Drama Movies of 1990
Hamlet
Franco Zeffirelli directs his third Shakespeare adaptation (after Romeo and Juliet and Otello) with this film version of the tragedy Hamlet. The titular prince of Denmark ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Wild at Heart
Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern play a pair of lovers on the run in David Lynch's ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
The Russia House
"Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery) is an alcoholic book editor from a ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
The Old Man and the Sea
This adaptation of Hemingway's classic story adds a few characters but keeps the basic plotline of an old fisherman's greatest battle intact. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Days of Thunder
The Top Gun team of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, director Tony Scott, and superstar Tom Cruise reunite for this excursion into stock-car racing that incorporates the vroom and rumble of deafening car engines with a ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
One Man's War
In this made-for-cable docudrama, Anthony Hopkins stars as Joel Filartiga, a Paraguayan doctor battling against human rights abuses and political corruption in his native land. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Havana
A cynical gambler reluctantly comes to the aid of a mysterious beauty in this interpolation of Casablanca and the real-life Cuban revolution. Big-stakes American gambler Jack Weil (Robert Redford) is comfortable in the ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Awakenings
Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
White Palace
Screenwriters Ted Tally and Alvin Sargent adapted the novel by Glenn Savan into this intelligent comedy-drama about a May-December romance where the woman is the senior partner. James Spader is Max ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Judgment
The true-story of a small town Louisiana molestation case is re-created ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
A Killing in a Small Town
To escape from the boredom of her small-town life, Sunday School ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Reversal of Fortune
This film is a darkly humorous, determinedly ambiguous adaptation of Alan Dershowitz's book about his successful legal appeal of Claus von ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Good Cops, Bad Cops
One of the largest crimes in history was the 1980 robbery of the Boston Depositors Trust by a group of ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (played by real-life "Mr. and Mrs." Paul ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
The Josephine Baker Story
Brian Gibson's made-for-cable biography of the famed singer Josephine Baker stars Lynn Whitfield as the black American who found stardom and scandal as the toast of the Paris night-life during the 1920s and '30s. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
The Sheltering Sky
From director Bernardo Bertolucci, The Sheltering Sky is a filmed ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
Originally aired on HBO, Women and Men: Stories of Seduction is a short-film anthology that brings to life three famous short stories. Mary McCarthy's "The Man in the Brooks Brothers ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Zora is My Name!
A PBS "American Playhouse" production, this is an amusing TV ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Rocky V
Touted upon its release as the finale of the Rocky saga, this fifth ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
Based on Doug Magee's novel Slow Coming Dark, the ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Jacob's Ladder
A tortured man finds himself caught in a middle-ground between hallucination and reality in this supernatural thriller, scripted by Bruce Joel Rubin of Ghost (1990) and My Life (1993). Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is a soldier stationed in ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Cadence
When a young Caucasian military man is thrown into an all African-American barracks for punishment, he slowly earns the respect of his peers while they all ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
White Hunter, Black Heart
Something of a sleeper in its 1990 release, White ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Heat Wave
Set during the Watts riots of the mid-'60s, the made-for-cable Heat Wave follows the story of Los Angeles Times reporter Robert Richardson (Blair Underwood), who was the ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Mo' Better Blues
Spike Lee's 1990 directing effort is a jazz film, the story of a fictional trumpeter named Bleek Gilliam (Denzel ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Q & A
Following Serpico (1973) and Prince of the City (1981), veteran urban crime film director ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Texasville
Texasville is Peter Bogdanovich's much-delayed sequel to The Last Picture Show. Adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel and told as a series of episodes, Texasville follows the characters from The Last Picture ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Crossing the Line
Filmmaker David Leland handled the directing chores on this British drama that stars Liam Neeson as ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
The Field
Richard Harris was nominated for several awards (including the Oscar ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Avalon
The third of director Barry Levinson's autobiographical "Baltimore Trilogy" (the first two entries were Diner and Tin Men), Avalon covers ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Millions
One of the heirs to a family fortune is willing to do anything to possess it, but finds his ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Wild Orchid
A beautiful woman discovers a new side of her personality in this erotic drama. Kansas-born Emily Reed (Carré Otis) is an intelligent but naive young woman who has made a name for ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Kill Cruise
This thriller stars Jurgen Prochnow as an alcoholic sailor who agrees to deliver ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Too Young to Die?
