Drama Movies of 1991
Our Sons
Julie Andrews and Ann-Margaret combine their not inconsiderable talents for Our Sons. In her TV-movie ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
The Prince of Tides
Barbra Streisand directed and stars in this love story about two people of dissimilar backgrounds who ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Separate But Equal
Based on the ground-breaking Brown vs. the Board of Education case, the made-for-television Separate But Equal follows a young Thurgood Marshall (Sidney Poitier) as a lawyer who argues the racially-charged ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Jungle Fever
Spike Lee defines "jungle fever" as sexual attraction between members of two races. In his film Jungle Fever, he examines the repercussions of an interracial affair ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Grand Canyon
Director Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon is a gathering of random events, uniting the film's wildly divergent protagonists. Driving ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
True Colors
John Cusack and James Spader play against type in Kevin Wade's morality play, directed by Herbert Ross. Spader plays Tim Gerrity, a well-heeled WASP blueblood, who has dedicated his ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
The Doors
Val Kilmer delivers what was considered one of 1991's best performances as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's hallucinatory bio-pic of the seminal 1960s rock group The Doors. Stone cuts a jagged swath through Morrison's life, starting with a ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
This informative look at T.E. Lawrence at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, as he ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
He Said, She Said
Real-life sweethearts and film directors Ken Kwapis and Marisa Silver co-directed this throwback to the silver-screen romantic comedies of the 1940s, examining the different ways men and women view reality. ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Guilty by Suspicion
The directorial debut of producer Irwin Winkler, Guilty by Suspicion is a sobering account of one movie executive's woes in dealing with the political fallout from the ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
The Indian Runner
The Indian Runner, Sean Penn's debut film as director (he also wrote ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Prisoner of Honor
Directed by Ken Russell, Prisoner of Honor is a made-for-cable retelling of the 1894 court-martial of French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus. The historical drama stars Richard Dreyfuss (no relation) as the head of counter-intelligence ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Little Man Tate
Jodie Foster made her directorial debut (with a script by Scott Frank) in this tale of a child prodigy's search for social ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
A Rage in Harlem
Bill Duke directs this quirky film adaptation of Chester Himes' crime novel -- a ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
The Man in the Moon
In its elegiac nostalgia for the days of childhood innocence, Robert Mulligan's The Man in the Moon recalls another of Mulligan's earlier films, To Kill A Mockingbird. Set in a Louisiana backwater town in the 1950s, the ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
This first film directorial effort of actor Simon ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Class Action
A pair of lawyers must balance their professional principles (such as they are) ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
The Doctor
A doctor finds out the hard way that there's more to medicine than ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
One Good Cop
An honest man struggles to do the right thing, even if it means breaking the law, in this drama. Artie Lewis (Michael Keaton) is a ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
The Waterdance
Paralyzed in a 1984 accident, writer/director Neal Jimenez (of River's Edge fame) channelled his own experiences and emotions into his ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Wildflower
Set in the rural South of the '30s, the made-for-cable film Wildflower is about a pair of teenaged siblings who become friends with an epileptic girl named Alice ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Boyz 'N the Hood
Director John Singleton's debut chronicles the trials and tribulations of three young African-American males growing up in South Central Los Angeles. When young Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a bright underachiever, begins to show signs of trouble, ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Crooked Hearts
Adapted from the Robert Boswell novel, the film focuses on a very troubled family beset from all sides by conflict, arguments and scandal. The father (Peter Coyote) brings his wife (Cindy Pickett) and two sons (Vincent D'Onofrio, Peter Berg) to ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Dying Young
Directed by Joel Schumacher, Dying Young was adapted from a novel by Marti Leimbach. When Victor Geddes (Campbell Scott) discovers that ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Hammers Over the Anvil
This drama concerns a small period in the life of ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Convicts
Set upon a struggling turn-of-the-century Texas sugar-cane plantation, this brutal and realistic drama centers on the efforts of an aging plantation boss (Robert Duvall), using convicts for workers, to ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
The Fisher King
Terry Gilliam directed this adaptation of Richard LaGravenese's mystical (and mythical) tale of redemption in the hard-time town of New York City. Jeff Bridges is shock radio DJ Jack Lucas, whose low opinion of humanity lends ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
