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The Best Movies Of 1995
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Just a list of good movies that came out in the year 1995. I realize some say 1996, but I made sure to check other sources, and they actually did come out in 1995.


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Movie: Braveheart ( 1995 )
Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.
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Movie: Jumanji ( 1995 )
When two kids find and play a magical board game, they release a man trapped in it for decades - and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.
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Movie: Toy Story ( 1995 )
A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.
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Movie: Se7en ( 1995 )
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
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Movie: Mallrats ( 1995 )
Brodie Bruce, a Sega and comic book obsessed college student, and his best friend, TS Quint, are both dumped by their girlfriends on the same day, and to deal with their loss, they both go to the local mall. Along the way, they meet up with some friends, including Willam, a guy who stares at Magic Eye pictures, desprately trying to see the hidden image; Gwen, one of TS's ex-girlfriends; and Jay & Silent Bob, of Clerks fame. Eventually, they decide to try and win back their significant others, and take care of their respective nemesises (TS's girlfriend's father, and a store clerk who hates the two for not having any shopping agenda).
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Movie: Crimson Tide ( 1995 )
On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny, to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles, before confirming his orders to do so.
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Movie: Heat ( 1995 )
A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist.
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Movie: Waterworld ( 1995 )
In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land.
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Movie: The Usual Suspects ( 1995 )
A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup.
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Movie: Casino ( 1995 )
A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast-living and fast-loving socialite.
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Movie: 12 Monkeys ( 1996 )
In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.
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Movie: Friday ( 1995 )
Two homies, Smokey and Craig, smoke a dope dealer's weed and try to figure a way to get the $200 they owe to the dealer by 10 p.m. that same night.
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Movie: Apollo 13 ( 1995 )
NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
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Movie: Clueless ( 1995 )
A rich high school student tries to boost a new pupil's popularity, but reckons without affairs of the heart getting in the way.
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Movie: Die Hard with a Vengeance ( 1995 )
John McClane and a Harlem store owner are targeted by German terrorist Simon in New York City, where he plans to rob the Federal Reserve Building.
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Movie: Powder ( 1995 )
An off the charts genius who is home schooled and shunned after his last relative dies shows the unconscious residents of his town about connection awareness and the generosity of the spirit.
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Movie: Casper ( 1995 )
A paranormal expert and his daughter bunk in an abandoned house populated by three mischievous ghosts and one friendly one.
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Movie: Mortal Kombat ( 1995 )
Three unknowing martial artists are summoned to a mysterious island to compete in a tournament whose outcome will decide the fate of the world.
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Movie: While You Were Sleeping ( 1995 )
A hopelessly romantic Chicago Transit Authority token collector is mistaken for the fiancée of a coma patient.
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Movie: Pocahontas ( 1995 )
An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth century Virginia.
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Movie: Johnny Mnemonic ( 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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Movie: Outbreak ( 1995 )
Army doctors struggle to find a cure for a deadly virus spreading throughout a California town that was brought to America by an African monkey.
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Movie: Dolores Claiborne ( 1995 )
A big city reporter travels to a small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman for whom she worked as a housekeeper.
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Movie: Tommy Boy ( 1995 )
After his auto-parts tycoon father dies, the overweight, underachieving son teams up with a snide accountant to try and save the family business.
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Movie: A Walk in the Clouds ( 1995 )
A married soldier returning from World War II poses as a pregnant woman's husband to save her from her father's anger and honor.
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Movie: Sabrina ( 1995 )
An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.
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Movie: Four Rooms ( 1995 )
Four interlocking tales that take place in a fading hotel on New Year's Eve.
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Movie: Dead Man ( 1995 )
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange Native American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
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Movie: Tank Girl ( 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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Movie: Money Train ( 1995 )
A vengeful New York City transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares. His foster brother, a fellow cop, tries to protect him.
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Movie: Billy Madison ( 1995 )
In order to inherit his fed up father's hotel empire, an immature and lazy man must repeat grades 1-12 all over again.
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Movie: Judge Dredd ( 1995 )
In a dystopian future, Joseph Dredd, the most famous Judge (a police officer with instant field judiciary powers), is convicted for a crime he did not commit and must face his murderous counterpart.
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Movie: Strange Days ( 1995 )
A former cop turned street-hustler accidentally uncovers a conspiracy in Los Angeles in 1999.
