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71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls) is Michael Haneke's 1994 Austrian drama, the final film of his glaciation trilogy: 71 scenes of twelve Viennese strangers converging in a bank shooting on Christmas Eve 1993.
A Class to Remember (学校)
A Class to Remember (学校, Gakko) is Yoji Yamada's 1993 Shochiku drama about a Tokyo night junior high school teacher (Toshiyuki Nishida) and his students; it won the 1994 Japan Academy Best Film prize and started a four-film series.
A Few Good Men
A Few Good Men is Aaron Sorkin's 1989 Broadway courtroom drama about Marines accused of murder at Guantanamo Bay, adapted into Rob Reiner's 1992 film starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore, which grossed $141.3 million in the US.
A Place in the World
A Place in the World (Un lugar en el mundo) is a 1992 Argentine drama by Adolfo Aristarain about an exiled family building a rural cooperative; it won San Sebastián's Golden Shell and had its Oscar nomination rescinded.
A River Runs Through It (film)
A River Runs Through It is Robert Redford's 1992 drama adapted from Norman Maclean's 1976 Montana novella, starring Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, and Tom Skerritt as a fly-fishing family; it won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
A Scene at the Sea (あの夏、いちばん静かな海)
A Scene at the Sea (あの夏、いちばん静かな海。) is Takeshi Kitano's 1991 third feature, a near-silent romance about a deaf garbage collector who takes up surfing, starring Kurôdo Maki and Hiroko Oshima with music by Joe Hisaishi, released by Toho on 19 October 1991.
A Soul Haunted by Painting (画魂)
A Soul Haunted by Painting (画魂) is Huang Shuqin's 1994 biographical film starring Gong Li as painter Pan Yuliang, adapted from Shi Nan's novel, censored, restored in 4K in 2018.
Alive (1993 film)
Alive is a 1993 American survival drama directed by Frank Marshall, starring Ethan Hawke, about a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes in 1972.
An Angel at My Table
An Angel at My Table is Jane Campion's 1990 biographical film of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, adapted from her three-volume autobiography, starring Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, and Kerry Fox, and winner of the Venice Silver Lion.
And Life Goes On (زندگی و دیگر هیچ)
And Life Goes On (زندگی و دیگر هیچ, Zendegi va digar hich), also Life and Nothing More, is Abbas Kiarostami's 1992 docufiction, second of the Koker trilogy: a director and his son search earthquake-hit Koker for the child actors of Where Is the Friend's House?; opened Un Certain Regard at Cannes 1992.
Ashes of Time (东邪西毒)
Ashes of Time (东邪西毒) is Wong Kar-wai's 1994 Hong Kong wuxia art film adapted from Jin Yong's The Legend of the Condor Heroes, starring Leslie Cheung as desert middleman Ouyang Feng; shot over two years in Shaanxi, it flopped commercially but won major awards, and was reissued as Redux in 2008.
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991), Hector Babenco's Amazon drama for Saul Zaentz, adapted from Peter Matthiessen's 1965 novel, starring Tom Berenger, Aidan Quinn, John Lithgow, Kathy Bates, and Daryl Hannah.
Before the Rain
Before the Rain (Pred doždot, Пред дождот) is Milcho Manchevski's 1994 Macedonian debut feature, a three-part circular war drama that shared the 1994 Venice Golden Lion and earned Macedonia's first Oscar nomination.
C'est la vie, mon chéri (新不了情)
C'est la vie, mon chéri (新不了情, San bat liu ching) is Derek Yee's 1993 Hong Kong melodrama starring Lau Ching-wan and Anita Yuen, about a musician in love with a dying Temple Street singer; it won six 1994 Hong Kong Film Awards including Best Film.
Cabeza de Vaca (1991 film)
Cabeza de Vaca (1991) is Nicolás Echevarría's Mexican historical drama, his first fiction film, based on Naufragios (1542); starring Juan Diego, shot by Guillermo Navarro, Biarritz Makhila de Oro winner and Mexico's 1991 Oscar entry.
