Movie Releases by Genre
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My Own Private Idaho
October 18, 1991
In this loose reworking of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Reeves stars as the prodigal son who slums in the Pacific Northwest's junkie lowlife milieu with Phoenix, who plays a narcaleptic hustler.
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Cool as Ice
October 18, 1991
A rapper gets stuck in a small town and falls for a local girl whose family is in witness protection.
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Frankie and Johnny
October 11, 1991
Johnny has just been released from prison, and gets a job in a café beside waitress Frankie. Frankie is a bit of a loner, but Johnny is determined their romance will blossom.
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Homicide
October 9, 1991
A policeman must weigh his loyalties between the force and his faith when he is assigned to investigate the murder of an old Jewish woman.
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Dogfight
October 4, 1991
Before leaving to fight in Vietnam, a group of teenagers play a game where they try to seduce the ugliest girl they can find.
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The Man in the Moon
October 4, 1991
A coming of age story set in the south of the U.S. when Elvis was King.
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Ricochet
October 4, 1991
A District Attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
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A Better Tomorrow
September 24, 1991
A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
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The Fisher King
September 20, 1991
Terry Gilliam's romantic parable The Fisher King delves deep into the nature of love and loss, of guilt and redemption, of character and tragedy. (Tri-Star)
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The Indian Runner
September 20, 1991
A Vietnam vet comes home to his small town and finds himself in conflict with rules that his brother has vowed to uphold.
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The Commitments
September 13, 1991
When Jimmy Rabbitte wants to start a band, he has open auditions at his house.
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Dead Again
August 23, 1991
Mike Church (Branagh) is an L.A. gumshoe with a knack for tossing off wisecracks and tracking down missing persons. But Church doesn't have a clue when he's hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim (Thompson) tormented by bloodcurdling nightmares. Then an eccentric antiques dealer and hypnotist (Derek Jacobi) leads Church to a startling discovery: The source of the nightmares may lie in a past-life connection to Margaret Strauss, a world-famous pianist allegedly murdered by her composer-husband Roman... in 1948. (Paramount)
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Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
August 23, 1991
Forced by the imminent foreclosure of their friend's bar, two lifelong buddies will decide to rob a bank's armored car, not knowing that its cargo is not money but a new street drug.
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Barton Fink
August 21, 1991
The Coen brothers' apocalyptic masterpiece about the creative process.
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Doc Hollywood
August 2, 1991
A young doctor causes a traffic accident in a small town and is sentenced to work for some days at the town hospital.
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Return to the Blue Lagoon
August 2, 1991
In this sequel to The Blue Lagoon (1980), two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become suntanned teenagers in love.
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Trust
July 26, 1991
Maria is a self-centered teenage suburban brat, until she gets pregnant by her un-loving quarterback boyfriend and gives her father a fatal heart attack. Matthew is a rowdy and disillusioned computer engineer with a vicious temper. Disowned by her devastated mom, dumped by her boyfriend, and shunned by her friends, Maria wanders the streets and bumps into Matthew. These two exiles fall in together and set out trying to become a normal, domestic, suburban couple. But these troubled lives evolve in unexpected ways and Maria grows into a responsible person that few conventional notions of "ordinary" can contain. (Possible Films)
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Archangel
July 19, 1991
An amnesiac soldier, seeking his lost love, arrives in Archangel in northern Russia to help the townsfolk in their fight against the Bolsheviks, all quite unaware that the Great War ended three months ago.
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Boyz n the Hood
July 12, 1991
Tre Styles (Cuba Gooding Jr.), is a teen caught between the steady, forceful guidance of his father, Furious (Laurence Fishburne), and the inescapable violence of his South Central Los Angeles neighborhood.
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Regarding Henry
July 10, 1991
Henry (Harrison Ford) is a lawyer who survives a shooting only to find he has lost his memory. As if that weren't enough, Henry also has to recover his speech and mobility, in a life he no longer fits into. Fortunately, Henry has a loving wife (Annette Bening), daughter, and an especially enthusiastic physical therapist to help him.
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Slacker
July 5, 1991
Slacker presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits using a series of linear vignettes.
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
June 14, 1991
When Robin and his Moorish companion come to England and the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham, he decides to fight back as an outlaw.
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Jungle Fever
June 7, 1991
A married black lawyer named Flipper (Wesley Snipes) begins an affair with Angie (Annabella Sciorra), his white secretary. When the news is leaked through an acquaintance, Flipper's wife (Lonette McKee) kicks him out of the house. Flipper decides to begin courting his mistress, only to be greeted by disapproval from friends, family and even strangers. The relationship continues to be strained in a society not ready to accept it, and people are hurt during its inception.
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Backdraft
May 24, 1991
Stephen McCaffrey (Russell) and his younger brother Brian (Baldwin) are two feuding siblings carrying on an heroic family tradition in the Chicago fire department. Stephen is so relentless that he drives Brian out of firefighting and into arson investigation. Brian becomes involved in a puzzling series of arson attacks, each ignited by explosive phenomena known as backdrafts. Before the smoke clears, love affairs are rekindled and lives are shattered as the McCaffrey brothers fight to resolve their differences and solve the mystery. (Universal)
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Truly Madly Deeply
May 24, 1991
Unable to get over the death of her musician lover, a young women gets the shock of her life when he turns up in her apartment—seemingly alive—and helps her back to the world of the living. [MGM]
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Drop Dead Fred
May 24, 1991
A young woman finds her already unstable life rocked by the presence of a rambunctious imaginary friend from childhood.
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Thelma & Louise
May 24, 1991
Director Ridley Scott's infamous feminist road movie.
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Stone Cold
May 17, 1991
A tough Alabama cop is blackmailed by the FBI into going undercover in a violent Mississippi biker gang.
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Europa Europa
May 9, 1991
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
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Toy Soldiers
April 26, 1991
When terrorists seize control of a boarding school, a group of troublemaking boys decide to resist them.
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A Kiss Before Dying
April 26, 1991
A determined student murders his pregnant secret girlfriend and moves onto her twin sister who gradually becomes suspicious of her new lover.
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The Object of Beauty
April 12, 1991
Stranded in a London hotel due to their excessive spending, an American couple finds that their most valuable artifact has been stolen.
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Out for Justice
April 12, 1991
The gruesome murder of a Brooklyn Detective will turn the case into a personal vendetta when the deceased's best friend and fellow officer (Steven Seagal) will unleash an all-out attack against a psychotic Mafia enforcer's brutal gang.
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Defending Your Life
April 5, 1991
In an afterlife way station resembling a block of hotels, the lives of the recently-deceased are examined in a court-like setting.
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Poison
April 5, 1991
Inspired by the writings of Jean Genet, Poison deftly interweaves trio of transgressive tales-“Hero,” “Horror” and “Homo”-that build toward a devastating climax. “Hero,” shot in mock TV-documentary style, tells a bizarre story of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice; “Horror,” filmed like a delirious ’50s B-movie melodrama, is a gothic tale of a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague; while “Homo” explores the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates. [Zeitgeist Films]
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Ju Dou
April 1, 1991
In rural China, the young bride of a tyrannical owner of a silk-dyeing business finds temporary solace in the arms of her husband's nephew, but problems arise when she becomes pregnant.
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The Comfort of Strangers
April 1, 1991
An English couple holiday in Venice to sort out their relationship. There is some friction and distance between them, and we also sense they are being watched. One evening, they lose their way looking for a restaurant, and a stranger invites them to accompany him. He plies them with wine and grotesque stories from his childhood. They leave disoriented, physically ill, and morally repelled. But, next day, when the stranger sees them in the piazza, they accept an invitation to his sumptuous flat. After this visit, the pair find the depth to face questions about each other, only to be drawn back into the mysterious and menacing fantasies of the stranger and his mate.
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Class Action
March 15, 1991
Two lawyers, a father (Hackman) and daughter (Mastrantonio), are on opposite sides of the same class-action lawsuit.