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Movie: Just Cause ( 1995 )
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
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Movie: Ghost in the Shell ( 1996 )
A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
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Movie: Lord of Illusions ( 1995 )
During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult, who are waiting for the resurrection of their leader Nix. 13 years ago, Nix was gunned down by his best trainee Swann. In the meantime Swann is advanced to a popular illusionist like David Copperfield and is married to the charming Dorothea. She hires D'Amour to protect Swann against the evil cult members. A short time later Swann is killed by one of his own tricks and the occurrences are turning over, and it crackles between Dorothea and D'Amour.
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Movie: The City of Lost Children ( 1995 )
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
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Movie: Sense and Sensibility ( 1995 )
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites.
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Movie: Under Siege 2: Dark Territory ( 1995 )
Casey Ryback hops on a Colorado to LA train to start a vacation with his niece. Early into the trip, terrorists board the train and use it as a mobile HQ to hijack a top secret destructive US satellite.
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Movie: Citizen X ( 1995 )
During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.
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Movie: Desperado ( 1995 )
Director Robert Rodriguez picks up where his successful independent debut El Mariachi left off with this slam-bang South of the Border action saga. Bucho (Joaquim DeAlmeida) is a wealthy but casually bloodthirsty drug kingpin who rules a seedy Mexican border town. Bucho and his men make the mistake of angering El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas), a former musician who now carries an arsenal in his guitar case. Bucho was responsible for the death of El Mariachi's girlfriend and put a bullet through his fretting hand, making him unable to play the guitar. Bent on revenge, the musician-turned-killing machine arrives in town to put Bucho out of business, though he finds few allies except for Carolina (Salma Hayek), who runs a bookstore that doesn't seem to attract many readers. Desperado features supporting performances from Cheech Marin as a cynical bartender, Steve Buscemi as the cantina patron who sets up the story, and Quentin Tarantino as a man with a really terrible joke to tell.
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Movie: Higher Learning ( 1995 )
People from all different walks of life, encounter racial tension, rape, responsibility, and the meaning of an education on a university campus.
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Movie: The Quick and the Dead ( 1995 )
A female gunfighter returns to a frontier town where a dueling tournament is being held, which she enters in an effort to avenge her father's death.
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Movie: The Net ( 1995 )
A computer programmer stumbles upon a conspiracy, putting her life and the lives of those around her in great danger.
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Movie: Kids ( 1995 )
A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.
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Movie: The Bridges of Madison County ( 1995 )
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson, for four days in the 1960s.
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Movie: Batman Forever ( 1995 )
Batman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent, who is now Two-Face and Edward Nygma, The Riddler with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.
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Movie: To Die For ( 1995 )
A beautiful but naïve aspiring television personality films a documentary on teenagers with a darker ulterior motive.
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Movie: Leaving Las Vegas ( 1995 )
Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
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Movie: Welcome to the Dollhouse ( 1996 )
An unattractive seventh grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish classmates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey.
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Movie: The Indian in the Cupboard ( 1995 )
Omri, a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, receives an odd variety of presents for his birthday: a wooden cabinet from his older brother, a set of antique keys from his mother and a tiny plastic model of an Indian from his best friend Patrick.
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Movie: Copycat ( 1995 )
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
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Movie: Devil in a Blue Dress ( 1995 )
An African-American man is hired to find a woman, and gets mixed up in a murderous political scandal.
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Movie: Get Shorty ( 1995 )
A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt, and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.
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Movie: Father of the Bride Part II ( 1995 )
George Banks must deal not only with his daughter's pregnancy, but also with his wife's.
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Movie: Bad Boys ( 1995 )
Two hip detectives protect a witness to a murder while investigating a case of stolen heroin from the evidence storage room from their police precinct.
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Movie: Operation Dumbo Drop ( 1995 )
During the Vietnam War, a village that American forces are using to spy on the Ho Chi Minh Trail has its sacred elephant killed by the North Vietnamese Army because they were cooperating with the Americans. The villagers need an elephant for a ceremony that will occur within the week. Captain Sam Cahill, an easygoing man who is heading home, and his hotheaded replacement Captain TC Doyle scrounge up another elephant with the help of sneaky supply chief warrant officer David Poole, luckless farmboy Lawrence Farley, and short-timer Harvey Ashford, and transport it across South Vietnam to get it to the village on time, running into all sorts of transport problems, personality conflicts, and an NVA squad that wants the Americans out of the village.
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Movie: The Prophecy ( 1995 )
The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest and a little girl can stop him.
