Movie Releases by Genre
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Nowhere
May 9, 1997
Follows a day in the lives of a group of Los Angeles high school students and the strange lives they lead.
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The Fifth Element
May 9, 1997
New York cab driver Korben Dallas didn't mean to be a hero. But he just picked up the kind of fare that only comes along every five thousand years - a perfect beauty, a perfect being, a perfect weapon. Now, together, they must save the world. (Columbia TriStar)
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The Saint
April 4, 1997
Val Kilmer plays suave espionage hero Simon Templer - aka The Saint - and Elisabeth Shue costars in this atmospheric mix of bold adventure and grand romance. An array of sophisticated gadgetry is at Templer's command as he plunges into a cloak-and-dagger netherworld of move and countermove. (Paramount)
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Double Team
April 4, 1997
An international spy teams up with an arms dealer to escape from a penal colony and rescue his family from a terrorist.
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Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie
March 28, 1997
The legendary Power Rangers must stop the evil space pirate Divatox from releasing the powerful Maligore from his volcanic imprisonment on the island of Muranthias, where only the kindly wizard Lerigot has the key to release him. The hope of victory lies in the Ranger's incredible new Turbo powers and powerful Turbo Zords.
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Mars Attacks!
December 13, 1996
Earth is overrun with mean, green invaders! They're armed with insta-fry ray guns, endowed with slimy, humungous brains, and enlivened with out-of-this-world but state-of-the-art special effects. Thrill! As Earth fights back with an unexpected weapon. Take that, Martians! (Warner Bros.)
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Star Trek: First Contact
November 22, 1996
Picard orders the Enterprise to follow the Borg back in time to stop them from destroying the Phoenix, Earth's first warp-speed vessel. (Paramount Pictures)
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Space Jam
November 15, 1996
Bugs Bunny has gotten himself and his Looney Tunes cohorts into a jam by facing off against the Nerdlucks, a grouchy gang of tiny space creatures who land on Earth. The Nerdlucks, dispatched by their boss, the ruthless, belligerent Swackhammer, intend to kidnap and export the Looney Tunes to Moron Mountain, Swackhammer's failing theme park on the Nerdlucks' boring planet. Bugs has challenged the small, weak aliens to a fateful basketball tournament: if the Looney Tunes win, they'll remain on Earth. But if the aliens win, Bugs and company are headed into the hands of Swackhammer. When Bugs does discover what he's up against, he knows he needs some serious help. But where can he go? Basketball's best players are all having their skills "absorbed" by the aliens. Of course, there's a baseball player he happens to know...
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
August 23, 1996
After being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that its inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange-looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor.
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Escape from L.A.
August 9, 1996
Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.
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Chain Reaction
August 2, 1996
Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason.
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Multiplicity
July 17, 1996
A man who never has enough time for the things he wants to do is offered the opportunity to have himself duplicated.
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Independence Day
July 3, 1996
Mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear in Earth's skies. But wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world's only hope lies with a determined band of survivors, uniting for one last strike against the invaders - before it's the end of all mankind. [20th Century Fox]
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The Nutty Professor
June 28, 1996
Eddie Murphy stars as Dr. Sherman Klump, a kind, 'calorically challenged' genetics professor who longs to shed his 400-pound frame in order to win the heart of beautiful Jada Pinkett. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes 'Buddy Love', a fast-talking, pumped-up, plumped-down Don Juan. Can Sherman stop his buff alter ego before it's too late, or will Buddy have the last laugh? (Universal)
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The Arrival
May 31, 1996
Zane (Charlie Sheen), an astronomer, discovers intelligent alien life. But the aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will do anything to stop Zane from learning it.
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Barb Wire
May 3, 1996
Barb Wire (Anderson) is a bounty hunter whose credo is to never take sides for anybody and that's the only way to survive. As her former lover appears asking for a favour, Barb suddenly finds herself to be key player on high political stage involving a governmental cover-up.
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
April 19, 1996
Mike Nelson and his robot companions watch and give their comments about "This Island Earth".
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Ghost in the Shell
March 29, 1996
In the year 2029, cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of “The Puppet Master”—a mysterious and threatening computer virus is capable of infiltrating human hosts. Working closely with her fellow agents from Section 9, the Major embarks on a high-tech race against time to capture the omnipresent entity.
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Hellraiser: Bloodline
March 8, 1996
The fourth entry in the Hellraiser series. In the 22nd century, a scientist attempts to right the wrong his ancestor created: the puzzle box that opens the gates of Hell and unleashes Pinhead and his Cenobite legions.
