Tag Archives: independent film

Highlander II: The Quickening

IMDB Rating: 3.40
10196 votes

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Connor Macleod and Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez return in this all action sequel to 1985's Highlander. The year is 2024, and MacLeod is now a mortal old man. However the world has become a very dead planet since the creation of "the shield", an artifical ozone layer - which MacLeod supervised construction of. It turns out that MacLeod was banished from a distant past with his mentor Ramirez. MacLeod's old nemesis from the past (General Katana) travels into the future to kill Connor once an for all. MacLeod calls upon the spirit of Ramirez to help him defeat Katana, before Katana kills him. MacLeod is also aided by Louise Marcus, an environmental activist that believes the ozone layer as repaired itself and "the shield" is no longer necessary.
Actors
Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos RamírezSean Connery
Louise MarcusVirginia Madsen
Connor MacLeodChristopher Lambert
Also posted in 1991, Action, Sci-Fi | 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, High IMDB rating | 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, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Wizard of Oz

IMDB Rating: 3.40
8 votes

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Also posted in 1991, Animation, Short | Comments (0)

Quick Change

IMDB Rating: 6.60
3349 votes

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When a man dressed as a clown enters a bank and trys to rob it, no one takes him seriously at start. But as this New Yorker pulls this daring robbery with the help of his friends, it looks like leaving the bank with all the stolen money is the easy part! All they have to do now is make it out of the city and to the airport. They have plenty of time, but its not that easy as they seem to get out of one problem only to fall into another. Will they make before the cops catch up with them?
Actors
GrimmBill Murray
Street BarkerDale Grand
Bank GuardBob Elliott
Also posted in 1990, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

IMDB Rating: 6.10
13752 votes

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Through contact with a mysterious substance, called Ooze, 4 little turtles in the canalization of New York mutate to giant turtles. They can speak, walk upright and love pizza. The wise rat Splinter becomes their mentor and educates them to Ninja fighters. Their arch-enemy is the bad, bad guy Shredder, who struggles to gain power over the world. Of course the ninja turtles will do everything to stop him.
Actors
April O'Neil, Channel 3 ReporterJudith Hoag
Casey JonesElias Koteas
Raphael/Man In CabJosh Pais
Also posted in 1990, Action, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Wild at Heart

IMDB Rating: 7.00
15460 votes

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Lula's psychopathic mother goes crazy at the thought of Lula being with Sailor, who just got free from jail. Ignoring Sailor's probation, they set out for California. However their mother hires a killer to hunt down Sailor. Unaware of this, the two enjoy their journey and themselves being together... until they witness a young woman dying after a car accident - a bad omen.
Actors
Sailor RipleyNicolas Cage
Lula PaceLaura Dern
Bobby PeruWillem Dafoe
Also posted in 1990, Comedy, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Grifters

IMDB Rating: 7.00
5734 votes

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When con artist Roy Dillon (Cusack) is visited by his Mother, Lilly (Huston), who is also a con artist, she sends Roy off to the hospital because of a blow to the gut he suffered while working the grift. Roy's girlfriend, Myra (Bening), the third con artist, comes to visit Roy, and we discover that Lilly and Myra don't get along. After he is released from the hospital, Roy and Myra go on a little trip, where he is propositioned to be partners in crime with Myra. Everything soon falls apart for the three con artists, which leads to a bloody climax.
Actors
Lilly DillonAnjelica Huston
Roy DillonJohn Cusack
Myra LangtryAnnette Bening
Also posted in 1990, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Blue Steel

IMDB Rating: 5.30
2154 votes

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 Actors
Megan TurnerJamie Lee Curtis
Eugene HuntRon Silver
Nick MannClancy Brown
Also posted in 1990, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

Dances with Wolves

IMDB Rating: 7.80
32736 votes

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Lt. John Dunbar is dubbed a hero after he accidentally leads Union troops to a victory during the Civil War. He requests a position on the western frontier, but finds it deserted. He soon finds out he is not alone, but meets a wolf he dubs "Two-socks" and a curious Indian tribe. Dunbar quickly makes friends with the tribe, and discovers a white woman who was raised by the Indians. He gradually earns the respect of these native people, and sheds his white-man's ways.
Actors
Lt. John DunbarKevin Costner
Stands With A FistMary McDonnell
Kicking BirdGraham Greene
Also posted in 1990, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Western | Comments (0)
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