Cinematic Era: 1990 Vintage

Chinese detectives investigate an international crime ring.

Pinku directed by Akio Watanabe.

British pop band Spandau Ballet performs live at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre in this concert filmed in November 1990. One of the leading bands of the 1980s New Romantic genre, Spandau Ballet struck gold in the U.K. with a number of hits, and their dreamy tune "True" topped U.S. charts at No. 4. Songs include "Cross the Line," "Virgin," "Gold," "Chant No. 1," "True" and many more.

The film constructs a strongly conventionalised and symbolic world out of the diary fragments of a man who underwent an alcohol detoxification treatment. The protagonist of this unusual family story, Petunia Joe, lives in a house with his mother and grandfather. One day, he suddenly turns adult. Out in LIFE, he takes his first steps in the Factory. Meaningless work is performed and barren relationships are formed among the rusted walls.

REBECCA The second installment of the ZUTTO★STOCK series! From BLOND SAURUS's counterattack tour, the historical concert at the Nippon Budokan on January 19, 1990 on the last day is uncut. ( Rebecca Live Tour FROM'89 TO '90 Final)

OVA that is based on a manga simply titled Mumako (literally “Dream Devil Child”) written by Fujiko Fujio A.

The surviving 14 minutes of the original documentary about the Villas Boas expedition to the Amazonian tribes in Brazil.

An emotional tribute to Billy Martin -- a five-time manager of the New York Yankees in the 1970s and '80s -- this program combines game clips and on-camera interviews, including one with Martin recorded shortly before his untimely death in 1989. Footage features an all-star lineup of Major League Baseball personalities, including Mickey Mantle, George Steinbrenner, Rickey Henderson, Whitey Ford, Willie Randolph and Rod Carew.

1990 Pinku directed by Kosuke Fujiwara.

Laurel Oberion thinks she's buying a nice house, but gets more than she bargained for! Haunted by a dead anthropologist and his satanic wife, Laurel's newfound home turns into a bloodbath of sexual desires when pain and pleasure mix indiscriminately. A basement of terror hides the secret... blood flows as human sacrifice leads to resurrection of a Dark God... and only Laurel can stop it before it's too late! Writer's block becomes psychotic madness in METAL NOIR, where blood-spattered sex leads to face-stabbing gore!

Get Ready! Get Set! Go! Join in on all of the excitement with Thomas and the rest of your Sodor Friends. Cheer on Thomas as he and Bertie race across the Island to prove who's the fastest. Cast your line in on the fun as Thomas decides fishing is not exactly what he expected and learn with James the danger of getting a little too rough with the coaches. Full steam ahead for wonders and surprises on this magical journey.

Stylistic documentary about the cyberpunk movement. William Gibson, author of cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, and Timothy Leary, famous advocate of psychedelic drugs, share their thoughts on the future of society and technology.

As the breeze brought the little animals clouds with strawberry, cheese and carrot rain - to everyone's taste.

Kemal, a well-known bully, confronts Kasif, who manages the drug traffic and wants to do business in Turkey, and others, who want to do cocaine business with him.

A fan of "Twin Peaks"? Get the inside scoop from co-creator Mark Frost. Hear what keeps people coming back to the show and what this means for the future of television.

Jessica Hamilton goes to Venice for a piano competition, but she's running a little late. On arrival in Venice, she finds that she has no room reservation and that she has been taken out of the competition. She is befriended first by Luca Renosto a same-age Venetian boy and secondly, Alvise Contrarini, the director of the competition. The two compete for her love throughout the movie until one gets disqualified in a surprise ending.

Chinese opera, whether of the Peking variety or not, is a very demanding art-form, requiring decades of study to be even partly mastered. In this film, Yan Yuejun was a Soochow Opera performer who fell afoul of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, and who has served his time undergoing compulsory "re-education." Now he is living in Inner Mongolia, driving a truck for a living, which is surely proletarian enough to suit his earlier tormentors.

Two college students try to out-Kerouac Kerouac.

