Raining Stones
(1993) [M]

Bob Williams (Bruce Jones) is a survivor. He supplements his dole by becoming embroiled in whatever scam is on offer, from rustling sheep to rodding drains. But now life has dealt him a bitter blow. His van has been stolen and his daughter, Coleen, is approaching her first communion. She needs...  More

The Scent Of The Green Papaya
(1993) [G]

In 1950s Saigon, Mui, a 10 year-old peasant girl, goes to work as a servant for a merchant family. Quiet, well- mannered, and almost supernaturally observant of the most minute and beautiful details that life has to offer, she grows into a young woman who is as much a part of the somewhat...  More

Naked
(1993) [R]

"A MASTERPIECE OF DARK HUMOUR. THE FINEST FILM OF THE DECADE - Empire Magazine". Mike Leigh's most controversial and commercial work to date is a nightmarish trawl through the twilight world of London's excluded and rejected. It's a London that many people prefer to ignore, where friendships are...  More

Faraway, So Close!
(1993) [M]

In this long-awaited sequel to 'Wings Of Desire', Wenders returns to the familiar characters of that film, charting the progress of the now earthbound ex-angel Damiel, and of Germany since the fall of the wall. Having shot the earlier film in West Berlin, the setting this time is the former East...  More

Farewell My Concubine
(1993)

Nominated for Best Foreign Film Oscar, this film, based on the novel by Lilian Lee, spans fifty years of Chinese art, passion and revolution, seen through the eyes of two male stars of the Peking Opera and the prostitute who comes between them. Mandarin dialogue with English subtitles.  More

The Piano
(1992) [MA]

Ada (Holly Hunter), mute since birth, her nine year old daughter (Anna Paquin), and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand. Of all her belongings her husband refuses to transport the piano and it is left behind on the beach. Unable to bear...  More

Howard's End
(1992) [G]

From Merchant Ivory, the team that brought us A Room With A View and Maurice, also based on Forster's novels, comes this masterful adaptation of Howard's End. A story of two families who are drawn together by extraordinary circumstances in spite of their vastly differing backgrounds and...  More

The Player
(1992) [M]

Movie executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) is receiving death threats from an anonymous screenwriter. Deducing that the letters are coming from rejected hopeful David Kahane (Vincent D'Onofrio), Griffin sets up an 'accidental' meeting with the writer and, during an argument, kills him. While the...  More

The Stolen Children
(1992) [M]

Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. At first the relationship between Antonio and the children is...  More

The Best Intentions
(1992) [PG]

Scripted (but not directed) by Ingmar Bergman, Best Intentions is a multilayered backwards glance at the courtship of Bergman's own parents. Henrik Bergman (Samuel Froler) is a struggling theology student in the year 1909. His intended, Anna Aakerbloom (Pernilla August, who married director Bille...  More