Film Index

American cinema: 1990s

Goodfellas (1990)
Martin Scorsese

Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s, Henry Hill is easily seduced into a life of crime. Lured by easy money and the glamour of the mob, he runs errands for local mobster Paul Cicero and before he knows it he is a fully paid up gangster, raking in cash with his associates Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito...   [More...]

Groundhog Day (1993)
Harold Ramis

Phil Connors, an arrogant, self-absorbed weather forecast presenter, is far from happy about being forced to report on the annual Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney...   [More...]

Hamlet (1996)
Kenneth Branagh

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Amid the festivities of a royal wedding and coronation, the Prince Hamlet mourns the death of his father, the former king...   [More...]

Husbands and Wives (1992)
Woody Allen

Gabe and Judy are a happily married middle-aged couple living in New York City. He is a respected writer and university professor; she is an editor on an art magazine...   [More...]

The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
John Frankenheimer

United Nations negotiator Edward Douglas is the sole survivor of an aeroplane crash in the Pacific Ocean. He is picked up by a man named Montgomery and taken to a remote island where a reclusive scientist, Dr Moreau, is performing some highly unorthodox experiments...   [More...]

Life Stinks (1991)
Mel Brooks

Goddard Bolt is an unscrupulous, insanely wealthy businessman who would not think twice about bulldozing the Brazilian rainforest to expand his business empire...   [More...]

The Limey (1999)
Steven Soderbergh

As soon as he has been released from prison, small-time London hoodlum Wilson takes the plane to Los Angeles, determined to find the man who killed his daughter Jenny...   [More...]

The Lost Son (1999)
Chris Menges

Xavier Lombard, an impoverished private detective living alone in London, is hired by a wealthy couple to trace their missing son, Leon...   [More...]

Mars Attacks! (1996)
Tim Burton

With the Earth surrounded by an armada of Martian flying saucers, American President James Dale spots an immediate opportunity to boost his popularity rating...   [More...]

Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Woody Allen

Lenny Weinrib is a Manhattan sportswriter who is happily married to Amanda, a career-minded art gallery curator. Over dinner one evening, Amanda admits to wanting to have a child of her own but is unwilling to give up work and so raises the possibility of adoption...   [More...]

Mission: Impossible (1996)
Brian De Palma

Led by Jim Phelps, a crack team of the Impossible Missions Force (IMF), a covert branch of the CIA, assembles in Prague. Their mission: to prevent an American diplomat from stealing a list identifying all western intelligence agents operating in Eastern Europe...   [More...]

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Kenneth Branagh

In Sicily, the nobleman Don Pedro receives a hero's welcome from Leonardo, the Governor of Messina, having thwarted an uprising led by Don John, his bastard half-brother...   [More...]

New Nightmare (1994)
Wes Craven

Heather Langenkamp, the actress who played Nancy in the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street, is disturbed when she has a dream in which her husband Chase, a special effects designer, is attacked by a mechanical claw that he has created...   [More...]

The Ninth Gate (1999)
Roman Polanski

Dean Corso makes a living hunting down rare books for wealthy clients. New York publisher Boris Balkan offers him a blank cheque if he can prove the authenticity of a 17th Century book of satanic spells, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows...   [More...]

Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
Robert Altman

World class couturiers, models and journalists converge on Paris to play their part in France's pret-à-porter fashion show...   [More...]

Pulp Fiction (1994)
Quentin Tarantino

When a group of drugs dealing college kids attempt to double cross him, Los Angeles gangster boss Marsellus Wallace sends two of his henchmen, Jules and Vincent, to pay them a house call and collect a mysterious briefcase...   [More...]

The Remains of the Day (1993)
James Ivory

Mr James Stevens is the butler at Darlington Hall, one of England's grander stately homes. Recently the Hall has changed hands and Stevens now serves Mr Lewis, a retired American congressman...   [More...]

Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Quentin Tarantino

Eight men take breakfast together at a Los Angeles diner, their last meeting before they participate in a daylight jewel robbery...   [More...]

Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
Mel Brooks

Robin of Loxley discovers that the Crusades aren't quite what they are cracked up to be when he ends up chained to a prison wall in a less salubrious quarter of downtown Jerusalem...   [More...]

Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Steven Spielberg

Visiting the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-mer, Normandy, France, an elderly WWII veteran seeks out one particular stone cross and, in the emotional surge of the moment, relives his wartime experiences...   [More...]

Scream (1996)
Wes Craven

Shock and fear descend on a small American town when two high school students are brutally killed by a masked psycho-killer...   [More...]

Scream 2 (1997)
Wes Craven

One year on from the Woodsboro massacre, the two survivors Sydney Prescott and Randy Meeks have resumed their studies at Windsor College, Ohio, hoping to put their past behind them...   [More...]

Shadows and Fog (1991)
Woody Allen

In the 1920s, a town swathed in fog is terrorised by a mysterious serial killer who roams the streets, strangling men and women unlucky enough to cross his path...   [More...]

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Jonathan Demme

Clarice Starling is undergoing the rigours of an FBI training course when she is recruited by Jack Crawford, head of the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit, to help track down a serial killer...   [More...]

Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Tim Burton

New York City, 1799. Ichabod Crane is a young police officer whose new methods of forensic investigation have brought him into conflict with his superiors...   [More...]

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Nicholas Meyer

With their home world threatened by environmental catastrophe, the Klingons have no option but to make peace with their long-term enemies, the United Federation of Planets...   [More...]

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Jonathan Frakes

As the Earth comes under attack from the Borg, a semi-organic, semi-machine collective intent on assimilating all life, Captain Jean-Luc Picard is instructed by the Federation to patrol the Neutral Zone in the newly built Enterprise-E...   [More...]

Star Trek: Generations (1994)
David Carson

In the 23rd century, Captain James T. Kirk is invited aboard the starship Enterprise-B to attend its maiden voyage. The ship is about to return home when it picks up a distress call, from two refugee ships which are threatened by a mysterious energy ribbon...   [More...]

Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Jonathan Frakes

Lieutenant Commander Data is assigned to a Federation surveillance mission to observe the peaceful Ba'ku people on their Eden-like planet when he suddenly malfunctions and runs amok...   [More...]

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Roger Spottiswoode

Media mogul Elliot Carver has big ambitions for his global media empire, the Carver Media Group Network, but unfortunately to achieve his aims he must risk provoking World War Three...   [More...]



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