As Dirty as She Wants to Be (1990)
Mobster takes his troublesome wife to a hotel with the intention of poisoning her.
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The Comfort of Strangers
An Italian diplomat’s son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice.
Almost
Romantic comedy that mixes magical realism with traditional Australian urban-outback contrasts. The plot centers on a bored woman (the eponymous Wendy) who conjures up the perfect lover, Jake, while her husband is out on the road suffering comical mishaps.
Misafir (1990) aka Guest
A story of a woman who cheats on her husband who owns a bar with a young man who comes to the resort town.
The Ages of Lulu
The Ages of Lulu is a gruelling sensual odyssey from Spanish director Bigas Luna, made immediately prior to his popular trilogy Jamón, jamón (1992), Golden Balls (1993) and The Tit and the Moon (1994). Starting as the somewhat queasy story of the young Lulu’s affair with the manipulative Pablo (Oscar Ladoire), the movie takes a much darker turn once they are wed. It is conventional cinematic wisdom that there’s no such thing as sex after […]
Scandal in Black (1990)
An adult cinema projectionist blackmails a wife who fakes a grape assault.