, 1h30 Directed byPeter Markle OriginUSA GenresScience fiction, Fantasy, Adventure ThemesSpace adventure films, Films set in the future, Space opera ActorsPaul Winfield, Neal McDonough, CCH Pounder, Beverley Mitchell, David St. James, James Morrison Roles Guv'ner Twist Rating62% In the year 3040, New York medical student Driscoll Rampart (Neal McDonough) is completing his internship on Rusta, a rural planet which due to it being tidally locked to its primary, is divided into contrasting halves of day and night with the halves separated by a wall. The two sides are involved in a civil war: The day side containing a Victorian-styled colony is at odds with the night containing a medieval kingdom. The differences between the two cultures leaves Rampart in a state of wonder. Rampart arrives from Earth for a six-month stint at the Light Side clinic run by Dr. Akada (Paul Winfield). Rampart's ambition is to eventually set up a private practice in Manhattan on Park Avenue.
, 1h51 Directed byFrères Coen OriginUSA GenresDrama, Comedy, Comedy-drama ThemesFilms about the labor movement ActorsTim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning, Jim True-Frost, Bill Cobbs Roles Board Member Rating71% In December 1958, Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins), a business college graduate from Muncie, Indiana, arrives in New York City looking for a job. He struggles due to lack of experience and becomes a mailroom clerk at Hudsucker Industries. Meanwhile, the company's founder and president, Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning), unexpectedly commits suicide during a business meeting by jumping out of a top-floor window. Afterwards, Sidney J. Mussburger (Paul Newman), a ruthless member of the board of directors, learns Hudsucker's stock shares will be soon sold to the public, he mounts a scheme to buy the controlling interest in the company by temporarily depressing the stock price from hiring an incompetent president to replace Hudsucker.
, 1h58 Directed byAlan Parker OriginUSA GenresDrama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Romance ThemesMedical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry ActorsAnthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, John Cusack, Dana Carvey, Michael Lerner Roles Poultney Dab Rating58% Dr. John Harvey Kellogg opened a sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, where he practiced his unusual methods for maintaining health, including colonic irrigation, electrical stimulus and sexual abstinence, vegetarianism and physical exercise. The sanitarium attracts well-to-do patients including William and Eleanor Lightbody, who are suffering from poor health following the death of their child. On their way to Battle Creek they meet Charles Ossining, hoping to make a fortune by exploiting the fad for health food cereals.
, 1h25 Directed byBob Clark OriginUSA GenresComedy ActorsCharles Grodin, Kieran Culkin, Mary Steenburgen, Glenn Shadix, Troy Evans, Al Mancini Roles Mr. Winchell, the Assessor Rating56% The film has several plot lines, one each for Ralphie, his father and his mother, followed by one involving Ralphie and his dad on a fishing trip. Ralphie's quest for most of the movie is to find a top tough enough to knock a bully's top out of a chalk circle in a game of "Kill". Meanwhile, Ralphie's dad has a series of skirmishes with his hillbilly neighbors, the Bumpuses, and all forty-three Bloodhounds named Big Red. The Old Man calls in Barkley, the family dog, to distract the Bumpuses' hounds when the Old Man comes home from work; when he gets out of the car, he accidentally steps in dog poop. Ralphie's mom would like to finally get something other than a Ronald Colman gravy boat on dish night at the local cinema. Scut, the main bully, is demoted, with a new head bully ruling over him.
, 1h34 Directed byPaul Hogan, Simon Wincer OriginAustralie GenresComedy, Action, Western ThemesSeafaring films, Transport films ActorsPaul Hogan, Cuba Gooding Jr., Beverly D'Angelo, Ben Cooper, Pat Hingle, Richard Riehle Roles Schneider Rating55% Paul Hogan plays Lightning Jack Kane, a long-sighted Australian outlaw in the American west, with his horse, Mate. After the rest of the gang he is a member of is killed in a robbery-gone-wrong, Jack survives only to read of the events in the newspaper that he was nothing next to others. Annoyed at not being recognised as an outlaw, Jack attempts a robbery by himself, and ends up taking young mute Ben Doyle (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) as a hostage. He later discovers that, tired of never having been treated with respect due to his disability, Ben wishes to join him.
, 1h43 Directed byFrank Marshall OriginUSA GenresScience fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror ThemesFilms about animals, Natural horror films, Films about spiders, Comedy horror films ActorsJeff Daniels, Julian Sands, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman, Brian McNamara, Mark L. Taylor Roles Irv Kendall Rating64% Entomologist Dr. James Atherton (Julian Sands) searches the Amazon rainforest with the hope of discovering new species of insects and arachnids. Descending into an enormous sinkhole, his team sets up collectors on the ground below a large tree, then blow smoke up into the canopy of the tree. A large number of bugs fall into the collector, including a very aggressive new species of spider. The spider is captured and chloroformed for research; and is later revealed to be lacking sex organs, thus making it a drone, or soldier, highly unusual in an arachnid species. A nature photographer, Jerry Manley (Mark L. Taylor), who has been suffering a fever while traveling with the team, unknowingly has a fertile (non-drone) male spider of the same species jump into his backpack, that night sneaking into his sleeping bag and biting him. Manley has a massive seizure from the venom and dies. The remainder of the scientists takes his body back to the United States, blaming Manley's death on the preexisting fever. The spider crawls into the box and is sealed in with the corpse.
, 1h37 Directed byAndreï Kontchalovski, Albert Magnoli OriginUSA GenresDrama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime ThemesPrison films, Buddy films ActorsSylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Jack Palance, Teri Hatcher, Brion James, Edward Bunker Roles Fed. Agent Davis Rating64% Beverly Hills LAPD Lieutenant Raymond Tango (Sylvester Stallone) and Downtown Los Angeles Lieutenant Gabriel Cash (Kurt Russell) have earned themselves reputations for disrupting crime lord Yves Perret's smuggling operation in their respective jurisdictions. One day, they are informed of a drug deal taking place later that night. Both detectives meet for the first time at the location, but discover a dead body that is wire-tapped before the FBI arrive and surround the duo. Agent Wyler (Lewis Arquette) finds Cash's backup Walter PPK pistol on the floor with a silencer attached and arrests both Cash and Tango. At their murder trial, Tango and Cash are incriminated by an audio tape, secretly given to Wyler by Perret's henchman Requin and verified in court by an audio expert, which appears to reveal them shooting the undercover FBI agent after discussing a drug purchase. They plead no contest to a lesser charge in exchange for reduced sentences in a minimum-security prison, but are instead transported to a maximum-security prison to be housed with many of the criminals they arrested in the past.
, 1h32 Directed byWilliam Lustig OriginUSA GenresThriller, Horror, Crime ActorsJudd Nelson, Robert Loggia, Leo Rossi, Meg Foster, Ken Lerner, Angel Tompkins Roles Coroner Rating58% Un jeune policier et un vétéran de la police de Los Angeles font équipe pour élucider une série de meurtres. Les deux policiers retrouvent la trace du tueur en série. Il s'agit d'un fils de policier martyrisé par son père dans son enfance. Le tueur multiplie les meurtres et décide s'attaquer au vétéran et à la jeune recrue....