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The Best Movies of 1990
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Movie: Bird on a Wire ( 1990 )
An old flame discovers her ex-boyfriend from the past is a relocated FBI informant out to stop the bad guys.
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Movie: Mo' Better Blues ( 1990 )
Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.
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Movie: The Krays ( 1990 )
This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.
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Movie: Frankenhooker ( 1990 )
A medical student sets out to recreate his decapitated fiancée by building her a new body made of Manhattan street prostitutes.
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Movie: Psycho IV: The Beginning ( 1990 )
Norman Bates recalls his childhood with his abusive mother while fearing his unborn child will inherit his split personality disorder.
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Movie: Quick Change ( 1990 )
Three thieves successfully rob a New York City bank, but making the escape from the city proves to be almost impossible.
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Movie: The Guardian ( 1990 )
A young couple with a newborn baby don't realize that the nanny they hired is a magical nymph who sacrifices infants to an evil tree.
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Movie: Slumber Party Massacre III ( 1990 )
Jackie Cassidy and her friends are stalked by a serial killer while having a slumber party.
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Movie: Catchfire ( 1990 )
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.
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Movie: The Russia House ( 1990 )
An expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia.
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Movie: Moon 44 ( 1990 )
An unconventional corporate agent is given the task of shaping a group of violent criminals and technical wizards into a helicopter defense force assigned to protect a mining station on a remote moon.
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Movie: The Reflecting Skin ( 1990 )
In the 1950's, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighboring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area.
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Movie: Two Evil Eyes ( 1991 )
A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.
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Movie: The Dark Side of the Moon ( 1990 )
It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it in the hope of salvaging some supplies. One by one, the crew is possessed and killed, and it is up to Paxton Warner to find the links between the dark side of the moon, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Devil himself.
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Movie: Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection ( 1990 )
When DEA agents are taken captive by a ruthless South American kingpin, the Delta Force is reunited to rescue them in this sequel to the 1986 film.
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Movie: Fire Birds ( 1990 )
Elite Apache helicopter pilots are tasked with destroying powerful armed drug cartels operating in South America.
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Movie: Brain Dead ( 1990 )
In a showdown of man versus machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation.
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Movie: Too Young to Die? ( 1990 )
An abused 15 year old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty in this fact-based story.
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Movie: Alice ( 1991 )
A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.
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Movie: Ernest Goes to Jail ( 1990 )
Bumbling Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, where a crooked lawyer notices a resemblance with crime boss Mr. Nash, and arranges a switch. Nash assumes Ernest's job as a bank employee, while Ernest undergoes Nash's sentence to the electric chair. But instead of killing him, the electrocution gives Ernest superhuman powers, enabling him to escape from jail and foil Nash's attempt to rob the bank.
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Movie: The Field ( 1990 )
When a field (which has been farmed by the McCabe family for generations) goes up for auction, the patriarch of the McCabe family will stop at nothing to prevent a rich American from buying it.
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Movie: White Hunter Black Heart ( 1990 )
A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.
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Movie: Miami Blues ( 1990 )
An ex-con's first act of freedom is moving to Miami where he restarts his old criminal ways with even more potency.
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Movie: Mr. Destiny ( 1990 )
Unhappy Larry Burrows sees what his life could've been like, had he made that winning home run as a teenager.
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Movie: Betsy's Wedding ( 1990 )
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her strait-laced investment-banker fiancé, Jake Lovell, just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece.
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Movie: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake ( 1990 )
After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long awaited earthquake--"The Big One"--will strike southern California. With this information, she must battle city officials to release this information to the general public. Also, she hopes that her family is out of harms way when the quake strikes. Subplots show how other families and people cope with the the tremors that strike before the impending "Big One."
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Movie: The Comfort of Strangers ( 1990 )
A couple retreat to Venice to work on their relationship, but an encounter with a stranger leads them into a world of intrigue - where their darkest desires are in reach.