All the Mornings of the World
Jazzman-turned-director Alain Corneau brings his extensive musical savvy to All the Mornings of the World. Jean-Pierre Marielle stars as legendary ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Aftermath: A Test of Love
Aftermath: A Test of Love begins where most TV movies end. Based on fact (as recorded in Gary ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Days of Being Wild
Following up on his debut As Tears Go By, master filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai directs this dark, brooding tale about identity and unrequited love. Set in 1960, the film center of the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy (Leslie Cheung), who learns from the ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Rush
Based on a gritty, semi-autobiographical novel by author Kim Wozencraft, this crime thriller was adapted for the screen by noir ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Talent for the Game
Sammy Bodean is the newest, most promising recruit according to the advertisement of the California Angels--and has to prove it ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Where Angels Fear to Tread
A wealthy, upper-class British widow marries a much younger Italian man with disastrous results in this turn-of-the-century costume drama based on the E.M. Forster novel. After marrying into a wealthy family and then losing her ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Fires Within
A Cuban woman who escapes to America finds herself in political, financial, and romantic jeopardy in this taut drama. Cuban refugee Isabel (Greta Scacchi) flees her country and makes her way to Miami after her husband, Nestor ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
My Own Private Idaho
Gus Van Sant's dreamtime riff on Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Parts I and II" features River Phoenix as Mike Waters, a narcoleptic male hustler who is first seen drifting on a stretch of highway in Idaho. Mike shifts from Seattle to ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
La Belle Noiseuse
In this fascinating and unconventional examination of the creative ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Paradise
Mary Agnes Donohue adapted her French success Le Grand Chemin for this American version, reworked as a ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Regarding Henry
Combining elements of A Christmas Carol and Rain Man (1988), this modern-day parable of greed and redemption was crafted with generous helpings of ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
Based on the book Hot Toddy, by Andy Edmunds, ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
First Circle
Based on a Solzhenitsyn book, this is the story of a Moscow official in Stalinist Russia whose ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
The White Dove
Some people would say that Mario is a Basque terrorist, but he would probably say that he is simply a fervent activist on behalf of the Basque ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Dark Shadows the Revival Series [TV Series]
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Madame Bovary
Director Claude Chabrol's 1991 version of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is closer to the source than Vincente ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
A Stranger in the Family
In this drama, a family rallies together to help their amnesiac son remember his life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Lovers on the Bridge
Paris has its share of homeless people, and some of them live in little communities near the ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Sins of the Mother
The bizarre relationship between an overbearing mother and her son, a ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Mister Johnson
Director Bruce Beresford followed up his Academy Award-winning Driving Miss Daisy with another meditation on race, Mister Johnson. Set in West Africa in 1923, Johnson (Maynard ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Pastime
This highly rated independent production was written ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
The Rapture
An audacious film about faith, The Rapture is a contemporary fantasy that keeps its feet ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Eye of the Storm
Eye of the Storm is the eerie and tragic story of two brothers haunted by their past. Steven (Bradley Gregg) witnesses the murder of his parents by robbers. Running from the killers, Steven falls from a window and is blinded. Ten years later, ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Toy Soldiers
Dead Poets Society and Die Hard bash heads in this action drama set in a Northeastern prep school. The film opens as a crazed ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Beverly Hills 90210: Season 02
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The Last Butterfly
Karel Kachyna and Ota Hofman adapted Michael Jacot's novel for this drama of a mime artist in Nazi-occupied ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Eyes of an Angel
Both enemies and a very special friend follow a young girl and her father in flight from ruthless criminals in this drama. Bobby Allen (John Travolta) is a small-time crook working as a bagman for the mob in ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Dogfight
River Phoenix stars in this period drama about a young man, ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
December
Set the day after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, December focuses on five prep-school students (Wil Wheaton, Balthazar Getty, Brian Krause, Jason London and Chris Young) who are of enlistment age. Though encouraged by their headmaster to ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Prisoners of the Sun
