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Ricochet
Ricochet (1991) on 4 october 1991
, 1h45
Directed by Russell Mulcahy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T, Kevin Pollak, Lindsay Wagner, Rielle Hunter
Rating61% 3.0990953.0990953.0990953.0990953.099095
Fils d'une famille défavorisée, Nick Styles s'est engagé dans la police. Une brillante arrestation, celle du criminel Earl Talbot Blake, lui vaut les honneurs de la presse. Styles gravit alors les échelons et devient procureur.
Night Eyes II
Night Eyes II (1991) on 1 october 1991
, 1h37
Genres Drama, Thriller, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Shannon Tweed, Andrew Stevens, Richard Chaves, Tim Russ, Geno Silva, John O'Hurley
Rating41% 2.074252.074252.074252.074252.07425
Will Griffith (Andrew Stevens) is hired to secure and protect the mansion of South American diplomat Héctor Mejenes (Richard Chaves), following attempts on his life. However, his wife Marilyn (Shannon Tweed) ends up attracted to Will.
Heaven Is a Playground
Heaven Is a Playground (1991) on 4 october 1991
, 1h46
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Michael Warren, D. B. Sweeney, Richard Jordan, Janet Julian, Nigel Miguel, Cylk Cozart
Rating58% 2.9052852.9052852.9052852.9052852.905285
Byron Harper operates a non-profit farming system on a playground in the Cabrini Green neighborhood of Chicago with the aim of landing black kids into college basketball programs. He focuses most of his energy on the best prospects, whom he calls his Breds, and ignores the less talented ones. One day, burn-out white lawyer Zack Telander shows up on the playground, willing to play, but Byron believes him to be a drug pusher and throws him out. However, just then one of the Breds is being shot, and Zack happens to be the only one on the spot with a car, so he helps Byron to rush the victim into a hospital, where he also threatens the clerk with a gross negligence lawsuit in case treatment would not be provided.
A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time (1991) on 1 october 1991
, 1h20
Directed by Errol Morris
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Documentary
Themes Films about mathematics
Rating72% 3.647563.647563.647563.647563.64756
Ce documentaire est une biographie du physicien Stephen Hawking.
Shout
Shout (1991) on 4 october 1991
, 1h29
Directed by Jeffrey Hornaday
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about education, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors John Travolta, Jamie Walters, Heather Graham, Richard Jordan, Linda Fiorentino, Scott Coffey
Rating52% 2.607292.607292.607292.607292.60729
The first half of the film is set at Benedict Boys Home. Jesse Tucker (Jamie Walters) and his four friends live and toil with other guys under strict guidance of Eugene who has a lovely daughter Sara (Heather Graham). They have a music teacher Jack Cabe (John Travolta) who is into rock and roll and teaches them the same, much to the irritation of Eugene who wants to fire him but let him after a warning, Jack then tells them to somehow arrange a radio and listen to the show Midnight Rider. Jesse bets with the guys that he would have sex with Sara, but instead falls in love with her.
To Want to Fly
To Want to Fly (1991) on 6 october 1991
, 1h34
Directed by Maurizio Nichetti
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Maurizio Nichetti, Angela Finocchiaro, Mariella Valentini, Remo Remotti, Lidia Biondi, Valeria Cavalli
Rating66% 3.3371053.3371053.3371053.3371053.337105
Maurizio is a funny and clumsy Italian voice actor for cartoons. Martina is a handyman woman, who charges from curious people with ambitions to realize their desires crazy for a short time. The two meet, and falls in love. Martina in fact loves the funny voice actor. One day, however, Maurizio, during dubbing, suffers an accident and slowly starts to turn into a cartoon...
Suburban Commando
Suburban Commando (1991) on 4 october 1991
, 1h30
Directed by Burt Kennedy
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Comedy science fiction films, Space opera
Actors Hulk Hogan, Christopher Lloyd, Shelley Duvall, Larry Miller, Roy Dotrice, Jack Elam
Rating45% 2.2528452.2528452.2528452.2528452.252845
Interstellar warrior Shep Ramsey (Hulk Hogan) is on a mission to capture intergalactic despot General Suitor (William Ball). The general kidnapped President Hashina, the ruler of an entire planet. Shep boards Suitor's flagship but is unable to rescue Hashina, who is killed by Suitor who then turns into a berserk reptilian alien after Hashina wounds him. Shep barely escapes, but is able to blow up the ship as he does so.
