1991 Movies

Ottone, Ottone is a video adaptation of a stage production of the same name from 1988. The video was shot in the Théâtre Varia in...

A woman is searching for a face in photographs taken by a photographer. The face she hopes to meet one day belongs to a watch repairman, but the shop...

Filmed on location in Saskatchewan from the Qu'Appelle Valley to Hudson Bay, the documentary traces the filmmaker's quest for her Native foremothers...

Renowned ethnographic filmmakers David and Judith MacDougall explore the many meanings of photography in this profound and penetrating documentary....

Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat...

Based on a play, it consists of three one-acts: "Merry Home", "At the Break" and "Before a New Life". The author depicts the grim world of the...

A young man travels to the stars and beyond the wall of sleep.

A documentary about Göran Schildt and his relationship with the Mediterranean.

Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism.

I bet anyone can get better at golf than you are in one week, a golfer says to her golfing businessman for a boyfriend in a quarrel. Unfortunately...

Frank is a human robot built by Dr. Max Einstein to retrieve a scientific formula that has been robbed of their enemies. Frank is a thousand and one...

The film was originally conceived as a portrait of Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, the well-known Egyptian doctor, writer, and women’s rights activist....

The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter...

A homeless family of three sleeps on a TV production stage, by day looking for a job. One day somebody finds them.

Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps allied soldiers who have been shot down to escape to the...

First Base explores the moment at which sex is still only a titillating possibility and girls are still allowed to be attracted to other girls. It...

More than just a concert, this film shows us for the first time the brutal energy of the New Detroit legend. Nearly two hours of excitement in the...

Based on the real-life experiences of Sis Levin, the wife of CNN Reporter Jerry Levin, who was taken hostage in Lebanon by Shiite Fundamentalists in...

A retrospective on the importance of the kiss in the classic films of the 20s through the 50s.

A Zimbabwean widow (Jesesi Mungoshi) falls prey to her greedy brother-in-law (Dominic Kanaventi) who takes her children and belongings.

Early Pixar documentary where John Lasseter talks through early Pixar shorts Luxo Jr., Red's Dream, Tin Toy, and Knick Knack.

With a drug-addled lifestyle and a prison sentence firmly behind him, Abel is determined to go straight and stay clean... as soon as he's seen to one...

Valerie's husband Darryl leaves for work as usual, but never returns. She hires private eye Shepard to find him. Soon he discovers that David had a...

A nerd is harassed by punks, and is the object of ridicule at work. Enamoured by a co-worker, he buys a tape series on how to be cool, summons up his...

The story of the Ayrton Senna / McLaren partnership of 1991, and their amazing chronicle of success.

When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport, where according to local myth, an...

An hour-long documentary featuring interviews with various filmmakers who've made a name in the direct-to-video market.

A short proof-of-concept for From Dusk Till Dawn as directed by Robert Kurtzman. A different Seth Gecko fights the vampires in a familiar setting.

Shakespeare's Henry V, performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.

Dutch composer Louis Andriessen collaborates with director Peter Greenaway on a commissioned short film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the...

McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities to track them down.

Larry, a troubled teen living in the rough Red Hook section of Brooklyn, decides he wants out and turns to crime to fund his escape. But his plan...

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

A photographer returns from an assignment in Mexico, only to find that she unwittingly smuggled cocaine into the country. Her model friend, who she...

A re-enactment of the chestburster scene from Ridley Scott's Alien, but with a loaf of bread in place of a Xenomorph.

A miller's youngest son inherits only a cat, but the clever animal helps him impress a king and marry a princess.

The explorer's first meeting with Iroquoian peoples provides one story of how Canada got its name.