Egon, Shillett Angel, Paul Muller

 Director Lucio Fulci plays himself and is in the midst of making his new horror film. Unfortunately, he is going mad from all the gore he has created on the screen. Maybe a trip to a psychiatrist would be a good idea. Whoops, it wasn't a good idea because the psychiatrist (David L. Thompson) is worse off than Fulci and uses Fulci's visions to create real gore. About as bloody as it can get, with many clips from his earlier films.

Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau    More Info
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber, Roland Bertin, Philippe Morier-Genoud

 This French screenplay of Rostand's classic play features Gerard Depardieu as Cyrano De Bergerac who desperately yearns for the love of the beautiful Roxanne (Anne Brochet). The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film, and Depardieu was nominated for Best Actor. An Oscar was received for Best Costume Design.

Director: Diane Kurys    More Info
Starring: Nathalie Baye, Richard Berry, Zabou, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Vincent Lindon, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Didier Benureau, Julie Bataille, Candice Lefranc, Alexis Derlon

 Set in the late 1950s, this film is the final entry in Diane Kurys' autobiographical trilogy (preceded by "Peppermint Soda" and "Entre Nous"). When Lena (Nathalie Baye) decides to divorce her husband, Michele (Richard Berry), she sends her daughters to a seaside resort and joins them later. As the girls learn life's lessons, Lena starts an affair with a young man, Leon (Jean-Pierre Bacri). The fun lifestyle ends when Michel arrives on the scene.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier    More Info
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Jane Birkin, Odette Laure, Emmanuelle Bataille, Charlotte Kady, Michele Minns

 Caroline (Jane Birkin) returns home from England to be with her dying father. Although not particularly close before, the two now learn to understand and appreciate each other for what they are.

Director: Benoit Jacquot    More Info
Starring: Judith Godreche, Marcel Bozonnet, Ivan Desny, Therese Liotard, Malcolm Conrath, Thomas Salsmann, Hai Truhong

 Seventeen-year-old Beth is disenchanted with life, and who could blame her when illicit sex is what seems to make her an acceptable person to those who influence her life? On the surface she appears controlled, but underneath, Beth is just a little girl trying to survive.

Director: Agnieszka Holland    More Info
Starring: Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Rene Hofschneider, Andre Wilms, Solomon Perel, Ashley Wanninger, Piotr Kozlowski, Klaus Abramowsky, Michele Gleizer, Marta Sandrowicz

 Based on a true story of Solomon "Solly" Perel (played by Marco Hofschneider), this excellent film follows the Jewish teen in Nazi Germany after his separation from his family in the early stages of World War II. He poses as a German and gets a job with the Nazis as a translator. This film shows both the horror and the lighthearted times of the Jewish people during this violent era.

Director: Kjell Grede    More Info
Starring: Stellan Skarsgard, Katharina Thalbach, Karoly Eperjes, Miklos Szekely B., Erland Josephson, Franciszek Pieczka, Jesper Christensen, Ivan Desny, Geza Balkay, Percy Brandt

 Based on true events, this is the story of Raoul Wallenberg, a successful Swedish businessman who became an amateur diplomat when he volunteered to go to German-occupied Budapest during World War II as an advocate for trapped Hungarian Jews. His efforts are believed to have saved thousands of Jews. But after the war, he was taken prisoner by the Russians and became a cold war pawn. Depressing at times.

Director: Patrice Leconte    More Info
Starring: Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena, Henry Hocking, Anne-Marie Pisani, Roland Bertin, Philippe Clevenot, Maurice Chevit, Albert Delpy, Jacques Mathou, Claude Aufaure

 This French film tells the story of how a young boy, Antoine (Henry Hocking) has a sensual experience at age 12 while having his hair shampooed by hairdresser Mathilde (Anna Galiena). His dreams come to fruition years later when Antoine (Jean Rochefort) marries Mathilde, and all goes well for a while–until doubts set in.

Director: Dariush Mehrjui    More Info
Starring: Khosro Shakibai, Jalal Moghaddam, Bita Farahi, Ezzatolah Entezami, Hossein Sarshar

 Dream sequences fill the screen in this story of the inner-turmoil experiences of a middle-class Iranian whose wife is trying to obtain a divorce.

Director: Maria Luisa Bemberg    More Info
Starring: Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Hector Alterio, Lautaro Murua, Alberto Segado, Franklin Caicedo, Graciela Araujo, Gerardo Romano, Hugo Soto, Margara Alonso

 Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna) had a good life in the convent since entering at age 19 in 17th-century Mexico. She spent time teaching music, studying and writing poetry, and other activities. This tragic real-life story of one of Mexico's greatest poets takes a turn for the worse during this time in history, which followed a brutal inquisition. A woman-hating Archbishop arrives who believes the Sister's ideas are radical and that she is dangerous. A well-made film that is somewhat long, thus distracting from the story. Based on a book ("The Pitfalls of Faith") by poet/writer Octavio Paz.

Director: Xavier Koller    More Info
Starring: Necmettin Cobanoglu, Nur Surer, Emin Sivas, Yaman Okay, Erdinc Akbas, Mathias Gnadinger

 Based on a true story, this winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film is about a Kurdish family trying to find a better life by leaving Turkey and migrating to Switzerland.