Martha, a young teacher, suffers from persecution mania. The phantom of an organization like the KGB arises in her mind and gradually materializes. Fear turns into reality, which drives the heroine crazy.

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Some months after the fall of the Berlin wall, during the time of federal elections in Germany in 1990, Chris Marker shot this passionate documentary, reflecting the state of the place and its spirit with remarkable acuity.

The plot is situated in Cuba during the early '50s, before the cuban revolution. A prostitute gets in love with a boxer to whom she devotes her life. As the boxer progresses in his career, he gets money and women. The prostitute tries everything to keep him meanwhile her tortured soul sinks deeper and deeper.

Taiwanese horror anthology film.

Based on the Manga by Masahiko Kikuni. This movie is a comedy based on romance consisting of a compilation of 13 live-action segments along with 18 animated. Love and courage give rise to guess, fear and impatience laugh at dwellings, and the anger of poverty invites melancholy and laughter. Heartbreak Angels is a video that contains all of human emotions.

Mourning the Tang Dynasty, in a small market in Yongzhou. Uncle Li, a fruit farmer, is kind and fair, and his business is booming. Small peddler Wang Er resorted to fraud to deceive customers. On the way home, the two of them took the same boat and crossed to the middle of the river where the boat broke.

Video magazine with interviews and video clips. Featured on this volume is: Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Poison, Steve Vai, Hunter / Ronson, Billy Idol, Cinderella, Scorpions, Slaughter, Kita Ford and more.

Learn about the most feared machine in all of monster truck racing Dennis Anderson's Grave Digger. In this video you will learn the history of the Grave Digger, see what makes the Grave Digger the amazing machine it is, meet the people who have made the Grave Digger the most popular truck in the world. Also see footage of the Grave Digger in awesome side by side monster truck racing.

A warrior from the underworld and his assistant enter the human realm to try and destroy the fox spirit that has been terrorizing their tribe. After the warrior gets injured and loses his sword the kindly village doctor and his daughter take him in. Then bad things start happening to the village - livestock killed, babies snatched, people murdered. The villagers are suspicious of the stranger. He needs to find his sword and kill the fox to rid two worlds of its evil.

Two brothers are raised under difficult circumstances where one becomes a policeman and the other a gangster. Resultantly, fate pits them against each other causing their relationship to fall apart.

On a deserted island, an old caretaker with a waning memory wanders among the ruins of a former children’s prison, which was destroyed by a mutiny and a fire a long time ago.

In a suburb of Paris, a group of teenagers enjoys the last days of summer vacation. They meet in cafes, restaurants or disco, talking about first love, experiences, disappointments and jealousy. Sandrine tries to figure out if she should keep her boyfriend Didier or try with silent Joel, whom she's just met. Riri, Alex and Paulo desperately try to get laid.

A two-part documentary made for French TV about Georges Perec, directed by his former partner Catherine Binet. It features a mixture of archival footage, scenes from Perec’s films and to-camera readings of excerpts from his work by various actors and friends of the author (Michael Lonsdale, Marina Vlady, Alain Cuny, Sami Frey, Edith Scob, Harry Mathews and others).

Clumsy as an elephant and long as a perch, one day she becomes Princess Felicia, called Feliška. Who's involved? The wicked and envious witch Vranimura, who does not wish the princess a handsome noble groom and bewitches Felice's feet. Thanks to her witchcraft skills, Vranimura charms the prince for a while, but brave Feliška is not so easily deprived of her beloved suitor...

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Mexican horror / thriller involves cockfighting and a cursed rooster. And no, I'm not joking.

The TV documentation reconstructs the incidents between May and November 1989 from the point of view of the Politburo of the GDR (German Democratic Republic). The incidents include the fraud of local elections, the opening of Hungary's borders towards Austria, the ensuing tide of East German refugees to Hungary and Czechoslovakia for transfer to West Germany, the pompous ceremonies at GDR's 40th anniversary, the inept transactions the Politburo took to salvage the situation, the resulting dismissal of their leader Erich Honecker, the international press conference in East Berlin on 9th November 1989, at which Politburo member Günther Schabowski erroneously announced the immediate opening of the 'Iron Curtain', which finally led to the collapse of socialism in the GDR and the other East Bloc countries.

