21. Stolen Children, The ( ladro di bambini, Il )
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gianni Amelio
Actors: Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalici, Giuseppe Ieracitano, Florence Darel, Marina Golovine, Fabio Alessandrini
Plot: An Italian policeman (carabiniere), Antonia, is charged with taking two children - Rosetta and her brother Luciano - from Milan to an orphanage in Sicily. They are being taken away from their mother who forced Rosetta into prostitution. As the drive goes along, the rocky opening relationship between Antonio and the children begin to thaw as they become temporary friends.
22. Farewell My Concubine ( Ba wang bie ji )
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kaige Chen
Actors: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, Qi Lu, Da Ying, You Ge
Plot: Two Beijing Opera stage brothers fight over the same woman as we witness China's late-twentieth century political history in a parallel story.
23. Short Cuts
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Jack Lemmon, Julianne Moore, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Downey Jr.
Plot: tory about a variety of characters (including a baker, a phone-sex provider and a clown) whose stale lives intersect and are forever altered through simple twists of fate.
24. In the Line of Fire
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, Fred Dalton Thompson
Plot: A U.S. Secret Service agent, who was part of the team responsible for protecting JFK in Dallas, goes after a man who has threatened the life of the current president.
As the agent, who is paired up with a female agent, goes after the would-be assassin, the fugitive teases him with his failed attempt at saving JFK's life on that tragic day in November.
25. Falling Down
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Lois Smith, Frederic Forrest, Raymond J. Barry
Plot: A recently downsized defense worker wants nothing more than to celebrate his daughter's birthday. As the stress of everyday life slowly takes its toll, he lashes out at the society he fells has failed him.
26. Hard Boiled ( Lat sau san taam )
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Woo
Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Hoi-Shan Kwan
Plot: As the mob smuggles guns into China, a daring raid leaves an ace detective without his partner. While the smugglers fight internally over territory, the detective works with an insider to bring down the entire operation.
27. The Secret Garden
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Actors: Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott, Maggie Smith, Laura Crossley, John Lynch
Plot: Three children find a magical garden in this big screen adaptation of a 1911 novel.
28. Searching for Bobby Fischer
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steven Zaillian
Actors: Max Pomeranc, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen, Ben Kingsley, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Nirenberg
Plot: Based on a true story, Josh Waitzkin is a chess prodigy who finds the joy of playing and just being a boy more interesting than training to win.
29. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Eric Radomski, Bruce W. Timm
Actors: Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Hart Bochner, Stacy Keach, Abe Vigoda, Mark Hamill
Plot: As Gotham's crime lords begin showing up dead Bruce Wayne finds love, but must continue to protect Gotham as the new menace, Phantasm, also stalks the night. Things get even more problematic when Phantasm attracts the Joker's attention.
30. What's Love Got to Do With It
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brian Gibson
Actors: Angela Bassett, Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly, Laurence Fishburne, Khandi Alexander, Chi McBride, Jenifer Lewis
Plot: This is the biography of singer Tina Turner, who went from being a small town country girl to a super star, yet, behind the scenes, faced unimaginable abuse from her husband and lead guitarist, Ike Turner.
