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Black Robe (1991) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Black Robe
director: Bruce Beresford actor: Lothaire Bluteau / Sandrine Holt …
other title: Manto nero / Black Robe - I Indianernes Vold …
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.
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Ghost in the Shell (1995) Bangumi NeoDB IMDb WikiData o00o garage Douban TMDB
GHOST IN THE SHELL
8.6 (56 ratings) director: Mamoru Oshii actor: Atsuko Tanaka / Akio Otsuka …
other title: Ghost in the Shell: Cidade Assombrada / Ghost in The Shell …
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.
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Lake Placid (1999) IMDb TMDB
Lake Placid
director: Steve Miner actor: Bill Pullman / Bridget Fonda …
other title: Lake Placid - Il terrore corre sul lago / Pânico no Lago …
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!
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That Thing You Do! (1996) IMDb TMDB
That Thing You Do!
director: Tom Hanks actor: Tom Hanks / Tom Everett Scott …
other title: Music Graffiti / Tudo Por um Sonho …
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
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Spoiler (1998) IMDb WikiData
Spoiler
director: Jeff Burr actor: Gary Daniels / Meg Foster …
other title: Spoiler - Verdammt im Eis / Spoiler – Verdammt im Eis
Roger Mason is a prisoner locked away in a futuristic fortress of a jail. Desperate to escape and see his daughter, he keeps making attempt after attempt to break free, but each one is foiled just as he's about to gain his freedom. As his punishments include being frozen in suspended animation for years at a time, he stays the same age while his daughter grows older. As more time keeps being added to his sentence, he despairs of ever getting out.
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Fortress (1992) IMDb WikiData
Fortress
director: Stuart Gordon actor: Christopher Lambert / Kurtwood Smith …
other title: 2013 - La fortezza / Fangeborgen …
In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife Karen are locked inside "The Fortress" but are determined to escape before the birth of their baby.
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No Escape (1994) IMDb WikiData
No Escape
director: Martin Campbell actor: Ray Liotta / Lance Henriksen …
other title: Fuga da Absolom / Flugten fra Absolom …
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins, convicted of murdering a commanding officer, is determined to escape the island in order to reveal the truth behind his murderous actions and clear his name.
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Wedlock (1991) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Wedlock
director: Lewis Teague actor: Rutger Hauer / Mimi Rogers …
other title: Sotto massima sorveglianza / Peligrosamente unidos …
A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot, electronically attached to a female prisoner.
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The Commitments (1991) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Commitments
director: Alan Parker actor: Robert Arkins / Michael Aherne …
other title: Os Commitments / Die Commitments …
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
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Murder in the Heartland (1993) TMDB IMDb
Murder in the Heartland
actor: Kate Reid / Brian Dennehy …
other title: Heart to Kill
Murder in the Heartland tells the grotesque true story of Charlie Starkweather, 19, who killed 11 people in Nebraska in 1957-58, and his 14-year-old girlfriend,
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His 'n' Hers Spotify
Pulp genre: Britpop
release date April 18, 1994 publisher: Island
His 'n' Hers is the fourth studio album by English rock band Pulp, released on 18 April 1994 by Island Records. It proved to be the band's breakthrough album, reaching number nine on the UK Albums Chart, and was nominated for the 1994 Mercury Music Prize. In 1998, Q magazine readers voted it the seventieth greatest album of all time, while it was placed at number 110 in the book Virgin All-Time Top 1000 Albums.
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Malice (1993) TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
Malice
director: Harold Becker actor: Alec Baldwin / Nicole Kidman …
other title: Malice - Il sospetto / Malícia …
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.
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Screamers (1995) NeoDB WikiData TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb Douban
Screamers
director: Christian Duguay actor: Peter Weller / Jennifer Rubin …
other title: Screamers - Urla dallo spazio / Screamers - Tödliche Schreie …
SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.
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Species II (1998) IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData Douban
Species II
director: Peter Medak actor: Michael Madsen / Natasha Henstridge …
other title: Species II - Specie mortale II / Espécie Mortal II …
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.
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Species (1995) IMDb Douban TMDB NeoDB WikiData
Species
director: Roger Donaldson actor: Natasha Henstridge / Ben Kingsley …
other title: Specie mortale / Espécie Mortal …
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye.
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DNA (1997) IMDb WikiData
DNA
director: William Mesa actor: Mark Dacascos / Jürgen Prochnow …
other title: DNA. Una storia che non deve accadere / D.N.A. Genetic Code - Dem Grauen ausgeliefert …
A mad scientist's DNA experiment on the bones of a mysterious jungle creature brings the carnivorous beast to life, and only his former assistant Ash Mattley and CIA operative Claire Sommers can stop it.
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Mars Attacks! (1996) Douban NeoDB WikiData TMDB IMDb
Mars Attacks!
7.1 (8 ratings) director: Tim Burton actor: Jack Nicholson / Glenn Close …
other title: Marte Ataca!
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.
Jan. 19, 2026 watched
People slag it off, and sure it has issues, but I always enjoy it!

TIL it was Alex Cox (Repo Man) who came up with the idea.

Rewatched (for the 7th? 8th? time) in #MonsterMiru watch party on Mastodon (after #Monsterdon).
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