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Movie: The Basketball Diaries ( 1995 )
A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
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TV Show: The Langoliers ( 1995 )
On a red eye flight to Boston from LA 10 people wake up to a shock. All the other passengers and crew have vanished but all sorts of personal possessions remain. When they try to contact the ground they make no connections. They land the plane only to discover that things haven't changed. But its like the world is dead.
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Movie: Babe ( 1995 )
Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.
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Movie: Fluke ( 1995 )
After a man dies in a car crash, he is reincarnated as a dog and attempts to reconnect with his family.
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Movie: Now and Then ( 1995 )
Four 12-year-old girls grow up together during an eventful small-town summer in 1970.
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Movie: To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar ( 1995 )
Three drag queens travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town.
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Movie: GoldenEye ( 1995 )
Years after a friend and fellow 00 agent is killed on a joint mission, a Russian crime syndicate steals a secret space-based weapons program known as "GoldenEye" and James Bond has to stop them from using it.
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Movie: Hackers ( 1995 )
Hackers are blamed for making a virus that will capsize five oil tankers.
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Movie: Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight ( 1995 )
High-level demons collect low-level demons as warriors in attempt to obtain a key containing the blood of Christ. The key is guarded by immortal warriors called Demon Knights.
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Movie: Empire Records ( 1995 )
24 hours in the lives of the young employees at Empire Records when they all grow up and become young adults thanks to each other and the manager. They all face the store joining a chain store with strict rules.
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Movie: Before Sunrise ( 1995 )
American tourist Jesse and French student Celine meet by chance on the train from Budapest to Vienna. Sensing that they are developing a connection, Jesse asks Celine to spend the day with him in Vienna, and she agrees. So they pass the time before his scheduled flight the next morning together. How do two perfect strangers connect so intimately over the course of a single day? What is that special thing that bonds two people so strongly? As their bond turns to love, what will happen to them the next morning when Jesse flies away?
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Movie: Dangerous Minds ( 1995 )
An ex-Marine turned teacher struggles to connect with her students in an inner city school.
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Movie: A Goofy Movie ( 1995 )
When Max makes a preposterous promise to a girl he has a crush on, his chances to fulfilling it seem hopeless when he is dragged onto a cross-country trip with his embarrassing father, Goofy.
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Movie: Dracula: Dead and Loving It ( 1995 )
Mel Brooks' parody of the classic vampire story and its famous film adaptations.
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Movie: Congo ( 1995 )
When an expedition to the African Congo ends in disaster, a new team is assembled to find out what went wrong.
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Movie: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls ( 1995 )
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, returns from a spiritual quest to investigate the disappearance of a rare white bat, the sacred animal of a tribe in Africa.
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Movie: Mad Love ( 1995 )
The high-school student Matt Leland lives with his twin brother and sister and his father in a house by the lake. When the teenager Casey Roberts moves to the house on the other side of the lake, Matt snoops into her room with his telescope. They meet each other and soon they fall in love with each other. One day, Matt is taking a test at school and Casey activates the fire alarm to stop the test. She is suspended and her father decides to check her into a psychiatric institution. However Matt breaks her out of the hospital. They travel in Matt's car and have lots of fun until the day Matt discovers that Casey has bipolar disorder with periods of depression and periods of elevated mood. When she tries to commit suicide, Matt realizes that she needs specialized help.
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Movie: Village of the Damned ( 1995 )
A small town's women give birth to unfriendly alien children posing as humans.
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Movie: A Little Princess ( 1995 )
A young girl is relegated to servitude at a boarding school when her father goes missing and is presumed dead.
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Movie: Murder in the First ( 1995 )
An eager and idealistic young attorney defends an Alcatraz prisoner accused of murdering a fellow inmate. The extenuating circumstances: his client had just spent over three years in solitary confinement.
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Movie: Screamers ( 1996 )
Soldiers attempting to negotiate the end to a long-running war discover the robots they built to assassinate enemy combatants have gained sentience and are plotting against both sides.
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Movie: Boys on the Side ( 1995 )
Jane is a night club singer, out of work. Robin is a quirky real estate agent looking for a ride-share to accompany her to California. Her advertisement is answered by Jane, who at first was uncertain about her. A stop in Pittsburgh picks up a third, Holly, escaping a violent and drug-dealing partner. Girls on the road, reaching understanding, respect, and care for each other. But this trio is different - Jane a lesbian, Robin suffering with AIDS, Holly running from her past, seeking one-night stands and a good man.
