47th Venice International Film Festival Golden Lion competitors (1990)
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- DirectorTom StoppardStarsGary OldmanTim RothRichard DreyfussTwo minor characters from the play 'Hamlet' stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.
- DirectorMikhail BelikovStarsSergey ShakurovTatyana KochemasovaStanislav Stankevich1986. Chernobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.
- DirectorSilvio CaiozziStarsGloria MünchmeyerRafael BenaventeErnesto BeadleA sailor prostrate in his bed maintains control of his home and his son through mirrors hung around him.
- DirectorJane CampionStarsKerry FoxAlexia KeoghKaren FergussonJanet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.
- DirectorPeter Del MonteStarsLuciano BartoliGiorgio BiavatiGiovanna BozzoloFourteen short stories starring middle-class people.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsIsaach De BankoléAlex DescasSolveig DommartinDah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.
- DirectorAdoor GopalakrishnanStarsMammoottyThilakanKaramana Janardanan NairIts a story of Basheer, an author who experiences his prison life. In it he finds friendship, loneliness, fear and finally love, but that remains questionable.
- DirectorDominik GrafStarsPeter LohmeyerAnica DobraHansa Czypionka
- DirectorAvraham HeffnerStarsShulamit AdarRam AvronRan Blitenthal
- DirectorJûzô ItamiStarsNobuko MiyamotoMasahiko TsugawaHiroshi OhkôchiHer childhood was hardly ideal as she was abandoned and grew up without parental love. She finds a home and a profession as a geisha who is particularly popular because she has that lucky bone in her that transmits fortune to her patrons. She meets a bank manager one day and soon enough they move in together. She gets a job out of it, but his appetite for cheap women is unabated.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsPaul NewmanJoanne WoodwardSaundra McClainSet during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsJean-Pierre LéaudMargi ClarkeKenneth ColleyHenri is depressed after losing his job, but finds himself too afraid to go through with suicide. He hires a contract killer to do the job for him instead - but what happens if he changes his mind?
- DirectorYusuf KurçenliStarsTarik AkanBülent BilgiçNurseli IdizThe story of a teacher who is also a writer, trying to hide from the police during WWII in Turkey. He is wanted because of his leftist articles and books.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDenzel WashingtonSpike LeeWesley SnipesJazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.
- DirectorMihail PandourskyStarsOleg BorisovKiril VariyskiLyuben ChatalovThe driver abruptly drives the bus. The child falls. There is a scandal between the passengers and the driver, who raises an iron bar against them. A journalist rides on the bus. She describes the case in the newspaper. A lawsuit begins against the driver. There is only one passenger who agreed to be a witness. The driver asks the witness to refuse. He justifies himself for personal problems. The witness agrees, and the journalist is found guilty of libel.
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsFrancesco BenignoAlessandra Di SanzoRoberto MarianoYoung men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl who's come from home to run away with him. Where can they go? A young dad, whose potato stall at the market is shut down because he has no permit, takes his two small children to the beach and yells at them. Mario, gay, a prostitute in drag, gets a visit from his mom; he offers tea, then finds the water to his apartment is shut off. Social workers drop by, parole officers file reports. What hope is there? What options besides crime?
- DirectorHelle RyslingeStarsPeter Hesse OvergaardKirsten LehfeldtSteen SvareThe gallery owner Lasse is more vain than he is an artist.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroRay LiottaJoe PesciThe story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
- DirectorMariusz TrelinskiStarsJan FryczMaria PakulnisGrazyna TrelaDecadence, homosexuality, excess wealth, infidelity, alcoholism and drugs all played a major role in the decline of aristocracy.
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsStefania SandrelliBarbara SukowaSami FreyThe long friendship between Martha and Anna breaks when Victor leaves the first for the second. Martha, desperate, goes to Africa in search of an old love.
- DirectorJirí WeissStarsMarianne SägebrechtMichel PiccoliKlaus GrünbergA child meets his uncle, a Czech Jew living in the south of Germany in the days before the 2nd world war. Without taking care of social prejudices, the uncle marries Martha, his servant. When the Nazis come to the power the young and the couple move to Prague. Then is Martha who defends her marriage to a Jew against the society. Finally, the man manages to force the separation to save Martha from finishing in a concentration camp with him.