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The Best Movies of 1991
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Movie: The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 )
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
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Movie: Point Break ( 1991 )
An F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.
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Movie: Terminator 2: Judgment Day ( 1991 )
A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.
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Movie: Hook ( 1991 )
When Captain James Hook kidnaps his children, an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy.
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Movie: Cape Fear ( 1991 )
A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.
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Movie: Child's Play 3 ( 1991 )
Chucky returns for revenge against Andy, the young boy who defeated him, and now a teenager living in a military academy.
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Movie: Sex and Zen ( 1991 )
A recently married scholar goes on a quest for knowledge of other people's wives, based on his philosophical differences with the Sack Monk. He encounters the Flying Thief, who agrees to help him find women, but only if he attains a penis as big as a horse's. The scholar has a surgeon attach said unit, and he's off and running on his mission, only to find that there are obstacles to his new lifestyle, such as jealous husbands and treacherous females.
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Movie: My Own Private Idaho ( 1991 )
Two best friends living on the streets of Portland as hustlers embark on a journey of self discovery and find their relationship stumbling along the way.
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Movie: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead ( 1991 )
Five siblings are left alone all summer when their mom leaves town and the evil babysitter bites the dust.
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Movie: The Addams Family ( 1991 )
Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle.
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Movie: Boyz n the Hood ( 1991 )
Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.
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Movie: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey ( 1991 )
A tyrant from the future creates evil android doubles of Bill and Ted and sends them back to eliminate the originals.
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Movie: Beauty and the Beast ( 1991 )
A prince cursed to spend his days as a hideous monster sets out to regain his humanity by earning a young woman's love.
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Movie: Thelma & Louise ( 1991 )
Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed.
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Movie: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves ( 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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Movie: My Girl ( 1991 )
A young girl, on the threshold of her teen years, finds her life turning upside down, when she is accompanied by an unlikely friend.
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Movie: Fried Green Tomatoes ( 1992 )
A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know.
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Movie: The Doors ( 1991 )
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.
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Movie: Backdraft ( 1991 )
Two Chicago firefighter brothers, who don't get along, have to work together while a dangerous arsonist is on the loose.
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Movie: Nothing But Trouble ( 1991 )
A businessman and his friends are captured by a sadistic judge and his equally odd family in the backwoods of a bizarre mansion.
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Movie: The People Under the Stairs ( 1991 )
Two adults and a juvenile break into a house occupied by a brother and sister and their stolen children. There, they must fight for their lives.
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Movie: JFK ( 1991 )
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
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Movie: The Man in the Moon ( 1991 )
A coming of age story set in the south of the U.S. when Elvis was King.
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Movie: What About Bob? ( 1991 )
A successful psychotherapist loses his mind after one of his most dependent patients, an obsessive-compulsive neurotic, tracks him down during his family vacation.
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Movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze ( 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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Movie: Career Opportunities ( 1991 )
Jim is the dorky son of a local cement contractor who lives at home and has no direction. Josie is the gorgeous daughter of a wealthy businessman who dreams of leaving town. They find they have a lot in common.
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Movie: The Rocketeer ( 1991 )
A young pilot stumbles onto a prototype jetpack that allows him to become a high-flying masked hero.
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Movie: The Fisher King ( 1991 )
A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.
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Movie: Return to the Blue Lagoon ( 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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Movie: Father of the Bride ( 1991 )
In this remake of the Spencer Tracy classic, George and Nina Banks are the parents of young soon-to-be-wed Annie. George is a nervous father unready to face the fact that his little girl is now a woman. The preparations for the extravagant wedding provide additional comic moments.
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Movie: Paprika ( 1991 )
A young country girl comes to town and works in a brothel in order to help her fiance get the money to start his own business. "Paprika" is the name given to her by the madam.
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Movie: Toy Soldiers ( 1991 )
When terrorists seize control of a boarding school, a group of troublemaking boys decide to resist them.
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Movie: Naked Lunch ( 1992 )
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife, and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
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Movie: City Slickers ( 1991 )
On the verge of turning 40, an unhappy Manhattan yuppie is roped into joining his two friends on a cattle drive in the southwest.
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Movie: Barton Fink ( 1991 )
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
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Movie: Double Impact ( 1991 )
Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces him that his rival in Hong Kong is also the man who killed their parents. Alex is suspicious of Chad, especially when it comes to his girlfriend.
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Movie: Regarding Henry ( 1991 )
After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him.
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Movie: Hot Shots! ( 1991 )
A parody of Top Gun (1986) in which a talented but unstable fighter pilot must overcome the ghosts of his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers.
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Movie: Chernobyl: The Final Warning ( 1991 )
True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl and how one American specialist, Dr. Robert Gale, helped the soviet doctors treat the survivors.
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Movie: Sleeping with the Enemy ( 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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Movie: Drop Dead Fred ( 1991 )
A young woman who's attempting to find her place in the world battles with her controlling mother and a womanizing husband finds comfort and confusion with the appearance of her childhood friend. It is a zappy movie that emphasizes self-actualization.
