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The Best Movies of 1991
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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: 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: V.I. Warshawski ( 1991 )
A female PI babysitting for a boyfriend gets stuck with his daughter and the case of her murdered father.
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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: 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: 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: 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: Class Action ( 1991 )
Jed Ward is an attorney who specializes in whistle blower, David vs. Goliath, type cases. He finds a client who is suing an auto company over a safety problem that has had a severe effect on his life after the accident. He must replace the current attorney and be ready for trial quickly, and then he finds that the defense attorney will be his estranged daughter.
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Movie: Deceived ( 1991 )
A man is murdered when checking authenticity of ancient Egyptian jewelry at a museum. Adrienne finds out after the death of her husband, that he was using a fake name. Are the 2 deaths linked?
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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: 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: 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: Other People's Money ( 1991 )
A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a "mom and pop" company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the company. The raider is enamoured of her, and enjoys the thrust and parry of legal manoeuvring as he tries to win her heart.
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Movie: Rambling Rose ( 1991 )
A young woman who exudes sexuality battles temptation.
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Movie: Cool as Ice ( 1991 )
The old teen rebel saga is updated for the rap crowd, unfortunately rapper Vanilla Ice is the teen. Ice shows up on a neon-yellow motorcycle which gets everyone's attention, including the female honor student who has never had a rebellious bone in her body.
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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 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: 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: True Colors ( 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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Movie: For the Boys ( 1991 )
With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard, U.S. entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team, they tour from North Africa to the Pacific to act for "the boys". Later, they continue their work, but when the author Silver gets involved into McCarthy's campaign, and is being fired by Eddie, Dixie turns away from him, too.
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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: King Ralph ( 1991 )
As the only relative to take over the Royal throne, a down on his luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.
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Movie: K2 ( 1991 )
A U.S. climbing team, funded by millionaire Clairborne is determined to conquer K2.
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Movie: The Pit and the Pendulum ( 1991 )
Horror film set in 1492 Toledo, Spain, depicting the cruel deeds of a monk named Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition.
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Movie: A Kiss Before Dying ( 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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Movie: Kickboxer 2: The Road Back ( 1991 )
This movie is supposed to be a sequel to the movie which starred Jean-Claude Van Damme. Only now the movie revolves around the brother of the character that Van Damme played. David Sloan is the brother Van Damme's Kurt Sloan. He runs a Karate gym. Now Mr. Sangha, the Thai government official who handles Tong Po, the brutal kickboxer whom Van Damme in the previous movie, wishes that Tong Po would have another shot at Kurt Sloan, so he could vindicate himself but Tong Po in a fit of rage shot and killed him thus depriving him of an opportunity to face him again. But when they hear of David, they decide that he will be the one whom Tong Po will face to regain his honor. But when David is injured, Xian David's teacher is brought over to help him with his recovery. And when he recovers, they set David up to fight Tong Po; who will survive?
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Movie: Guilty by Suspicion ( 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 several 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 F.B.I. 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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Movie: Grand Canyon ( 1992 )
The fates of several people are randomly intertwining. Their sympathy of each other faces multiple differences in their lifestyles.
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Movie: Madonna: Truth or Dare ( 1991 )
Documentary following singer Madonna on her controversial Blond Ambition tour in 1990.
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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: Scanners II: The New Order ( 1991 )
A scanner discovers a plot by renegade elements in the city government to take power with the help of evil scanners.
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Movie: He Said, She Said ( 1991 )
TV viewers love seeing the two reporters with opposing views on the show "He Said, She Said". Womanizer Dan and Lorie fall for each other. Love?
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Movie: Scenes from a Mall ( 1991 )
On their 16th anniversary, a married couple's trip to a Beverly Hills mall becomes the stage for personal revelations and deceptions.
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Movie: Johnny Suede ( 1992 )
A struggling young musician and devoted fan of Ricky Nelson wants to be just like his idol and become a rock star.
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Movie: The Indian Runner ( 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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Movie: Year of the Gun ( 1991 )
In 1978, a journalist and a photojournalist, both young Americans, had a close encounter with Red Brigades terrorists in Rome.
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Movie: Alligator II: The Mutation ( 1991 )
A giant alligator runs riot in a small town with a lake connected to a sewer/drainage system. Typical plot; nobody believes the sightings until lots of people have been killed.