Another "based on fact" TV movie, Too Young to Die? stars Juliette Lewis as a benighted teenaged ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Cyrano De Bergerac
Edmond Rostand's classic drama of inner and outer beauty is given a lavish treatment in this acclaimed French production. Gérard Depardieu portrays the title character, a ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Murder in Mississippi
Made for television, Murder in Mississippi covers the same historical ground that was fictionalized in the ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
83 Hours 'Til Dawn
83 Hours 'Til Dawn utilizes a plot device originally seen on another fact-based TV movie, The Longest Night (1972). Robert Urich stars as a wealthy business ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
A Son's Promise
The promise made by 15-year-old Georgia boy Ricky Schroder is to his dying mother (Veronica ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Andre's Mother
After her son dies of AIDS, a woman must come to terms with his abbreviated life. Sada Thompson stars as the mother in this Emmy award-winning movie that aired on PBS. Thompson is joined in her grief by her dead son's lover ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Corporate Affairs
Two business rivals, a domineering careerwoman (Mary Crosby) and ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Not Without My Daughter
In this docudrama based on true events, a mid-'80s Michigan housewife finds her life turned upside down when a vacation to Tehran with her Iranian husband turns into virtual imprisonment for her and her ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Vital Signs
Marisa Silver helmed this tightly directed hospital drama reminiscent of David Swift's 1962 The Interns. Jimmy Smits plays Dr. David Redding, who guides seven ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Following up on his critically acclaimed, blood-splattered epic Ran, master ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson is a TV-biopic oversimplification of the life and career of the durable screen idol. Most of the background material is based on the book by Phyllis Gates, who was briefly married to Hudson in the 1950s. The ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Shattered Dreams
Shattered Dreams is a "based on a true story" TV movie starring Lindsay Wagner and Michael Nouri. Wagner is a Washington DC attorney; Nouri is her husband, also an ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Bandidos
Luis is the only survivor of an attack by bandits on his boarding school. Chaos rocks the Mexican countryside during the 1910 revolution, and the boy is happy to have survived. Before he can get away and head towards home, he encounters ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Night Sun
In this film, Tolsoy's classic story Father ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
I, the Worst of All
Sister Juana (Assumpta Serna) is a gentle poet and a none-too-pious nun, living in seventeenth-century Mexico. She is protected by the Governor and his wife from a ferociously misogynistic Archbishop, who some believe is using his ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Mountains of the Moon
Director Bob Rafelson fulfilled a lifelong dream when he finally received backing to complete Mountains of the ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Against the Wind
Juan (Antonio Banderas) has been trying to escape the sexual demands of his sister for some ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Pump up the Volume
Teenage angst finds a new voice in this drama. By day, Mark Hunter (Christian Slater) is a quiet, studious student at an ordinary suburban high ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Come See the Paradise
One of the few American films to deal with the tragic ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Longtime Companion
At the time of Longtime Companion's release in 1990, the devastating disease of AIDS was seen as a mysterious and deadly scourge, replete with rumors, lies, and panic. ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Farewell China
Hong Kong filmmaker Clara Law directed this sensitive drama about a young woman named Li Hung (Maggie Cheung), who is ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Beverly Hills 90210: Season 01
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Daddy Nostalgia
In Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgia, Caroline (Jane ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
A Girl of the Limberlost
Adapted from Gene Stratton-Porter's novel, the story of an Indiana farmgirl growing up with her widowed mother. ~ All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Disha
The lure of the big city is something that country dwellers around the world experience. In every case, the particulars are different. In this drama, two best friends leave their Indian village and travel to Bombay to try and get work. ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
This historical drama chronicles the struggle of Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg (Stella Skarsgard), as he fought valiantly to save the lives of the Jewish residents of Nazi-occupied Budapest. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Ju Dou