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Movie: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 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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Movie: Critters 3 ( 1992 )
The tiny fur ball aliens that will eat anything or anyone set their sights on a Los Angeles apartment tower.
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Movie: The Last Boy Scout ( 1991 )
A private detective's protected female witness is murdered, prompting him and the victim's boyfriend to investigate the crime that leads to a corrupt politician and a crooked football team owner.
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Movie: The Commitments ( 1991 )
Jimmy Rabbitte, an unemployed Dublin boy, decides to put together a soul band made up entirely of the Irish working class.
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Movie: Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man ( 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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Movie: Night on Earth ( 1991 )
A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness. Rome - A gregarious cabbie picks up an ailing man and virtually talks him to death. Helsinki - an industrial worker gets laid off and he and his compatriots discuss the bleakness and unfairness of love and life and death.
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Movie: New Jack City ( 1991 )
A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megalomaniacal while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.
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Movie: Oscar ( 1991 )
A gangster attempts to keep the promise he made to his dying father: that he would give up his life of crime and "go straight".
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Movie: Showdown in Little Tokyo ( 1991 )
Two cops have to work together to bring down the Yakuza, while trying to protect a beautiful woman.
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Movie: Highlander II: The Quickening ( 1991 )
In the future, Highlander Connor MacLeod must prevent the destruction of Earth under an anti-ozone shield.
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Movie: Only the Lonely ( 1991 )
A Chicago cop must balance loyalty to his overbearing mother and a relationship with a shy funeral home worker.
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Movie: The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear ( 1991 )
Lieutenant Frank Drebin discovers that his ex-girlfriend's new beau is involved in a plot to kidnap a scientist who advocates solar energy.
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Movie: Hudson Hawk ( 1991 )
A cat burglar is forced to steal Da Vinci works of art for a world domination plot.
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Movie: Out for Justice ( 1991 )
Brooklyn cop Gino Felino is about to go outside and play catch with his son Tony when he receives a phone call alerting him that his best friend Bobby Lupo has been shot dead in broad daylight on 18th Avenue in front of his wife Laurie Lupo and his two kids by drug kingpin Richie Madano, who has been Gino and Bobby's enemy since childhood. As Gino is hunting Madano down, Gino discovers the motive behind Bobby's murder. This is when Gino's hunt for Madano leads to the showdown of a lifetime.
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Movie: Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare ( 1991 )
Dream-haunting Freddy Krueger returns once again to prowl the nightmares of Springwood's last surviving teenager, and of a woman whose personal connection to Krueger may mean his doom.
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Movie: Delicatessen ( 1992 )
Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants.
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Movie: Jungle Fever ( 1991 )
Friends and family of a married black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.
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Movie: Dead Again ( 1991 )
A woman who has lost her memory is taken in by a Los Angeles orphanage, and a private eye is enlisted to track down her identity, but he soon finds that he might have a past life connection to her that endangers their lives.
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Movie: Curly Sue ( 1991 )
A homeless man and his young companion, who survive by conning people, meet a woman who may need them even more than they need her.
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Movie: Doc Hollywood ( 1991 )
A young doctor on his way across the country to a job interview crashes his car in a small town and is sentenced to work for several days at the town hospital.
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Movie: Bugsy ( 1991 )
New York gangster Ben Bugsy Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womaniser with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
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Movie: Frankie and Johnny ( 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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Movie: Stone Cold ( 1991 )
A tough Alabama cop is blackmailed by the FBI into going undercover in a violent Mississippi biker gang.
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Movie: An American Tail: Fievel Goes West ( 1991 )
Some time after the Mousekewitz's have settled in America, they find that they are still having problems with the threat of cats. That makes them eager to try another home out in the west, where they are promised that mice and cats live in peace. Unfortunately, the one making this claim is an oily con artist named Cat R. Waul who is intent on his own sinister plan. Unaware of this, the Mousekewitz's begin their journey west, while their true cat friend, Tiger, follows intent on following his girlfriend gone in the same direction.
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Movie: Sometimes They Come Back ( 1991 )
A man and his family return to his hometown, where he is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid.
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Movie: The Five Heartbeats ( 1991 )
The story of the rise and fall of an African American vocal group.
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Movie: Life Stinks ( 1991 )
A filthy rich businessman bets a corporate rival that he can live on the streets of L.A. without the comforts of home or money, which proves to be tougher than he thought.
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Movie: The Guyver ( 1992 )
A young man discovers a mechanical device that merges with his own body, turning him into a cyborg superhero. When strange creatures start appearing, trying to take the device back, he begins to uncover a secret plot to genetically engineer terrifying monsters.
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Movie: Rock-A-Doodle ( 1992 )
Edmond's favorite story is of Chanticleer, a rooster whose singing makes the sun rise every morning until the Grand Duke of Owls, whose kind despises the bright sun, makes him look like a fraud. The owls drive Chanticleer from his farm and put it under a spell of perpetual darkness and rain. As Edmond's own farm floods, he calls to Chanticleer and summons the Duke himself, who transforms him into a kitten to devour him. He's rescued by Chanticleer's friends Patou the hound, Snipes the magpie, and Peepers the mouse, and they go on an adventure to the city where Chanticleer has become a rock star.