A beautifully fluid sand animation inspired by Camille Saint-Saëns' piece, 'Danse Macabre.'

Animated short produced for the 1990 International Garden and Greenery Expo in Osaka, Japan.

25-year-old electrician Thomas Tänzer is happily escaping the provincial confines of everyday life in the GDR – to the desert, to work in Algeria. Behind him lie a failed marriage and abandoned studies. But he can't cope in Algeria either. The rules have traveled with him – in the form of his superiors. Unordered solidarity, his relationship with the married Doris, and similar issues cause him difficulties. His father falls seriously ill, and he cuts short his stay abroad. At home, he realizes that his wife and child have become complete strangers to him. Doris, his "Algerian affair," now has a child by him, but treats him coldly. He makes a half-hearted suicide attempt by car, which he survives. When he hears about a disaster in Algeria, he volunteers for service, but is not accepted because of his poor personnel file.

When the hot-dog vendor Kaj from the small town of Skælskør in Denmark turns 40, his friends take him on a trip to Poland, to a long party with cheap liquor and emigration eager polish ladies. It will go merrily, but it gets serious for Kaj as he meets a girl who mistakes him for a wealthy Toyota dealer she has exchanged letters with.

A filmed concert of two famed sopranos.

The third and final entry in this original fantasy / horror series (which was remade for Indonesian television later) finds Sembara (Fendy Pradana) and friends facing off against a gaggle of supernatural bad guys.

The hero of the film, Wallace, is trying to reconcile the dream of a world of beautiful souls and human relationships with the reality of a prosperous bourgeois.

A Mongolian soldier who took part in the liberation war of 1945 found an Inner Mongolian family that was seriously wounded and took him to a hospital. It is a story about the love between two young men, which tells about the girl of that family who has no family during the military service, but is forced to return due to the current situation.

A middle-aged woman and her daughter unknowingly become romantically involved with the same man while vacationing in France.

Countdown follows a chronological sequence. The movie was shot in Berlin and environs over a ten-day period leading up to the unification of the currencies on July 1, 1990. The film thus ends on the date marking “the first stage of German reunification”.

In his wanderings, Wiro Sableng (Atin Martino) is involved in the business of painting naked women. The painting that the painter wanted to give to his prospective student disappeared along with the painter's death. Thanks to the guidance of Dewa Tuak (Arthur Tobing), Wiro meets Permani (Eva Chitra), who is involved in a love triangle. Wiro intervened again. As a result, there was a fight between the two schools. In the middle of the fight, another fight emerged which turned out to be over the painting that Wiro was looking for. Wiro solves all problems.

An altar boy goes to the city and finds himself in raunchy situations.

Unexpectedly, Trusotsky, with whom they communicated nine years ago, comes to Velchaninov. It turns out that recently Trusotsky's wife died, leaving him with a 9-year-old daughter.

A drama based on the novel of the same name by A. Priskavin. It tells the tragic story of two orphan brothers who, in 1944, were taken along with other children from an orphanage in a town near Moscow to the Caucasus, from where the Chechen population had been deported.

A film crew shooting a movie finds itself battling against terrorists trying to take over a city.

The businessman Adham marries Suhair in a customary marriage. When his wife finds out, he denies his marriage to Suhair even though she is pregnant. Suhair gives birth to her baby and Adham refuses to admit that he's the father. Suhair takes him to court, and Munir the lawyer helps her.

A group of teenage boys are tricked into accompanying their teacher on a survival holiday to a deserted island. But when the teacher suffers a nervous breakdown and turns hostile, the boys are forced to fend for themselves.

About Karlsson's adventures in a place where all fabulous paths intersect.

A story about old people, the members of the secret society called Goethe, who feed on the energy of young men whose corpses are hidden in their laboratory. Even though police is on their trail, Goethe members manage to trick Pavle, the inspector-in-charge. However all of this energetic vampirism is busted when Kristina, one of the members, falls in love with the inspector.