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Scent of a Woman (1992 film)
Scent of a Woman (1992), Martin Brest's remake of Profumo di donna, stars Al Pacino as blind Lt. Col. Frank Slade and Chris O'Donnell; it won Pacino his first Best Actor Oscar and three Golden Globes.
School Ties
School Ties is a 1992 Paramount drama directed by Robert Mandel, starring Brendan Fraser as David Greene, a Jewish quarterback hiding his religion at a 1950s New England prep school, with Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, and Ben Affleck.
Short Cuts
Short Cuts is a 1993 American ensemble comedy-drama directed by Robert Altman, interweaving the lives of twenty-two Los Angeles characters and adapted from nine Raymond Carver short stories. It won the Golden Lion at Venice.
Sommersby
Sommersby is a 1993 American romantic drama directed by Jon Amiel, starring Richard Gere and Jodie Foster, a remake of the 1982 French film The Return of Martin Guerre.
Tacones Lejanos
Tacones lejanos (High Heels, Talons aiguilles) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1991 Spanish-French melodrama starring Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, and Miguel Bosé, about a singer, her daughter, a murder, and a drag-performing judge; César-winning Oscar entry.
Taxi Blues (Такси-блюз)
Taxi Blues (Такси-блюз) is Pavel Lungin's 1990 Soviet-French directorial debut about a Moscow taxi driver, Ivan Shlykov, and the Jewish saxophonist Lyosha Seliverstov, played by Pyotr Zaychenko and Pyotr Mamonov. It won Best Director at Cannes 1990.
The Baby of Mâcon
The Baby of Mâcon (Das Wunder von Mâcon) is Peter Greenaway's 1993 avant-garde drama about a staged miracle virgin birth exploited by a sister and the Church; premiered at Cannes 1993, critically reviled, never US-distributed.
The Best Intentions
The Best Intentions (Den goda viljan) is Bille August's 1992 Palme d'Or-winning drama, scripted by Ingmar Bergman, about his parents' 1909–1918 courtship and troubled marriage, starring Samuel Fröler and Pernilla August.
The Blue Kite (蓝风筝)
The Blue Kite (蓝风筝) is Tian Zhuangzhuang's 1993 Chinese drama about a Beijing family through the Anti-Rightist Movement and Cultural Revolution; it won the Tokyo Grand Prix, was banned in China, and got Tian a ten-year directing ban.
The Days (1991 film)
The Days (Dongchun de rizi, 冬春的日子) is Wang Xiaoshuai's 1993 black-and-white independent debut about a Beijing artist couple, starring painters Liu Xiaodong and Yu Hong, banned in China and a founding Sixth Generation festival film.
The Doctor (1991 film)
The Doctor is a 1991 American drama film directed by Randa Haines, starring William Hurt as a cardiac surgeon who experiences his own hospital as a cancer patient.
The Double Life of Veronique
The Double Life of Veronique (La Double vie de Véronique; Podwójne życie Weroniki) is Krzysztof Kieślowski's 1991 French-Polish-Norwegian drama starring Irène Jacob as lookalike women in Poland and France, which won three prizes at Cannes 1991.
The Field
The Field (1990), Jim Sheridan's film of John B. Keane's play, stars Richard Harris as Bull McCabe, an Irish tenant farmer who kills an American rival at auction; Oscar-nominated, top Irish film of 1990.
The Fool
The Fool is a 1990 British period drama directed by Christine Edzard, starring Derek Jacobi as a booking clerk who passes himself off as a wealthy gentleman.
The Garden (1990 film)
The Garden (1990) is Derek Jarman's nearly wordless British experimental film, also known simply as The Garden, retelling the Passion with Tilda Swinton as the Madonna and two persecuted male lovers, filmed at Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, and restored by the BFI in 2019.
The Joy Luck Club (film)
The Joy Luck Club (喜福會) is Wayne Wang's 1993 Hollywood Pictures drama adapted from Amy Tan's novel, the first major-studio film with an all-Asian American cast, released September 8, 1993.