A dark, sensual, and visually sumptuous drama, Ju Dou centers on the title character, the third wife of a wealthy silk dyer in 1920s China. Forced into marriage by poverty, Ju Dou is repeatedly mistreated and ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Paper Wedding
A couple are forced to get to know one another after they've gotten married in this drama. Claire (Genevieve Bujold) is a 40-ish college professor who lives and teaches in Montreal, supplementing her earnings by writing textbooks. ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
21 Jump Street: Season 04
Jailed on a trumped-up charge near the end of season three, LAPD undercover officer Tom ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
An American Summer
In this youthful drama, Tom, a 14- year-old who's parents have just divorced, is abruptly uprooted from his wealthy Chicago home and sent to the strange land of LA to live in the far-out beach bungalow of his aunt, an ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
Cheryl Ladd stars as the wife of an airline pilot (Doug Sheehan), who is killed along with 127 other people in a mysterious crash. The authorities, egged on by a gonzo newsman, ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
The Disenchanted
Beth (Judith Godreche) is nearly an adult and has lived a fairly grim and unenchanting life. This is mirrored ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Tales From Avonlea: Season 01
Season one of the phenomenally popular Canadian series Road to Avonlea (aka Tales From Avonlea) begins in the early 20th century, as Sara Stanley (Sarah Polley), the pampered and privileged daughter of a wealthy Montreal merchant, is sent to the ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Vincent and Theo
The relationship between the obsessive, brilliant painter Vincent Van Gogh and his more practical brother Theo is at the center of director Robert Altman's well-received biography, originally produced as a miniseries for ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
100 Days Before the Command
Life in the Russian military is observed in this almost surreal Russian drama that contains strong anti-war sentiments. The film's ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
The Forbidden Dance
When the Brazilian rainforest home of young Princess Nisa (Laura Herring) is threatened by greedy American businesses, she travels to Los Angeles with Joa the shaman (Sid Haig). There Joa is thrown in jail, and Nisa must find a way to stop ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
The Juniper Tree
This stark black-and-white drama explores the vast territory of interpersonal pain in an unrelenting manner. It is a retelling of one of the stories from the "Grimm's Fairytales" about two sisters who have ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Graffiti Bridge
Prince wrote, directed, and stars in this disastrous sequel to Purple Rain that equates differing musical styles with God, angels, faith, and the struggle between the spiritual and the earthy. Once again Prince ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
A Fishy Story
In 1969, while Hong Kong is undergoing its own localized chaos -- fallout from the Cultural Revolution on ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Portrait of a Marriage
Adapted from the autobiographical novel by Nigel ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
An Angel at My Table
New Zealand poet Janet Frame is the subject of Jane Campion's biographical drama, which presents a poetically evocative look ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Intimidades en un Cuarto de Bano
Intimate details in the lives of five family members become extremely clear from the vantage point of their bathroom mirror, in this innovative drama. Bertha ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
The Pistol
This is the biopic of basketball star Pistol Pete Maravich, here played by Adam Guier. The film is for the most part an exercise in joie de vivre, until it ends as it tragically must, with the sudden and untimely death of ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Lord of the Flies
Harry Hook directed this second screen adaptation of William Golding's cult novel about a group of British schoolchildren who revert to savagery when ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Beverly Hills 90210: Pilot
From director Tim Hunter and writer Darren Star, this is the feature-length pilot ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Coldfire
A team of cops investigate the destructive power of a lethal street drug being promulgated on the streets of Los Angeles. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Darkroom
Evidently disturbed, a man attempts to blackmail his father by snapping pictures of him in bed with his mistress. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Decoration Day
Originally airing on the Hallmark Hall of Fame, this made-for-television adaptation of a novel by John ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Empty Bed
Empty Bed is a 60-minute character study of an ageing homosexual. Bill Frayne (John Wylie) sits alone in his room, contemplating his past, present and future. In flashback, the events ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Danielle Steel's 'Fine Things'
Based on a best-selling novel from Danielle Steele, this made-for-television melodrama tells the sad story of a highly successful businessman whose idyllic life is destroyed when his new bride dies of cancer, leaving ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Life on a String