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Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace
January 12, 1996
Jobe is resuscitated by Jonathan Walker. He wants Jobe to create a special computer chip that would connect all the computers in the world into one network, which Walker would control and use. But what Walker doesn't realize is a group of teenage hackers are on to him and out to stop his plan.
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Twelve Monkeys
January 5, 1996
Between sanity and madness, fantasy and reality, the past and the future, comes an adventure beyond imagination from Terry Gilliam, the acclaimed director of "The Fisher King." Penal colony prisoner James Cole (Willis) must travel back in time from the year 2035 to find the cause of a virus that killed five billion people in 1997. (Universal)
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The City of Lost Children
December 15, 1995
One (Perlman) seeks for his twin brother, who was kidnapped by a scientist (Emilfork) who wants to steal children's dreams in an effort to stop aging.
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Strange Days
October 13, 1995
A former cop turned street-hustler (Ralph Fiennes) accidentally uncovers a conspiracy in Los Angeles in 1999.
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Mortal Kombat
August 18, 1995
Summoned to a mysterious island, three martial arts warriors engage in the ultimate battle of good vs. evil. (New Line Cinema)
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Virtuosity
August 4, 1995
He's a composite of some 200 personalities, each and every one a notorious killer. He's Sid 6.7, a virtual reality creation designed to put L.A. police officers to the test. But Sid isn't playing games anymore. He's escaped the bounds of cyberspace. And if you think he's unconquerable in the world of bits and bytes, wait till you see what Sid has in store for a world of flesh and blood. [Paramount]
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Waterworld
July 28, 1995
In the future, the polar ice caps have melted, covering the Earth with water. The Mariner (Costner), a mysterious drifter, attempts to elude the savage "Smokers" and escort Helen (Tripplehorn) and her daughter Enola (Majorino) to the legendary Dryland.
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Species
July 7, 1995
An experiment mixing human and alien DNA results in a beautiful young woman who escapes from a government lab on a quest to mate and reproduce.
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
June 30, 1995
A giant egg is unearthed at a construction site and soon opened, releasing the terrible Ivan Ooze, who wreaks vengeance on Zordon for imprisoning him millennia ago. With Zordon dying and their powers lost, the Rangers head to a distant planet to find the mystic warrior Dulcea.
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Congo
June 9, 1995
From the best seller by Michael Crichton comes an action-packed adventure filled with state-of-the-art technology and primal fear. (Paramount)
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Johnny Mnemonic
May 26, 1995
A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.
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Village of the Damned
April 28, 1995
A small town's women give birth to unfriendly alien children posing as humans.
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Tank Girl
March 31, 1995
A girl is among the few survivors of a dystopian Earth. Riding a war tank, she fights against the tyranny of a mega-corporation that dominates the remaining potable water supply of the planet.
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Highlander: The Final Dimension
January 27, 1995
Deceived that he had won the Prize, Connor MacLeod awakens from a peaceful life when an entombed immortal magician comes seeking the Highlander.
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Junior
November 23, 1994
As part of a fertility research project, a male scientist agrees to carry a pregnancy in his own body.
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Star Trek: Generations
November 18, 1994
Captain Picard, with the help of a presumed dead Captain Kirk, must stop a madman willing to murder on a planetary scale in order to enter a space matrix.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
November 4, 1994
When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.
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Double Dragon
November 4, 1994
Two brothers have half of a powerful ancient Chinese talisman. An evil gang leader has the other half, and determines to get the brothers' half and have a complete medallion so he can gain absolute power.
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Stargate
October 28, 1994
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
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Timecop
September 16, 1994
An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
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Body Snatchers
January 14, 1994
A teenage girl and her father discover alien clones are replacing humans on a remote U.S. military base in Alabama.
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Ghost in the Machine
December 29, 1993
An electric surge causes a serial killer's soul to end up in a computer system.
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
December 25, 1993
Batman is wrongly implicated in a series of murders of mob bosses actually done by a new vigilante assassin.
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RoboCop 3
November 5, 1993
Robocop saves the day once more. This time the half man/half robot takes on ruthless developers who want to evict some people on "their" land.
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Demolition Man
October 8, 1993
LAPD Sgt. John Spartan (Stallone) and psychopathic Simon Phoenix (Snipes) are frozen for 70 years after being blamed for the death of hostages. In 2032, Simon escapes and John is unfrozen to help catch him.
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Ticks
October 8, 1993
A group of troubled teenagers are led by social workers on a California wilderness retreat, not knowing that the woods they are camping in have become infested by mutated, blood-sucking ticks.
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Freaked
October 1, 1993
A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.
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Fortress
September 3, 1993
In a future, private underground prison/Fortress, the inmates are computer controlled with CCTV, dream readers and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife are inside but want to escape before birth.
