1995 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1995, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Toy Story
Directed by: John Lasseter
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney
Country: United States of America
Outline: A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.
Die Hard With a Vengeance
Directed by: John McTiernan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Graham Greene
Country: United States of America
Outline: John McClane and a Harlem store owner are targeted by German terrorist Simon Gruber in New York City, where he plans to rob the Federal Reserve Building.
Apollo 13
Directed by: Ron Howard
Starring: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise
Country: United States of America
Outline: NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
GoldenEye
Directed by: Martin Campbell
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen
Country: United States of America
Outline: James Bond teams up with the lone survivor of a destroyed Russian research center to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon by a fellow Agent formerly believed to be dead.
Jumanji
Directed by: Joe Johnston
Starring: Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst, Bonnie Hunt, Jonathan Hyde
Country: United States of America
Outline: When two kids find and play a magical board game, they release a man trapped for decades in it and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.
Pocahontas
Directed by: Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg
Starring: Mel Gibson, Linda Hunt, Christian Bale, Joe Baker
Country: United States of America
Outline: An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth-century Virginia.
Casper
Directed by: Brad Silberling
Starring: Bill Pullman, Christina Ricci, Cathy Moriarty, Eric Idle
Country: United States of America
Outline: A paranormal expert and his daughter bunk in an abandoned house populated by three mischievous ghosts and one friendly one.
Waterworld
Directed by: Kevin Reynolds
Starring: Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dennis Hopper, Tina Majorino
Country: United States of America
Outline: In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land.
Batman Forever
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman
Country: United States of America
Outline: Batman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent, who is now Two-Face and Edward Nygma, The Riddler with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.
The Usual Suspects
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin
Country: United States of America
Outline: A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup.
Se7en
Directed by: David Fincher
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Andrew Kevin Walker
Country: United States of America
Outline: Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
Father Ted
Starring: Dermot Morgan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Frank Kelly, Pauline McLynn
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Outline: Three misfit priests and their housekeeper live on Craggy Island, not the peaceful and quiet part of Ireland that it seems to be.
Braveheart
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Starring: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen
Country: United States of America
Outline: When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, Sir William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.
Under One Roof
Directed by: Todd Wilson
Outline: Short lived (6 weeks) show about Neb Langston, a widowed African-American police officer sharing his home in Seattle with his family.
Casino
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods
Country: United States of America
Outline: A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast living and fast loving socialite.
Heat
Directed by: Michael Mann
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight
Country: United States of America
Outline: A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist.
Spellbinder
Directed by: Janet Greek
Outline: When a prank at a school camp goes drastically wrong, 15-year-old Paul Reynolds is blasted into an alternative reality and has to try to find a way home.
Before Sunrise
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert, Hanno Pöschl
Country: United States of America
Outline: A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.
Underground
Directed by: Emir Kusturica
Starring: Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac
Country: United States of America
Outline: A group of serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.
Bombay
Directed by: Mani Ratnam
Starring: Arvind Swamy, Manisha Koirala, Kitty, Master Harsha
Outline: A Hindu man and a Muslim woman fall in love in a small village and move to Mumbai, where they have two children. However, growing religious tensions and erupting riots threaten to tear the family apart.
Ghost in the Shell
Directed by: Mamoru Oshii
Starring: Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi, Akio Ôtsuka, Kôichi Yamadera
Country: United States of America
Outline: A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
Twelve Monkeys
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Joseph Melito
Country: United States of America
Outline: In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.
Goosebumps
Directed by: Rob Letterman
Outline: A series of horror anthology stories based on the children's books by R.L. Stine.
A Little Princess
Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón
Starring: Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, Rusty Schwimmer
Country: United States of America
Outline: A young girl is relegated to servitude at a boarding school when her father goes missing and is presumed dead.
Dead Man
Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen
Country: United States of America
Outline: On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
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