Movies: 1990-1999

by BedBird | created - 09 Dec 2020 | updated - 2 months ago | Public

Just a boatload of 90's movies. (200+ Votes & 5.0+ Rating, If not then it should be part of a series) From least to most amount of votes, within their year. I highly suggest using the 'Refine' option. Happy Movie Hunting! :)

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1. Love Hurts (1990)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama

The story of Paul Weaver and his strained relationships with women and his family.

Director: Bud Yorkin | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Cynthia Sikes, Judith Ivey, John Mahoney

Votes: 360

2. Living Doll (1990)

95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Howard, a shy morgue worker, falls in love with a girl who ends up in the morgue, but he doesn't let that stop him.

Directors: George Dugdale, Peter Mackenzie Litten | Stars: Mark Jax, Katie Orgill, Gary Martin, Freddie Earlle

Votes: 332

3. Playroom (1990)

R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller

An archaeologist is haunted by a nightmare in which his family is murdered.

Director: Manny Coto | Stars: Lisa Aliff, Aron Eisenberg, Christopher McDonald, James Purcell

Votes: 342

4. Perfectly Normal (1990)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Musical

A shy young man with a passion for opera has his world turned upside down by a con artist who really does have a heart of gold.

Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Michael Riley, Deborah Duchene, Eugene Lipinski

Votes: 320

5. In the Spirit (1990)

R | 94 min | Comedy

Marianne moves back to a nightmare New York City from Beverly Hills after her husband is fired from his job. She hires ditzy psychic Reva to redecorate her apartment, and they end up being pursued by a crazed killer.

Director: Sandra Seacat | Stars: Marlo Thomas, Elaine May, Jeannie Berlin, Olympia Dukakis

Votes: 367 | Gross: $0.28M

6. Mirage (1990)

85 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

A smiling, sadistic and seemingly demonic young killer in black, who drives a black pick up truck, is hunting three young couples who came to the desert to drink, party and have sex.

Director: Bill Crain | Stars: Jennifer McAllister, Todd Caldecott, Kenny Johnson, Kevin Masterson

Votes: 448

7. Julia Has Two Lovers (1990)

R | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A romantic comedy-drama about a woman who takes up with a mysterious stranger after she grows tired of her current boyfriend.

Director: Bashar Shbib | Stars: Daphna Kastner, David Duchovny, David Charles, Timothy Ray

Votes: 395

8. The Return of Superfly (1990)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In this action-packed sequel, a retired drug dealer living in Paris discovers his old partner has been killed and returns to NY to avenge his murder.

Director: Sig Shore | Stars: Nathan Purdee, Margaret Avery, Leonard L. Thomas, Christopher Curry

Votes: 500 | Gross: $0.61M

9. Enid Is Sleeping (1990)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Crime

A wife surprises her cop husband in bed with her kid sister. In the ensuing struggle, the wife is accidentally killed. Can they keep it a secret?

Director: Maurice Phillips | Stars: Elizabeth Perkins, Judge Reinhold, Jeffrey Jones, Maureen Mueller

Votes: 542

10. The Palermo Connection (1990)

PG-13 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A candidate for the Mayor of New York City promises to legalize drugs. The mafia, making insane money on illegal drug trade, is about to dissuade him - at all cost.

Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Jim Belushi, Mimi Rogers, Joss Ackland, Philippe Noiret

Votes: 570

11. Waiting for the Light (1990)

PG | 94 min | Comedy

It is not about Aunt Z moving her niece and family....The niece, Garr, moves her family away from the city. The kids enjoy playing tricks, learned from Aunt Z (MacLaine). The kids get ... See full summary »

Director: Christopher Monger | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Teri Garr, Louis Guzzo, Colin Baumgartner

Votes: 584 | Gross: $0.81M

12. Cold Dog Soup (1990)

Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy

Michael meets a cute girl and has dinner at her mom's. Sadly, the dog dies and he's to bury it. The mad cab driver suggests selling the cold dog. An adventurous night begins.

