Drama Movies of 1992
Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet's award-winning play about a group of desperate real estate agents comes to the big screen from director James Foley. In a role created ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
A Few Good Men
In this military courtroom drama based on the play by Aaron Sorkin, Navy lawyer Lt. Daniel ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Shining Through
Kewpie-doll voiced Melanie Griffith does a sexed-up Nancy Drew turn in David Seltzer's adaptation of ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Queen
In 1977, Alex Haley's groundbreaking mini-series Roots became one of the most watched programs in television history, telling the story of seven generations of the author's ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Damage
Adapted from Josephine Hart's spare novel by British screenwriter David Hare and French director Louis Malle, this brooding erotic drama concerns the obsessive sexual ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Of Mice and Men
Gary Sinese directed this respectful re-telling of John Steinbeck's classic ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Hoffa
Danny DeVito tries hard to give his biopic Hoffa an epic scope, yet he just misses the mark. Starring Jack Nicholson as Jimmy Hoffa, the film traces the ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Chaplin
Partly based on Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography, this humorous and dramatic biopic features an all-star cast including Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Kline, Diane Lane, and ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Power of One
John G. Avildsen, director of Rocky and The Karate Kid, adapts Bryce Courtenay's compassionate novel about the ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story is a made-for-cable adaptation of James Neff's Mobbed Up, a real-life ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Scent of a Woman
Driven by an extravagant, tour-de-force performance by Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman is the story of Frank Slade ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Howards End
One of the best Ismail Merchant/James Ivory films, this adaptation of E. M. Forster's classic 1910 novel shows in careful detail the injuriously rigid British class consciousness of the early 20th ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Storyville
Mark Frost, the writer and director best known for his work with David Lynch on the TV series Twin Peaks, made his feature film directorial debut with this convoluted thriller. Cray Fowler (James Spader) is running for congress, ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Afterburn
This riveting, fact-based made-for-cable drama follows the fight of Air Force widow Janet Harduvel to clear the name of her late husband, a pilot who died when his ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Citizen Cohn
Frank Pierson's made-for-cable adaptation of Nicholas VonHoffman's biography, Citizen Cohn stars James Woods as the ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
A River Runs Through It
Robert Redford's lyrical direction sets the tone for ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Live Wire
Pierce Brosnan stars as Danny O'Neill, an FBI explosives expert on the trail of a mad bomber in this made-for-cable thriller. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Babe
John Goodman is cast as the Sultan of Swat, whose excesses -- especially drinking -- and ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome is an adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1911 novella . Set in Massachusetts in ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Malcolm X
Writer-director Spike Lee's epic portrayal of the life and times of the slain civil rights leader Malcolm X begins with the ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Gladiator
Gladiator is the kind of boxing movie that goes that ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Last of His Tribe
Graham Greene stars as Ishi, the lone survivor of the Yahi Indian tribe, who is discovered and cared for by anthropologist Albert Kroeber (Jon Voight) in this made-for-cable docudrama. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Light Sleeper
Paul Schrader's brilliant study of another alienated urban denizen skirting the borderline of madness stars Willem Dafoe as John Le Tour, a rich, upscale drug ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Waterland
Based on the novel by Graham Swift, this drama follows the past and present crises of ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Crying Game
In this successful psychological thriller, a reluctant agent of the Irish Republican Army discovers that ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Lorenzo's Oil
Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte give brilliant performances as parents trying to save the life of their son in George Miller's harrowing and ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Playboys
Gillies MacKinnon directed this charming Irish romance, ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Radio Flyer
Two brothers are the victims of their widowed mother's violent drunkard husband who spares ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Un, Deux, Trois Soleil
This experimental drama is something of an actor's challenge: see if you can convincingly play an age range from six to thirty six without any makeup or costume changes, just by using your gifts as a performer. In this ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Crisscross
Goldie Hawn makes a change of pace in this downbeat drama about a mother' sacrifice for her family, and her son's attempts to save her ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Double Edge
An ambitious female reporter finds herself unable to remain an objective, third party observer while covering the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in this made ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Poison Ivy
The always challenging transition from adorable child ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Un Coeur en Hiver
Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Béart from Manon of the Spring ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story
Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story was one of a myriad of early 1990s TV movies centering around the AIDS issue. Molly Ringwald stars as Alison Gertz, an upscale Manhattanite who ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Bonds of Love
The Bonds of Love in this made-for-TV drama are those forged between divorcee Kelly McGillis and mentally disabled Treat Williams. What begins as a friendship between two lost souls blossoms into a ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Love Field
Jonathan Kaplan directs this drama which grafts a nostalgic mood piece with a ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Ruby
