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Strictly Ballroom (1992) TMDB Douban IMDb
Strictly Ballroom
director: Baz Luhrmann actor: Paul Mercurio / Tara Morice …
other title: Strictly Ballroom: De forbudte trin / Ballroom - Gara di ballo …
Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?
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Big Night (1996) IMDb TMDB
Big Night
director: Campbell Scott / Stanley Tucci actor: Stanley Tucci / Tony Shalhoub …
other title: A Grande Inauguração / Big Night - Nacht der Genüsse …
Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.
Aug. 4, 2025 watched
Originally saw it in the cinema when it came out. Rewatched in #SundayFunnies #WatchParty on Mastodon.
1990s Comedy Drama Dramedy IanHolm
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The Player (1992) NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Player
director: Robert Altman actor: Tim Robbins / Greta Scacchi …
other title: I protagonisti / O Jogador …
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
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Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Cast a Deadly Spell
director: Martin Campbell actor: Fred Ward / David Warner …
other title: Omicidi e incantesimi / Feitiço Mortal …
In a fantastical 1940s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.
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By Dawn's Early Light (1990) TMDB IMDb WikiData
By Dawn's Early Light
director: Jack Sholder actor: Powers Boothe / Rebecca De Mornay …
other title: Codice Trinity- Attacco all'alba / Condition Red …
A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to prevent a nuclear holocaust. While the U.S. president feverishly works to keep the military and political machine from going into overdrive, various subordinates panic. When the president is believed to be killed in a helicopter crash, zealous advisers take over.
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Freejack (1992) NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
Freejack
director: Geoff Murphy actor: Emilio Estevez / Mick Jagger …
other title: Freejack - In fuga nel futuro / Corrida Contra o Futuro …
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
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Excessive Force (1993) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Excessive Force
director: Jon Hess actor: Thomas Ian Griffith / Lance Henriksen …
other title: Excessive Force - Im Sumpf der Gewalt / Fuerza excesiva …
Chicago policeman Terry McCain is determined to put away mobster Sal DiMarco, who always gets acquitted on technicalities. While monitoring a drug sale, a shootout ensues, and one of Terry's fellow officers gets away with $3 million of Sal's money. Suspecting Terry took the cash, the mobster sends his men to kill Terry's brother, Dylan, and partner, Frankie Hawkins. Furious, Terry sets out to take his revenge by any means necessary.
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
7.4 (10 ratings) director: David Zucker actor: Leslie Nielsen / Priscilla Presley …
other title: Una pallottola spuntata 2½ - L'odore della paura / Høj pistolføring 2½: Lovens lange næse …
Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
7.8 (6 ratings) director: Peter Segal actor: Leslie Nielsen / Priscilla Presley …
other title: Una pallottola spuntata 33⅓ - L'insulto finale / Høj pistolføring 33⅓: Den ultimative fornærmelse …
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.
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Barcelona (1994) NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Barcelona
director: Whit Stillman actor: Taylor Nichols / Chris Eigeman …
During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. fleet. Not exactly friends in the past, Ted and Fred strike up relationships with women in the Spanish city and experience conflicts -- Ted with his employer, and Fred with the Barcelona community.
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Metropolitan (1990) Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Metropolitan
director: Whit Stillman actor: Edward Clements / Chris Eigeman …
other title: Metropolitan - Verdammt, bourgeois, verliebt
A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.
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From Beijing with Love (1994) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
國產凌凌漆
8.4 (14 ratings) director: Stephen Chow / Lee Lik-Chi actor: Stephen Chow / Anita Yuen Wing-Yee …
other title: Liebesgrüße aus Peking / Bons baisers de Pékin …
A Chinese secret agent travels to Hong Kong to reclaim a dinosaur fossil but experiences hilarious incidents because of his incompetence.
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The Frighteners (1996) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Frighteners
director: Peter Jackson actor: Michael J. Fox / Trini Alvarado …
other title: Sospesi nel tempo / Agarrem-me esses Fantasmas …
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.
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Death Warrant (1990) WikiData NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB
Death Warrant
director: Deran Sarafian actor: Jean-Claude Van Damme / Robert Guillaume …
other title: Colpi proibiti / Van Damme - Implacável …
Canadian policeman Louis Burke is assigned in a jail to investigate the murders of prisoners and jailors. While there, Louis, using his outstanding martial arts skills, is able to save his life and make himself respected in this violent world.
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Doctor Mordrid (1992) IMDb ReviewDB TMDB
Doctor Mordrid
director: Albert Band / Charles Band actor: Jeffrey Combs / Yvette Nipar …
other title: 超时空魔法师 / Invasori dalla IV dimensione …
Bound by hate and a mystical amulet that holds the powers of life and death, two immortal wizards meet for the last time in an ancient struggle of good versus evil.
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Women in Technology NeoDB Douban
White Town genre: Alternative Dance / Electronic
release date Feb. 25, 1997 publisher: Chrysalis / EMI
Women in Technology is the second studio album by British recording artist White Town, released on 25 February 1997. The album is most known for the song "Your Woman" which was its only top 40 single. The song received much acclaim and reached #1 in the UK Singles Chart. A second single, released as a promo, was made of "Wanted" and failed to chart anywhere. The album's third single "Undressed" reached 57. The album was recorded entirely at Jyoti Mishra's home studio.
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The Minion (1998) IMDb WikiData
The Minion
director: Jean-Marc Piché actor: Dolph Lundgren / Françoise Robertson …
other title: L'ultimo dei templari / Der Ritter der Apokalypse …
New York, Christmas Eve, 1999 - at the dawn of the new millennium - a subway construction crew unearths an eight hundred year old Celtic skeleton and a mysterious key. Archeologist Karen Goodleaf is called in to determine the meaning of the discovery. News of the discovery reaches a Middle East monastery where the warrior monks knowns as the Knights Templar - an ancient sect entrusted with protecting holy relics - choose their best pupil, Lukas to face the diabolical threat. As Lukas races to New York, an evil Minion seizes Karen and uses her body like a parasite and host!
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The Legend of Gator Face (1996) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Legend of Gator Face
director: Vic Sarin actor: John White / Dan Warry-Smith …
other title: Die Legende von Gatorface / La leyenda del caracaimán
Small-town Mississippians overreact to the appearance of a mythical swamp monster, partially the work of teen hoaxers.