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Movie: Necessary Roughness ( 1991 )
Due to NCAA sanctions, the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos must form a football team from their actual student body, with no scholarships to help, to play their football schedule.
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Movie: Soapdish ( 1991 )
Celeste Talbert has been the queen of the soaps for over two decades. Montana Moorehead needs to get her out of her way before she can move on and begins her program to get her to leave. She hires an old boyfriend of Celeste to be on the show and has Celeste become a murderer in the script, but each attempt has unforseen consequences.
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Movie: Mobsters ( 1991 )
From start to finish, it's a story of friendship between 4 street-wise males who don't mind using violence to achieve the lives that they want. They trust no one but each other which is vital to their success as mobsters.
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Movie: Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken ( 1991 )
Thrilled by a performance she sees at a fair, Sonora tries to land a spot as a daredevil who rides horses off of high dives.
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Movie: Defending Your Life ( 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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Movie: L.A. Story ( 1991 )
With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a wacky weatherman tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early 1990s Los Angeles.
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Movie: Switch ( 1991 )
A sexist womanizer is killed by one of his former lovers and then reincarnated as a woman.
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Movie: The Prince of Tides ( 1991 )
A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
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Movie: Problem Child 2 ( 1991 )
The worst child in the world makes an unthinkable discovery - there is another child even worse than him, and that's a girl.
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Movie: Delirious ( 1991 )
A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.
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Movie: The Hard Way ( 1991 )
Nick Lang is a famous Hollywood actor, well known for his action movies. For his next movie, he needs the proper motivation and inspiration for his role. Thus he teams up with the reluctant New York policeman Lt. John Moss. Not only does he have to put up with Nick, who is laborious and out of touch with realities, but he also has to catch a coldblooded murderer.
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Movie: Rambling Rose ( 1991 )
A young woman who exudes sexuality battles temptation.
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Movie: Ricochet ( 1991 )
A District Attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
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Movie: Cool as Ice ( 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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Movie: Under Suspicion ( 1991 )
In Brighton in 1959, disgraced cop turned private detective Tony Aaron works largely on falsifying adulteries for use as evidence in divorce cases. He involves his wife as the fictional co-respondent for painter Carlo Stasio but the pair are shot dead in the hotel room. In charge of the case is Frank, Tony's ex-partner still on the Brighton force. His most likely suspects are Angeline, Stasio's mistress who is set to inherit his house and pictures, and Tony himself, parts of whose story don't seem to add up.
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Movie: Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah ( 1991 )
Time travelers use Godzilla in their scheme to destroy Japan to prevent the country's future economic reign.
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Movie: Not Without My Daughter ( 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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Movie: Whore ( 1991 )
The prostitute Liz works on the streets of Los Angeles. She recalls her life in flashback, when she marries an alcoholic man. She leaves him with their son. Then she works as waitress in a diner until the day a man introduces her to prostitution. Later she is raped by at least five men and the pimp Blake "protects" her. Liz tries to escape from Blake and befriends the prostitute Katie; however Blake chases her. On the streets, she befriends the homeless Rasta (Antonio Fargas) that helps her when she needs.
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Movie: Ernest Scared Stupid ( 1991 )
Ernest accidentally unleashes an ugly troll that plots to transform children into wooden dolls in the town of Briarville, Missouri.
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Movie: F/X2 ( 1991 )
A special effects man helps his girlfriend's ex, a cop, with a sting operation, where the ex gets killed. Something's off and he investigates with help from an ex-cop PI friend.
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Movie: Suburban Commando ( 1991 )
An interstellar hero from a distant world visits Earth, and tries to fit in with a mundane, yet kind, suburban family.
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Movie: Dutch ( 1991 )
To get to know his girlfriend's son, a working-class good guy volunteers to pick him up from a prep school, only to learn that her son isn't the nicest kid.
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Movie: Shakes the Clown ( 1992 )
Shakes is good at his job as party clown - when he's sober and shows up. Five druggy clowns frame him for the murder of his boss.
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Movie: Flirting ( 1992 )
Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differently.
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Movie: Mannequin: On the Move ( 1991 )
A young department store intern falls in love with a female store mannequin who is really a peasant girl fallen under a thousand year spell. She comes to life whenever he removes the cursed necklace from her.
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Movie: Zandalee ( 1993 )
Thierry's wife Zandalee married the poet he once was. Taking over his dad's company in New Orleans gives him stress and impotence. Thierry meets his high school buddy Johnny at a bachelor party. The painter Johnny can satisfy Zandalee.
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Movie: Popcorn ( 1991 )
A master of disguise deranged killer begins killing off the college students who are organizing a horror-movie marathon in an abandoned theater.
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Movie: Dogfight ( 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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Movie: Nekromantik 2 ( 1991 )
A female nurse desperately tries to hide her feelings of necrophilia from her new boyfriend, but still has pieces of the corpse of the first movie's hero in her possession.
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Movie: Dying Young ( 1991 )
After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.