Category Archives: High IMDB rating

Batman Returns

IMDB Rating: 6.60
28773 votes

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Having defeated the Joker, Batman now faces the Penguin - a warped and deformed individual who is intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Crooked businessman Max Schreck is coerced into helping him become Mayor of Gotham and they both attempt to expose Batman in a different light. Earlier however, Selina Kyle, Max's secretary, is thrown from the top of a building and is transformed into Catwoman - a mysterious figure who has the same personality disorder as Batman. Batman must attempt to clear his name, all the time deciding just what must be done with the Catwoman.
Actors
Batman/Bruce WayneMichael Keaton
Penguin/Oswald CobblepotDanny DeVito
Catwoman/Selina KyleMichelle Pfeiffer
Also posted in 1992, Action, Crime, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

IMDB Rating: 6.50
23527 votes

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After being captured by Turks during the Crusades, Robin of Locksley and a Moor, Azeem, escape back to England where Azeem vows to remain until he repays Robin for saving his life. Meanwhile, Robin's father has been murdered by the Sheriff of Nottingham and when Robin returns home he vows to avenge his father's death. Even though Marian, his childhood friend, cannot help him, he escapes to the Forest of Sherwood where he joins a band of exiled villagers and becomes their leader. With their help he attempts to cleanse the land of the evil that the Sheriff has spread.
Actors
Robin of LocksleyKevin Costner
AzeemMorgan Freeman
Marian DuboisMary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Also posted in 1991, Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance | Comments (0)

Night on Earth

IMDB Rating: 7.50
6168 votes

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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.
Actors
Victoria SnellingGena Rowlands
CorkyWinona Ryder
Rock ManagerLisanne Falk
Also posted in 1991, Comedy, Drama | Comments (0)

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

IMDB Rating: 6.40
11434 votes

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Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) loves a mystery. Why are we here? Is there life after sex? Yes, Drebin tackles the big issues--and the biggest of all is how to stop devious Quentin Hapsburg's (Robert Goulet) plan to destroy the environment! Returning with Leslie Nielsen are Priscilla Presley as Jane, the woman who can melt a cheese sandwich from 20 paces; George Kennedy as the intrepid Capt. Ed Hocken; and O.J. Simpson, the man so famous a beverage is named after him, as hard-luck cop Nordberg. The gang's all here. And so are the laughs.
Actors
Lt. Frank DrebinLeslie Nielsen
Jane SpencerPriscilla Presley
Captain Ed HockenGeorge Kennedy
Also posted in 1991, Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | Comments (0)

Hot Shots!

IMDB Rating: 6.30
16352 votes

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Topper Harley, a top gun fighter pilot, is recalled to serve on the SS Essess. Topper's mission is to destroy Saddam Hussein's nuclear plants. Unfortunately, Topper is psychologically imbalanced and is sure to crack under pressure.
Actors
Lt. Topper HarleyCharlie Sheen
Lt. Kent GregoryCary Elwes
Ramada ThompsonValeria Golino
Also posted in 1991, Action, Comedy, Romance, War | Comments (0)

Backdraft

IMDB Rating: 6.50
17650 votes

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As a child Brian McCafferty watched his firefighter father die. Years later he joins his brother, Steven in the force by becoming a rookie firefighter. There is a history of conflict between the two brothers that is heated up by working together. With this background, a series of suspicious fires are set, each made to kill a specific person. After becoming frightened at a fire, Brian pulls strings to get into an investigative office and finds that he is now not putting out the arsonist's fires, but trying to track him down.
Actors
Stephen 'Bull' McCaffrey/Dennis McCaffreyKurt Russell
Brian McCaffreyWilliam Baldwin
Donald 'Shadow' RimgaleRobert De Niro
Also posted in 1991, Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Addams Family

IMDB Rating: 6.40
13202 votes

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The Addams step out of Charles Addams' cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip in the shark's son into the family as their long lost Uncle Fester. Can the false Fester find his way into the vault before he is discovered?
Actors
Morticia AddamsAnjelica Huston
Gomez AddamsRaul Julia
Uncle Fester/Gordon CravenChristopher Lloyd
Also posted in 1991, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror | Comments (0)

Thelma & Louise

IMDB Rating: 7.20
20504 votes

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Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it but are soon followed closely by the authorities including a local policeman who is sympathetic to their plight. The federal authorities, however, have less compassion and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and suprising aspects of their personalities and self-strengths in the trying times.
Actors
Louise Elizabeth SawyerSusan Sarandon
Thelma Yvonne DickinsonGeena Davis
Investigator Hal SlocumbHarvey Keitel
Also posted in 1991, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Silence of the Lambs

IMDB Rating: 8.60
105280 votes

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A psychopath known as Buffalo Bill is kidnapping and murdering young women across the midwest. Believing it takes one to know one, the F.B.I. sends Agent Clarice Starling (Foster) to interview a demented prisoner who may provide psychological insight and clues to the killer's actions. The prisoner is psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lector (Hopkins), a brilliant, murderous cannibal who will only help Starling if she feeds his morbid curiosity with details about her own complicated life. This twisted relationship forces Starling not only to confront her psychological demons, but leads her to face with a demented, heinous killer, an incarceration of evil so powerful, that she may not have the courage -- or strength -- to stop him!
Actors
Clarice StarlingJodie Foster
Dr. Hannibal LecterAnthony Hopkins
Jack CrawfordScott Glenn
Also posted in 1991, Crime, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Last Boy Scout

IMDB Rating: 6.40
11800 votes

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When the girl that detective Joe Hallenback is protecting gets murdered, the boyfriend of the murdered girl (ex-football player Jimmy Dix) attempts to investigate and solve the case. What they discover is that there is deep seated corruption going on between a crooked politician and the owner of a pro football team.
Actors
Joseph Cornelius 'Joe' HallenbeckBruce Willis
James Alexander 'Jimmy/Jim' DixDamon Wayans
Sarah HallenbeckChelsea Field
Also posted in 1991, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)
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