1990 Toronto International Film Festival

The 15th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Canada between September 6 and September 15, 1990. Gerald Pratley introduced Cinematheque Ontario now known as TIFF Cinematheque at the festival, when the festival assumed management of the Ontario Film Institute.

Gala Presentation

 * Cyrano de Bergerac by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
 * An Angel at My Table by Jane Campion
 * Open Doors by Gianni Amelio
 * The Match Factory Girl by Aki Kaurismäki
 * Reversal of Fortune by Barbet Schroeder
 * The Grifters by Stephen Frears
 * The Krays by Peter Medak
 * ¡Ay Carmela! by Carlos Saura
 * Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
 * The Hot Spot by Dennis Hopper
 * The Reflecting Skin by Philip Ridley
 * Szürkület by György Fehér
 * Paris by Night by David Hare
 * O Processo do Rei by João Mário Grilo
 * A Tale of Springtime by Éric Rohmer
 * White Hunter Black Heart by Clint Eastwood
 * The Long Walk Home by Richard Pearce
 * Storia di ragazzi e di ragazze by Pupi Avati

Canadian Perspective

 * Archangel by Guy Maddin
 * The Company of Strangers by Cynthia Scott
 * Defy Gravity by Michael Gibson
 * Falling Over Backwards by Mort Ransen
 * The Famine Within by Katherine Gilday
 * Five Feminist Minutes by Christene Browne, Michelle Mohabeer, Elaine Pain, Gwendolyn, Marie Annharte Baker, Tracy Traeger, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Ann Marie Fleming, Sook-Yin Lee, Kim Blain and Lorna Boschman, Catherine Martin, Alison Burns, Mary Lewis, Janis Cole, Cathy Quinn and Frances Leeming, Angèle Gagnon and Jennifer Kawaja and Andrée Pelletier
 * Getting Married in Buffalo Jump by Eric Till
 * H by Darrell Wasyk
 * Hotel Chronicles by Léa Pool
 * An Imaginary Tale by André Forcier
 * The Moving Statue by Olivier Asselin
 * Moody Beach by Richard Roy
 * Musicians in Exile by Jacques Holender
 * No Apologies by Ken Pittman
 * Paper Wedding by Michel Brault
 * The Party by Pierre Falardeau
 * Perfectly Normal by Yves Simoneau
 * Princes in Exile by Giles Walker
 * White Room by Patricia Rozema

Midnight Madness

 * Two Evil Eyes by George A. Romero and Dario Argento
 * Bride of Re-Animator by Brian Yuzna
 * Hardware by Richard Stanley
 * My Degeneration by Jon Moritsugu
 * The Church by Michele Soavi
 * Frankenhooker by Frank Henenlotter
 * Def by Temptation by James Bond III
 * Meet The Feebles by Peter Jackson
 * Tetsuo: The Iron Man by Shinya Tsukamoto

Documentaries

 * Resident Alien by Jonathan Nossiter
 * Step Across the Border by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel