Film Index

American cinema: 1990s

A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
Danny Boyle

Robert Lewis is a lowly Scottish janitor who scrapes a meagre living by cleaning the offices of multimillionaire American businessman Elliott Naville...   [More...]

The Age of Innocence (1993)
Martin Scorsese

New York in the 1870s. The forthcoming marriage of the successful lawyer Newland Archer to May Welland, the scion of a great American family, is sure to be a major society event, but Newland's commitment to May wavers when he takes an interest in her unconventional cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska...   [More...]

Alien 3 (1992)
David Fincher

When a fire breaks out aboard the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco, an escape pod containing the surviving crew members is ejected into space...   [More...]

Alien: Resurrection (1997)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet

It has been 200 years since Ellen Ripley sacrificed herself to destroy the Alien queen that was growing within her. Scientists on a United Systems Military spaceship have succeeded in creating a clone of Ripley and were then able to allow the Alien in her body to be born...   [More...]

Analyze This (1999)
Harold Ramis

Paul Vitti is a New York gangster boss who fears that his reputation as one of the city's most notorious hoodlums may be undermined when he starts to suffer from panic attacks...   [More...]

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Jay Roach

In 1967, Britain's top secret agent and number one hipster, Austin Powers, is on the trail of his deadly archenemy Dr Evil, the world's greatest criminal mastermind...   [More...]

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Jay Roach

On his return to Earth in 1999, Dr Evil wastes no time putting his next dastardly scheme into operation. Whilst his Number Two has been frittering away his time building up a huge corporate empire by legitimate means, Dr Evil has devoted his efforts to building a time machine...   [More...]

Being John Malkovich (1999)
Spike Jonze

Unable to find work as a puppeteer, Craig Schwartz ends up as a filing clerk in a New Jersey office whose ceilings are so low he cannot stand up straight...   [More...]

Benny & Joon (1993)
Jeremiah S. Chechik

Benny Pearl, a car mechanic in his early thirties, lives with his younger sister Joon, an aspiring artist who is prone to violent mood swings on account of her mental illness...   [More...]

The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Daniel Myrick

In 1994, three young film students - Heather, Mike and Josh - head off for the small American town of Burkittsville, Maryland, formerly known as Blair, to make a documentary about the much talked about Blair Witch...   [More...]

Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)
Mark Herman

Three men with virtually identical surnames check into the Hotel Gabrielli in Venice. Melvyn Orton is a timid estate agent from the UK who has come to purchase a house for a client, and risks losing his job if the deal falls through...   [More...]

Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Woody Allen

New York City, 1928. David Shayne is an aspiring young playwright who is determined to make a name for himself on Broadway without compromising his principles...   [More...]

Celebrity (1998)
Woody Allen

In New York City, 40-year-old Lee Simon is coping badly with a midlife crisis after breaking up with his equally neurotic wife Robin...   [More...]

Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Woody Allen

Harry Block is a writer in crisis. Afflicted with a severe case of writer's block, he is struggling to come up with an original idea for his next novel...   [More...]

Donnie Brasco (1997)
Mike Newell

In 1978, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone is assigned his most dangerous mission: to infiltrate the Bonanno family, one of New York's most feared gangster clans...   [More...]

Dracula (1992)
Francis Ford Coppola

In 1462, Vlad Dracula survives a bloody war against Turkish invaders only to find that his wife Elisabeta has killed herself upon receiving a false report that he was slain in battle...   [More...]

Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Mel Brooks

In the 1890s, estate agent Thomas Renfield undertakes the long and hazardous journey from London to Transylvania to conclude the sale of Carfax Abbey to a certain Count Dracula...   [More...]

Ed Wood (1994)
Tim Burton

Edward D. Wood, Jr. is a struggling Los Angeles playwright who is determined to make his name in the movies. When he hears that producer George Weiss is planning to make a film on the life story of Christine Jorgensen, Ed sees his opportunity and tries to convince Weiss that, because he has a fetish about dressing up in women's clothes, he is the ideal man to direct the film...   [More...]

Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Tim Burton

On a hill overlooking a typical American suburban town there is an old Gothic mansion, which is home to Edward, an artificial teenage boy who has scissors for hands and whose one talent is topiary...   [More...]

The English Patient (1996)
Anthony Minghella

In Italy towards the end of the World War Two, a Canadian nurse Hana is tending to a disfigured pilot whose aircraft was shot down in North Africa...   [More...]

Fargo (1996)
Joel Coen

Minneapolis car dealer Jerry Lundegaard needs money, badly. In a desperate attempt to save his ailing business he tries to persuade his wealthy father-in-law Wade Gustafson to lend him a large sum of money to secure a real estate deal, but Gustafson is too smart for his son-in-law and refuses to stump up the money...   [More...]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Terry Gilliam

The freelance journalist Raoul Duke is on his way to Las Vegas, ostensibly to write a report on a motorbike race. Accompanied by his lawyer Dr Gonzo, he combines business and pleasure and undertakes the journey whilst under the influence of mind-altering drugs...   [More...]

The Firm (1993)
Sydney Pollack

Just as he is about to graduate from Harvard Law School with honours, Mitch McDeere finds himself inundated with lucrative job offers...   [More...]

Frankenstein (1994)
Kenneth Branagh

In 1794, Captain Robert Walton is leading an expedition to the North Pole when his ship becomes trapped in the ice. As Walton and his crew attempt to free their craft, they are met by a stranger, who entreats them to help him...   [More...]

Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
Roger Corman

Dr Joseph Buchanan is developing a weapon which he hopes will put an end to war. Unfortunately, a test run with his atomic disintegration beam has some unexpected side effects, such as the creation of time rifts all over the planet...   [More...]

The Freshman (1990)
Andrew Bergman

Clark Kellogg leaves his home in Vermont to study film at New York University. His first week in the city gets off to a promising start when everything he possesses is stolen by crooked taxi driver Victor Ray...   [More...]

The Full Monty (1997)
Peter Cattaneo

Sheffield, England in the mid-1990s. Unable to find work, former steelworker Gaz and his best friend Dave are forced to steal scrap metal so that they can make ends meet...   [More...]

The Godfather: Part III (1990)
Francis Ford Coppola

In 1979, Michael Corleone appears to be a reformed character. As he nears his 60th birthday, he has almost completely severed his links with the Mafia and now presides as the head of a wholly legitimate business empire...   [More...]

GoldenEye (1995)
Martin Campbell

British agent James Bond is sent to Monte Carlo to tail Xenia Onatopp, a member of the mysterious Janus crime syndicate. Bond fails to prevent Onatopp and her associate General Ourumov from stealing a revolutionary new helicopter which is capable of withstanding an electromagnetic pulse...   [More...]

Good Will Hunting (1997)
Gus Van Sant

Will Hunting is a 20-year-old South Bostonian who earns a meagre crust as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...   [More...]



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