My Top Film Festival movies of 1992

A lyrical reverie about a young Liverpool boy coming of age in the 1950s among his loving family and the austere Catholic Church as he enters the rigors of school, nurtures a bedazzled love of the movies and longs for companionship.

Stéphane is an emotionally distant but professionally dedicated violin restorer whose cold heart is tested when his employer's new girlfriend, a beautiful violinist, falls for him.

The story of a young Canadian boy who tries to escape mentally from his disturbed family thanks to his fantasy and imagination.

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected, but which one?

A drug dealer reconsiders his profession when his boss plans to go straight and an old flame reappears.

Set in the early 20th century, class distinctions and troubled relations affect the relationship between two families and the ownership of a cherished British estate known as Howards End.

After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world.

When a mother disapproves of her son's lover, she hires an underwear model and former bullfighter to seduce her away.

Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends.

After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.

Dennis is a handsome & bookish college student. His brother, Bill, is a roughhewn ladies' man & thief. Together they search for their dad, confront their expectations of each other, themselves, & their attitudes towards women.

A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.

A nomadic farm worker looks after his dimwitted, gentle-giant friend during the Great Depression.

A Finnish couple murders a young boy and his parents when they prevent the theft of their son's bicycle.

An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.

The fates of several people are randomly intertwining. Their sympathy of each other faces multiple differences in their lifestyles.

A peasant woman seeks justice after the headman of her village has kicked her husband in the groin.

Olivier, the nine-year-old son of Elisabeth and country veterinarian Serge, vanishes one afternoon on the way to his grandmother's house. The emotional aftermath of his disappearance sends his father packing from France to Africa and nearly destroys his mother, who clings to her remaining child Nadine--and her devoted neighbor Marcel. Several years later, having relocated to the city, the police investigator who handled the case meets a Paris rent-boy whom he believes is the missing Olivier. Once he returns to his rural home, the teenage Olivier tries to assuage his mother's now-entrenched grief and heal the rift between his reunited parents. Meanwhile, he must overcome his brooding adolescent sister's jealousy and doubts about his identity and reconcile his sleazy street life with his picturesque new surroundings. Questions about the tight-lipped Olivier's true motivations continue to crop up, however, threatening to send his mother over the edge for good.

The story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime. They don't want to lose their place and become village girls again.

After her Italian affair, Vicki moves in with sister Beth, who lives with her teen daughter and new French husband J.P. When Beth vacations with their difficult father, dynamics shift among those left behind.

A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.

Laura Palmer's harrowing final days are chronicled one year after the murder of Teresa Banks, a resident of Twin Peaks' neighboring town.

Andrei leads a group of nationalist skinheads. They've taken over a Luna Park depot. They indulge in violence and racketeering against Jews, homosexuals and the marginalized.

The true story of gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, his tumultuous affair with the tough-talking Virginia Hill, and how he founded the Nevada-based city that would go on to be known as Las Vegas.

A woman who has lost her memory is taken in by a Los Angeles orphanage, and a private eye is enlisted to track down her identity, but he soon finds that he might have a past life connection to her that endangers their lives.