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Guilty by Suspicion
March 15, 1991
David Merrill (Robert De Niro), a fictitious 1950s Hollywood director, returns from filming abroad in France to find that his loyalty has been called into question by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and he is unable to work until cleared. Before being called, his highest priority had been his work to the extent of leaving his wife (Annette Bening) and son (Luke Edwards) alone for months at a time. He initially refuses to implicate others or himself in a private meeting with Roy Cohn and a studio lawyer. This decision initially to stick to his principles first leaves him unable to work in his profession, even with films and producers he never would have worked with before. Harassment by the FBI leaves him unable to work on Broadway, with advertising agencies, or even in a small film repair shop. Finally, having fallen so far, and tempted with a new offer to direct a film from his old studio (if he testifies), he agrees to go before the Committee, initially planning to name his friends. But when confronted with the cruel and tyrannical behavior of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, he realizes that there is a higher priority in his life there is standing up for what is right. And in doing so, he inspires friends and family to do the same.
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The Perfect Weapon
March 15, 1991
An expert in "kenpo" karate avenges his Koreatown friend, slain by a mobster in Los Angeles.
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True Colors
March 15, 1991
Best friends from law school to election night, their friendship is sorely tested when one learns of another's betrayal.
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New Jack City
March 8, 1991
Drug tycoon Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) and his gang, the Cash Money Brothers, have rapidly risen to the top of the New York City narcotics trade. Under Nino's heartless leadership, the drug operation has grown into a multimillion-dollar empire. Scotty (Ice-T) and Nick (Judd Nelson), two police officers who know their way around the streets of Harlem, aim to bring Nino and his cohorts down. To do so, though, they'll have to play by Nino's rules and go undercover. [Warner Bros.]
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La Femme Nikita
March 8, 1991
When a secret governmant agency re-programs a criminal named Nikita (Parillaud), she is released to the outside world as their agent. As her missions become more and more demanding, she is torn between her alliance to the agency and her desire to lead, for once, a normal life. [20th Century Fox]
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The Doors
March 1, 1991
The rise and fall of The Doors frontman Jim Morrison (Kilmer) in the 1960s.
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Cadence
February 15, 1991
Charlie Sheen plays a rebellious inmate in an Army stockade.
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L.A. Story
February 8, 1991
A TV meteorologist (Steve Martin) is fired after taking the weekend off and his relationship with his long-time girlfriend quickly goes south. With everything looking glum, he unexpectedly meets a British journalist (Victoria Tennant) on assignment in Los Angeles and falls instantly in love. Thinking he has little chance with her, though, and in desperation he starts a relationship with a ditzy younger woman (Sarah Jessica Parker) who introduces him to the wonders of rollerskating and colonics. All the while he longs for the journalist.
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The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
February 8, 1991
A young boy with a distant father enters a world of make-believe and magic through a portal within an antique book.
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Sleeping with the Enemy
February 8, 1991
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
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White Fang
January 18, 1991
Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him.
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Hamlet
January 18, 1991
Franco Zeffirelli's version of Shakespeare's Hamlet - the Dane prince (Gibson) who seeks vengence for his father's death.
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Not Without My Daughter
January 11, 1991
An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
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Green Card
January 11, 1991
Green Card lights up the screen with irresistible charm and humor! When two strangers agree to a marriage of convenience, they encounter far greater differences than most married couples could ever imagine! And worst yet, this mismatched twosome just might be falling love. (Beuna Vista Pictures)
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Lionheart
January 11, 1991
An Ex-French Soldier (Jean-Claude Van Damme) begins participating in underground street fights in order to make money for his brother's family.
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The Godfather: Part III
December 25, 1990
In this third film in the epic Corleone trilogy, Al Pacino reprises the role of powerful family leader Michael Corleone. Now in his 60's, Michael is dominated by two passions: freeing his family from crime and finding a suitable successor. That successor could be fiery Vincent (Garcia)... but he may also be the spark that turns Michael's hope of business legitimacy into an inferno of mob violence. [Paramount Pictures]
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
December 21, 1990
After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight and attracting the interest of a down and out reporter.
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The Russia House
December 21, 1990
An expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia.
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The Long Walk Home
December 21, 1990
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.