Director: Zhang Yimou    More Info
Starring: Gong Li, Li Baotian, Li Wei, Zhang Yi, Zheng Ji-an, Chong Ma, Zhijun Cong, Fa Wu, Jin Jia, Niu Xingli

 Ju Dou (Gong Li) is a young woman who, when tortured for not bearing a son, has an affair with her infertile husband's (Li Wei) nephew (Li Baotian). She succeeds in conceiving a child–but with tragic results. The film received a Best Foreign Film Academy Award nomination.

Director: Yves Robert    More Info
Starring: Philippe Caubere, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Therese Liotard, Joris Molinas, Paul Crauchet, Julien Ciamaca, Victorien Delamare, Benoit Martin, Pierre Maguelon

 The early years presented in Marcel Pagnol's autobiography are depicted in this beautiful film about his family's vacation in Provence.

Director: Yves Robert    More Info
Starring: Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubere, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Therese Liotard, Joris Molinas, Paul Crauchet, Victorien Delamare, Julie Timmerman, Philippe Uchan

 In this sequel to "My Father's Glory," the boyhood memories of Marcel Pagnol (Julien Ciamaca) are reflected when the family is in Provence.

Director: Michael Verhoeven    More Info
Starring: Lena Stolze, Monika Baumgartner, Michael Gahr, Fred Stillkrauth, Elisabeth Bertram, Robert Giggenbach

 The Nazi regime left its mark on Germany. When Sonja Rosenberger-Wegmus researches an essay she plans to write, she discovers residents of her village who played diverse roles during that tragic era.

Director: Paolo Taviani    More Info
Starring: Julian Sands, Nastassja Kinski, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Massimo Bonetti, Margarita Lozano, Patricia Millardet, Pamela Villoresi, Rudiger Vogler, Sonia Gessner, Tony Sperandeo

 Based on a story by Leo Tolstoy, nobleman Sergio (Julian Sands) is to be wed (in an arranged marriage) to Cristina (Nastassja Kinski). When he finds out that she was the king's mistress, he becomes a monk–distancing himself from the outside world. But life will not be simple for Sergio as women desire him, and his reputation as a miracle-worker spreads.

Director: Luc Besson    More Info
Starring: Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Tcheky Karyo, Jeanne Moreau, Jean Reno, Jean Bouise, Philippe Du Janerand, Roland Blanche, Philippe Leroy, Marc Duret

 A drug addict who commits robbery and murder, Nikita (Anne Parillaud), is tried, convicted, and then sent to a school for special operatives. She is given a second chance when she is recruited as a hired assassin, then is pronounced dead and presumed buried. One night, Nikita is enjoying a dinner at a restaurant when she is handed a gun and told to kill the man seated next to her. She does and heads back to headquarters where she is told she has graduated. Thus begins her double life, but she is torn between this new life and leading a normal one. Remade in 1993 as "Point of No Return."

Director: John Woo    More Info
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, Cherie Chung, Chu Kong, Kenneth Tsang, John Woo, David Wu

 John Woo moves away from his violent films for this action/comedy caper. A trio of art thieves was brought up by a foster father and crime boss (Kenneth Tsang). They steal and romance their way across Europe and are on the verge of quitting the business. But when their foster father insists they steal a "cursed" painting and they are double-crossed, a new strategy must be developed.

Director: Jackie Chan    More Info
Starring: Jackie Chan, Carol Cheng, Eva Cobo De Garcia, Shoko Ikeda, Alfred Brel Sanchez, Ken Goodman, Jonathan Isgar

 Jackie Chan's expertise at stunt work is dazzlingly displayed in this action film in which he teams up with three women to find World War II Nazi gold, which was hidden in the Sahara desert.

Director: Eric Rohmer    More Info
Starring: Anne Teyssedre, Hugues Quester, Florence Darel, Eloise Bennett, Sophie Robin, Marc Lelou, Francois Lamore

 "A Tale of Springtime" in Eric Rohmer's "Four Seasons" series represents his first entry. The story centers on a young pianist, Natacha (Florence Darel) who tries to be a matchmaker for her father, Igor (Hugues Quester), and her new friend, Jeanne (Anne Teyssedre).

Director: Pedro Almodovar    More Info
Starring: Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Loles Leon, Julieta Serrano, Maria Barranco, Rossy de Palma, Francisco Rabal, Lola Cardona, Montse G. Romeu, Emiliano Redondo

 Newly released from the mental hospital, Ricky (Antonio Banderas) kidnaps ex-porn star Marina (Victoria Abril) and ties her up. The objective of his actions: talk Marina into marrying him and raising a family.

Director: Lucio Fulci    More Info
Starring: Duilio Del Prete, Karina Huff, Damiano Azzos, Pascal Persiano, Bettina Giovannini, Lucio Fulci, Paolo Paoloni, Antonella Tinazzo, Sacha Darwin

 Rosy's (Karina Huff) father is murdered (would you believe ground glass in his ice cubes?), and his spirit sends Rosy on a search for the killer. Oh, yes–he was rich, and there are plenty of greedy relatives.