Director: Alan Metter | Stars: Randy Quaid, Frank Whaley, Christine Harnos, Sheree North

Votes: 534

13. Blood Salvage (1990)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Horror

Twisted tale about a crazy, preaching redneck named Jake who kidnaps people off the highway and performs sick medical experiments on them. He then proceeds to sell their organs on the black... See full summary »

Director: Tucker Johnston | Stars: Danny Nelson, Lori Birdsong, Christian Hesler, Ralph Pruitt Vaughn

Votes: 634

14. Peacemaker (1990)

R | 100 min | Action, Romance, Sci-Fi

A doctor (Shepard) gets caught up in a war between two aliens (Edwards, Forster).

Director: Kevin Tenney | Stars: Robert Forster, Lance Edwards, Hilary Shepard, Robert Davi

Votes: 637

15. Bright Angel (1990)

R | 93 min | Drama, Thriller

Road-movie from Montana to Wyoming. A gullible, innocent young man (Mulroney) assists a versatile girl (Taylor) on her long quest to get her brother out of jail.

Director: Michael Fields | Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Lili Taylor, Sam Shepard, Valerie Perrine

Votes: 718 | Gross: $0.16M

16. Masters of Menace (1990)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy

The Masters of Menace are actually a motorcycle gang. When one of their own dies while performing a dangerous bike stunt, they decide to cross the country to go bury him. With the coffin in... See full summary »

Director: Daniel Raskov | Stars: David Rasche, Catherine Bach, Tino Insana, Lee Ving

Votes: 665

17. Blue Desert (1990)

R | 97 min | Thriller

Two men rattle a comic-book artist who has moved to a desert town after her trauma in New York.

Director: Bradley Battersby | Stars: D.B. Sweeney, Courteney Cox, Craig Sheffer, Philip Baker Hall

Votes: 620

18. The Crossing (1990)

92 min | Drama, Romance

Sam returns home after a lengthy absence to find his girlfriend is having an affair with his best friend. The two friends then end up in a drunken race, where the question of who gets the girl will be decided at a train crossing.

Director: George Ogilvie | Stars: Russell Crowe, Robert Mammone, Danielle Spencer, Emily Lumbers

Votes: 652

19. Kid (1990)

R | 91 min | Action, Thriller

A mysterious man returns to his former hometown to take revenge on the locals who murdered his parents when he was a boy.

Director: John Mark Robinson | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Sarah Trigger, Brian Austin Green, R. Lee Ermey

Votes: 755

20. Disturbed (1990)

R | 96 min | Horror, Thriller

10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his mental clinic and raped her one night. When she plunged herself from the roof shortly after, he ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Winkler | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Geoffrey Lewis, Priscilla Pointer, Pamela Gidley

Votes: 1,893

21. Nobody's Perfect (1989)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

Steve is a college freshman who plays tennis for the school. But he falls desperately in love with Shelly, also a tennis player. It's all downhill from there. Steve can't eat, he can't ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Kaylor | Stars: Chad Lowe, Gail O'Grady, Patrick Breen, Kim Flowers

Votes: 699

22. Angel Town (1990)

R | 106 min | Action, Drama

Tenant helps landlord fight off local street gang.

Director: Eric Karson | Stars: Olivier Gruner, Peter Kwong, Theresa Saldana, Francisco Aragon

Votes: 847 | Gross: $0.86M

23. Paper Mask (1990)

R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.

Director: Christopher Morahan | Stars: Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe, Frederick Treves, Tom Wilkinson

Votes: 739

24. Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (1990)

R | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns deadly.

Director: Bernard Rose | Stars: Emily Lloyd, Kiefer Sutherland, John Lahr, Liz Fraser

Votes: 795 | Gross: $0.09M

25. Vital Signs (1990)

R | 103 min | Drama, Romance

The story of a group of third-year students at a Los Angeles medical school and their struggles with love, their studies and one another.

Director: Marisa Silver | Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Diane Lane, Jack Gwaltney, Laura San Giacomo

Votes: 870 | Gross: $1.22M

26. Streets (1990)

R | 85 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

The story of runaways living in Venice, California, under the threat of a psychotic cop who is a serial killer of prostitutes.

Director: Katt Shea | Stars: Christina Applegate, David Mendenhall, Eb Lottimer, Jane Chung

Votes: 879 | Gross: $1.51M

27. A Show of Force (1990)

R | 95 min | Drama, Thriller

An American journalist in Puerto Rico in 1978 investigates the death of nationalists who may have been murdered by the police.

