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Some Mother's Son
Some Mother's Son is a 1996 drama, Terry George's directorial debut co-written with Jim Sheridan, about two mothers (Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan) of fictional 1981 Maze hunger strikers led by Bobby Sands.
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.
Stealing Beauty
Stealing Beauty (Io ballo da sola, Beauté volée) is Bernardo Bertolucci's 1996 comedy-drama starring Liv Tyler as Lucy Harmon, an American seeking her father in Tuscany; it competed at Cannes 1996, with Jeremy Irons, Darius Khondji cinematography, and a Jeremy Thomas production.
Stella Does Tricks
Stella Does Tricks, also known simply as Stella Does Tricks, is a 1996 British drama directed by Coky Giedroyc, written by A.L. Kennedy, starring Kelly Macdonald as a Glaswegian teenage prostitute in London; released in UK cinemas in 1998.
Taboo (御法度) (1999 film)
Taboo (御法度, Gohatto) is Nagisa Oshima's 1999 Shochiku period drama about a beautiful young recruit disrupting the Shinsengumi; his final film, starring Ryuhei Matsuda, Beat Takeshi, and Tadanobu Asano, with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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.
Temptress Moon (风月)
Temptress Moon (风月, Feng yue) is Chen Kaige's 1996 drama starring Leslie Cheung and Gong Li, adapted from Ye Zhaoyan's novel Hua Ying, shot by Christopher Doyle, nominated for the 1996 Palme d'Or, and banned in China.
The Apartment (1996 film)
The Apartment (L'Appartement) is Gilles Mimouni's 1996 French romantic thriller debut, starring Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, and Romane Bohringer, a nonlinear flashback tale of a man searching for a lost lover, later remade as Wicker Park (2004).
The Apostle
The Apostle is Robert Duvall's 1997 independent drama about Pentecostal preacher Sonny Dewey, who flees Texas as Apostle E.F. after a crime of passion. Duvall wrote, directed, starred, and self-financed it with $5 million; it earned an Oscar nomination and $34 million gross.
The Apple (سیب) (1998 film)
The Apple (سیب, Sib) is Samira Makhmalbaf's 1998 feature debut, a docudrama in which the real Naderi family re-enacts the confinement of twin daughters in Tehran; shown in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 1998.
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 Babysitter's Seduction
The Babysitter's Seduction is a 1996 NBC television thriller directed by David Burton Morris, starring Stephen Collins, Keri Russell, Phylicia Rashad, and Tobin Bell, about a widower who seduces and frames his 18-year-old babysitter for his wife's murder.
The Barber of Siberia (Сибирский цирюльник)
The Barber of Siberia (Сибирский цирюльник) is Nikita Mikhalkov's 1998 Russian-French-Italian-Czech historical melodrama about cadet Andrei Tolstoy, American Jane, and a steam sawmill, the costliest post-Soviet film of its era.
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 Boxer (1997 film)
The Boxer is a 1997 drama directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a former IRA boxer who reopens his Belfast boxing club after 14 years in prison.
The Celebration
The Celebration (Festen) is Thomas Vinterberg's 1998 Danish drama, the first certified Dogme 95 film, in which son Christian accuses patriarch Helge of abuse during a 60th-birthday toast; it won the 1998 Cannes Jury Prize.
The Color of Paradise (رنگ خدا)
The Color of Paradise (رنگ خدا, Rang-e khoda) is Majid Majidi's 1999 Iranian drama about Mohammad, a blind boy whose widower father tries to apprentice him away; Montreal Best Film winner, Sony Pictures Classics US release, 87% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Cure (1995 film)
The Cure is a 1995 American drama film directed by Peter Horton, in which two eleven-year-old boys travel down the Mississippi River to find a doctor with an AIDS cure.
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (돼지가 우물에 빠진 날)
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (돼지가 우물에 빠진 날, Dwaejiga Umule Pajinnal) is Hong Sang-soo's 1996 feature debut, adapted from Gu Hyo-seo's Strange Summer; four intertwined Seoul and Jeonju lives, Rotterdam Tiger Award winner.
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 Deep End of the Ocean (film)
The Deep End of the Ocean is a 1999 American drama directed by Ulu Grosbard, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, about a mother whose kidnapped son returns nine years later.
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 Eel (うなぎ)
The Eel (うなぎ, Unagi) is Shohei Imamura's 1997 Japanese drama starring Koji Yakusho as a paroled murderer who confides in a pet eel; it shared the 1997 Cannes Palme d'Or with Taste of Cherry, Imamura's second Palme after The Ballad of Narayama.
The End of the Affair (1999 film)
The End of the Affair (1999) is Neil Jordan's film adaptation of Graham Greene's 1951 novel, starring Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, and Stephen Rea; it earned two Oscar nominations and grossed under $11 million.
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 Flower of My Secret
The Flower of My Secret (La flor de mi secreto) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1995 Spanish-French drama starring Marisa Paredes as romance novelist Leo Macías, who writes as Amanda Gris; seven Goya nominations, Karlovy Vary 1996 jury prize.
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.