Here's a fictionalized account of Jack Ruby's perspective of the events leading up to his assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald. ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Orlando
Independent filmmaker Sally Potter's gender-bending epic, which views four centuries of sexual politics through the eyes of a sex-switching main character, is based on the 1928 novel by ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
School Ties
An assemblage of young Hollywood actors poised for stardom marked this tale of anti-Semitism at a 1950s prep ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Wuthering Heights
Peter Kosminksy directed this faithful adaptation of the Emily Bronte classic. Ralph Fiennes has the role of Heathcliff, a wanderer adopted by the father of Cathy (Juliette Binoche), "a wild slip of a girl." Heathcliffe is looked down ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Mambo Kings
New York art dealer Arne Glimcher took his first crack at film directing with this florid, high-energy romance about two brothers who flee Cuba in the ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Gospel According to Harry
As directed by Polish film stalwart Lech Majewski in English, with a Hollywood cast including Viggo Mortensen (A Walk on the Moon) and Jack Kehoe (Melvin & Howard), the 1993 allegory The Gospel According ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Golem, The Spirit of the Exile
In modern-day Paris, a cabalist known as the Maharal has created a golem, an artificial being constructed of earth and clay, infused with spirit ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Guncrazy
Not so much a remake of Joseph H. Lewis's 1949 film noir classic as a variation on its themes, Guncrazy stars Drew Barrymore as Anita, a teenage girl who was born in a trailer park on the wrong ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Where the Day Takes You
Marc Rocco's gritty drama Where the Day Takes You stars Dermot Mulroney as King, a street-smart hustler who acts as a father figure to a motley collection of young runaways. Among the people in his sphere are the young self-destructive drug ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
City of Joy
In this drama, a wealthy American doctor learns some important lessons about life in one of the poorest cities on Earth. Max Lowe (Patrick ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Gas Food Lodging
Based on a novel by Richard Peck called Don't Look and It Won't Hurt, Allison Anders' melodramatic ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Till Murder Do Us Part
A raging ex-wife exacts revenge on her former husband in this made-for-television drama. Based on a true ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
American Me
Edward J. Olmos made his directorial bow with the powerhouse crime saga American Me. Olmos stars as street-gang leader Santana, who during his 18 years in Folsom Prison rules over all the ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Mac
Actor John Turturro spent a dozen years getting his script for Mac before the cameras; he'd originally planned to merely act in the film, but the stringent budget required that he direct as ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
A Private Matter
When Sherri Finkbine (Sissy Spacek), the host of the Sixties children's television program Romper Room, learns that her unborn child has been damaged by her use of the drug thalidomide, she and her husband decide to abort the fetus, setting in ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
To Be the Best
Lindsay Wagner stars as Paula O'Neill in this made-for-TV miniseries based on the best-selling novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Paula's grandmother, Emma ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Lost Language of Cranes
Adaptation of the David Leavitt novel in which a young man agonizes over revealing his homosexuality to his parents, but doesn't realize that his father is also gay and is about to come out of the closet in a way that will destroy his marriage. ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Medicine Man
The Amazon rain forest is a living laboratory for Dr. Robert Campbell (Sean Connery), a reclusive research scientist living with a Brazilian native tribe. Campbell has accidentally discovered a ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Doing Time on Maple Drive
In this made-for-TV drama, a New England family's secrets all come ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Aventis
In the year of The Mambo Kings, Antonio Banderas - then on the very cusp of stardom - also headlined the Spanish-language drama Aventis, directed ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Where the Red Fern Grows 2
This sequel to the 1974 family film Where the Red Fern Grows tells the story of a man named Billy Coleman (Doug McKeon), who returns from duty in WWII ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Lady Chatterley
Another of writer/director Ken Russell's D.H. Lawrence adaptations, Lady Chatterley (an amalgam of three Lawrence novels) was first shown ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Perfect Husband
This international co-production is loosely based on the works of Dostoyevsky ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Falling From Grace
Rocker John Mellencamp both directed and starred in this drama about a well-known musician who returns to his ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story
Donny B. Lord and Victor Love share the title role in Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story. The film traces the true story of young Gathers, played by Lord as a child and Love as an adult. Rising from his inner-city origins to ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Killer Image
When a photographer is murdered, he is somehow able to capture ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Pure Country
The big-screen debut of country singer George Strait is a familiar tale of a star returning to his roots, a route traveled the same year by John Mellencamp in ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Wild Orchid 2: Two Shades of Blue
All poor Blue really wants is to be a regular, suburban Southern California teen from the 1950s, with a ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Ned Blessing
Set in the 19th century on the eve of his execution, the title ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Beverly Hills 90210: Season 03
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Shattering the Silence
When post-partum depression causes the reawakening of long-dormant and traumatic memories of childhood rape by her father, an angry young mother takes her tormentor to court and in so doing nearly destroys her family. ~ Sandra ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Edward II
Two years before director Derek Jarman died of AIDS, he directed this extremely ambitious variation on Christopher Marlowe's 16th-century play. ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Betty
Adapted from a novel by Georges Simenon, Betty stars Marie Trintignant in ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Sarafina!
