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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson and his lifelong partners in crime; Max, Cockeye and Patsy and their friends from growing up in the rough Jewish [...]

September 6 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Man Bites Dog (1992)

Man Bites Dog (1992)

A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins involving the camera crew in his activities, and they begin wondering if what they’re doing is such a good idea, particularly when [...]

September 5 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Rumble in the Bronx (1995)

Rumble in the Bronx (1995)

Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle’s wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the [...]

September 5 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Color of Night (1994)

Color of Night (1994)

A color-blind psychiatrist Bill Capa is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend’s therapy group, all of whom have a connection to a mysterious young woman that Capa begins having intense sexual encounters with. affiliate marketing

September 5 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Midnight Crossing (1988)

Midnight Crossing (1988)

A group of adventurers sneak into Cuba to try to recover $1 million in cash that when hidden when Fidel Castro took over in 1959. They find themselves trying to avoid detection by Cuban authorities while also battling modern-day pirates who are also after the treasure. affiliate marketing

September 5 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

They Live (1988)

They Live (1988)

John Carpenter’s slow and deliberate immersion of the daunting and worrying fable of the corrupt, deceiving and indifferent economic, social and political society, that has wrapped itself around its people and who in turn have blindly accepted their fate. Multicultural in more forms than anticipated, are the leading and upwardly mobile alien race who have [...]

September 5 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

The Negotiator (1998)

The Negotiator (1998)

As a decorated hostage negotiator, Lieutenant Danny Roman has made a career out of talking down dangerous men who don’t listen to reason. But he goes off the deep end himself when he is framed for the murder of a colleague investigating corruption in their department. Convinced that the Internal Affairs office contains evidence that [...]

September 4 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Ronin (1998)

Ronin (1998)

Ronin is the Japanese word used for Samurai without a master. In this case, the Ronin are outcast specialists of every kind, whose services are available to everyone – for money. Dierdre (undoubtedly from Ireland) hires several Ronin to form a team in order to retrieve an important suitcase from a man who is about [...]

September 4 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

Martin Blank and is a hitman with some emotional problems. He goes to a shrink who doesn’t want him, and has had recurring dreams about his long lost love for 10 years since he stood her up on Prom night. When Blank gets an invitation to his School reunion he is originally dead against the [...]

September 4 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Slipstream (1985)

Slipstream (1985)

In the future, natural disasters (Earthquakes, Floods) have ravaged the Earth, leaving the Earth as a world where pockets of communities live within canyons whilst a violent wind known as “The Slipsteam” rules the Earth and the only means of transport are airplanes. Matt Owens is a daredevil adventurer who kidnaps Byron, a fugitive wanted [...]

September 2 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier, Youtube Movies | Read More »

Shaolin Temple (1982)

Shaolin Temple (1982)

The Tang emperor is betrayed by one of his generals, who installs himself as emperor in the East Capital. The son of one of his slave workers escapes to the Shaolin Temple, learns kung fu, and sets out to kill the traitor, who killed his father. The monks have to help him, and in the [...]

September 2 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier, Youtube Movies | Read More »

Mad Max 2 (1981)

Mad Max 2 (1981)

A former police officer is now a lone wanderer, travelling through a devasted Australia after a nuclear war looking for the now-priceless fuel of petrol. He lives to survive and is none too pleased when he finds himself the only hope of a small group of honest people running a remote oil refinery. He must [...]

August 23 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Bartertown is a city on the edge of a desert that has managed to retain some technology if no civilization. Max has his supplies stolen and must seek shelter there in a post apocalypse world where all machines have begun to break down and barbarians hold what is left. He becomes involved in a power [...]

August 23 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Head of the Family (1996)

Head of the Family (1996)

Head of the Family: Lance and Loretta are having a torrid affair behind her husband Howard’s back. The problem is that Howard is brutal thug who is bound to catch the cheating pair sooner or later. To solve this problem, the lovers hatch a plan involving the Stackpoole family: a collection of misshapen freaks who [...]

August 18 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Hammer (1972)

Hammer (1972)

Hammer: A dock worker becomes a prizefighter, but gets mixed up with a crooked manager. A sympathetic L.A. detective tries to set him straight, but he won’t listen. His manager, who is also a drug dealer, tells him that he has to take a dive during an important fight, and to ensure his cooperation, his [...]

August 18 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Restraining Order (1999)

Restraining Order (1999)

Restraining Order: Robert Woodfield is a criminal defense attorney, and he has defended a lot of criminals, many of whom are guilty, but has maintained that everyone deserves a competent defense, which he provides whether they are guilty or not. Currently he is defending Martin Ritter, a killer, whom he gets off. Later he has [...]

August 18 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

U Turn (1997)

U Turn (1997)

A drifter becomes entangled with a femme fatale and her husband after his car breaks down in their small Southwest town. affiliate marketing

August 17 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Backdraft (1991)

Backdraft (1991)

A rookie firefighter tries to earn the respect of his older brother and other firefighters while taking part in an investigation of a string of arson/murders. This detailed look into the duties and private lives of firemen naturally features widespread pyrotechnics and special effects. affiliate marketing

August 16 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Varsity Blues (1999)

Varsity Blues (1999)

In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion. The head coach is deified, as long as the team is winning and 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. In his 35th year as head coach, Bud Kilmer (Jon Voight) is trying to lead his West Canaan [...]

August 9 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

A Few Good Men (1992)

A Few Good Men (1992)

In this dramatic courtroom thriller, Lt. Daniel Kaffee, a Navy lawyer who has never seen the inside of the courtroom, defends two stubborn Marines who have been accused of murdering a colleague. Kaffee is known as being lazy and had arranged for a plea bargain. Downey’s Aunt Ginny appoints Cmdr. Galloway to represent him. Also [...]

August 9 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Night on Earth (1991)

Night on Earth (1991)

A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles – A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver’s career. New York – An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a [...]

August 9 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)

Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)

An art-house auctioneer (Hugh Grant) finds himself getting in deeper and deeper with the mob after learning that his teacher girl friend (Jeanne Tripplehorn) is the daughter of a major mobster (James Caan). Things get worse when a godfather (Burt Young) decides to launder his no-talent son’s gory paintings through the art house and gets [...]

August 8 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Can’t Hardly Wait (1998)

Can’t Hardly Wait (1998)

Its high school graduation, and like all seniors they want to party. So 500 high school seniors look forward to a party, while in the meantime a boy wants to get a girl he’s loved for years that just broke up with her boyfriend and one head-case that wants revenge on a lifelong bully. So [...]

July 23 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Judgment Night (1993)

Judgment Night (1993)

Four pals are on their way to a boxing match, but gets stuck in heavy traffic. To get to the boxing match in time they take the first exit they find to find another way to the venue. As they are driving around lost in gang-land they get stuck and witness a brutal murder. The [...]

July 22 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »

Pacific Heights (1990)

Pacific Heights (1990)

A yuppie couple buy a large house in an exclusive San Fransisco neighborhood. They renovate it and plan to rent two apartments on the first floor to cover the costs. A prosperous looking man moves in but is not the ideal tenant. He never pays any rent, drives the other tenants away and systematically ruins [...]

July 22 2010 | Posted in 1999 and Earlier | Read More »