Best Drama movies of 1990

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 : John Bach, Bryan Brown, Terry O'Quinn, George Takei,
Directors : Stephen Wallace,

The island of Ambon in Indonesia, 1945. During the War, the number of Australian POWs on the island had dropped from 1100 to less than 300 due to abuses by their Japanese captors. Capt. ...

Actors : Paul L. Smith, Rick Hearst, Jon Stafford, Vernon Wells,
Directors : Gary Graver,

A rich kid, with a fondness for fast bikes, is blamed when a motorcycle accident puts his best friend in a coma.

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Miguel Guilherme, Diogo Dória, Luís Lucas,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily ...

Actors : Kingman Cho, Joe Chu, Chien-Lien Wu, Andy Lau,
Directors : Benny Chan,

A story of a bank heist that almost ended in disaster (for the robbers) until their getaway driver Wah Dee (Andy Lau) took a young woman Jo Jo(Jacklyn Wu) hostage. After preventing her from...

Actors : Eb Lottimer, Christina Applegate, Jane Chung, David Mendenhall,
Directors : Katt Shea,

Serious, well-made story of runaways living in Venice, California, under the threat of a psychotic cop who is a serial killer of prostitutes.

Actors : Atsuko Asano, Naomi Zaizen, Takaaki Enoki, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Haruki Kadokawa,

In 16th century Japan, two samurai engage in massive battles across the countryside; one attempting to conquer and the other attempting to defend his land while repressing his love for a woman after taking a vow of celibacy.

Actors : Tania Boscoli, Catalina Bonakie, Antonio Ameijeiras, André Barros,
Directors : Éric Rochat,

A Brazilian snake hunter, trying to make enough money to marry the woman he loves, finds four mysterious chimpanzees. He embarks upon a journey to sell them in the big city, and learns alot...

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Tayfun Coragan, Dilek Damlacik, Perin Aytaç,
Directors : Serif Gören,

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Juhi Chawla, Madhavi, Govinda,
Directors : David Dhawan,

Living in a posh mansion named Swarg, this is the story of Sahabji, his wife sister Jyoti, two brothers, and a sister-in-law. Sahabji has a clash of wits with Dhanraj, who successfully ...

Actors : Robin Renucci, Stéphane Freiss, Valeria Golino, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Axel Corti,

Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.

Actors : Branka Pujic, Mira Banjac, Dragan Jovanovic, Aleksandar Bercek,
Directors : Djordje Kadijevic,

Sveto mesto (A Holy Place, 1990) is based on a literary classic, Nikolai Gogol's 1835 short story, 'Viy'. However, Kadijevic uses it only as a starting point for his own explorations into ...

Actors : Pavel Nazarov, Dinara Drukarova, Elena Popova, Valeriy Ivchenko,
Directors : Vitali Kanevsky,

Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour.

Actors : Judith Henry, Marie Bunel, Fabrice Luchini, Maurice Garrel,
Directors : Christian Vincent,

There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, ...

Actors : Nicola Stapleton, Juliette Caton, Charlie Sheen, Joanna Clarke,
Directors : Christopher Leitch,

In this version of "Heidi," a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school at the beginning of World War I.

Actors : Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Morante, Luigi Montini, Diego Abatantuono,
Directors : Gabriele Salvatores,

Two actors leave on a theatrical tour, but there is a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girl-friend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to...

Actors : Madhuri Dixit, Kushboo, Aamir Khan, Jainendra,

Anita (Madhuri Dixit) is a model, and Ajay Sharma is a photographer, both work for the same agency. Ajay has fallen in love with Anita, and thinks that she is also in love with him. But ...

Actors : Mammootty, Suchitra, Mohanlal, M.G. Soman,

Enroute Madras via train, when three friends get falsely accused of a mysterious homicide, they escape and desperately search for the real killer.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Liz Fraser, Emily Lloyd, John Lahr,
Directors : Bernard Rose,

During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns deadly.

Actors : Ina Cissé, Rasmané Ouédraogo, Roukietou Barry, Assane Ouedraogo,
Directors : Idrissa Ouedraogo,

Set in a pre-colonial African past, Tilai is about an illicit love affair and its consequences. Saga returns to his village after an extended absence to discover that his father has taken ...