Whoopi Goldberg stars in this musical take on the South African struggles against Apartheid in the mid-1970s, during the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela. An ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Who Shot Pat?
Who Shot Patakango? is a coming-of-age tale set in Brooklyn during the late '50s. Though the film briefly suggests ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Jacksons: An American Dream
A two-part made for TV effort, this special depicts the dysfunctional Jackson family, which has somehow managed to raise its children in such a way that ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Baby Snatcher
Veronica Hamel, who'd previously played a detective on the trail of a kidnapped baby, turns kidnapper herself in the made-for-TV The Baby ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Switching Parents
In this drama, 12-year-old Gregory decides he prefers living with his foster parents and so launches his own custody battle to get away from his birth ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Winter Stallion
Saving the homestead is the essential plot of this Christmas movie in which a Welsh teenager fights a land developer who wants her dead grandfather's horse ranch. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Zebrahead
An interracial romance sparks social upheaval in this indie drama from first-time writer/director Anthony Drazan. Jewish high school student Zack Glass (Michael Rapaport) ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Lover
The Lover is director Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of Marguerite Duras' minimalist 1984 novel. Set in French Indochina in 1929, the film explores the erotic charge of forbidden love. Jane March plays a French teenager sent to a Saigon ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Hours and Times
The relationship between John Lennon and Brian Epstein, the manager of The Beatles, is fictionalized in writer-director Christopher Munch's acclaimed The Hours and Times. The basis of the film is a ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Zwolnieni Z Zycia
In this at times illogical film, while trying to regain his memory, an amnesiac wanders around trying to avoid some thugs who seem to want to do him in. It seems that he lost his memory in the ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Adam Bede
Written by George Eliot (of Silas Marner fame), the 1859 novel Adam Bede trenchantly addresses the issues of ingrained social prejudices. Played in this ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Young Soul Rebels
This largely character-driven thriller-drama is the feature-film debut of British documentary filmmaker Isaac Julien, and provides viewers with an ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After?
