All Films

Royal Enclosure

1990 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Doreen is obsessed with her fantasies about Danny Kaye , Barry Manilow and the Royal Family. When the Duke of Edinburgh visits the swimming baths where she works, it seems that her wildest dreams are about to be realised.

La Valse

1990 • 60 min • Japan

A rape incident has occurred. The victim was a woman named Yumiko Kawamura, a dental hygienist. However, the statements of the victim Yumiko and the suspect Saburo Kubo were completely incompatible. Adachi, a national lawyer who took on the defense of the suspect, will begin a personal investigation of Yumiko to find out the truth of the case.

A Grand Day Out

1990 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

The Crossword Puzzle

1990 • 5 min • Czechoslovakia

A man obsessed with crossword puzzles ignores his wife's desire for intimacy

Oxford

1990 • 35 min • United Kingdom

When American comic actor Steve 'Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants' Wild arrives in Oxford to make a comedy film, his girlfriend Caroline goes behind his back to enroll in a poetry course. Meanwhile, Hannah Van Hosenstratt comes from New Orleans for the course and is tricked into believing she has a place by the dean, but the professor has other ideas.

Traitors

1990 • 60 min

A play about the gunpowder plot written from a new angle by Jimmy McGovern.

Anemone Me

1990 • 28 min • United States of America

The only black American family in Maine has a son, a blind bodybuilder, who falls in love with a white "mer-boy."

Dear Rosie

1990 • 11 min

Dear Rosie is a 1990 British short film directed by Peter Cattaneo from a script by Peter Morgan and Mark Wadlow. The plot follows Rosie, an unsuccessful novelist who begins receiving letters from overweight people after her agent publishes her diet tips. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Cyberpunk

1990 • 60 min • United States of America

Stylistic documentary about the cyberpunk movement. William Gibson, author of cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, and Timothy Leary, famous advocate of psychedelic drugs, share their thoughts on the future of society and technology.

Nineteen 19

1990 • 42 min • Japan

While in junior high, Kubota, had a major crush on Masana but she was dating Kazuya. Now in his senior year of high school, Kubota, still has a crush on Masana even though he hasn't seen her in years. A chance encounter leads to an interesting situation. It seems Masana has broken up with Kazuya and is ready for a new relationship. Or is she? Will Kubota be so blinded by his feelings that he fails to see what is really happening? Will he even care?! After all he could very easily lose his virginity by pretending that he doesn't. Adapted from the Nineteen manga.

Vampire Wars

1990 • 50 min • Japan

The rural American west is the setting for this OVA, in which a bizarre and brutal attack on a NASA base in Arizona attracts the attention of a French secret service agent, Monsieur Lassar, when a dead CIA agent is found floating on the Seine in Paris. Lassar is convinced that these two events are related, and sets out to prove it. His investigation leads him to film star Lamia Vindaw and a vampire cult that may be far more vicious and dangerous than its eccentric exterior makes it seem.

Aswang

1990 • 44 min • Philippines

Returning home to her jungle village, a young woman is initially perturbed about their sudden interest in partaking in a strange series of rituals. As she spends more time in the village, the more she learns about the truth behind their beliefs and tries to leave once she's aware of the danger.

Vanity Fair: Jeanette Starion the Pet of the Year

1990 • 49 min • Denmark

Jeanette Dyrkjær, better known as Jeanette Starion, was a sought after nude and porn model in the 1980s. Her career took her to the United States, where she won the Million Pet of the Year Pageant and millions of dollars. But she ended up in the porn industry. The story of Jeanette Dyrkjær is the story of the girl who became famous, hit the wall and fell to the absolute rock bottom.

Discovering Hamlet

1990 • 52 min • United Kingdom

IN 1988, rising star Kenneth Branagh tackled the role of Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark for the first time in his professional career under the guidance of celebrated actor Derek Jacobi. Narrated by Patrick Stewart, this hour-long film documents how Kenneth Branagh and Derek Jacobi, two intelligent and passionate men, found new depths in Shakespeare’s classic drama, Hamlet. Filmmakers Mark Olshaker and Larry Klein follow the company through four weeks of rehearsals, from the first read-throughs to opening night.

Angels

1990 • 45 min • Chile

A group of college students gradually disappear, with no explanation.

Hex

1990 • 35 min • Philippines

In the eerie halls of a mysterious hospital, doctors practice voodoo and dead bodies wander in the night.

Dark Horse

1990 • 45 min • Canada

A troubled young woman finds hope when she is sentenced to perform community service at a horse farm.

Snow White

1990 • 49 min • United States of America

Enter the spellbinding realm of a pretty young princess, a scheming queen and seven funny little fellows with very big hearts in this brilliantly animated retelling of the timeless fairy take classic.

Karate Kids

1990 • 21 min • Canada

Two indigent street children in a developing country become the target of an HIV positive pedophile who attempts to lure them in with money.

Hollywood Dog

1990 • 23 min • United States of America

A cartoon dog entertainment promoter manipulates a naive newcomer to be his headline act for an upcoming show.

Ghost

1990 • 39 min • Philippines

Newlyweds Cathy and Mari spend their honeymoon at a rural vacation house in Baguio. They are less welcomed by the old caretaker who gives them a tour, including a locked room.

Chunk Blower

1990 • 4 min • United States of America

Promo trailer/reel for an ultimately unproduced horror feature.

Because

1990 • 34 min • Germany

Tanja and Martin are a couple in their late twenties. They meet back at their apartment late one evening, in bed. Weren’t we supposed to meet up this evening? How come you got home so late? Where the hell were you? An argument ensues, an everyday fight between couples that unleashes an unimaginable destructive force. Three separate variations of the argument are played out. Each time the positions of culprit and victim, guilt and innocence, trust and despair are reversed.

Battle Mode

1990 • 1 min • Japan

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