Best Drama movies of 1990

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Michel Blanc, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Claude Berri,

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who ...

Actors : Dermot Mulroney, Sam Shepard, Valerie Perrine, Lili Taylor,
Directors : Michael Fields,

Road-movie from Montana to Wyoming. A gullible, innocent young man (Mulroney) assists a versatile girl (Taylor) on her long quest to get her brother out of jail.

Actors : Billy Connolly, Kenny Ireland, Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley,
Directors : David Leland,

An unemployed Scottish miner (Liam Neeson) is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.

Actors : Melora Hardin, Leticia Vasquez, Adolfo Quinones, J. Eddie Peck,
Directors : Joel Silberg,

Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid's respect and acceptance, Kevin then teaches them ...

Actors : Ewa Dalkowska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Wojciech Pszoniak, Marzena Trybala,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, ...

Actors : Pankaj Kapur, Shabana Azmi, Deepa Sahi, Irrfan Khan,
Directors : Tapan Sinha,

After years of painstaking research at the cost of his domestic pleasure, Dr. Dipankar Roy discovers a vaccine for leprosy. The news is flashed over television and overnight, an ...

Actors : Gérard Darmon, Natalya Gundareva, Oleg Yankovskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan,
Directors : Georgiy Daneliya,

A case of mistaken identity, by a switched Passport leaves a Georgian man stranded in Israel.

Actors : Sreenivasan, Nedumudi Venu, Gautami, Mohanlal,
Directors : Sibi Malayil,

A qawwali singer passes as a Brahmin in order to infiltrate a palace and kill the king.

Actors : Margaret Anne MacLeod, David Falkenburg, Michael O'Sullivan, Michael Gottli,
Directors : Guy Maddin,

An amnesiac soldier, seeking his lost love, arrives in Archangel in northern Russia to help the townsfolk in their fight against the Bolsheviks, all quite unaware that the Great War ended three months ago.

Actors : Jude Alderson, Peter O'Toole, Christopher Lee, Omar Sharif,
Directors : Alejandro Jodorowsky,

A petty crook, in search of the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune.

Actors : Ekta Sohini, Dev Anand, Aamir Khan, Aditya Pancholi,
Directors : Dev Anand,

The DGP of Police discovers a terrorist plot hatched by a sacked cricketer to blow up the stadium where an important cricket match is in progress.

Actors : Selim Boughedir, Rabia Ben Abdallah, Mohammed Driss, Mustapha Adouani,
Directors : Férid Boughedir,

A coming-of-age comedy/drama set in Tunisia. Twelve-year-old Noura is an impressionable boy who must learn to reconcile two conflicting worlds - the loving world of Muslim women and the ...

Actors : Alan Rosenberg, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Sondra Locke,

Lottie Mason is a police vice cop who has just the right looks to be a decoy for the whore-mungers on the streets of Los Angeles. She seems to always be where the action is whether it be ...

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Füsun Demirel, Murat Güler, Aydan Burhan,
Directors : Erdogan Tokatli,

Kuheylan is doorman in an apartment. He has economic difficulties. Tries to become a taxi driver but can't do it. His 2 wives and daughters leaves him. He tries to live in this difficult life with his son.

Actors : Franz Buchrieser, Patsy Kensit, Elizabeth Hurley, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Peter Keglevic,

A washed-out German sailor, in a drunken state, agrees to take two British women from Gibraltar to the West Indies in his sail boat. Early into the voyage, they realise that it's not going ...

Actors : Peter Boyle, Dennis Farina, Katherine Borowitz, John Turturro,
Directors : William Reilly,

A hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame on ...

Actors : Amy Irving, Lou Diamond Phillips, Andy Garcia, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Bruno Barreto,

An American journalist in Puerto Rico in 1978 investigates the death of nationalists who may have been murdered by the police.

Actors : Natalya Buzko, Olga Antonova, Galina Zakhurdaeva, Sergei Popov,
Directors : Kira Muratova,

In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has ...

Actors : Tuccio Musumeci, Ennio Fantastichini, Renato Carpentieri, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Gianni Amelio,

Tommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he killed his superior who sacked him, he kills the man who replaced him, and he kills his own wife. He wants a quick trial and an early ...

Actors : Andréa Ferréol, Peter O'Toole, Marie Trintignant, Colin Firth,
Directors : Otakar Votocek,

A famous movie actor (Peter O'Toole) claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengenfully kills him but then dies as a result of an ...