Since two TV movies were inspired by the marriage of England's Prince Charles and Princess Diana, it is only logical that at least one made-for-TV feature would greet the ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
A Woman, Her Men and Her Futon
In this drama, Helen (Jennifer Rubin) is an attractive woman who goes through a series of unsubstantial relationships; she then uses her brief flings as material for the film script she is writing. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Flight of the Innocent
Originally titled La Corsa Dell'Innocente, this Italian drama focuses on that country's ongoing wave of kidnappings. The early scenes focus on a large, outwardly normal Italian family who happen to make their living by abducting ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
South Central
Glenn Plummer delivers a powerful performance in this angry film based on Crips, a novel written by South Central Los Angeles high school teacher Donald Baker, and directed by Steve Anderson, who served time in prison. Plummer plays Bobby, a ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Claire of the Moon
A free-spirited satirist and a staid sex therapist share a room on a ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Daughters of the Dust
At the turn of the century, West African slaves were brought to a small island near South Carolina to labor in the indigo trade. Isolated in the swampy atmosphere, the Gullah community was built based ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Interceptor
A Stealth Bomber is taken over by hijackers, and only one man -- a pilot -- may be able to get it back. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Lake Consequence
This erotic drama stars Joan Severance as Irene, a repressed housewife who develops a lustful and somewhat obsessive attraction to Billy (Billy Zane), a handsome landscaper working with a crew of ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Living End
A gentle film critic hooks up with a violent drifter in this ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Sinatra
Developed by Tina Sinatra and approved by Frank himself, Sinatra is a made-for-television mini-series following ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Street Crimes
In this police drama, a cop opens up a youth center and endeavors to teach kids the fine art of boxing to help get them off the street. Things work out well until a powerful local drug dealer tries to ruin things. ~ Sandra Brennan, ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
You Must Remember This
A highly principled African-American independent filmmaker hides his early profession because his films never ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story
This fact-based drama follows the flight of a Milwaukee woman wrongly convicted for murdering her husband's ex-wife. Hoping ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
In Sickness and in Health
When a single mother comes in to help take care of a man's ill wife, he becomes interested in her for more than the care she is ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Last Wish
Based on an autobiography by Betty Rollin, this is a heart-tugger which finds a woman with cancer seeking the assistance of her daughter in fulfilling her last wish--a wish to die with ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story
Adapted from Robert Sam Anson's fact-based book Best Intentions, Murder without Motive stars Curtis McClarin as Harlem teenager Edmund Perry. A brilliant student, Perry is transferred from the inner city to an ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Anoche Sone Contigo
Toto's cousin Azucena has come into town to stay with his family and recover from an unhappy love affair. This couldn't suit Toto better, since he's just reaching adolescence, and he can't help ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Angel de Fuego
Those who enjoy religious allegories like Pilgrim's Progress will have an easier time with this carefully constructed drama ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Benny's Video
For 14-year-old Benny, anything recorded on videotape is inherently better and more real than what he can see with his naked eyes. He is barely noticed by ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Rebels of the Neon God
Hsiao Kang is a cab driver's son, driven to study by his parents, who are ambitious for him to go to college. One day, the family cab is vandalized by some kids on motorbikes while Hsiao Kang is watching. One day, he recognizes ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Hyenas
This Senegalese film is based on the play The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt. The Wolof-language film satirizes the ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Lolo
The generally hopeless lot of Mexico's poor is closely examined in this tragic melodrama. In the story, Lolo is a seventeen-year old man with a job at a foundry. The foundry ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Playa Azul
Every time the government of a state or the nation changes in Mexico, the previous administration is always accused of having harbored a few ne'er do wells, who are then raked over the coals. ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
My American Grandson
Ku's children have moved to the United States while he ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Company: Inigo and His Jesuits
Produced and directed by Joseph D. Fenton and hosted by actor Cyril Cusack, The Company: Inigo and His Jesuits is a biographical documentary about ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
My Wife's Lover
In this erotic drama from Hong Kong, a young couple's marriage is beginning to grow stale as they become disenchanted with one another. Both husband and wife find themselves attracted to other people, and he begins ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
El Bulto
In the late 1960s and early '70s, the Mexican government endured a number of student riots, which it put down with overwhelming military force. Many were killed, and many more were injured. ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Vintage Model
Years before, Carmen had a disastrous affair with her own brother which, when it was discovered, resulted in a rash of family suicides. Since then, she has been living a solitary, ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Setting Sun
Directed by Akira Tomono, this lavish historical epic was a celebration of Nikkatsu studio's 80th year anniversary. Set during the run up to World War II, the film centers on Tatsuma Kaya (Masaya Kato), a brooding secret agent for the Japanese ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Barrio De Cholos
In this cautionary tale of drugs and crime on the Mexican border, a troubled young boy named Angel from a good Tijuana home runs strikes out on his own after an argument with his father, only to find himself spiraling ever deeper into a ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Hollywood Beach Murders
A police detective (David Regal) is investigating the apparent occult serial killing of a mob boss wife. Having missed his plane, he ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
House of Eliott: Series 02
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Al Caer la Noche
The Spanish language revenge thriller Al Caer la Noche tells the tale of a mother who sets out to ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
The Camomile Lawn
Good Neighbors co-stars Felicity Kendal and Paul Eddington reunite for director Ken Taylor's adaptation ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Dinampot Ka Lang Sa Putik
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Passport to Murder
While vacationing in Paris, Park Avenue socialite Helen ... [ Drama movie - 1992 ]
Saatwan Aasman
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Melrose Place: Season 01
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