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Howards End
1992 · Drama
Betty
1992 · Drama
Sargam
1992 · Drama
Dil Ka Kya Kasoor
1992 · Romance
Light Sleeper
1992 · Drama
The Inner Circle
1991 · Drama
The Double Life of Veronique
1991 · Drama
Jumpin’ at the Boneyard
1991 · Drama
Jumpin’ at the Boneyard
1991 · Drama
A Scene at the Sea
1991 · Romance
My Own Private Idaho
1991 · Drama
Late for Dinner
1991 · Drama
Liebestraum
1991 · Mystery
Paradise
1991 · Drama
Rambling Rose
1991 · Drama
Idhayam
1991 · Drama
Archangel
1991 · Drama
Slacker
1991 · Drama
Rhapsody in August
1991 · Drama
Toto the Hero
1991 · Fantasy
La Belle Noiseuse
1991 · Drama
Bix
1991 · Drama
Anna Karamazoff
1991
Voyager
1991 · Drama
I’ll Be Going Now
1991 · Drama
I’ll Be Going Now
1991 · Drama
Amaram
1991 · Drama
Perumthachan
1991 · Romance
Days of Being Wild
1990 · Drama
Havana
1990 · Romance
Humiliated and Insulted
1990 · Romance
Lal Salam
1990 · Drama
Red Dust
1990 · Romance
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1990 · Drama
Graffiti Bridge
1990 · Drama
White Palace
1990 · Drama
Kaleidoscope
1990 · Drama
An Angel at My Table
1990 · Biography
I Hired a Contract Killer
1990 · Drama
Mindwalk
1990 · Drama
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