Category Archives: 1999

House on Haunted Hill

IMDB Rating: 5.10
14042 votes

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When an eccentric millionaire offer a group of opposites $1,000,000 to spend the night in a so called "Haunted House" with a murderous past, they figure it is a quick way to get quick money and leave. All of them are sure it is some made up story just to mess with their heads a little and test their courage. But, once they stay in the house they start to think about the mistake they made in coming there when mysterious things start to happen.
Actors
Stephen H. PriceGeoffrey Rush
Evelyn Stockard-PriceFamke Janssen
Eddie BakerTaye Diggs

Deep Blue Sea

IMDB Rating: 5.50
26075 votes

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Samual L Jackson plays a businessman who sinks $200 million into a special project to help fight brain cancer. As part of this project, medical biologist Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows) rather naughtily figures out a way to genetically embiggen shark brains, so that cancer-battling enzymes can be harvested. However, the shark subjects become super smart and decide they don't much like being cooped up in pens and being stabbed with hypodermics, so they figure a way to break out and make for the open sea...
Actors
Carter BlakeThomas Jane
Dr. Susan McCallisterSaffron Burrows
Sherman 'Preacher' DudleyLL Cool J

The Boondock Saints

IMDB Rating: 7.70
39856 votes

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Two Irish brothers accidentally killed mafia thugs. They turned themselves in and were released as heroes. They then see it as a calling by God and started knocking off mafia gang members one by one. Willem Dafoe plays the detective trying to figure out the killings, but the closer he was to catching the Irish brothers, the more he thinks the brothers are doing the right thing.
Actors
Paul SmeckerWillem Dafoe
Connor MacManusSean Patrick Flanery
Murphy MacManusNorman Reedus

The Story of Us

IMDB Rating: 5.40
7039 votes

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Two jilted lovers spend fifteen years of marriage together, only to find that they might no longer love each other. In this time they have two children and go through the various (dramatic and comical) events that take place in an average marriage.
Actors
Ben JordanBruce Willis
Katie JordanMichelle Pfeiffer
Erin Jordan at TenColleen Rennison

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

IMDB Rating: 6.20
14710 votes

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In 1412, a young girl called Jeanne is born in Domrémy, France. The times are hard: The Hunderd Years war with England has been going on since 1337, English knights and soldiers roam the country. Jeanne develops into a very religious young woman, she confesses several times a day. At the age of 13, she has her first vision and finds a sword. When coming home with it, she finds the English leveling her home town. Years after that, in 1428, she knows her mission is to be ridding France of the English and so sets out to meet Charles, the Dauphin. In his desperate military situation, he welcomes all help and gives the maiden a chance to prove her divine mission. After the successful liberation of Orléans and Reims, the Dauphin can be crowned traditionally in the cathedral of Reims - and does not need her anymore, since his wishes are satisfied. Jeanne d'Arc gets set up in his trap and is imprisoned by the Burgundians. In a trial against her under English law, she can't be forced to tell about her divine visions she has had continuously since childhood. Being condemned of witchcraft and being considered as relapsed heretic, she is sentenced to death. Jeanne d'Arc is burnt alive in the marketplace of Rouen on May 30th, 1431, at only 19 years of age.
Actors
Joan of ArcMilla Jovovich
The ConscienceDustin Hoffman
Yolande D'AragonFaye Dunaway

Eye of the Beholder

IMDB Rating: 4.40
7448 votes

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A nameless private eye (Ewan McGregor) shadows the same woman (who happens to be a serial killer of men) all over the U.S. for 10 + years, without her ever knowing and he strangely enough occasionally acts as her guardian angel.
Actors
Stephen WilsonEwan McGregor
Joanna ErisAshley Judd
Alexander LeonardPatrick Bergin

Entrapment

IMDB Rating: 6.00
26435 votes

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Following the theft of a highly-secured piece of artwork, an agent convinces her insurance agency employers to allow her to wriggle into the company of an aging but active master thief. Connery's burglar takes her on suspiciously and demands rigorous training before their first job together—stealing a highly-valued mask from a chichi party. Their deepening attraction and distrust could tear apart their partnership but the promise of a bigger prize (some eight billion odd dollars) by Zeta-Jones keeps the game interesting. Only, who's playing with whom?
Actors
Robert MacDougalSean Connery
Virginia BakerCatherine Zeta-Jones
Aaron ThibadeauxVing Rhames

American Beauty

IMDB Rating: 8.50
126467 votes

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Lester and Carolyn Burnham are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression. He finally snaps when he becomes infatuated with one of his daughters friends. Meanwhile, his daughter Jane is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky who lives with a homophobic father.
Actors
Lester BurnhamKevin Spacey
Carolyn BurnhamAnnette Bening
Jane BurnhamThora Birch

The Matrix

IMDB Rating: 8.50
165742 votes

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Computer hacker Thomas Anderson has lived a relatively ordinary life--in what he thinks is the year 1999--until he is contacted by the enigmatic Morpheus who leads him into the real world. In reality, it is 200 years later, and the world has been laid waste and taken over by advanced artificial intelligence machines. The computers have created a false version of 20th-century life--the "Matrix"--to keep the human slaves satisfied, while the AI machines draw power from the humans. Anderson, pursued constantly by "Agents" (computers who take on human form and infiltrate the Matrix), is hailed as "The One" who will lead the humans to overthrow the machines and reclaim the Earth.
Actors
NeoKeanu Reeves
MorpheusLaurence Fishburne
TrinityCarrie-Anne Moss

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

IMDB Rating: 7.40
20952 votes

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In Jersey City, an African American hit man follows "Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai." He lives alone, in simplicity with homing pigeons for company, calling himself Ghost Dog. His master, who saved his life eight years ago, is part of the local mob. When the boss' daughter witnesses one of Ghost Dog's hits, he becomes expendable. The first victims are his birds, and in response, Ghost Dog goes right at his attackers but does not want to harm his master or the young woman. On occasion, he talks with his best friend, a French-speaking Haitian who sells ice cream in the park, and with a child with whom he discusses books. Can he stay true to his code? And if he does, what is his fate?
Actors
Ghost DogForest Whitaker
LouieJohn Tormey
Sonny ValerioCliff Gorman