The Super
The Super (1991) on 4 october 1991
, 1h35
Directed by Rod Daniel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Children's films, Gangster films
Actors Joe Pesci, Vincent Gardenia, Madolyn Smith, Rubén Blades, Stacey Travis, Carole Shelley
Rating56% 2.8026452.8026452.8026452.8026452.802645
Joe Pesci stars as Louie Kritski, a heartless slumlord who was born into money, thanks to his ruthless father, "Big Lou" (Vincent Gardenia), also a slumlord. However, the tables turn on Louie when he's threatened with prison for his failure to keep his New York slum up to code. The judge gives him another option, which he accepts: he must live in a vacant apartment of one of his own shoddy run-down apartment blocks until he brings it up to livable standards.
The Apprentice
The Apprentice (1991) on 1 october 1991

Directed by Richard Condie
Origin Canada
Genres Animation
Rating52% 2.6404652.6404652.6404652.6404652.640465
Assassin of the Tsar
Assassin of the Tsar (1991) on 1 october 1991
, 1h38
Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Oleg Yankovsky, Malcolm McDowell, Armen Djigarkhanian, Yury Belyayev, Veniamin Smekhov
Rating67% 3.387083.387083.387083.387083.38708
Timofyev (Malcolm McDowell) is a patient in an asylum who claims to be the man who killed Tsar Alexander II in 1881, and his grandson Tsar Nicholas II in 1918.
Manta, Manta
Manta, Manta (1991) on 3 october 1991
, 1h31
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Til Schweiger, Tina Ruland
Rating57% 2.85022.85022.85022.85022.8502
Bertie (Til Schweiger) is the proud owner of a well-tuned Manta. Together with his friends Gerd (Stefan Gebelhoff), Klausi (Michael Kessler) and Hakan (Ömer Simsek) he enjoys driving in his Opel Manta as a hobby. One day, while Bertie was driving his car in a peace race against a VW Golf GTI, a Mercedes driver Axel (Martin Armknecht), came up rapidly from behind. While sensible Gerd lets him pass, provocative Hakan chases him and hits his car which slows Axel down, but eventually they all gather at a fast food joint. Axel is offended and furiously shouts "Can you not practice on the hill you idiots?" After a few scuffles and insults from Axel towards Bertie and his friends, Bertie challenges Axel to a race which Axel agrees to only after Bertie stakes the money which he and his girlfriend Uschi have saved to set up their family home. Uschi, who gets angry with Bertie for staking all their money and because she thinks that Bertie pays more attention to his car than her, meets nightclub owner Helmut, who offers her to take part in a beauty contest, which she decides to participate in to make Bertie jealous.
Black Robe
Black Robe (1991) on 4 october 1991
, 1h41
Directed by Bruce Beresford
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Films about religion
Actors Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, Tantoo Cardinal, Gordon Tootoosis, August Schellenberg
Rating70% 3.5459653.5459653.5459653.5459653.545965
Set in New France in 1634 (in the period of conflicts known as the Beaver Wars), the film begins in the settlement that will one day become Quebec City. Jesuit missionaries are trying to encourage the local Algonquin Indians to embrace Christianity, with thus far only limited results. Samuel de Champlain, founder of the settlement, sends Father LaForgue, a young Jesuit priest, to find a distant Catholic mission in a Huron village.
La Belle Noiseuse
La Belle Noiseuse (1991) on 4 october 1991
, 4h
Directed by Jacques Rivette
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Peinture
Actors Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart, Marianne Denicourt, David Bursztein, Gilles Arbona
Rating74% 3.746933.746933.746933.746933.74693
A reclusive famous painter, Frenhofer (Piccoli), lives quietly with his wife and former model (Birkin) in a rambling château in rural Languedoc-Roussillon. When a young artist visits him with his girlfriend, Marianne (Béart), Frenhofer is inspired to commence work once more on a painting he long ago abandoned—La Belle Noiseuse—using Marianne as his model. The film painstakingly explores Frenhofer's creative rebirth. It uses lengthy real-time takes of the artist's hand (provided by Bernard Dufour) working on paper and canvas.