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Movie: Trancers II ( 1991 )
Stranded in the 20th century after chasing a villain from the year 2247, future-cop Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson) discovers that another baddie, Dr. E.D. Wardo (Richard Lynch), has also traveled back in time -- with a scheme to turn solid citizens into mindless trancers. The plot thickens when Deth's presumed dead 23rd-century wife also journeys back to help his crusade.
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Movie: Into the Sun ( 1992 )
A fighter pilot is reluctantly paired with a Hollywood actor who's researching a role, but are then forced to team up for real after being shot down and thrust into combat.
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Movie: Prom Night IV: Deliver Us from Evil ( 1991 )
Four students ditch their high school prom for a party at a summer home, unaware that a psychotic priest is on the loose, determined to punish sinners.
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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: 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: 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: The Doctor ( 1991 )
When a self-centered doctor is diagnosed with cancer, he becomes better able to empathize with his patients and appreciate a life outside his career.
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Movie: Killer Tomatoes Strike Back! ( 1991 )
Professor Gangreen attempts to brainwash the world; a police assistant and a tomatologist team up to stop him.
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Movie: Rover Dangerfield ( 1991 )
A Vegas show dog gets ditched in the sticks and ends up working on a farm.
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Movie: 976-Evil II ( 1991 )
A seemingly harmless telephone service endows an evil teacher with powers from beyond the grave.
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Movie: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? ( 1991 )
An elderly, bedridden former movie star is "cared for" by her sister, who hates her and keeps her a virtual prisoner in the family mansion.
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Movie: Omen IV: The Awakening ( 1991 )
Two attorneys adopts a mysterious orphan girl as their daughter, unaware she is the new antichrist; next in line from Damien thorn.
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Movie: The Dark Backward ( 1991 )
A man pursues stand-up comedy encouraged by his fellow garbage man. Though his friend, who accompanies him on accordion, continues to tell him how great he is, he actually stinks. When the "comedian" grows a third arm out of his back, the friend uses this twist to get him signed up with a sleazy talent agent, and it begins to look like his career is on the move, even though his girlfriend has left him.
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Movie: Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge ( 1992 )
A puppeteer's ability to bring inanimate objects to life attracts the attention of the Nazis during World War II.
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Movie: The Josephine Baker Story ( 1991 )
Born poor in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker achieved fame and fortune through her sizzlingly exotic, erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit, success takes Josephine to Paris where her semi-nude dancing causes an international sensation. Through her marriages to an Italian pseudo-count and an orchestra leader, to her bond with army officer Sydney Williams, Josephine's life is a rollercoaster ride of love and rejection from both her lovers and her country. But semi-nude, or head-to-toes in sequins; in battle fatigues or rags - her beauty and ambition ensured that Josephine Baker will always be remembered as the first, and possibly most loved, truly international star.
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Movie: Shout ( 1991 )
A new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys.
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Movie: Basket Case 3 ( 1992 )
Duane recovers from his delusional breakdown to find his freakish basket-bound brother Belial will soon become a father. But not everything is joyous as the once tight knit brothers no longer seem to trust each other.
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Movie: Bingo ( 1991 )
A runaway circus dog befriends a young boy who has trouble fitting in with his friends.
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Movie: Shadows and Fog ( 1992 )
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
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Movie: Adventures in Dinosaur City ( 1992 )
A scientist's kids are sucked into a TV screen and wind up in the Stone Age with cavemen and dinosaurs.
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Movie: Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever ( 1991 )
Those rambunctious kids are back in school and back in trouble in a smash sequel to the 1978 worldwide hit. Corey Feldman leads a rock and roll rally at Ronald Reagon High, but must triumph over the evil plans of the school's fascist principal, Vadar, who wants to halt the school dance and run their school like a prison.
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Movie: The Taking of Beverly Hills ( 1991 )
A group of embittered ex-cops use a chemical spill to raid the banks and homes of Beverly Hills.
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Movie: Daddy ( 1991 )
After twenty years of marriage, a man starts over with his children after his wife leaves him in order to "find herself."
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Movie: Sarah, Plain and Tall ( 1991 )
Set around the turn of the century. Jacob, a widowed farmer with two small children, places an ad in a paper for a new wife. The ad is answered by a spinster in Maine, who writes letters to them and describes herself as "plain and tall." And she takes a trip to Jacob's farm to see if she can make a difference.
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Movie: Stepping Out ( 1991 )
Stepping Out is a 1991 musical-comedy film directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Liza Minnelli, written by Richard Harris and based on a play also written by Harris. Minnelli plays the role of a has-been Broadway performer who gives tap lesson to a group of misfits who, through their dance classes, bond and realize what they can achieve.