1991 Movies

The Silence of the Lambs

Directed by: Jonathan Demme

Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence A. Bonney, Kasi Lemmons

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Directed by: James Cameron

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick

Country: United States of America

Outline: A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from a more advanced and powerful cyborg.

Back to the Future

Directed by: Robert Zemeckis

Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover

Country: United States of America

Outline: Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

Beauty and the Beast

Directed by: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise

Starring: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jesse Corti, Rex Everhart

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young woman whose father has been imprisoned by a terrifying beast offers herself in his place, unaware that her captor is actually a prince, physically altered by a magic spell.

JFK

Directed by: Oliver Stone

Starring: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau

Country: United States of America

Outline: New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.

Cape Fear

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

Starring: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis

Country: United States of America

Outline: A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Directed by: Kevin Reynolds

Starring: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater

Country: United States of America

Outline: When Robin and his Moorish companion come to England and the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham, he decides to fight back as an outlaw.

The Addams Family

Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld

Starring: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Hedaya

Country: United States of America

Outline: Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle.

Hot Shots!

Directed by: Jim Abrahams

Starring: Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges

Country: United States of America

Outline: A parody of Top Gun (1986) in which a talented but unstable fighter pilot must overcome the ghosts of his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers.

Hook

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins

Country: United States of America

Outline: When Captain Hook kidnaps his children, an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy.

Homefront

Written by: Lynn Marie Latham, Bernard Lechowick

Starring: Kyle Chandler, Sammi Davis, Ken Jenkins, Mimi Kennedy

Country: United States of America

Outline: World War II is over and the boys from the town of River Run, Ohio, are coming home. It seems that life is slowly back to normal, but war has changed everything and they will never be the same again.

The Astronomers

Starring: Vera C. Rubin, Tony Tyson, John Lowry Dobson, John E. Conway

Country: United States of America

Outline: A look at the work and worlds of leading scientists and astronomers who are helping to unlock the mysteries of the universe.

The Adventures of Tintin

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Outline: The adventures of the young reporter, his faithful dog and friends as they travel around the world on adventures.

Sightings

Directed by: Dallas Morgan

Outline: A look at the world of the paranormal, including visitors from outer space, ghosts and spirits, cryptozoology, and other phenomena outside the realm of conventional science. The show ...

Night on Earth

Directed by: Jim Jarmusch

Starring: Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Lisanne Falk, Alan Randolph Scott

Country: United States of America

Outline: An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Get the Picture

Directed by: Cathy Pearson

Outline: Known as "The Great Frame Game." Get the Picture was a great game show, hosted by Mike O'Malley, that aired from March 18, 1991 to December 6, 1991 on Nickelodeon. Two separate teams were ...

Delicatessen

Directed by: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Starring: Marie-Laure Dougnac, Dominique Pinon, Pascal Benezech, Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Country: United States of America

Outline: Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants.

Barton Fink

Directed by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Starring: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner

Country: United States of America

Outline: A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Fried Green Tomatoes

Directed by: Jon Avnet

Starring: Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker

Country: United States of America

Outline: A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know.

The Fisher King

Directed by: Terry Gilliam

Starring: Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Adam Bryant, Paul Lombardi

Country: United States of America

Outline: A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.

A Scene at the Sea

Directed by: Takeshi Kitano

Starring: Claude Maki, Hiroko Ôshima, Sabu Kawahara, Toshizo Fujiwara

Outline: The lives of a young, hearing-impaired and gloomy couple are fulfilled after the boy holds interest in surfboarding.

The Lovers on the Bridge

Directed by: Leos Carax

Starring: Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Daniel Buain, Klaus-Michael Grüber

Outline: Alex, who's homeless and addicted to alcohol, and Michèle, who's losing her sight, form a relationship while sleeping rough on Paris's Pont-Neuf bridge.

Dogfight

Directed by: Nancy Savoca

Starring: River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, Richard Panebianco, Anthony Clark

Outline: Before leaving to fight in Vietnam, a group of teenagers play a game where they try to seduce the ugliest girl they can find.

Thelma & Louise

Directed by: Ridley Scott

Starring: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed.

The Man in the Moon

Directed by: Robert Mulligan

Starring: Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Gail Strickland, Reese Witherspoon

Country: United States of America

Outline: A coming of age story set in the South of USA when Elvis was King.