1995 poplifebestfilms

Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.

Two underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way.

After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents.

The sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.

24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.

An affluent New York City couple finds their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.

The fates of two partners are divided.

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

A group of friends in New York, working away at their PCs and laptops, keep in touch exclusively by phone and fax; all are too busy to meet face-to-face. By phone, Gale plays matchmaker for Jerry and Barbara who hit it off beautifully--via phone and fax. Martin gets a telephone call from somebody he has never met: it's Denise, and she has extraordinary news. Tapping away at his computer, he develops a sort of telephonic friendship with Denise. And so it goes as the friends tap, tap, tap away, sharing news, hopes, and dreams--via phone and fax. Finally Gale has an unfortunate encounter with a phone, Denise has more news for Martin, and Frank plans a gala New Year's Eve party--but will he answer the door?

An unsuccessful comedian uncovers a family secret and learns the true price of letting inherent talent shine.

A Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.

Money issues and misunderstandings divide a couple who struggle to raise their children in the Bronx.

A lonely young woman decides to kindle her passions in a fling with a married photographer after feeling challenged by her own best friend's affair.

A homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and has to decide how to deal with both that secret and his own.

A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.

The suicide of a young student is investigated by a friend.

A teenager is part of an interactive video game where he kills innocent victims. Later, the murders become real.

Three friends discover their new flatmate dead but loaded with cash.

A beautiful but naïve aspiring television personality films a documentary on teenagers with a darker ulterior motive.

A family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.

Gentle farmer Arthur Hoggett wins a piglet Babe at a county fair. Narrowly escaping his fate as Christmas dinner, Babe bonds with motherly border collie Fly and discovers that he too can herd sheep. But will the other animals accept him?

An eager and idealistic young attorney defends an Alcatraz prisoner accused of murdering a fellow inmate. The extenuating circumstances: his client had just spent over three years in solitary confinement.

Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams despite his lack of talent.

Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.