Director: Bruno Barreto | Stars: Amy Irving, Robert Duvall, Andy Garcia, Lou Diamond Phillips

Votes: 852 | Gross: $0.15M

28. Courage Mountain (1990)

PG | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

In this version of "Heidi," a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school at the beginning of World War I.

Director: Christopher Leitch | Stars: Juliette Caton, Charlie Sheen, Joanna Clarke, Nicola Stapleton

Votes: 925 | Gross: $1.39M

29. Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? (1990)

PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy

Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed.

Director: Jack Fisk | Stars: Beau Bridges, Keith Carradine, Beverly D'Angelo, Tess Harper

Votes: 872 | Gross: $1.37M

30. Men of Respect (1990)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

It's Macbeth in mobster form!

Director: William Reilly | Stars: John Turturro, Katherine Borowitz, Dennis Farina, Peter Boyle

Votes: 955 | Gross: $0.14M

31. No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers (1990)

R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two feuding brothers (one a policeman, the other a martial arts expert) of different political views, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent, killed by the mafia.

Director: Lucas Lowe | Stars: Loren Avedon, Keith Vitali, Joseph Campanella, Wanda Acuna

Votes: 1,067

32. Midnight Ride (1990)

R | 93 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

A house wife just left her cop husband, when she picks up Justin Mckay she'll wish she never did as she's plunged into a nightmare and the grip of a psychotic killer.

Director: Bob Bralver | Stars: Michael Dudikoff, Mark Hamill, Savina Gersak, Robert Mitchum

Votes: 1,145

33. Blood Oath (1990)

R | 108 min | Drama, War

The island of Ambon in Indonesia, 1945. During the War, the number of Australian POWs on the island had dropped from 1100 to less than 300 due to abuses by their Japanese captors. Capt. ... See full summary »

Director: Stephen Wallace | Stars: Bryan Brown, George Takei, Terry O'Quinn, John Bach

Votes: 960

34. Blood Games (1990)

R | 90 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

When an all girl baseball team beats a group of rowdy rednecks from a small town, they soon find themselves the prey in a deadly bounty hunt. Now they are playing for their lives. In HD.

Director: Tanya Rosenberg | Stars: Gregory Scott Cummins, Laura Albert, Lee Benton, Ken Carpenter

Votes: 1,481

35. Chains of Gold (1990)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A Miami social worker, Scott, helps a fatherless boy. When the boy goes missing, Scott looks for him everywhere, incl. in a crack dealing gang.

Director: Rod Holcomb | Stars: John Travolta, Marilu Henner, Joey Lawrence, Bernie Casey

Votes: 1,014

36. Rockula (1990)

PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical

A young vampire cannot lose his virginity because of a curse imposed upon him centuries ago.

Director: Luca Bercovici | Stars: Dean Cameron, Toni Basil, Thomas Dolby, Tawny Fere' Ellis

Votes: 1,240

37. Grim Prairie Tales (1990)

R | 86 min | Horror, Western

"Grim Prairie Tales" is a 1990 horror anthology movie where a cynical bounty hunter and a clerk traveling through the prairie rest by the campfire telling four stories of terror to each other.

Director: Wayne Coe | Stars: James Earl Jones, Brad Dourif, Will Hare, Marc McClure

Votes: 1,114

38. A Cry in the Wild (1990)

PG | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

Adapted from Gary Paulsen's novel "Hatchet", a boy crash-lands in Canada's bear country and survives with a hatchet his divorced mother gave him.

Director: Mark Griffiths | Stars: Jared Rushton, Ned Beatty, Pamela Sue Martin, Stephen Meadows

Votes: 1,165 | Gross: $1.49M

39. Mister Johnson (1990)

PG-13 | 101 min | Drama

In 1923, a local resident of British Colonial Nigeria tries to be equal with the colonial administration.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward, Maynard Eziashi, Beatie Edney

Votes: 1,203 | Gross: $1.46M

40. Shadowzone (1990)

R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Scientists experiment with Extreme Dream Sleep and find a Parallel Dimension. Now they find the door works both ways and something has come through.

Director: J.S. Cardone | Stars: Louise Fletcher, David Beecroft, James Hong, Frederick Flynn

Votes: 1,320

41. The Big Steal (1990)

99 min | Comedy

To impress a girl a shy teenaged boy buys a used Jaguar.