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Body Bags
August 8, 1993
Three short stories in the horror genre The first about a serial killer The second about a hair transplant going wrong The third about a base ball player
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Coneheads
July 23, 1993
Based on the Saturday Night Live franchise, we see aliens with cone-heads crash-land on Earth - levity ensues.
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Jurassic Park
June 11, 1993
Featuring incredible special effects and action-packed drama, Jurassic Park takes you to a remote island where an amazing theme park with living dinosaurs is about to turn deadly, as five people must battle to survive among the prehistoric predators. [Universal Pictures]
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Super Mario Bros.
May 28, 1993
Two Brooklyn plumbers, Mario and Luigi, must travel to another dimension to rescue a princess from the evil dictator King Koopa and stop him from taking over the world.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
March 19, 1993
The turtles find themselves transported back in time to ancient Japan.
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Fire in the Sky
March 12, 1993
An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975.
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Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
July 17, 1992
The Szalinski family is back, this time hilarious disaster strikes when an experiment causes their new toddler son to grow many stories tall.
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Universal Soldier
July 10, 1992
Deveraux and Scott were killed in Vietnam, but the army has a secret project for reanimating their dead as near-perfect soldiers.
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Alien 3
May 22, 1992
Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the lone survivor when her crippled spaceship crash lands on Fiorina 161, a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's maximum security prison. Ripley's fears that an Alien was aboard her craft are confirmed when the mutilated bodies of ex-cons begin to mount. Without weapons or modern technology of any kind, Ripley must lead the men into battle against the terrifying creature. [20th Century Fox]
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Split Second
May 1, 1992
In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone (Rutger Hauer) hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner, and has haunted him ever since. He soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.
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The Lawnmower Man
March 6, 1992
A simple man (Jeff Fahey) is turned into a genius through the application of computer science provided by a computer scientist (Pierce Brosnan). The first movie to capitalize on interest in virtual reality technology.
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Memoirs of an Invisible Man
February 28, 1992
After a freak accident, a yuppie turns invisible and runs from a treacherous CIA official, while trying to cope with his new life.
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Freejack
January 17, 1992
Bounty hunters from the future transport a doomed race car driver to New York City in 2009, where his mind will be replaced with that of a dead billionaire.
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Until the End of the World
December 25, 1991
In 1999, Claire's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash. She rescues Sam and starts traveling around the world with him. Writer Eugene follows them and writes their story, as a way of recording dreams is being invented.
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
December 6, 1991
On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace.
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Kafka
November 15, 1991
Writer Franz Kafka works quietly at an insurance company, but his investigation into his friend's disappearance leads him to discover a mysterious underground society.
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Highlander II: The Quickening
November 1, 1991
In the future, Highlander Connor MacLeod must prevent the destruction of Earth under an anti-ozone shield.
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
July 18, 1991
Bill and Ted are killed by their evil twins -- robot agents from the future -- and find themselves transported to the fiery depths below. They gamble with the Grim Reaper and end up traveling through heaven to find a great scientist to help them blow their evil twins to smithereens. (MGM)
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
July 3, 1991
In a future, war-ravaged Los Angeles in which the machines have taken over the earth, a faction of human rebels led by an adult John Connor do battle with the cyborgs. Two "intelligent machines" have been dispatched to the past, one -- a replica of the Terminator model T-800 which dominated the original film -- to protect the young Connor, the other -- a shape-shifting metallic T-1000 -- to kill him.
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The Rocketeer
June 21, 1991
The discovery of a top-secret jetpack hurls test pilot Cliff Secord (Billy Campbell) into a daring adventure of mystery, suspense and intrigue. Cliff encounters an assortment of ruthless villains, led by a Hollywood screen star who's a secret spy. With the help of his actress girlfriend, the young pilot battles enormous odds to defeat his foes, who are anxious to use the device in an evil plan to rule the world.
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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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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
March 22, 1991
The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last canister of the ooze that created the Turtles, with which Shredder wants to unleash an army of new mutants.
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Bride of Re-Animator
February 22, 1991
Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain discover the secret to creating human life and proceed to create a perfect woman from dead tissue.
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Predator 2
November 21, 1990
Amidst a territorial gang war in 1997, a sophisticated alien hunter stalks the citizens of Los Angeles and the only man between him and his prey is veteran L.A.P.D. officer, Lieutenant Mike Harrigan.
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Hardware
September 14, 1990
The head of a cyborg reactivates, rebuilds itself, and goes on a violent rampage in a space marine's girlfriend's apartment.
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Darkman
August 24, 1990
A hideously scarred and mentally unstable scientist seeks revenge against the mobster who ruined his life.