Twenty-one
Twenty-one (1991) on 4 october 1991
, 1h32
Directed by Don Boyd
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Patsy Kensit, Jack Shepherd, Patrick Ryecart, Maynard Eziashi, Rufus Sewell, Sophie Thompson
Rating52% 2.6123552.6123552.6123552.6123552.612355
Katie confides directly to the camera about her troubled existence. She reflects on characters we meet during the film, such as her drug-addicted boyfriend, and dysfunctional family members.
Vegas in Space
Vegas in Space (1991) on 1 october 1991
, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Adventure, Musical, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Rating45% 2.2795152.2795152.2795152.2795152.279515
Captain Dan Tracey and his two lieutenants are ordered to investigate trouble on the resort planet Clitoris, a pleasure world filled with shopping and gambling where, according to the "Articles of the Venus Convention", only women are allowed. A variety of problems are occurring on the planet; most notably, several important pieces of "Girlinium" have been stolen from the Empress Nueva Gabor. "Girlinium", as explained by the Empress, is a very rare gem found only in the caverns of the fourth moon of Girlina, a distant planet. It is used by the Empress to help the planet maintain its delicate orbit surrounding its sun. The stolen pieces must be found or the planet will fall into ruin as evidenced by increasingly violent earthquakes. The captain and his men, in order to remain undercover, become women via sex reversal pills and pose as showgirls from Earth performing a mid-twentieth century lounge act for the Empress' annual off-world slumber party while investigating the crime.
Whore
Whore (1991) on 4 october 1991
, 1h22
Directed by Ken Russell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Theresa Russell, Antonio Fargas, Jack Nance, Robert O'Reilly, Ginger Lynn, John Diehl
Rating55% 2.797712.797712.797712.797712.79771
Liz is a Los Angeles street prostitute. The audience first sees her attempting to get a customer on a busy downtown street near a tunnel. She addresses the audience directly on her life and problems throughout the film. When a van stops by, she gives it the brush off, recalling the last time she serviced a man in a van: it turned out there were several other men in the van, who gang-raped her and left her for dead. A passerby helps her to the hospital, and even pays her bill there. She sends him a thank you note.
Campfire Tales
Campfire Tales (1991) on 1 october 1991
, 1h28
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Gunnar Hansen
Rating46% 2.340412.340412.340412.340412.34041
The first story involves a young couple returning home after hearing on the radio that a murderer with a hook on his right hand has escaped from the local insane asylum and is terrorizing the countryside. Upon returning home, the girlfriend discovers that her parents have been decapitated. As she runs to get help from her boyfriend she discovers that he has also fallen victim to the hook. A battle ensues and she comes out victorious, killing the escaped prisoner with his own hook.
The Man in the Moon
The Man in the Moon (1991) on 30 september 1991
, 1h39
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Reese Witherspoon, Jason London, Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Gail Strickland, Emily Warfield
Rating72% 3.6496253.6496253.6496253.6496253.649625
In the summer of 1957, Dani Trant (Reese Witherspoon) is a 14-year-old girl in Louisiana who, according to her father, is "too big to be running off by herself." Dani and her older sister Maureen (Emily Warfield), who is going off to college in the fall, are very close. Maureen helps take care of their younger sister, Missy, while their mother Abigail (Tess Harper) is pregnant. Dani however prefers to run off into the neighbor's pond to go swimming in the nude. It is here that she meets her new neighbor, 17-year-old Court Foster (Jason London). Court kicks Dani out of his pond. When Dani goes home, her mother tells her to wash up because an old friend is coming for dinner with her children. The Trants' old friend turns out to be a widow, Mrs. Foster (Gail Strickland) with her three sons Court, Dennis, and Rob. When Dani realizes who Court is, the two dislike each other. Court calls Dani "a little girl". When Dani's father Matthew (Sam Waterston) tells Dani to accompany Court into town for groceries, Dani and Court drive into town and start to get along. Dani finally realizes that she is in love with Court.