Director: Nadia Tass | Stars: Ben Mendelsohn, Claudia Karvan, Marshall Napier, Damon Herriman

Votes: 1,461

42. Why Me? (1990)

R | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A jewel thief steals a sacred ruby which sets off a chase by the police, the Turkish government, nutty American terrorists, and the C.I.A.

Director: Gene Quintano | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Kim Greist, Christopher Lloyd, J.T. Walsh

Votes: 1,396

43. Hard to Die (1990)

NC-17 | 77 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorised by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, ... See full summary »

Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Gail Thackray, Karen Mayo-Chandler, Deborah Dutch, Melissa Moore

Votes: 1,460

44. Crossing the Line (1990)

R | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Sport

Unemployed Scottish miner Danny Scoular (Liam Neeson) is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.

Director: David Leland | Stars: Kenny Ireland, Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley, Billy Connolly

Votes: 1,435 | Gross: $0.06M

45. Fear (1990 TV Movie)

R | 90 min | Mystery, Thriller

Psychic Cayce Bridges helps police solve murders by mentally linking with the murderer. Then she discovers a murderer with the same talent - who wants to share the fear of his victims with ... See full summary »

Director: Rockne S. O'Bannon | Stars: Ally Sheedy, Lauren Hutton, Michael O'Keefe, Stan Shaw

Votes: 1,376

46. Far Out Man (1990)

R | 81 min | Comedy

An aging hippie sets out on a trip across America to find his family.

Director: Tommy Chong | Stars: Tommy Chong, C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Shelby Chong

Votes: 1,220

47. I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990)

Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when it tries to exact vengeance on the gang.

Director: Dirk Campbell | Stars: Neil Morrissey, Amanda Noar, Michael Elphick, Anthony Daniels

Votes: 1,573

48. Book of Love (1990)

R | 82 min | Comedy, Romance

A reminiscence of youth in the 1950's.

Director: Robert Shaye | Stars: Chris Young, Keith Coogan, Aeryk Egan, Josie Bissett

Votes: 1,277 | Gross: $1.38M

49. Death in Brunswick (1990)

R | 109 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Carl Fitzgerald is down-on-his-luck until he meets Sophie, a beautiful Greek girl. He gets a job as a cook, but accidentally kills a fellow worker. He turns to his unscrupulous best friend for help and they attempt to dispose of the body.

Director: John Ruane | Stars: Sam Neill, Zoe Carides, John Clarke, Yvonne Lawley

Votes: 1,445

50. Everybody Wins (1990)

R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Angela (Debra Winger) hires/lures a P.I. (Nick Nolte) to prove a convicted teenager is innocent of his uncle's murder.

Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Debra Winger, Nick Nolte, Will Patton, Judith Ivey

Votes: 1,371 | Gross: $1.37M

51. China O'Brien (1990)

R | 86 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A police woman, expert and instructor in martial arts, leaves the city to stay with her dad, sheriff in a town with peace and quiet - or so she thinks. She gets plenty opportunities to show her martial arts skills.

Director: Robert Clouse | Stars: Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton, Keith Cooke, Doug Wright

Votes: 1,423

52. Love at Large (1990)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up.

Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Tom Berenger, Elizabeth Perkins, Anne Archer, Kate Capshaw

Votes: 1,485 | Gross: $1.44M

53. Impulse (1990)

R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Lottie is a vice cop in LA posing as a hooker and likes the action. She meets Stan, who's also single. He needs her for a major drug bust.

Director: Sondra Locke | Stars: Theresa Russell, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alan Rosenberg

Votes: 1,490 | Gross: $2.54M

54. The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy

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.

Director: Michael Gottlieb | Stars: Cheech Marin, Emma Samms, Vernon Wells, Bruce Spence

Votes: 1,499 | Gross: $0.46M

55. The Last of the Finest (1990)

R | 106 min | Action, Crime, Drama

4 LA cops are fighting the war on drugs. Corrupt superiors manage to break up their team when one of them gets killed. The 3 quit LAPD and continue investigating.

Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Brian Dennehy, Joe Pantoliano, Jeff Fahey, Bill Paxton

Votes: 1,648 | Gross: $1.53M

56. Archangel (1990)

Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

68 Metascore

An amnesiac soldier, seeking his lost love, arrives in Archangel in northern Russia to help the townsfolk in their fight against the Bolsheviks, all quite unaware that the Great War ended three months ago.

Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Michael Gottli, David Falkenberg, Michael O'Sullivan, Margaret Anne MacLeod

Votes: 1,628 | Gross: $0.03M

57. Funny About Love (1990)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Romance

NYC cartoonist Duffy meets the bad cappuccino maker, chef Meg, and falls in love. She moves in with him, marries him - but they have problems having a baby.

Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: Gene Wilder, Christine Lahti, Mary Stuart Masterson, Robert Prosky

Votes: 1,571 | Gross: $8.14M

58. The Rainbow Thief (1990)

R | 87 min | Fantasy, Drama

A petty crook in search of the clichéd pot of gold at the end of the rainbow hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune.

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Christopher Lee, Jude Alderson

Votes: 1,517

59. The Fourth War (1990)

R | 91 min | Drama, Thriller

57 Metascore

Cold War drama about two gung-ho border commanders (Roy Scheider, Jurgen Prochnow) who carry out their own private war against each other on the German - Czechoslovakia border.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Roy Scheider, Jürgen Prochnow, Tim Reid, Lara Harris

Votes: 1,968 | Gross: $1.31M

60. The Willies (1990 Video)

PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A harmless backyard camp out becomes an unforgettable night of chills and thrills for three young boys as they share their favorite scary stories.

Director: Brian Peck | Stars: Sean Astin, Jason Horst, Joshua John Miller, James Karen

Votes: 2,006

61. The Local Stigmatic (1990)

TV-14 | 56 min | Drama

Two symbiotic sociopaths play obscurely deviant mind games with each other while engaging in perversely brutal acts of violence against victims apparently chosen at random.

Director: David F. Wheeler | Stars: Al Pacino, Paul Guilfoyle, Joseph Maher, Michael Higgins

Votes: 1,670

62. Xtro II: The Second Encounter (1991)

R | 92 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Military scientists discover an alternate dimension and, subsequently, aliens with an appetite for human flesh.

Director: Harry Bromley Davenport | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Paul Koslo, Tara Buckman, Jano Frandsen

Votes: 1,862

63. Mirror Mirror (I) (1990)

R | 104 min | Horror, Thriller

A teenage girl begins receiving black magic power through an antique mirror that drips blood, not realizing the mirror is controlled by demonic forces.

Director: Marina Sargenti | Stars: Karen Black, Yvonne De Carlo, William Sanderson, Rainbow Harvest

Votes: 2,198

64. Where the Heart Is (1990)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

A wealthy businessman shows his young-adult offspring how tough life can be.

Director: John Boorman | Stars: Dabney Coleman, Uma Thurman, Joanna Cassidy, Crispin Glover

Votes: 1,779 | Gross: $1.11M

65. The King of the Kickboxers (1990)

R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A cop goes undercover in Thailand to avenge his brother's death in this martial arts film.

Director: Lucas Lowe | Stars: Loren Avedon, Richard Jaeckel, Don Stroud, Billy Blanks

Votes: 2,005

66. Downtown (1990)

R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

An eager rookie cop gets transferred to a tough downtown Philadelphia precinct after stopping a powerful man for traffic violations. When his old cop buddy is murdered, he wants in on catching the killer.

Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Anthony Edwards, Forest Whitaker, Penelope Ann Miller, Joe Pantoliano

Votes: 2,162 | Gross: $2.35M

67. Shakma (1990)

R | 100 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A group of medical students are attacked by an aggressive laboratory animal while competing in an after-hours role-playing game at their school.

Directors: Hugh Parks, Tom Logan | Stars: Christopher Atkins, Amanda Wyss, Ari Meyers, Roddy McDowall

Votes: 2,519

68. To Sleep with Anger (1990)

PG | 102 min | Drama

A charismatic old acquaintance drifts into town, stirring up trouble for a mild-mannered family.

Director: Charles Burnett | Stars: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, DeVaughn Nixon, Mary Alice

Votes: 2,916 | Gross: $1.16M

69. Side Out (1990)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

37 Metascore

A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.

