Drama Movies
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he’s assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier,…
Side Out (1990)
A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.
The Old Man and the Sea (1990)
Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Santiago goes out on his usual fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Then a shark attacks and…
Chips the War Dog (1990)
In this made-for-tv movie, misfits Danny Stauffer and Chips (a chicken-chasing German shepherd) are teamed up in the Army’s “Dogs for Defense” program during WWII.
Wings of Fame (1990)
A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then dies as a…
Why Charlie Brown Why? (1990)
A new girl comes to the neighbourhood school and Linus is smitten with her. Unfortunately, she develops the symptoms of leukemia and must go to the hospital for cancer treatment….
Lambada (1990)
Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid’s respect and acceptance, Kevin…
Lord of the Flies (1990)
When their plane crashes, 25 schoolboys find themselves trapped on a tropical island, miles from civilization.
The Forbidden Dance (1990)
A princess in the Amazon rain forests tries to fight a conglomerate threatening the forests by going to Los Angeles. There she links up with a rich kid who tells…
Love at Large (1990)
Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up…
Coupe de Ville (1990)
Meet the Libner brothers: Marvin, the oldest, is a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. Buddy, the middle child, is a timid dreamer. Bobby, the youngest, is a handsome rebel…
The Fourth War (1990)
Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev, are stationed on opposite sides of the German-Czech border. Both men are responsible for a group of troops…
A Son’s Promise (1990)
An iron-willed Georgia boy accepts the burden of a man on his young shoulders. Fifteen-year-old Terry O’Kelly is fatherless and his remaining parent, his mother, is dying. Anguished, the soon-to-be…
The Incident (1990)
Small town lawyer, Harmon Cobb, defends a Nazi prisoner of war against murder charges. Set during World War II, Cobb has to contend with the difficulties of defending the devil…
Fatal Termination (1990)
A Hong Kong police detective investigating weapons smuggling through the airport runs into a corrupt customs officer. Things escalate to a ruthless munitions smuggler kidnapping two security officers’ daughter.
Warsaw Bridge (1990)
Too Young to Die (1990)
An abused 15 year old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty in this fact-based story.
Where the Heart Is (1990)
A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.
Awakening (1990)
It is the night of March 25, 1949. A full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are waiting to transport thousands of Estonian families, asleep in their…
Mountains of the Moon (1990)
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton’s and Lt. John Hanning Speke’s expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria’s British Empire. The…
The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)
In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
Stanley & Iris (1990)
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When…
Hard to Kill (1990)
Mason Storm, a ‘go it alone’ cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they’ve killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly…
Men Don’t Leave (1990)
A widowed mother and her two sons move to Baltimore and struggle to adjust to urban life, encountering numerous eccentric characters along the way.
Stella (1990)
Barmaid Stella Claire and blueblood Stephen Dallas have very little in common — except they’ve fallen in love. When their relationship fails, Stella decides to raise the child they had,…
Heart Condition (1990)
Racist police officer Jack Moony has a vendetta against Napoleon Stone, a charismatic black lawyer who is sleeping with Jack’s old flame Crystal Gerrity. Jack has a heart attack, but…
Larks on a String (1990)
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990)
A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government.
No Retreat No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers (1990)
Two feuding brothers (one a policeman, the other a martial arts expert) of different political views, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent, killed by…
Face to Face (1990)
An American paleontologist and a British miner get in a conflict over who has the rights to dig on a site in Kenya.