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Director: Jim Sheridan    More Info
Starring: Richard Harris, Sean Bean, Tom Berenger, Frances Tomelty, Brenda Fricker, John Hurt, Ruth McCabe, Joan Sheehy, Jer O'Leary, Noel O'Donovan

 "Bull" McCabe's (Richard Harris) family has farmed a plot in a small Irish community for generations. When the owner decides to auction it off, Bull decides to buy it, and no one in the area would have it otherwise. However, a rich American, Peter (Tom Berenger), arrives in town to buy it for development. When Bull and his son (Sean Bean) decide to talk Peter out of competing for the land, the results are tragic. Harris received an Academy Award nomination.

Director: Tom Moore    More Info
Starring: D.W. Moffett, Tracy Pollan, Judith Hoag, G.W. Bailey, Darrell Larson, Noley Thornton, Peter Michael Goetz, Dakin Matthews, George Coe, Cloris Leachman

 After Bernie's (D.W. Moffett) wife dies of leukemia, he moves on with stepdaughter Jane (Noley Thornton) and baby son. They survive a custody battle with Jane's birth father, but when Bernie becomes involves with a woman, the relationship between Bernie and Jane becomes strained. Made for TV.

Director: Franco Amurri    More Info
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Kiefer Sutherland, Carol Kane, Cliff De Young, Paul Dooley, Richard Masur, Michael McKean, Kathleen York, Tom O'Brien, Eric Lorentz

 FBI agent Buckner (Kiefer Sutherland) is given the assignment of escorting 1960s' radical hippie Huey Walker (Dennis Hopper) to an Oregon prison. On the trip, the two swap identities, and Buckner heads for jail while the hippie heads for the hills.

Director: Greydon Clark    More Info
Starring: Laura Harring, Jeff James, Sid Haig, Richard Lynch, Barbra Brighton, Angela Moya, Miranda Garrison, Shannon Farnon, Linden Chiles, Ruben Moreno

 The Lambada dance craze was in full swing when this film was made. It is the story of a Brazilian tribal princess (Laura Harring) who heads to L.A. in an attempt to stop a greedy American company from destroying the rain forest in her home territory. After assorted adventures, she teams up with Jason (Jeff James) for a televised dance contest in order to get attention.

Director: Roger Corman    More Info
Starring: John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda, Nick Brimble, Catherine Rabett, Jason Patric, Michael Hutchence, Mickey Knox, Catherine Corman, William Geiger

 Time traveler Dr. Joe Buchanan (John Hurt) goes back to the 1800s in Switzerland where he runs into Mary Shelley (Bridget Fonda) and the characters from her story: Dr. Frankenstein (Raul Julia) and his monster (Nick Brimble). Corman came back into directing for this one–after two decades of producing.

Director: Andrew Bergman    More Info
Starring: Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Frank Whaley, Jon Polito, Paul Benedict, Kenneth Welsh, Maximilian Schell, Richard Gant

 New York University film student Clark Kellogg (Matthew Broderick), in need of extra cash, unwittingly becomes involved with Carmine Sabatini (Marlon Brando) in a Mafia plot to smuggle endangered animals across borders. Different and clever.

Director: Jerry Zucker    More Info
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Rick Aviles, Vincent Schiavelli, Gail Boggs, Armelia McQueen, Susan Breslau, Martina Deignan

 New York banker Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) is mugged and killed during his attempt to obtain a computer password in order to steal from a client's account. Sam, having unfinished business here on Earth, comes back as a ghost to help uncover the reasons for his death. A psychic (Whoopi Goldberg) helps him communicate with the living to find out who wanted the computer password. A blockbuster movie that was popular at theaters. Whoopi won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress; the film also won for Best Writing and was nominated for three others, including Best Picture.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola    More Info
Starring: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Eli Wallach, Joe Mantegna, George Hamilton, Bridget Fonda, Raf Vallone, Richard Bright

 The Corleone family is back, and this time Michael (Al Pacino) tries to get into a legitimate business while also doing all in his power to bring the family together. The film received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor (Andy Garcia)..

Director: Kjell Grede    More Info
Starring: Stellan Skarsgard, Katharina Thalbach, Karoly Eperjes, Miklos Szekely B., Erland Josephson, Franciszek Pieczka, Jesper Christensen, Ivan Desny, Geza Balkay, Percy Brandt

 Based on true events, this is the story of Raoul Wallenberg, a successful Swedish businessman who became an amateur diplomat when he volunteered to go to German-occupied Budapest during World War II as an advocate for trapped Hungarian Jews. His efforts are believed to have saved thousands of Jews. But after the war, he was taken prisoner by the Russians and became a cold war pawn. Depressing at times.