Director: Peter Israelson | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Peter Horton, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Harley Jane Kozak

Votes: 2,389 | Gross: $0.45M

70. Sorority House Massacre II (1990)

Unrated | 77 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

Five college women buy the old Hokstedter place for their new sorority house. They decide to stay in it for the night to meet the movers in the morning, but begin to get the creeps when the weird neighbor starts poking around.

Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Gail Thackray, Melissa Moore, Stacia Zhivago, Barbii

Votes: 2,380

71. Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1990)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Horror

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.

Directors: Ron Oliver, Peter R. Simpson | Stars: Tim Conlon, Cynthia Preston, David Stratton, Courtney Taylor

Votes: 2,563

72. Gate 2: The Trespassers (1990)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Four teens summon forth a diminuitive, demonic minion from The Other Side to do their bidding and grant their wishes, but of course, they must all ultimately pay the price...

Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Louis Tripp, Simon Reynolds, James Villemaire, Pamela Adlon

Votes: 2,666 | Gross: $2.03M

73. Across the Tracks (1990)

R | 100 min | Drama, Sport

Two brothers: one a drug-dealing layabout, while the other is a hardworking "model son." When the one begins straightening himself out by becoming a high school track star, the other is jealous and retreats into alcohol.

Director: Sandy Tung | Stars: Ricky Schroder, Brad Pitt, Carrie Snodgress, David Anthony Marshall

Votes: 2,718

74. Short Time (1990)

PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

When a police detective thinks he is dying and learns that his life insurance pays out more if he dies in the line of duty, he tries to make that happen.

Director: Gregg Champion | Stars: Dabney Coleman, Matt Frewer, Teri Garr, Barry Corbin

Votes: 2,644 | Gross: $4.01M

75. The Dark Side of the Moon (1990)

R | 87 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

In 2022, a repair crew is sent to fix an orbital weapon but their spaceship malfunctions and ends up heading towards the dark side of the moon. There, in a mysterious, seemingly abandoned space shuttle, a sinister force lies in wait.

Director: D.J. Webster | Stars: Robert Sampson, Will Bledsoe, Joe Turkel, Camilla More

Votes: 2,922

76. Demon Wind (1990)

R | 96 min | Horror

With the need to investigate the mysterious death of his grandparents, Cory and his friends assemble back to the old farm where it all began, sixty years earlier.

Director: Charles Philip Moore | Stars: Eric Larson, Francine Lapensée, Jack Forcinito, Stephen Quadros

Votes: 3,253

77. The Nutcracker Prince (1990)

G | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

An adaption of the classic tale of a girl's dreams turned reality when her new toy turns out to be a young man placed under a curse.

Director: Paul Schibli | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Megan Follows, Peter O'Toole, Mike MacDonald

Votes: 2,659 | Gross: $1.78M

78. Meet the Applegates (1990)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Modelling 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.

Director: Michael Lehmann | Stars: Ed Begley Jr., Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman, Bobby Jacoby

Votes: 2,611 | Gross: $0.49M

79. Prayer of the Rollerboys (1990)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In a dystopian near future America, a young man infiltrates a powerful drug dealing rollerblading youth gang that runs his town in order to end their reign for good.

Director: Rick King | Stars: Corey Haim, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Collet, Julius Harris

Votes: 2,769

80. Stella (1990)

PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Romance

45 Metascore

Chronicling a strong, but eccentric woman's devoted relationship to her daughter through the years.

Director: John Erman | Stars: Bette Midler, John Goodman, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Collins

Votes: 2,853 | Gross: $20.24M

81. Men Don't Leave (1990)

PG-13 | 115 min | Comedy, Drama

Jessica Lange plays Beth in this warm-hearted, funny fable about staying together when all else is falling apart.

Director: Paul Brickman | Stars: Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Arliss Howard, Joan Cusack

Votes: 2,747 | Gross: $6.07M

82. Mister Frost (1990)

R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A serial killer gets sent to a mental institution, but as his insidious presence cause the doctors and orderlies to receive strange visions, his psychiatrist tries to find out his true identity.

Director: Philippe Setbon | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Kathy Baker, Alan Bates, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Votes: 2,809

83. Slumber Party Massacre III (1990)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Horror

Jackie Cassidy and her friends are stalked by a serial killer while having a slumber party.