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Awakenings
December 20, 1990
By opening one man's eyes to the world... he opened his own. A true story of a maverick doctor and the patients whose lives he changes. Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease beginning with Leonard, the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor. Encouraged by Leonard's stunning recovery, Sayer administers the drug to the other patients. The story of their friendship during this emotional journey is a testament to both the tenderness of the human heart and the strength of the human soul. (Sony Pictures)
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Mermaids
December 14, 1990
An unconventional single mother relocates with her two daughters to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, where a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.
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Edward Scissorhands
December 7, 1990
In this modern fairy tale, Edward is a gentle, naive creation with razor sharp scissors for hands. When he is taken home by a kindly Avon lady live with her family, his adventure in the pastel paradise of Suburbia begins! (20th Century Fox)
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The Rookie
December 7, 1990
A veteran detective gets stuck with a rookie cop when in pursuit of a German crook.
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The Grifters
December 5, 1990
When small-time cheat Roy Dillon (Cusack) winds up in the hospital following an unsuccessful scam, it sets up a confrontation between his estranged mother Lilly (Huston) and sexy girlfriend Myra (Bening). Both Lilly and Myra are ruthless confidence artists playing the con game in a league far above Roy ... and always looking for their next victim. The question soon becomes who's conning who as Roy finds himself caught in a complicated web of passion and mistrust. (Miramax)
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Cyrano de Bergerac
December 1, 1990
Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.
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Eating
November 30, 1990
A group of young and middle-aged women gather for the birthday party of a friend and talk about their lives and food they cook for their husbands, boyfriends, or themselves.
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Misery
November 30, 1990
After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.
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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
November 23, 1990
Set after World War I, India and Walter Bridge (Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman) find their values clashing with their three children.
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3 Men and a Little Lady
November 21, 1990
Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary with her, the three men are heartbroken at losing the two most important females in their lives.
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Rocky V
November 16, 1990
Upon returning home from his latest triumph, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) learns that all his money has been lost by an unscrupulous financial advisor. To make matters worse, his fight-related injuries force his retirement from the ring. So Rocky, his wife Adrian (Talia Shire) and his son Rocky Jr. (Sage Stallone) move to their old, low-rent neighborhood in South Philadelphia. There, the fighter must resolve the deep-rooted resentment held by his son, a bitterness that grows when Rocky trains Tommy Gunn (Tommy Morrison), a young boxer who soon rises to national prominence. When Tommy turns against his mentor and publicly taunts him, Rocky knows he must fight once more. [MGM]
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The Rescuers Down Under
November 16, 1990
The R.A.S. agents, Miss Bianca and Bernard, race to Australia to save a little boy and a rare golden eagle from a murderous poacher.
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Dances with Wolves
November 9, 1990
Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. Dunbar (Costner) wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. He is assigned to an adandoned fort, where a sioux tribe is his only neighbor. Overcoming the language barrier and their mutual fear and distrust, Dunbar and the proud Indians gradually become friends. Eventually, he falls in love with the beautiful Stands With a Fist (McDonnell), a white woman raised by the tribe. (MGM)
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The Krays
November 9, 1990
This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.
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My Twentieth Century
November 9, 1990
On the eve of the 20th century, two twin girls, Lili the anarchist and Dóra a luxurious woman of loose morals, along with Mr. Z. who loves them as an entity, all reach the Hungarian border at the same time on board the Orient Express. Their story, rushing under the spell of Edison’s inventions, is a special ‘research of happiness’, reclaiming the ‘mass murdering century’ from the restlessly changing world and the miracle of existence. [Kino Lorber]
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Graffiti Bridge
November 2, 1990
The unofficial sequel to 'Purple Rain' (1984). The Kid is now club owner and rival to Morris (Morris Day) who get into a fight for the Glam Slam Nightclub.
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Jacob's Ladder
November 2, 1990
The life of a traumatized Vietnam vet. begins to unravel as the line between reality and nightmarish visions becomes blurred.
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Vincent & Theo
November 2, 1990
The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent.
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White Palace
October 19, 1990
Still getting over the death of his wife, a young advertising executive meets an older waitress, a woman that might set him free.
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Quigley Down Under
October 19, 1990
Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from Wyoming by an Australian rancher paying a very high price. But when Quigley arrives Down Under, all is not as it seems.
