Mystery Train
(1989) [M]

A young Japanese couple, obsessed with 1950s America and the music of Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley, visits Memphis. Chance encounters link three different stories in the city, with the common thread being the seedy hotel where they are all staying. Screamin' Jay Hawkins plays a cameo as the...  More

Time Of The Gypsies
(1988) [M]

Perhan (Davor Dujmovic) is a Gypsy teenager with the ability to move objects with his mind. A criminal named Ahmed convinces him to leave his devoted grandmother (Ljubica Adzovic) and loving girlfriend, and to use his powers to make some money illegally. While becoming a man and learning the...  More

Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark)
(1988) [M]

No body, motive or weapon. The facts in the Australian murder trial of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, whose infant was allegedly carried off by a wild dog, didn't add up. But other things did. Bigotry against the couple's religion. Scattershot forensic evidence taken as fact. And a hysteria that...  More

Cinema Paradiso
(1989) [PG]

Salvatore, a successful film director, returns to his native Sicilian village for the funeral of his old friend Alfredo. He was the projectionist at the local Cinema Paradiso where Salvatore spent the happiest times of his childhood and developed his love of film. To the fatherless young boy...  More

Too Beautiful For You (Trop Belle Pour Toi!)
(1989) [M]

A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of...  More

Sex, Lies And Videotape
(1989) [M]

With smouldering sensuality and biting humour, the surprising relationship between the three title subjects is relvealed in Steven Soderbergh's Palme D'Or-winning debut sex, lies, and videotape. James Spader won the Best Actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his brilliantly understated and...  More

Salaam Bombay!
(1988) [M]

Salaam Bombay! is the story of Krishna, a 10-year old boy who comes to Bombay dreaming of making 500 rupees to take home to his mother in the village. Once in the city, he is immediately surrounded by its madness and chaos. Policemen, madmen, middlemen, the trading of drugs and flesh, impossible...  More

Drowning By Numbers
(1988) [M]

3 generations of women share a name and an aversion to marriage. 3 husbands have reason to be afraid of water. Add to the equation 1 amorous coroner and 1 inventive little boy, and so begins the game. Drowning By Numbers is a sharp and witty tale of female camaraderie with Joan Plowright, Juliet...  More

Sur (South)
(1988) [M]

Like Solanas' previous film Tangos (1985), South is a film about a forced exile (in the form of imprisonment) and a painful reunion in the midst of political turmoil. It is also a story about the healing power of nostalgia. The story is set in 1983 just after the fall of the military dictatorship...  More

Bird
(1988) [M]

This biographical drama examines the life of famous jazz saxophonist Charlie 'Yardbird' Parker, from his musical experiences to his friend-ships with famous trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Red Rodney, to his tragic death at the age of 34.  More