Young college student Clark Kellogg (Matthew Broderick) has just arrived in New York from Connecticut to study filmmaking at NYU. Within 20 minutes of arriving…
Browsing: Movies 1990
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Patrick Swayze is Sam Wheat – a yuppie banker who gets murdered by a mugger in the streets of New York in the first reel…
New York, 1979: Don Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) – diabetic and pushing 60 – wants out of his criminal empire in a search for respectability.…
“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster” With this epic, Martin Scorsese returned to the world of tough-talking…
In this unofficial sequel to Purple Rain (1984), The Kid (Prince) is now partners with the venal Morris Day in the Glam Slam nightclub. But…
New Yorker Brontë Parrish (Andie MacDowell) is reluctantly talked into marrying French musician George Faure (Gérard Depardieu) so he can qualify for American citizenship. However,…
Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan) and his fiancée Kate Beringer (Phoebe Cates) have moved to New York from Kingston Falls after surviving the first nightmarish wave…
Abounding in suspense, eroticism and dark comic twists, this is a subtle and stylish film noir about three con artists or “grifters,” set in a stylised Southern California.…
In the future, America – now called Gilead – is ruled by puritanical right-wing extremists. Nuclear fallout and pollution have rendered most women infertile and…
This story of a young boy outwitting a duo of bungling burglars with an intricate series of booby traps turned child actor Macaulay Culkin into…
This Cold War thriller marks the first screen appearance of Jack Ryan, the US agent subsequently played by Harrison Ford in Patriot Games (1992) and Clear…
Vacuous Brummie motorbike courier Nick “Noddy” Oddie (Neil Morrisey) purchases a motorcycle (a Norton Commando) that turns out to be possessed by the spirit of…
Jacob’s Ladder is a horror movie as an ethereal journey. Most of the film takes place in the spiritual world reenvisioned as the concrete environment…
Tom Hanks is a working stiff named Joe whose doctor (Robert Stack) tells him he only has a short time to live. Hearing the news, Joe…
This undemanding picture proves that Arnold Schwarzenegger can do comedy, provided he doesn’t try too hard. He plays tough Los Angeles cop John Kimble, who…
King of New York is a chronicle of the downfall of New York drug kingpin Frank White (Christopher Walken), who, after years of illegal activity…
Gary and Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet starred in this account of Ronnie and Reggie Kray – the absolute rulers of London’s East End underworld through their…
Another harrowing detour to hell, not for the squeamish or prudish, this blistering adaptation of Hubert Selby’s shocking short-story collection about violence and suffering in…
This fictionalised account of the titular WWII bomber’s final mission feels like the last gasp of the old-school war movie before CGI and Saving Private…
Albert Finney chews his tongue and locks his jaw as Leo, an Irish mobster who controls the bookies, prize-fights, and rackets in some prehistoric city…