In 1945, a tribunal was held to investigate atrocities committed by the Japanese upon Australian ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
The Five Heartbeats
Loosely based on the life and times of several R&B artists (The Dells, The Temptations, Frankie Lymon, Sam ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Return to the Blue Lagoon
This sequel to the surprise box office hit The Blue Lagoon (1980) mimics its predecessor's romantic adventure formula of a lush tropical locale inhabited by scantily clad, nubile teens discovering their ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Rhapsody in August
Master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa follows up on his phantasmorgic Dreams with this delicate tale about war and ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
En Dag I Oktober
Shot on location in Denmark, this riveting and inspirational WW II-era drama chronicles the courage of a young Jewish woman who risks her life and that of her family by concealing a wounded resistance fighter in ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Close My Eyes
Set in Great Britain in the late 1980s -- in the midst of Margaret Thatcher's controversial tenure as Prime Minister -- this drama examines the strange relationship between two siblings. Richard (Clive Owen) has ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Danielle Steel's 'Changes'
In this made for TV movie based on Danielle Steele's novel, Cheryl Ladd portrays a successful New York television anchorwoman. When she marries a successful surgeon in ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Heaven Is a Playground
Set in Chicago, Heaven is a Playground is about an inner-city basketball coach and a young lawyer who set out to save a group of teen-aged boys from crime and drugs ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Catherine Cookson's The Black Velvet Gown
Filmed for British television in 1991, Black Velvet Gown is a two-part adaptation of Catherine Cookson's novel. The story begins in 1834; Riah Millican (Janet McTeer), left penniless by her husband's death, is evicted from her home along with ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Raise the Red Lantern
The phenomenal success and international acclaim of Raise the Red Lantern, cemented Zhang Yimou's status as a leading figure in ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Black Robe
Adapted by Brian Moore from his own novel, The Black Robe ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
China Cry
Julia Nickson (then billed as Julia Nickson-Soul) stars as Nora Lamm, whose childhood was rent asunder ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Van Gogh
Running nearly three hours, Maurice Pialat's Van Gogh is a leisurely paced look ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
A Perfect Hero
A Perfect Hero, Christopher Matthews' novel about a grotesquely disfigured ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Europa, Europa
This drama was based on the true story of a young German Jew who survived the Holocaust by ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
King of Chess
In Taipei, Taiwan, a television executive is helping the emcee of a television show about child ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
What About Me
The tough and tender sides of New York's homeless underground are documented in this independent drama. After a bicycle accident wounds her body and a rape by her landlord (Rockets Redglare) ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Danzon
Spending the bulk of her time working and raising her child alone, Julia's life is filled with mundane grays. The only ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
The Double Life of Veronique
The Double Life of Véronique is the story of two young women who are -- in some mysterious and irresolvable way -- the same woman leading two different yet interconnected lives. ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Blue Hour
The hero of the Swiss/German Blue Hour (Die Blaue Stunde) is a ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Cup Final
Originally titled G'mar Giviya, the Israeli Cup Final takes place in 1982, at the time of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Soldier Moshe Ivgi is far more concerned with the outcome of the World Cup soccer tournament than he is ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
La Frontera
High school math teacher Ramiro Orellana somehow managed to run afoul of the military government in Santiago, and he has been classified as ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Little Heroes
In this inspiring family drama, a little girl has only her beloved dog Fuzzy to protect her from the slings and arrows tossed at her and her impoverished family by their self-righteous small-town ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Lost in the Barrens
An orphaned white teen and a Cree Indian boy must put their differences aside to survive when they get lost together in the Canadian wilderness. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Mission of the Shark
When a top secret naval mission leads to the torpedoing of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of WWII, it began one of the most scandalous court-martials in the history of the military. For five days the surviving ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Presumed Guilty
In this drama, a wrongfully imprisoned man is no sooner released than he is once again being pursued by the cops. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Quicksand: No Escape
In this made-for-cable thriller, the idyllic life of an upstanding architect is nearly destroyed when his partner ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Quiet Fire