Night on Earth
Night on Earth (1991) on 3 october 1991
, 2h9
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles
Actors Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Roberto Benigni, Lisanne Falk, Béatrice Dalle, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Rating76% 3.848523.848523.848523.848523.84852
As evening falls, tomboy cabby Corky (Winona Ryder) picks up Hollywood executive Victoria Snelling (Gena Rowlands) from the airport, and as Corky drives, Victoria tries to conduct business over the phone. Despite their extreme differences socially, the two develop a certain connection. Sometime during the ride Victoria, who is evidently a talent scout or casting director, discovers that Corky would be ideal for a part in a movie she is casting, but Corky rejects the offer, as she has plans to become a mechanic.
Paradise
Paradise (1991) on 4 october 1991
, 1h51
Directed by Mary Agnes Donoghue
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, Elijah Wood, Thora Birch, Sheila McCarthy, Eve Gordon
Rating65% 3.2961453.2961453.2961453.2961453.296145
Willard Young is a 10-year-old boy who is sent by his mother to stay with her best friend Lily Reed, who lives in the Delta shrimp-fishing country in a town called Paradise. Lily and her husband Ben have been living in an unmentioned emotional vacuum since the death of their own three-year-old boy. Willie makes friends with the local 9-year-old tomboy Billie Pike, who teaches him to be comfortable with himself. When Willard gains a handle on his own emotions, he can now help Lily and Ben to connect, overcome grief and rediscover themselves.
Dogfight
Dogfight (1991) on 4 october 1991
, 1h34
Directed by Nancy Savoca
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, Elizabeth Daily, Anthony Clark, Mitchell Whitfield, Holly Near
Rating72% 3.6468453.6468453.6468453.6468453.646845
The first portion of the film is set on November 21, 1963 (the day before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated). Birdlace and three of his Marine buddies have arrived in San Francisco for twenty-four hours, before shipping off to Vietnam, and are planning on attending a "dogfight" (a party where Marines compete to bring the ugliest date, unbeknownst to the girls they bring) later that evening. They separate into the city to attempt to find dates. After a few women reject his advances, Birdlace ducks into a coffee shop, where he encounters Rose, a waitress, on her break, practicing her guitar. She is not particularly "ugly", but rather plain, shy and awkward. Birdlace attempts to charm her, complimenting her on her guitar playing, and inviting her to a party. She is suspicious of his motives, but decides to accept his invitation.
Neon City
Neon City (1991) on 1 october 1991
, 1h39
Directed by Monte Markham
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films set in the future, Disaster films
Actors Michael Ironside, Vanity, Juliet Landau, Richard Sanders, Monte Markham, Creed Bratton
Rating53% 2.6507652.6507652.6507652.6507652.650765
In the 2050s, extensive ecological damage has resulted in largely lawless areas that are controlled by mutant raiders. Harry Stark, an ex-cop who now works as a bounty hunter in the wastelands, saves a woman from mutant outlaws. After she pulls a knife on him, he knocks her unconscious and brings her back to town for her bounty. Captain Raymond, Stark's former commanding officer, tells him that the woman, Reno, must be brought to Neon City to collect his payment. Raymond requests that Stark ride shotgun on a transport that is going to Neon City, but he refuses. When Stark's truck blows up, Raymond claims it to be an act of terrorism by mutants. Stark attacks Raymond, only to be knocked unconscious and placed on the transport with Reno.
The Rapture
The Rapture (1991) on 4 october 1991
, 1h40
Directed by Michael Tolkin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Crime
Themes Films about religion
Actors Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, Patrick Bauchau, Kimberly Cullum, James LeGros, Will Patton
Rating62% 3.14683.14683.14683.14683.1468
Sharon, a young Los Angeles woman, engages in a swinging, libidinous lifestyle. She comes into contact with a sect that advises her that the Rapture is imminent.