Director: Martin Scorsese    More Info
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, Frank Sivero, Tony Darrow, Mike Starr, Frank Vincent, Debi Mazar

 The New York Mafia, from the mid-1950s until 1980, is the subject of this film that captures the essence of loyalty among Family members. Based on Nicholas Pileggi's book, this is the story of Henry Hill's (Ray Liotta) long tenure as a member of the Mafia. Joe Pesci won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Five nominations were also received, including Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actress (Lorraine Bracco).

Director: Larry Elikann    More Info
Starring: Joanna Kerns, Dan Lauria, Bonnie Bartlett, Lindsay Frost, Alan Autry, Joe Spano, Holly Fields, Stephen Elliott, Robert Ginty, Silvana Gallardo

 In this TV miniseries, Los Angeles seismologist Dr. Clare Winslow (Joanna Kerns) identifies the time and location for the major quake that will flatten the city. But, her warnings about "The Big One" go mostly unheeded, and disaster inevitably strikes.

Director: Stephen Fears    More Info
Starring: John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening, Pat Hingle, J.T. Walsh, Henry Jones, Gailard Sartain, Jeremy Piven, Charles Napier, Eddie Jones

 Out-conning the cons is the theme of this movie with Jack Cusack playing a salesman who uses his job for a cover. Anjelica Huston plays his mother, a bag lady who fronts for the mob. His girlfriend (Annette Bening) rounds out this unscrupulous trio who may have swindled one too many times. Martin Scorsese was the producer of this film, which had four Academy Award nominations, including Best Actress (Huston), Supporting Actress (Bening) and Director.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli    More Info
Starring: Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm, Helena Bonham Carter, Stephen Dillane, John McEnery, Vernon Dobtcheff, Pete Postlethwaite

 Hamlet (Mel Gibson), the Prince of Denmark, finds his life changing after his father's murder. Soon after Hamlet's father dies, his mother, Queen Gertrude (Glenn Close) marries her brother-in-law Claudius (Alan Bates). When his father's ghost (Paul Schofield) appears, he tells Hamlet that it was Claudius who killed him and orders Hamlet to avenge his murder. Hamlet fakes madness to avoid suspicion, and the death toll rises. Victims include Claudius, Hamlet's friends and family, and even Hamlet. A very good remake of the Shakespeare classic.

Director: Dariush Mehrjui    More Info
Starring: Khosro Shakibai, Jalal Moghaddam, Bita Farahi, Ezzatolah Entezami, Hossein Sarshar

 Dream sequences fill the screen in this story of the inner-turmoil experiences of a middle-class Iranian whose wife is trying to obtain a divorce.

Director: Volker Schlondorff    More Info
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant, Blanche Baker, David Dukes, Traci Lind, Zoey Wilson

 Based on Margaret Atwood's novel, this is a morality tale about the future in America when ecological disasters have left most of the women infertile. Those who are still fertile are kept in camps and are the "handmaidens" to the men who make up the wealthy, powerful elite. Kate (Natasha Richardson) is a handmaid who is forced to lie between infertile Serena Joy (Faye Dunaway) and her husband, the Commander (Robert Duvall), while he impregnates her. Following the ceremony, Serena Joy is angry, the Commander is unfulfilled, and Kate dreams of freedom for herself and her unborn child.

Director: Bruce Malmuth    More Info
Starring: Steven Seagal, Kelly LeBrock, Frederick Coffin, William Sadler, Bonnie Burroughs, Zachary Rosencrantz, Dean Norris, Branscombe Richmond, Robert LaSardo, Ernie Lively

 A cop, Mason Storm (Steven Seagal), who has evidence of political corruption is shot and left for dead. His partner, Lt. Kevin O'Malley (Frederick Coffin) allows the assassins to think he died, but, instead, Storm survives in a coma in a nursing home for seven years. When he regains consciousness, Storm plots his revenge.

Director: Sydney Pollack    More Info
Starring: Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan Arkin, Raul Julia, Tomas Milian, Daniel Davis, Tony Plana, Richard Farnsworth, Mark Rydell, Richard Portnow

 This film is not much more than a poor rehash of "Casablanca" with Jack Weil (Robert Redford) falling in love with the wife (Lena Olin) of a Cuban revolutionary (Raul Julia).

