Angels and Insects 1995  N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Philip Haas
Cast: Jeremy Kemp, Mark Rylance, Patsy Kensit, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Douglas Henshall, Saskia Wickham, Chris Larkin, Annette Badland, Anna Massey, Lindsay Thomas
This film adaptation of A.S. Byatt's "Morpho Eugenia" involves an insect collector (Mark Rylance) whose household contains more than a few similarities to the insect world he collects, and both reflect the decadent world of Victorian England in which they reside.
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Bitter Moon 1992   R, 139 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Peter Coyote, Hugh Grant, Emmanuelle Seigner, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Victor Banerjee, Sophie Patel, Patrick Albenque, Stockard Channing, Luca Vellani, Eric Gonzales, Richrd Dieux, Danny Wuyts, Daniel Dhubert, Olivia Brunaux, Heavon Grant
In typical Roman Polanski style, this film brings together psychologically impaired characters who search for offbeat sexual fulfillment. The story takes place on an ocean voyage where a British couple, Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas), meet wheelchair-bound novelist Oscar (Peter Coyote) and his French wife Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner). When Oscar realizes that Nigel is drawn to Mimi, he makes him listen to the stories (told in flashbacks) of how Mimi's actions caused Oscar to turn their relationship around from Mimi's degrading sex games into his sadistic abuse. Matters get really out of hand during the New Year's Eve party.
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 The English Patient 1996 R, 162 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth, Julian Wadham, Jurgen Prochnow, Clive Merrison, Kevin Whately, Nino Castelnuovo, Hichem Rostom, Peter Ruhring, Torri Higginson, Geordie Johnson
Based on Michael Ondaatje's novel, this is the story of the changing of Count Laszlo de Almasy's (Ralph Fiennes) life by aristocrat Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott-Thomas) in 1938. Now, in 1944, following his World War II plane crash, the count, nursed by Canadian Hana (Juliette Binoche), remembers events leading to the accident in which he was badly burned. The movie won an impressive nine Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actress (Binoche).
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Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994  R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Simon Callow, James Fleet, John Hannah, David Bower, Charlotte Coleman, Rowan Atkinson, Jeremy Kemp
This story follows the romance of Charles (Hugh Grant) and Carrie (Andie MacDowell) as they confront each other at weddings and a funeral.
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A Handful of Dust 1988 PG, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles Sturridge
Cast: James Wilby, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Rupert Graves, Judi Dench, Anjelica Huston, Alec Guinness, Richard Leech, Tristram Jellinek
This is a great film, with an unerring eye for detail, adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel about the disintegration of the marriage of Tony (James Wilby) and Brenda (Kristin Scott-Thomas). Although money is far from being their problem, this couple cannot get their act together to form a mature relationship.
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 Mission: Impossible 1996 PG-13, 111 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Beart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Dale Dye, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Marcel Iures, Ion Caramitru, Valentina Yakunina, Marek Vasut, Nathan Osgood
Tom Cruise stars as government agent Ethan Hunt whose mission is to find a stolen, top-secret computer disk that lists spies and their whereabouts. The evidence has pointed to Hunt as the one responsible for the theft, but he sets out to clear his name. Off he heads with his group of special agents from Eastern Europe to CIA headquarters–always on guard against terrorist attacks against U.S. citizens and searching for the mole.
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The Pompatus of Love 1996  N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Schenkman
Cast: Jon Cryer, Tim Guinee, Adam Oliensis, Adrian Pasdar, Kristen Wilson, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Jennifer Tilly
Four friends, Mark (Jon Cryer), Runyan (Tim Guinee), Josh (Adrian Pasdar), and Phil (Adam Oliensis) meet women and fall in and out of love.
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| 1. Angels and Insects (1995)
2. Bitter Moon (1992)
3. The English Patient (1996)
4. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
5. Framed (1990)
6. A Handful of Dust (1988)
7. Mission: Impossible (1996)
8. The Pompatus of Love (1996)
9. Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
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