Another 48 Hrs.
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Kevin Tighe, Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Andrew Divoff, Brion James, Bernie Casey, Ed O'Ross
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For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the "Ice Man". At the Hunter's Point Raceway, Jack confronts Tyrone Burroughs and Arthur Brock. Jack kills Brock in self defense, but Burroughs escapes, and Jack is in danger of going to prison because Brock's gun can't be found. Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day. Jack tries to convince Reggie to help him clear his name and find the Ice Man, but Reggie says he won't help unless Jack gives Reggie the $500,000...
Opportunity Knocks
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Dana Carvey, Robert Loggia, Doris Belack, Milo O'Shea, Todd Graff, James Tolkan, Mike Bacarella
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Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.
King of New York
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1990
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Theresa Randle, Steve Buscemi, David Caruso, Wesley Snipes, Christopher Walken, Roger Guenveur Smith, Laurence Fishburne
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Drug lord Frank White is released from Sing-Sing prison after serving a number of years for drug trafficking. He is reunited with his former gang, led by the murderous Jimmy Jump, as well as his personal female bodyguards Raye and Melanie, and his lover/legal annalist Jennifer. After seeing his old neighborhood more dilapidated and depressing than ever, Frank decides to do good by eliminating his competitors whom filled the void left by his incarceration, then steal their money and drugs to finance a new South Bronx hospital for the needy. But Frank's past won't let go of him when a group of overzealous cops, led by corrupt detective Roy Bish...
Mr. Destiny
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: James Orr
Starring: Jay O. Sanders, Tony Longo, Courteney Cox, Maury Chaykin, Michael Caine, James Belushi, Jon Lovitz
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Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot in a baseball game when was a kid. One night he meets this mysterious man, who could change his fate by offering him that alternative life he always dreamed of. But as Burrows embarks on this journey of self discovery he realises that even this new life has its problems and drawbacks..
Hard to Kill
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: Bruce Malmuth
Starring: Steven Seagal, Kelly LeBrock, Branscombe Richmond, William Sadler, Evan James, Frederick Coffin, Bonnie Burroughs
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Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son meanwhile is growing up thinking his father is dead. When Mason wakes up, everyone is in danger - himself, his son, his best friend, his nurse - but most of all those who arranged for his death
The Freshman
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: Andrew Bergman
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Marlon Brando, Bruno Kirby, Maximilian Schell, Leonardo Cimino, Frank Whaley, Jon Polito
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Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine "Jimmy the Toucan" Sabatini, an "importer" bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. When Sabatini makes Clark an offer he can't refuse, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.
Lionheart
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: Sheldon Lettich
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Brian Thompson, Voyo Goric, Ashley Johnson, Harrison Page, Michel Qissi, George McDaniel
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Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dangerous clandestine fights.
Loose Cannons
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: Bob Clark
Starring: Gene Hackman, Leon Rippy, David Alan Grier, Ronny Cox, Dan Aykroyd, Dom DeLuise, Jan Triska
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Mac, the two fisted savy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burn out, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The new partner is, Ellis, an amazing detective, one who puts Sherlock Holmes to shame with his lightning fast deductions. Ellis has a couple of problems. He keeps assuming the personalities of entire casts of Television shows. This can be a problem when people begin shooting at them.
Desperate Hours
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: Michael Cimino
Starring: John Finn, Gerry Bamman, Elias Koteas, Christopher Curry, Dean Norris, David Morse, Mickey Rourke
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Michael Bosworth is a psychotic criminal who is about to go on trial however, he seduces his lawyer into helping him escape. But as they try to make their getaway, she's left behind. He decides to wait for her to come to him, so he decides to hide at the house of the Cornells. Now it appears that the Cornells have problems of their own. The husband and wife are separated. And there's an FBI agent after them who is using the lawyer to lead them to Bosworth.
Wild at Heart
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Romance
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Isabella Rossellini, Harry Dean Stanton, Sherilyn Fenn, David Patrick Kelly
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Sailor and Lula are two rebelious kids. Lula's mother hates Sailor, and pays a man to attack him. Sailor kills the attacker, and ends up in jail. Lula waits for him to be released, teams up with him, and they both cross the country trying to stay one step ahead of the mother...
Young Guns II
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: Geoff Murphy
Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, Alan Ruck, Kiefer Sutherland, Viggo Mortensen, Leon Rippy, R.D. Call
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The movie begins with the aging Brushy Bill Roberts narrating his story to a young historian. His claim? He claims that he is the famous outlaw William H. Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, who was supposedly shot and killed by Patrick Floyd Garrett in 1881. The old man gives a very convincing story on how he and Garrett, along with Arkansas Dave Rudabaugh, Chavez y Chavez, Doc Skurlock, and a few others led the outlaw life and avoided the law, as they were wanted men. Garrett, a friend of Billy's, was paid by John Chisum, a cattle king, to eliminate Billy the Kid. So, Garrett and Ashmun Upson set out on a journey to find Billy the Kid.
The Chimes at Midnight
Genres: Other
Year: 1990
Country: Unknown
Director: Ron Perlman
Starring: June Kyoto Lu, Ron Perlman, Tony Plana, Roy Dotrice, Stephen McHattie, Steven Gilborn, Steve Mittleman
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The career of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff as roistering companion to young Prince Hal, circa 1400-1413.