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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: Terminator 2: Judgment Day ( 1991 )
A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her 10-year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: White Fang ( 1991 )
Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse ( 1991 )
Documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems--nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.
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Movie: The Rocketeer ( 1991 )
Straight from the pages of a pulp comic from a past era, the Rocketeer recreates 1930's Hollywood, complete with gangsters, Nazi spies, and the growth of the Age of Aviation. Young pilot Cliff Secord stumbles on a top secret rocket-pack and with the help of his mechanic/mentor, Peevy, he attempts to save his girl and stop the Nazis as The Rocketeer.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Pure Luck ( 1991 )
The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the unlucky girl...
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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: 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: 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.
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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: 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: Switch ( 1991 )
A sexist womanizer is killed by one of his former lovers and then reincarnated as a woman.
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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: The Butcher's Wife ( 1991 )
A clairvoyant impulsively marries a butcher, moves to New York City and has a positive impact on the people she meets, changing their futures...which in turn changes hers.
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Movie: Rambling Rose ( 1991 )
A young woman who exudes sexuality battles temptation.
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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: 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: 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: Another You ( 1991 )
George has been in a mental hospital for three years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognize George as the missing millionaire Abe, Eddie wants to take advantage of the situation.
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Movie: The Hitman ( 1991 )
A Cop goes undercover as a Hitman to bring down a criminal organization.
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Movie: The Super ( 1991 )
Karma comes into play when a wealthy wisecracking landlord is ordered by a court to live in the filthy building that he runs.
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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: 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: House Party 2 ( 1991 )
When Kid's college money is stolen by a crooked music promoter, Play's solution is to stage the 'mutha' of all pajama parties. Starring Kid 'n Play and Martin Lawrence.
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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: 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: 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: 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: One Good Cop ( 1991 )
An NYPD Detective (Michael Keaton) and his struggle for justice, while taking care of his late partner's three little girls after he is killed in the line of duty.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Billy Bathgate ( 1991 )
In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
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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: 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: The Marrying Man ( 1991 )
A millionaire playboy goes to Las Vegas and comes out married to a woman he barely knows.
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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: 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: 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: Mystery Date ( 1991 )
A teenage boy would like to meet with a very pretty, blonde girl who lives next door. His elder brother helps him with a car and a credit card to be successful. This simple story gets complicated because of the corpse in the trunk. From there, other nightmares begin .
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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: I Still Dream of Jeannie ( 1991 )
Col. Nelson is on a long-term, top-secret space mission. Jeannie cannot bring him home, temporarily, to hear their son's important academic presentation without knowing exactly where he is in the first place. The general in charge of the mission won't reveal anything. Things are further complicated when Jeannie's sister, Jeannie II, reminds Sham-Ir, the head of the genies, that a genie on Earth cannot go more than 3 months without an earthly master. Sham-Ir gives Jeannie a fortnight to either find Tony or get a new master, a single male. Colonel Healey can't help, since he's now married.