Carrington
Carrington (1995) is Christopher Hampton's debut biographical drama about painter Dora Carrington and writer Lytton Strachey, starring Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce; it won Best Actor and the Special Jury Prize at Cannes 1995.
Center Stage (阮玲玉) (1991 film)
Center Stage (阮玲玉) is Stanley Kwan's 1991 Hong Kong biopic of silent-film star Ruan Lingyu, starring Maggie Cheung, who won the 1992 Berlin Silver Bear for Best Actress.
City of Hope
City of Hope is John Sayles's 1991 ensemble drama set in fictional Hudson City, New Jersey, following about three dozen characters through urban corruption and racial tension; it won the Tokyo Grand Prix but grossed about $1 million.
Damage (1992 film)
Damage (1992) is Louis Malle's erotic drama, adapted by David Hare from Josephine Hart's novel, starring Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, and Miranda Richardson; a British MP's affair with his son's fiancée ends in tragedy, earning Richardson an Oscar nomination and a BAFTA win.
Danón
Danón is a variant spelling of Danzón, a 1991 Mexican–Spanish drama feature directed by María Novaro, starring María Rojo as a Mexico City operator searching Veracruz for her dance partner; Spirit Award winner 1993.
Daughters of the Dust
Daughters of the Dust is Julie Dash's 1991 independent film about a Gullah family on the Sea Islands of South Carolina in 1902 preparing to migrate north; the first feature by a Black woman with general US theatrical release.
Days of Being Wild (阿飞正传)
Days of Being Wild (阿飛正傳) is Wong Kar-wai's 1990 Hong Kong drama, his second feature and first with Christopher Doyle, starring Leslie Cheung as Yuddy, a playboy searching for his birth mother; a box-office flop that became an award-winning classic and the first of his 1960s trilogy.
Days of Thunder
Days of Thunder: 1990 Tony Scott NASCAR racing drama starring Tom Cruise as rookie driver Cole Trickle, with Robert Duvall and Nicole Kidman; a Simpson-Bruckheimer Paramount film grossing $80.6 million, later spawning a 2028 sequel with Anne Hathaway.
Enchanted April (1991 film)
Enchanted April is a 1991 British comedy-drama directed by Mike Newell, adapted from Elizabeth von Arnim's 1922 novel, in which four Englishwomen rent a castle on the Italian Riviera for April.
Fearless (1993 film)
Fearless (1993) is Peter Weir's psychological drama, adapted by Rafael Yglesias from his novel, starring Jeff Bridges, Rosie Perez, and Isabella Rossellini as plane-crash survivors; Perez earned the film's sole Oscar nomination.
Fresa y Chocolate
Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate), 1993 Cuban-Mexican-Spanish film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, screenplay Senel Paz; friendship between a gay artist and a communist student; first Cuban Oscar nominee.
Hamoun (هامون)
Hamoun (هامون, Hāmūn) is a 1990 Persian-language Iranian drama by Dariush Mehrjui about intellectual Hamid Hamoun, whose wife Mahshid demands divorce; loosely based on Bellow's Herzog, it won six Crystal Simorghs at the 8th Fajr Film Festival and was voted best Iranian film ever in 1997.
Havana (1990 film)
Havana (1990) is a Sydney Pollack romantic drama starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin, and Raul Julia, set in 1958 pre-Castro Cuba; shot in Santo Domingo after the U.S. barred filming in Cuba, it earned a Dave Grusin Oscar nomination but flopped.
Henry & June
Henry & June (1990) is Philip Kaufman's drama, starring Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, and Maria de Medeiros, about Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller, and June Miller in 1931 Paris; the first film released with the MPAA's NC-17 rating.
Higher Learning
Higher Learning (1995) is John Singleton's campus drama, starring Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Michael Rapaport, Ice Cube, and Laurence Fishburne at fictional Columbus University, released January 11, 1995 by Columbia Pictures.