The Man in the Moon (1991 film)
The Man in the Moon (1991) is Robert Mulligan's final film, a Louisiana coming-of-age drama starring Reese Witherspoon in her debut, released by MGM on October 4, 1991.
The Man Without a Face
The Man Without a Face is a 1993 American drama directed by Mel Gibson in his directing debut, adapted from Isabelle Holland's 1972 novel, with Gibson as a disfigured recluse tutoring a boy.
The Playboys
The Playboys is a 1992 Irish drama directed by Gillies MacKinnon, written by Shane Connaughton and Kerry Crabbe, starring Robin Wright, Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, and Milo O'Shea, set in a 1957 County Cavan village.
The Postman (1995 film)
Il postino (The Postman), 1994 film by Michael Radford with Massimo Troisi, based on Skarmeta's Ardiente Paciencia; five Oscar nominations, won Best Original Dramatic Score; Troisi died after wrapping.
The Power of One (film)
The Power of One (1992), John G. Avildsen's drama adapted from Bryce Courtenay's novel, stars Stephen Dorff, Morgan Freeman, and Armin Mueller-Stahl; a boxing coming-of-age story set in apartheid-era South Africa, released March 27, 1992, grossing $2.7 million.
The Prince of Tides
The Prince of Tides is a 1991 Columbia Pictures drama directed, produced, and co-starring Barbra Streisand with Nick Nolte, adapted from Pat Conroy's 1986 novel; it earned seven Oscar nominations including Best Picture.
The Program (1993 film)
The Program (1993) is an American college football drama directed by David S. Ward, starring James Caan, Halle Berry, and Omar Epps; released September 24, 1993, and recut after a highway stunt scene prompted copycat deaths.
The Road to the Racetrack (경마장 가는 길)
The Road to the Racetrack (경마장 가는 길) is a 1991 South Korean film by Jang Sun-woo, adapted from Ha Il-ji's postmodernist novel, starring Kang Soo-youn and Moon Sung-keun; a pioneering Korean realist film added to Netflix in 2023.
The Scent of Green Papaya
The Scent of Green Papaya (Mùi đu đủ xanh, L'Odeur de la papaye verte) is Trần Anh Hùng's 1993 debut drama about servant girl Mui in 1950s Saigon, shot entirely in a French studio, winner of the Caméra d'Or and the first Vietnamese Oscar nominee.
The Story of Ermei
The Story of Ermei (Jingzhe, 惊蛰) is a 2003 Chinese drama by Wang Quanan about a 20-year-old peasant girl who flees an arranged marriage, works in a town, and returns; it won the 2003 Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress. Distinct from Ermo (1994).
Through the Olive Trees (زیر درختان زیتون)
Through the Olive Trees (زیر درختان زیتون, Zir-e derakhtan-e zeytun) is a 1994 Iranian film by Abbas Kiarostami, third film of the Koker trilogy, a film-within-a-film about the making of And Life Goes On; Cannes Palme d'Or nominee and Silver Hugo winner.
Tilaï
Tilaï (The Law) is a 1990, 81-minute drama in Mooré by Burkinabé director Idrissa Ouedraogo, about Saga, whose affair with his father's new wife Nogma is judged incest. It shared the 1990 Cannes Grand Prix and won FESPACO's Grand Prize in 1991.
To Sleep with Anger
To Sleep with Anger is Charles Burnett's 1990 drama starring Danny Glover as trickster Harry Mention, who disrupts a South Central LA family. Budget $1.4M, gross $1.2M, Sundance Special Jury Award, National Film Registry 2017.
To the Starry Island (그 섬에 가고 싶다)
To the Starry Island (그 섬에 가고 싶다) is Park Kwang-su's 1993 Korean drama about burying a father on Kwisong Island, blocked by villagers over his Korean War reprisals; written with Lee Chang-dong, starring Ahn Sung-ki and Moon Sung-keun.