History of film became famous. These Hong Kong action trends were later adopted by many Hollywood action films in the 1990s and 2000s. The early 1990s saw the development of a commercially successful independent cinema in the United States. Although cinema was increasingly dominated by special-effects films such as "" (1991), "Jurassic Park" (1993) and "Titanic" (1997), the latter of which became the highest-grossing film of all time at the time up until "Avatar" (2009), also directed by James Cameron, independent films like Steven Soderbergh's "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" (1989) and Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" (1992) had significant commercial success both at the
The Chambermaid on the Titanic The Chambermaid on the Titanic The Chambermaid on the Titanic (, , ) is a 1997 French-Italian-Spanish drama film directed by Bigas Luna, starring Oliver Martinez, Romane Bohringer and Aitana Sanchez-Gijon. It is based on the novel "La Femme de chambre du Titanic" by Didier Decoin. The film is known variously by its French title, "La Femme de chambre du Titanic", and also by the shortened English title "The Chambermaid", which was adopted in late August 1998 to avoid the impression that it was trying to cash in on the success of James Cameron's popular film, "Titanic", which was released