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Blue Sky (1994 film)
Blue Sky (1994) is Tony Richardson's final film, a Cold War drama starring Jessica Lange and Tommy Lee Jones as an Army couple at an Alabama nuclear testing base; shelved three years by Orion's bankruptcy, it won Lange her second Best Actress Oscar.
Boogie Nights
Boogie Nights is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Mark Wahlberg as a young porn actor discovered in California's San Fernando Valley.
Breaking the Silence (漂亮妈妈)
Breaking the Silence (漂亮妈妈) is a 2000 Chinese drama directed by Sun Zhou, starring Gong Li as a laid-off single mother raising her deaf son; it won Hundred Flowers Best Picture and Montreal Best Actress.
Breaking the Waves
Breaking the Waves (1996) is Lars von Trier's Golden Heart trilogy drama about Bess, a devout Scottish woman whose paralyzed husband Jan urges her to take lovers; Cannes Grand Prix, Emily Watson Oscar nomination.
Bringing Out the Dead
Bringing Out the Dead is a 1999 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Nicolas Cage as a burned-out Manhattan ambulance paramedic haunted by patients he failed to save.
Brokedown Palace
Brokedown Palace is a 1999 American drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, in which two American graduates, played by Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale, are imprisoned in Thailand.
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.
Central Station
Central Station (Central do Brasil) is Walter Salles' 1998 Brazilian road-movie drama starring Fernanda Montenegro as letter-writer Dora and Vinícius de Oliveira as Josué; it won the 1998 Berlin Golden Bear, a Golden Globe, and two Oscar nominations.
Children of Heaven (بچههای آسمان) (1997 film)
Children of Heaven (بچههای آسمان) is Majid Majidi's 1997 Persian-language Iranian drama in which Ali loses sister Zahra's shoes and the siblings secretly share one pair; first Iranian film nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Christmas in August (8월의 크리스마스)
Christmas in August (8월의 크리스마스) is Hur Jin-ho's 1998 Korean melodrama debut, starring Han Suk-kyu and Shim Eun-ha, about a terminally ill photographer; Cannes Critics' Week 1998, Baeksang and Blue Dragon Best Film. Not the 2017 Song Hye-rin short of the same name.
Chronicle of a Disappearance (سجل اختفاء)
Chronicle of a Disappearance (سجل اختفاء, Segell Ikhtifa) is Elia Suleiman's 1996, 88-minute debut feature, a two-part diary film about a Palestinian filmmaker's return from New York; it won the Luigi De Laurentiis Award at Venice 1996.
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.
Cradle Will Rock
Cradle Will Rock is Tim Robbins' 1999 Touchstone historical drama about the 1937 Federal Theatre Project shutdown of Marc Blitzstein's pro-labor musical, with Hank Azaria, Angus Macfadyen, and an ensemble cast; it grossed $2.9 million against a $36 million cost.
Crane World
Crane World (Mundo grúa) is Pablo Trapero's 1999 black-and-white Argentine debut about Rulo, an unemployed ex-bassist training as a crane operator; a New Argentine Cinema landmark shown at Venice and Rotterdam.
Crocodile (악어) (1996 film)
Crocodile (악어, Ageo) is Kim Ki-duk's 1996 South Korean debut drama about a Han River vagrant who extorts suicide victims' families and abuses a woman he saves; a domestic flop that launched his festival career.
Crooklyn
Crooklyn is Spike Lee's 1994 semi-autobiographical comedy-drama about the Carmichael family in 1970s Brooklyn, written with siblings Joie and Cinqué Lee, starring Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, and Zelda Harris.
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.
Dangerous Beauty
Dangerous Beauty (1998), Marshall Herskovitz's period drama starring Catherine McCormack as Venetian courtesan-poet Veronica Franco, based on Rosenthal's The Honest Courtesan; 69% Tomatometer, $4.6M US gross.
Dangerous Minds
Dangerous Minds is a 1995 American drama film directed by John N. Smith, starring Michelle Pfeiffer as real-life teacher LouAnne Johnson, a former Marine, at an inner-city high school.
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.
East Palace West Palace (东宫西宫)
East Palace West Palace (东宫西宫) is Zhang Yuan's 1996 Chinese-French drama, the first explicitly gay film produced in the PRC, about A-Lan's overnight police interrogation, smuggled abroad and shown at Cannes 1997.
Elizabeth (film)
Elizabeth is a 1998 British historical drama directed by Shekhar Kapur and starring Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I, dramatizing her accession to a divided England.
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.
Eternity and a Day
Eternity and a Day (Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα) is Theo Angelopoulos's 1998 Greek-language drama starring Bruno Ganz as a dying writer and an Albanian refugee boy; it won the 1998 Cannes Palme d'Or unanimously.