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Movie: Texasville ( 1990 )
The summer of 1984: 32 years after Duane Jackson captained the high school football team and Jacy Farrow was homecoming queen, the small town of Anarene, Texas prepares for its centennial celebration. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt. His wife Karla drinks too much, his children are always in trouble, and he tom-cats around with ...Read all
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Movie: Cadence ( 1991 )
Charlie Sheen plays a rebellious inmate in an Army stockade.
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Movie: Maniac Cop 2 ( 1990 )
A supernatural, maniac killer cop teams up with a Times Square serial killer.
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Movie: Basket Case 2 ( 1990 )
Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks with journalists hot on their tail.
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Movie: Spaced Invaders ( 1990 )
Dimwitted Martians drop into a little Illinois town on the day that the local radio station happens to rebroadcast Orson Welles 1938 "War Of The Worlds".
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Movie: Stanley & Iris ( 1990 )
A struggling widow falls in love with an illiterate short-order cook whom she teaches to read and write in her kitchen each night.
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Movie: Taking Care of Business ( 1990 )
An uptight advertising exec' has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
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Movie: Camp Cucamonga ( 1990 )
Standard camp shenanigans and romance amongst the counselors and the campers at a lake front summer camp.
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Movie: Meet the Applegates ( 1990 )
Modeling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.
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Movie: Opportunity Knocks ( 1990 )
Two con men hide out in a house while the owner is away; one of them assumes the identity of the absent house sitter when the owner's relatives come to visit, only for further complications to set in.
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Movie: Q&A ( 1990 )
Dirty cop, Mike Brennan thinks he got away with murder. But during a routine Q&A, the righteous assistant DA finds a clue that sets them both on a collision course.
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Movie: Ski Patrol ( 1990 )
A developer attempts to sabotage the safety record of a ski resort.
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Movie: Frankenstein Unbound ( 1990 )
The ultimate weapon, which was meant to be safe for humankind, produces global side-effects, including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are transported from the year 2031 to 1817's Switzerland, where he finds Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his contemporaries.
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Movie: The Willies ( 1990 )
Two brothers camping with their cousin try to frighten each other by telling stories. There are two main narrations: one involves strange happenings at an elementary school; the other, a teenage boy with a peculiar interest.
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Movie: Repossessed ( 1990 )
Parody of The Exorcist (1973), with Linda Blair once again possessed by Satan, and Leslie Nielsen as the exorcist.
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Movie: Ghost Dad ( 1990 )
A widowed father tries to support his children after he becomes a ghost in an accident.
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Movie: Streets ( 1990 )
The story of runaways living in Venice, California, under the threat of a psychotic cop who is a serial killer of prostitutes.
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Movie: Stella ( 1990 )
Stella is determined, courageous, vulgar, unfashionable...and all her daughter has. Through the trials of teenagehood, to the problems of adulthood, Stella will do anything for Jenny...ending in an selfless, unforgettable sacrifice.
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Movie: Crazy People ( 1990 )
A bitter ad executive who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.
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Movie: Tune in Tomorrow... ( 1990 )
Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin's aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns home after many years away and Martin falls for her. Once Pedro finds out about this romance, he starts incorporating details of it into the script of his daily drama series. Soon, Martin and Julia are not only hearing about their fictional selves over the radio, but about what they are going to do next.
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Movie: Hidden Agenda ( 1991 )
When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth... which they soon discover to be contained in an audio tape which the man had with him, exposing political manipulations at the highest levels of government. But such underlying agendas require careful considerations to avoid worse things than murder.
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Movie: Madhouse ( 1990 )
The luxurious villa of Mark and Jessie Bannister, a yuppie couple, is overrun by loads of uninvited guests who turn the house up side down.
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Movie: Nuns on the Run ( 1990 )
Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When their boss learns they want to "leave", he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. They decide to steal the money for themselves, but when their escape doesn't go to plan, they have to seek refuge in a nuns' teacher training school. Disguised as nuns, they have to avoid their boss, Triads, the police, and Brian's girlfriend. There's also the problem of them being men disguised as nuns in an all women institution.