Director: Kevin Hooks    More Info
Starring: Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, David Strathairn, Robert Hooks, Adam Arkin, Margaret Avery, Charlie Korsmo

 Good acting and story make this made-for-TV film, based on the 1965 Watts riots, worth watching

Director: Philip Kaufman    More Info
Starring: Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros, Kevin Spacey, Richard E. Grant, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Bruce Myers, Juan Luis Bunuel, Feodor Atkine, Sylvie Huguel

 Anais (Maria de Medeiros) and her husband, Hugo (Richard E. Grant), live in Paris. Henry Miller (Fred Ward) and his wife, June (Uma Thurman), arrive, and Anais is attracted to June. When June returns to America, she gives Henry and Anais approval to become involved in a love affair. This is the story of the real-life, 1930s' love affair between American author Henry Miller and French writer Anais Nin–with dreams of a few liaisons between Anais and June thrown in.

Director: Ken Loach    More Info
Starring: Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif, Mai Zetterling, Bernard Bloch, Des McAleer, Jim Norton, Patrick Kavanagh, Bernard Archard, Maurice Roeves

 Set in the war-like environment of Northern Ireland in the early 1980s, this thriller follows British investigator Kerrigan (Brian Cox) and international amnesty group activist Ingrid Jessner (Frances McDormand). They investigate possible cover-ups at Britain's highest level that have also resulted in murder. Good performances make this worth a look.

Director: Chris Columbus    More Info
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard, Roberts Blossom, John Candy, Angela Goethals, Devin Ratray, Gerry Bamman

 In the excitement and confusion of preparing for a family Christmas vacation in Paris, young Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) is inadvertently left at home by himself. He becomes remarkably adept at providing his own entertainment and hunger needs as well as warding off two bungling burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern).

Director: Lawrence Kasdan    More Info
Starring: Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright, River Phoenix, William Hurt, Keanu Reeves, James Gammon, Jack Kehler, Victoria Jackson, Miriam Margolyes

 Joey (Kevin Kline) owns an apartment building and a pizza parlor. He has been fooling around with other women all over the place for years, until he is caught by his up-to-now trusting wife (Tracey Ullman). She decides that the right thing to do is to kill him, but proves incompetent getting the job done. So, she hires some professionals, who are just as bad, while Joey doesn't catch on to what's going on. Based (loosely) on a true story.

Director: Maria Luisa Bemberg    More Info
Starring: Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Hector Alterio, Lautaro Murua, Alberto Segado, Franklin Caicedo, Graciela Araujo, Gerardo Romano, Hugo Soto, Margara Alonso

 Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna) had a good life in the convent since entering at age 19 in 17th-century Mexico. She spent time teaching music, studying and writing poetry, and other activities. This tragic real-life story of one of Mexico's greatest poets takes a turn for the worse during this time in history, which followed a brutal inquisition. A woman-hating Archbishop arrives who believes the Sister's ideas are radical and that she is dangerous. A well-made film that is somewhat long, thus distracting from the story. Based on a book ("The Pitfalls of Faith") by poet/writer Octavio Paz.

Director: Peter Werner    More Info
Starring: Albert Finney, John Mahoney, Kathy Baker, Swoosie Kurtz, Marsha Mason, Spalding Gray, Brett Cullen, Robert Schenkkan, Brad Pitt, Wendie Jo Sperber

 TV news anchorman Jason Cromwell (Albert Finney) who, like his counterparts on other stations, is after the high ratings. When he accuses a friend, who happens to be innocent, in a Savings & Loan scandal, the consequences cause him to reevaluate his ethical standards.

Director: Joseph Sargent    More Info
Starring: Walter Matthau, Susan Blakely, Robert Carradine, Peter Firth, Barnard Hughes, Harry Morgan, William Schallert, Ariana Richards, Norbert Weisser, Helen Stenborg

 In a small town during World War II, Harmon Cobb (Walter Matthau) reluctantly defends Nazi POW Geiger (Peter Firth) who is charged with the death of the town's doctor (Barnard Hughes). While the townsfolk are ready for a hanging, presiding Judge Bell tells Cobb that he is not to vigorously pursue the case, which becomes more complicated than expected when Cobb finds that there is a cover-up at the POW camp. Made for TV.