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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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Jetsons: The Movie
July 6, 1990
George Jetson is forced to uproot his family when Mr. Spacely promotes him to take charge of a new factory on a distant planet.
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RoboCop 2
June 22, 1990
Cyborg law enforcer RoboCop returns to protect the citizens of old Detroit but faces a deadly challenge when a rogue OCP member secretly creates a new, evil RoboCop 2.
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Total Recall
June 1, 1990
Doug Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a construction worker with a beautiful wife (Sharon Stone) and home in in the year 2084, decides to take a virtual vacation to Mars as a secret agent. When things go wrong during the artificial memory implantation process, Quaid becomes reacts violently and must figure out if his life as Quaid or as the secret agent is his true life.
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Back to the Future Part III
May 25, 1990
Marty McFly travels to 1885 to save his good friend, Doc Brown.
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Class of 1999
May 11, 1990
Robot teachers have been secretly placed in the schools where the students have run riot. The teachers do a good job of controlling the unruly youngsters, until they go too far and some students get suspicious.
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Spaced Invaders
April 27, 1990
Dimwitted Martians drop into a little Illinois town on the day that the local radio station happens to rebroadcast Orson Welles 1938 "War Of The Worlds".
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
March 30, 1990
Four teenage mutant ninja turtles emerge from the shadows to protect New York City from a gang of criminal ninjas.
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The Handmaid's Tale
March 9, 1990
In a dystopian, polluted right wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
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Moon 44
February 1, 1990
An unconventional corporate agent is given the task of shaping a group of violent criminals and technical wizards into a helicopter defense force assigned to protect a mining station on a remote moon.
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Tremors
January 19, 1990
Natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground creatures which are killing them one by one.
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Akira
December 25, 1989
Based on Katsuhiro Otomo's 2,000 page manga, Akira begins on July 16, 1988, when what was believed to be an atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo, completely destroying the city and marking the beginning of WWIII.
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Back to the Future Part II
November 22, 1989
After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must return to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to his life in 1985.
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Millennium
August 25, 1989
An NTSB investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster meets a warrior woman from 1000 years in the future. She replaces the people from airplanes before they crash with corpses with the same features.
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The Abyss
August 9, 1989
When a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks, one diver (Harris) soon finds himself on an odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it. (20th Century Fox)
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
June 23, 1989
The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.
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Ghostbusters II
June 16, 1989
The Ghostbusters take up their proton packs once more to battle the forces of evil in Manhattan! After waging a war on slime that cost New York City millions, the they find themselves out of business until an ancient tyrant, preparing a return to the Earthly domain through his portrait at the Manhattan Museum of Modern Art, sets his sights on Dana Barrett's baby as the new home for his wicked soul! With the help of the Museum's possessed curator, he plans to turn New York into a really scary place to live! Now only the Ghostbusters can save New York City, by turning paranormal pest control into an art form!
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
June 9, 1989
Captain Kirk and his crew must deal with Spock's half brother who hijacks the Enterprise and takes it on an obsessive search for God.
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Bad Taste
June 1, 1989
The population of a small town disappears and is replaced by aliens that chase human flesh for their intergalactic fast-food chain.
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Earth Girls Are Easy
May 12, 1989
A Southern California girl befriends three furry aliens after their spaceship lands in her swimming pool.
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The Return of Swamp Thing
May 12, 1989
The Swamp Thing returns to battle the evil Dr. Arcane, who has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation, and chooses Heather Locklear as his new object of affection.
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Cyborg
April 7, 1989
A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.
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Leviathan
March 17, 1989
An American deep-sea mining colony stumbles upon a sunken Soviet vessel hiding a horrific secret.
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
February 17, 1989
Bill Preston and Ted Logan are two totally excellent dudes facing one most heinous history exam. With the help of Rufus an ultra-cool messenger in a time traveling phone booth, the triumphant twosome bag a bevy of historical heavy weights like the "Bodacious Philosopher Socrates, "One Very Excellent Barbarian" Genghis Khan, the "Short Dead Dude" Napoleon and Noah's Wife Joan of Arc to stage the most hysterical high school project ever. History's about to be rewritten by two guys who can't even spell. (MGM)
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The Fly II
February 10, 1989
The almost-human son of "Brundlefly" searches for a cure to his mutated genes while being monitored by a nefarious corporation that wishes to continue his father's experiments.
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DeepStar Six
January 13, 1989
At the bottom of the ocean, the DeepStar Six has just discovered a new and deadly alien menace.
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My Stepmother Is an Alien
December 9, 1988
A creature from another planet tries to seduce a shy Earth physicist to gain control over his researches. The result of this important mission much exceeded her expectations.
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