Director: Sally Mattison | Stars: Keely Christian, Brittain Frye, Michael Harris, David Greenlee

Votes: 3,450 | Gross: $1.24M

84. Sibling Rivalry (1990)

PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy

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.

Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: Kirstie Alley, Bill Pullman, Carrie Fisher, Jami Gertz

Votes: 2,991 | Gross: $17.85M

85. Texasville (1990)

R | 126 min | Drama, Romance

49 Metascore

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 ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Timothy Bottoms, Harvey Christiansen

Votes: 3,047 | Gross: $2.27M

86. The Boyfriend School (1990)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Romance

Cartoonist Gus has survived cancer treatment and now his romance novelist sister tries to find him a woman and guide him. Will they succeed?

Director: Malcolm Mowbray | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Jami Gertz, Shelley Long, Kyle MacLachlan

Votes: 3,266 | Gross: $1.17M

87. Come See the Paradise (1990)

R | 138 min | Drama, Romance, War

The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi

Votes: 3,054 | Gross: $0.85M

88. Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1990)

PG-13 | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A streetwise New York police officer transforms into the world's most unusual superhuman hero.

Directors: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman | Stars: Rick Gianasi, Susan Byun, Bill Weeden, Thomas Crnkovich

Votes: 3,309

89. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)

PG-13 | 126 min | Drama

73 Metascore

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Saundra McClain, Margaret Welsh

Votes: 3,487 | Gross: $7.70M

90. Opportunity Knocks (1990)

PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy

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.

Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Dana Carvey, Robert Loggia, Todd Graff, Julia Campbell

Votes: 3,358 | Gross: $11.36M

91. Madhouse (1990)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy

30 Metascore

The luxurious villa of yuppie couple Mark and Jessie Bannister is overrun by loads of uninvited guests who turn the house upside-down and nearly destroy it.

Director: Tom Ropelewski | Stars: Richard Alexander, Kirstie Alley, John Larroquette, Alison La Placa

Votes: 3,646 | Gross: $21.04M

92. The Ambulance (1990)

R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

A comic-book artist meets a woman on the NYC streets, but after a quick flirtation, she suddenly collapses and is picked up by an old ambulance. He checks all the hospitals in the area, but the woman has disappeared.

Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Megan Gallagher, Red Buttons

Votes: 4,187

93. After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

78 Metascore

After he escapes from a mental hospital, a former boxer works for a widow. When she asks him to get involved in a kidnapping, he has second thoughts.

Director: James Foley | Stars: Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern, Rocky Giordani

Votes: 4,192 | Gross: $2.68M

94. Ski School (1991)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Sport

Rival groups in a skiing school do battle on and off the piste. One gang are rich and serious, the other group are party animals.

Director: Damian Lee | Stars: Dean Cameron, Tom Bresnahan, Patrick Labyorteaux, Mark Thomas Miller

Votes: 4,458

95. Heart Condition (1990)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

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.

Director: James D. Parriott | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Denzel Washington, Chloe Webb, Roger E. Mosley

Votes: 4,018 | Gross: $4.13M

96. The Long Walk Home (1990)

PG | 97 min | Drama, History

73 Metascore

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.

Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames

Votes: 4,847 | Gross: $4.80M

97. Spaced Invaders (1990)

PG | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

38 Metascore

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".

Director: Patrick Read Johnson | Stars: Douglas Barr, Royal Dano, Ariana Richards, J.J. Anderson

Votes: 3,940 | Gross: $15.37M

98. Betsy's Wedding (1990)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

52 Metascore

The very different Betsy and Jake are getting married. They want a small wedding, but their dads want to give them a huge one.

Director: Alan Alda | Stars: Alan Alda, Molly Ringwald, Joey Bishop, Madeline Kahn

Votes: 3,946 | Gross: $19.74M

99. Catchfire (1990)

R | 116 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life, running from town to town and switching identities along the way, but she cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief hit man sent after her.

Director: Dennis Hopper | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster, Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price

Votes: 4,576

100. Mountains of the Moon (1990)

R | 136 min | Adventure, Drama, History

The legendary true-story of Capt. Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke's tumultuous expedition to find the source of the Nile river.

Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw

Votes: 4,254 | Gross: $4.01M



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