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Movie: Puppet Master II ( 1991 )
The puppets return and hunt paranormal researchers in an attempt to take their brain fluid for their master, Andre Toulon.
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Movie: Heart Condition ( 1990 )
A racist cop receives a heart transplant from a black lawyer he hates, who returns as a ghost to ask the cop to help take down the men who murdered him.
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Movie: Jetsons: The Movie ( 1990 )
George Jetson is forced to uproot his family when Mr. Spacely promotes him to take charge of a new factory on a distant planet.
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Movie: Loose Cannons ( 1990 )
An unconventional cop who doesn't take any bull, is paired up with an amazing detective to capture some powerful criminals but the cop soon realizes that his by the book partner has split personality disorder.
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Movie: Prom Night III: The Last Kiss ( 1990 )
The malevolent spirit of Mary Lou Maloney returns to Hamilton High, where she manipulates a naive male student into helping her wreak havoc on the school.
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Movie: Flashback ( 1990 )
In 1989, clean-cut FBI man John Buckner is detailed to escort heavily-bearded Huey Walker back to jail for offenses dating back to his days as a celebrated hippie radical. After Walker dupes Buckner on the train he falls into the hands of a couple of well-meaning refugees from the 60's, the two men with apparently nothing in common find themselves on the run together. But appearances can be deceptive.
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Movie: Sorority House Massacre II ( 1990 )
Five college women buy the old Hokstedter place for their new sorority house. They got it cheap because of the bloody incidents from five years before. They decide to stay in it for the night so they can meet the movers in the morning, but begin to get the creeps when the weird neighbor Orville Ketchum starts poking around. Shortly after the women take showers and consult a Ouija board they begin experiencing an attrition problem.
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Movie: Alienator ( 1990 )
Kol is an evil guy about to be executed on a distant spaceship. He manages to escape on a shuttle and make his way to some woods in America. The commander of the spaceship decides to send out The Alienator to execute Kol at all costs. Kol meets up with some teens and Ward Armstrong and together they all try not to get killed by the pursuing Woman of Death - The Aliena...Read all
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Movie: Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again ( 1990 )
The classic comic book characters created by John L. Goldwater are brought to tv in a slightly older version. Here the characters are adults returning to their high school reunion and remembering old times and romances from good old Riverdale High.
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Movie: Men Don't Leave ( 1990 )
A mother of two sons finds life considerably difficult on her own after the death of her beloved husband. Due to debt she must move them to Baltimore, and deal with the hardships and all that comes with the city life.
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Movie: Sibling Rivalry ( 1990 )
A frustrated woman's life gets even more frustrating once she gets into an affair with a man who suffers a fatal heart attack after their fling.
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Movie: Funny About Love ( 1990 )
When Duffy Bergman, a New York City cartoonist, meets Meg Lloyd, a gourmet chef, he discovers the love of his life and they marry, yet love alone isn't enough to make them happy. Meg decides she wants to have a baby, a goal that initially makes Duffy frantic, but soon becomes his most important desire as well. When they are unable to have a baby, Meg begins concentrating on her career and the two slowly drift apart, eventually separating. Later, when Duffy is speaking at a convention of the Delta Gamma sorority, he reveals that the Delta Gamma girls have always been his dream girls, his Love Goddesses. There, he meets the young and uninhibited Delta Gamma girl, Daphne Delillo. When Daphne moves to New York City to work as a network sports reporter, their mutual attraction, and Daphne's spontaneity spark an adventurous new relationship for Duffy. Now Duffy must decide which is more valuable to him, the relationship he has given up, or the relationship he has always dreamed of having.
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Movie: Return to Green Acres ( 1990 )
Tv movie that reunites most of the show's cast members. The Douglases move back to New York. But when Haney tries to get everyone's property so that a developer can build on them, the residents go to New York to get Douglas to help them. But he's a little hesitant.
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Movie: The Shrimp on the Barbie ( 1990 )
Down on his luck and working in a Mexican restaurant in Australia, an American tourist is hired by a icy heiress to pose as an obnoxious new boyfriend in an attempt to make her father accept her current boyfriend.