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Avalon
October 19, 1990
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
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Reversal of Fortune
October 17, 1990
Jeremy Irons plays socialite Claus von Bulow, seeking legal exoneration in the most sensational attempted murder scandal of the 1980s. (Warner Bros.)
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Memphis Belle
October 12, 1990
In 1943, the crew of a B-17 based in UK prepares for its 25th and last bombing mission over Germany before returning home to the USA.
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The Hot Spot
October 12, 1990
A lowlife drifter (Johnson) who sells used cars in a Texas burg robs the local bank and gets involved with two women: one bad (Madsen), one innocent (Connelly). Based on Charles Williams' 1952 novel "Hell Hath No Fury." (MGM)
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Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
October 12, 1990
A small town prepares for the homecoming of superstar Roxy Carmichael, as does a young outsider, who believes Roxy is her mother.
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Miller's Crossing
October 5, 1990
In an unnamed Eastern city in 1929, the friendship between the local political boss (Finney) and Tom (Byrne), the man behind the man, is severed when they fall for same woman. Tom joins ranks with Johnny Caspar, Leo's enemy and rival, in a race for political power, resulting in a bloody, citywide gang war.
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Marked for Death
October 5, 1990
A retired DEA agent is out to hunt down and take out a Jamaican drug posse that has targeted he and his family for murder.
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Henry & June
October 5, 1990
Anaïs Nin meets the American writer, Henry Miller, in Paris in 1931. She keeps a diary of her sexual awakening which includes Henry and his wife, June.
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Desperate Hours
October 5, 1990
An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.
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An Angel at My Table
October 4, 1990
Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.
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Texasville
September 28, 1990
The summer of 1984: 32 years after Duane Jackson captained the high school football team and Jacy Farrow was homecoming queen, the small town of Anarene, Texas prepares for its centennial celebration. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt. His wife Karla drinks too much, his children are always in trouble, and he tom-cats around with the wives of friends. Jacy's back in town, after a mildly successful acting career, life in Italy, and the death of her son. People assume Duane and Jacy will resume their high school romance. And Sonny is "tired in his mind," causing worries for his safety. Can these friends find equilibrium in middle age?
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White Hunter Black Heart
September 14, 1990
A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.
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State of Grace
September 14, 1990
A New York cop is recruited to return to his hometown and infiltrate the mob ran by his best friend's brother.
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Postcards from the Edge
September 12, 1990
Postcards from the Edge is a film about a very real mother-daughter relationship set against the backdrop of today's Hollywood. (Sony Pictures)
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Goodfellas
September 1, 1990
Based on the bestselling book "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi, Scorsese's film profiles nearly 30 years of mob life in New York City.
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The Killer
September 1, 1990
A disillusioned assassin (Chow Yun-Fat) accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded, only to be double-crossed by his boss.
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After Dark, My Sweet
August 24, 1990
An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the ex-fighter must make decisions about his loyalties and what is right.
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Pump Up the Volume
August 22, 1990
A shy teen turns on the high school crowd when he broadcasts outrageous nightly monologues on a pirate radio station. (New Line Cinema)
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The Exorcist III
August 17, 1990
A police Lieutenant uncovers more than he bargained for as his investigation of a series of murders, which have all the hallmarks of the deceased Gemini serial killer, leads him to question the patients of a psychiatric ward.
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Wild at Heart
August 12, 1990
David Lynch explores old theme: the story of two people (Cage and Dern) who thoroughly love each other, of two people whose love seems so strong that nothing can corrupt it. Yet, the evil forces of murder, corruption and perversion, which lurk beneath the seemingly clean surface of modern day America transform their journey into a ghost train ride and challenge their love to the extremes. (Von Marc Eberle)
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Flatliners
August 10, 1990
A group of medical students subject themselves to near death experience in order to explore the afterlife, but when they return they are haunter by what they saw.
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The Two Jakes
August 10, 1990
It's 1948 and private eye Jake Gittes is still in Los Angeles in this sequel to "Chinatown."
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Metropolitan
August 3, 1990
A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.
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