Movie Releases by Genre
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The Postman
December 25, 1997
Set in the year 2013, after a war has devastated America, the film focuses on a lone drifter who becomes the reluctant leader of the fight against the forces of destruction. (Warner Bros.)
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Alien: Resurrection
November 26, 1997
Ellen Ripley (Weaver) died fighting the perfect predator. Two hundred years and eight horrific experiments later, she's back. A group of scientists has cloned her-along with the alien queen inside her-hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the resurrected Ripley must team up with a band of smugglers, including a mechanic named Call (Ryder), who holds more than a few surprises of her own. (20th Century Fox)
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Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
November 21, 1997
In defiance of the Elder Gods, the evil Outworlders are back to wreak hell on Earth. Earth's last hope is the mighty Liu Kang and his explosive fighting friends. They're all that stand between life…and annihilation! (New Line)
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Starship Troopers
November 7, 1997
From the bridge of the Fleet Battlestation Ticonderoga, with its sweeping galactic views, to the desolate terrain of planet Klendathu, teeming with shrieking, fire-spitting, brain-sucking special effects creatures, acclaimed director Paul Verhoven crafts a dazzling epic based on Robert A. Heinlein's classic sci-fi adventure. Courageous soldiers travel to the distant and desolate Klendathu system for the ultimate showdown between the species. (Sony)
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Gattaca
October 24, 1997
An engrossing sci-fi thriller about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. [Sony]
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Mimic
August 22, 1997
A team of scientists discover a miracle cure that stops the spread of a deadly disease... only to find three years later that something has gone terribly wrong. Their creation has taken on a horrifying life of its own... able to mimic and destroy its every predator -- even man! And now, it threatens to wipe out an entire city... unless they stop it in time. [Miramax]
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Steel
August 15, 1997
A scientist for the military turns himself into a cartoon-like superhero when a version of one of his own weapons is being used against enemies.
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Event Horizon
August 15, 1997
The year is 2047. Years earlier, the pioneering research vessel Event Horizon vanished without a trace. Now a signal from it has been detected, and the United States Aerospace Command responds. Hurtling toward the signal's source are a fearless captain (Fishburne), his elite crew and the lost ship's designer (Neill). Their mission: find and salvage the state-of-the-art spacecraft. What they find is state-of-the-art interstellar terror. What they must salvage are their own lives, because someone or something is ready to ensnare them in a new dimension of unimaginable fear. (Paramount)
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Contact
July 11, 1997
Jodie Foster stars as headstrong visionary astronomer Ellie Arroway in Contact, a drama of discovery, based on the best-selling 1985 novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and noted astronomer Carl Sagan. (Warner Bros.)
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Men in Black
July 2, 1997
Jones is K, a veteran of a government agency so secretive no one in power knows it exists; Smith is J, a former New York cop turned rookie operative. The two dress like the FBI but better, and drive a Ford that moves like the Stealth bomber. And, when not hanging out in their bachelor pad-cum-mission control, they flex muscle like the INS--albeit toward aliens with multiple, mutating heads. [M. Dargis]
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Face/Off
June 27, 1997
FBI agent Sean Archer (Travolta) knows how to stop elusive terrorist Castor Troy (Cage). He'll become him. Archer undergoes a futuristic surgery and has Troy's face mapped onto his, then infiltrates the terrorist's world to discover his deadly secrets. But as much as Archer looks and acts like Troy, he doesn't really know him. He never figures Troy will retaliate and force doctors to transform him into Archer. Now the agent faces a shattering nightmare: his archrival is living with his family. (Paramount)
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Batman & Robin
June 20, 1997
Batman, Robin and new crime fighting comrade Batgirl face Gotham City's deadliest threat yet when cold-hearted Mr. Freeze and venomous Poison Ivy team for some lethal mischief. (Warner Bros.)
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
May 23, 1997
It has been four years since the disaster at Jurassic Park and two groups are in a race against time that will determine the fate of the remote island's prehistoric inhabitants. [Universal]
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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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