Life on a String is Chen Kaige's most philosophical and enigmatic ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
My Father's Glory
This 1990 French film presents idyllic episodes from the childhood of novelist and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974). ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
My Mother's Castle
This charming motion picture relives the beautiful childhood memories of noted film director and writer Marcel Pagnol. While attending ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Night of the Wilding
During the late '80s, a terrible fad, wilding, came into vogue among troubled inner-city youth. Wilding involved nights of insane revelry, violence, and destruction of anything and anyone in the ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Rodrigo D: No Future
Rodrigo D (Ramiro Meneses) is a Colombian youth who aspires to join a punk-rock band. His musical skills are negligible, but ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Sudie and Simpson
Based on Sara Flanigan Carter's semi-autobiographical novel, the made-for-cable Sudie and Simpson is about ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Sweet 15
In this touching family drama, a young girl's dreams of having an extra-special 15th birthday party are shattered when she discovers that her father is an illegal alien and may ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
To Play or to Die
Attending an all-boy school, a quiet teen finds himself among bullies and their bizarre psycho-sexual escapades. Planning on taking the upper hand with a handsome brute, he invites him home but cannot carry out his ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
You're Driving Me Crazy
This anthology is set within a mental ward at a hospital where doctors try to cope with people suffering from a variety of ailments. Among the afflicted are a young man who believes his parents ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Children of the Bride
In this film a middle-aged woman tries to get married to her younger fiance but is hindered by her four grown children who come bearing grudges. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Joshua's Heart
The crush felt by a young boy for his father's girlfriend creates heartbreak when the adults call the relationship off. ~ All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Sparks: The Price of Passion
In this drama, a mayor's political career is threatened by the avaricious land speculators who are trying to force her to give ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
El Niki
Caluga O Menta literally means Toffee or Mint, but in the slang of the tenement kids this movie focuses on, it refers to a ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Last Flight Out
This tension-filled made-for-television drama is set a few hours before the Viet Cong took over Saigon in 1975 and chronicles the struggle of Americans and ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Maine Pyar Kiya
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Tridev
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Hamlet
Kevin Kline directed this television adaptation of the New York Shakespeare ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Krug Vtoroy
The director of this film, Alexander Sokurov, is famous for his complete disregard for commercial success and his determination to make films the way ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Heroes & Villains: Queen of the East
Follow the life of a woman who became a legend simply by living life on her own terms as Absolutely Fabulous' Jennifer Saunders essays the role of 19th century adventurer Lady Hester Stanhope in director ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Close-Up
This Iranian film qualifies as a docudrama, and makes some telling ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Shadows of the Heart
A battle of sensibilities erupts in this period drama from director Rod ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Deewana Mujh Sa Nahin
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Othello
This powerful production of Shakespeare's Othello by the Royal ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Le Sacre du Printemps
The obsessions of three unrelated characters lead them careening towards an irreversible shared ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Ronin-Gai
Kazuo Kuroki's Ronin-Gai transpires during the final years of the time when samurais figured prominently in Japanese society. The title town is filled with prostitutes and samurai who have ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Por Tu Maldito Amor
Por Tu Maldito Amor tells the tale of a man in love with two very different women, one mature and responsible, the other more extroverted. Complicating the situation is the fact that the women are ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Forbidden Fruits
Fredro Starr, Taral Hicks, Keith David, and Tommy 'Tiny' Lister co-star in the interracial urban romance Forbidden Fruits. Set in the heart of the Motor City, the picture traces the experiences of Shawn, a black ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
Van Gogh
Golden Globe-winner Linus Roache stars as tormented postimpressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh in this award ... [ Drama movie - 1990 ]