In this thriller, the owner of a popular health spa is ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Straight Out of Brooklyn
Matty Rich's Straight out of Brooklyn is an unflinching portrait of an African-American family struggling to survive in a Brooklyn housing project. The family's oldest son ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Strangers in Good Company
This Canadian drama from director Cynthia Scott centers on eight elderly women strangers who find themselves depending on each other and becoming fast ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Swoon
Tom Kalin directed this cool and aloof black-and-white study of the ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
A Tale of Two Cities
Masterpiece Theatre's 1991 production of A Tale of Two Cities is a ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Catherine Cookson's The Black Candle
At the turn of the century, a widow decides to set her dead husbands business back ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Danielle Steel's 'Daddy'
This TV movie's original title was Danielle Steel's Daddy, which was either an ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Fire in the Dark
When her Mother breaks her hip and needs full-time care, a married woman is forced to a new understanding of the process of aging and the human spirit. Her Mother becomes resentful and fearful in this powerful affirmation of the ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love
A foster home-bound 9-year-old and his aging grandmother run from the authorities in this drama. ~ All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Jeszcze Tylko Ten Las
Murs Kulgawcowa was a servant for rich Jewish people for many years, and the necessity for her to kow-tow and take orders from them was galling to her. Still, at their request, she goes to see them where ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
La Mujer de Benjamin
When he's not in his store working with his sharp-tongued, disagreeable sister, Benjamin, who never married, hangs out with his cronies. However, whenever the lovely and virginal teenager Natividad ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Raid
Tsui Hark and Ching Siu-ting spin this adventure yarn inspired by old Hollywood ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Chernoe i Beloe
In this independently produced film directed by a film-school instructor at NYU, a young woman immigrant ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
In Your Wildest Dreams
A high school senior learns an important lesson in integrity and true success after becoming an accidental millionaire in filmmaker Bruce Neibaur's thoughtful entry into the "Feature Films for Families" series. ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Golden Swallow
Cherie Chung, Eric Tsang and Anthony Wong star in ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Lee Rock
Andy Lau was nominated for Best Actor in the 1991 Hong Kong Film Awards for his work in this drama about the life of legendary police detective Lee Rock. Also stars Yau Chimgmy and Cheung Man. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Yumeji
The final film in his acclaimed Taisho trilogy, maverick filmmaker Seijun Suzuki directs his bizarre, hallucinatory tale about the tortured inner world of famed 1920s painter Yumeji Takehisa. The film opens with ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Hello, Hemingway
It is 1956 in Havana, and the success of Castro's revolution is far from a sure thing. The old establishment still does things in exactly the same way and for the same reasons, and it spares hardly a thought that the ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Will of Iron
David Chiang Da-wei spins this maudlin, maladroit crime drama. Jacky (Jacky Cheung) is a junkie cartoonist who owes an obscene amount of money to the mob. Jacky's buddy Michael (Michael Wong ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Brides of Christ
Australian filmmaker Ken Cameron directs the ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
The Phantom of the Opera
Not to be confused with Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical, this video version of The Phantom of ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Madame Bamboo
Director Li Han Chiang brings two tales of love and passion to ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Queen of the Underworld
A lowly waitress rockets to fame in the Hong Kong underworld as a result of her sexy cabaret act and one shocking act of violence in director Sherman Wong's outrageous action comedy. Har Jay was a mere waitress when she became ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
Mi Querido Viejo
The drama Mi Querido Viejo concerns a father who wants nothing more than to have his beloved son carry on the family's successful name. The lead roles are played by actual father and son Vincente and ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
The Commish [TV Series]
Based on the life and career of Tony Schembri, police chief of Rye, NY, the weekly, hour-long ABC crime series The Commish starred Michael Chiklis as Tony Scali, ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
21 Jump Street: Season 05
Canceled by the Fox network at the end of its fourth season, 21 Jump Street returns for an additional season's worth of episodes in off-network syndication. While the basic ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
House of Eliott: Series 01
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Clarissa
The costume drama Clarissa stars Saskia Wickham as the title character. An unethical cad named Lovelace (Sean ... [ Drama movie - 1991 ]
A Plea to God
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