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Movie: Dead Man Walking ( 1996 )
A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.
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Movie: La Haine ( 1996 )
The film follows three young men and their time spent in the French suburban "ghetto," over a span of twenty-four hours. Vinz, a Jew, Saïd, an Arab, and Hubert, a black boxer, have grown up in these French suburbs where high levels of diversity coupled with the racist and oppressive police force have raised tensions to a critical breaking point. During the riots that took place a night before, a police officer lost his handgun in the ensuing madness, only to leave it for Vinz to find. Now, with a newfound means to gain the respect he deserves, Vinz vows to kill a cop if his friend Abdel dies in the hospital, due the beating he received while in police custody.
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Movie: First Knight ( 1995 )
Lancelot falls in love with Guinevere, who is due to be married to King Arthur. Meanwhile, a violent warlord tries to seize power from Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
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Movie: Assassins ( 1995 )
Professional hit-man Robert Rath wants to fulfill a few more contracts before retiring but unscrupulous ambitious newcomer hit-man Miguel Bain keeps killing Rath's targets.
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Movie: Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers ( 1995 )
Six years after Michael Myers' last massacre in Haddonfield, Jamie Lloyd has a child, but is then killed by Michael. Michael is allied with the Cult of Thorn, who both protect him and gave him the Curse of Thorn, the reason he killed all of his family. The Strode Family also moved into the Myers' house and are stalked by Michael. Sam Loomis and Tommy Doyle, a boy Laurie babysat during Michael's first rampage, are now out to stop Michael and the cult. Michael heads to kill Jamie's son and the rest of Laurie's family, but Dr. Loomis and Tommy plan to stop the curse, defeat the cult, stop Michael, and put an end to his murderous rampages, once and for all.
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Movie: Showgirls ( 1995 )
Nomi, a young drifter, arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become the top of the Vegas showgirls.
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Movie: The Brady Bunch Movie ( 1995 )
The original '70s T.V. family is now placed in the 1990s, where they're even more square and out of place than ever.
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Movie: Mr. Holland's Opus ( 1996 )
A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.
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Movie: Home for the Holidays ( 1995 )
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her family.
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Movie: Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead ( 1995 )
Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.
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Movie: Waiting to Exhale ( 1995 )
This story based on the best selling novel by Terry McMillan follows the lives of four African-American women as they try to deal with their very lives. Friendship becomes the strongest bond between these women as men, careers, and families take them in different directions. Often light-hearted this movie speaks about some of the problems and struggles the modern women face in today's world.
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Movie: The Crossing Guard ( 1995 )
Freddy Gale is a seedy jeweller who has sworn to kill the drunk driver who killed his little girl.
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Movie: Total Eclipse ( 1995 )
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
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Movie: Born to Be Wild ( 1995 )
Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the gorilla takes her back to become a flea market freak Rick takes it upon himself to break Katie out and take her on an adventureous journey to get her out of the country.
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Movie: Bad Company ( 1995 )
Nelson Crowe is a CIA operative under the thumb of the Company for a disputed delivery of $50,000 in gold. They blackmail him into working for the Grimes Organization, which is set up as a private company for hire, to blackmail prominent individuals. Crowe, working with Margaret Wells (another former Covert Operations operative), blackmails and bribes a State Supreme Court judge, but the deal sours. One of Crowe's co-workers, Tod Stapp, discovers Crowe's current CIA involvement in a plot to overthrow Grimes, and blackmails him to be cut in on the deal. More blackmail occurs as Wells manipulates Crowe to kill Grimes, then the CIA uses that discovery to blackmail Wells into killing Crowe. Who can you trust???
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Movie: Vampire in Brooklyn ( 1995 )
A ship sails into Brooklyn with all its crew dead. But something gets off and the killing continues on land. The vampire is looking for a specific woman - half-human, half-vampire. Rita's the cop detective investigating the many killings.
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Movie: Restoration ( 1996 )
The exiled royal physician to King Charles II devotes himself to helping Londoners suffering from the plague, and in the process falls in love with an equally poor woman.
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Movie: Balto ( 1995 )
An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.
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Movie: The American President ( 1995 )
Comedy-drama about a widowed U.S. President and a lobbyist who fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception", and sparks fly anyway.
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Movie: Grumpier Old Men ( 1995 )
John and Max resolve to save their beloved bait shop from turning into an Italian restaurant, just as its new female owner catches Max's attention.